Episode Number 237 – June 12 2025

This week's guest: No Guest

Links to this week’s stories: 

Something fun

That Asteroid is back in the news

https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/nasa-raises-the-odds-that-an-asteroid-could-hit-the-moon-in-2032

Something good about windmills:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-surprising-discovery-waters-below-111554729.html

Robots doing people’s jobs…

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/xrobotics-countertop-robots-are-cooking-up-25000-pizzas-a-month/

Deadly Books:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2y9xq58no

Privacy in Public:

Cars
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2025/06/11/common-council-explores-more-license-reading-cameras-in-milwaukee/84120968007/

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/06/09/milwaukee-asks-again-for-red-light-cameras-to-nab-speeders/

Drones

https://katu.com/news/local/oregon-bill-on-drone-surveillance-sparks-privacy-concerns-and-opposition-privacy-second-amendment-constitution-immigration-ice-customs-enforcement-senate-salem-portland-police-department-enforcement-law-drones-uas-pilot-unmanned-protests-first-response

Apple and AI

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking

https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf

They hypecyle in full swing:
https://theconversation.com/the-ai-hype-is-just-like-the-blockchain-frenzy-heres-what-happens-when-the-hype-dies-258071