TechGrumps

By TechGrumps

Angry people going on about technology.

The UK is the home of grumpness and we frankly do it so well…

So we gather together a small group of sometimes grumpy people to discuss the bad a

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The podcast currently has 23 episodes available.

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October 06, 2025Techgrumps 3.32 : Your illegal, racially motivated stops will go more smoothly
Techgrums 3.32
UK Digital ID
https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/09/26/the-absurdity-card/
Christie’s has quietly shuttered its digital art department
https://news.artnet.com/market/christies-scraps-digital-art-department-2685784
Age verification and online safety
https://www.wired.com/story/vpn-use-spike-age-verification-laws-uk/
Meshtastic and different networks
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/08/jack_dorsey_debuts_bitchat/https://www.wired.com/story/youre-not-ready-for-phone-dead-zones/
AOB
Digital legacy - https://machinereadablewishes.cc/
Fediforum 2025 - https://fediforum.org/ - October 7-8th
Ian's digital dating manifesto - https://datingmanifesto.cc/
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56min
September 10, 2025Techgrumps 3.31: 10000 steps of Gemini's love language
Techgrumps 3.31
My wearable says please stand-up
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/future-pulse/2025/06/24/rfk-jr-wants-a-wearable-on-your-wrist-00419190
Switzerland releases a public LLM
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/770646/switzerland-ai-model-llm-open-apertus
AI is a 4 year trying to impress you with stupid moves
https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-calendar-invite-hijack-smart-home/
https://cubicgarden.com/2025/08/17/a-lesson-in-separation-of-concerns-googles-gemini-hijacked/
https://www.extremetech.com/internet/researchers-find-hackers-can-hide-ai-prompt-attacks-in-compressed-images?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%20Trending%20Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook
Hannah meets the Fediverse
https://videos.elenarossini.com/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN
https://youtu.be/p9c2f63pIag?si=UZJWGfsNCfZr6Eq_&t=209
AOB
Fediforum is back for October 7-8
https://fediforum.org/
Fediforum Europe at SFcon
https://www.sfscon.it/programs/2025/
Supremacy (AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World) by Parmy Olson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxL41ew53CE
The AI karma
https://futurism.com/godfather-ai-ex-broke-up-chatgpt
Nvidia CEO says American technology should be the world's technology stack
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-us-tech-stack-should-be-global-standard-companies-are-built-on--including-china-003308243.html
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59min
August 04, 2025Techgrumps 3.30 : We did if for the children
Techgrumps 3.30
UK's online safety act requires users to verify their age for adult content
VPN usage massively up! - https://mashable.com/article/proton-vpn-uk-age-verification-signups
The gated internet - https://reason.com/2025/07/28/the-age-gated-internet-is-here/
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-great-british-firewall-age-verification-has-failed/
What happened to hobbies?
https://youtu.be/OLQkNUjQPUo?si=M3b4wArK8ztUN3bu
Any other business
Empires of AI - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_AI
John Oliver on AI Slop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg1RmzAbc
Silicon Valley's sudden embrace of Christianity - https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/christianity-was-borderline-illegal-in-silicon-valley-now-its-the-new-religion
Open rights group hits 20 years! - https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/org-at-20-cory-doctorow-in-conversation-with-maria-farrell/
Derailed: The Story of HS2 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fv8b
Kate Lamble investigates the extraordinary inside story of Britain's most ambitious and controversial rail project.
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50min
July 10, 2025Techgrumps 3.29: Please verify your AI partner
Techgrumps 3.29
The Fediverse and Bluesky
https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/06/27/revival/
World Orb launches in the UK
https://eandt.theiet.org/2025/06/09/sam-altmans-eyeball-scanning-device-designed-tell-humans-bots-arrives-uk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66128111
AI Boyfriends
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cathyhackl/2025/06/23/confessions-of-a-futurist-i-dated-four-a
https://shows.acast.com/metaverse-marketing/episodes/dating-ai-loving-human-exploring-ai-relationships-metas-new
AOBs
Titan: the OceanGate Disaster = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35628853/
Mountain Head - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35396529/
BBC R&D's Social research - https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-06-social-media-change-issues-problems-report
The Bookworm and the Fireflies has launched - https://thebookwormandthefireflies.com/
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58min
June 03, 2025Techgrumps 3.28 - If no-one monetizes no-one HAS to monetize
Techgrumps 3.28
AI chatbots lie saying they are licensed therapists
Open letter to Keir Starmer about technological sovereignty
Self-hosting is Sovereignty?
AOB
Andor
Dr Who
F You Very Much: Understanding the Culture of Rudeness
Fediforum 2025
PublicSpaces conference 2025
ToS for Starlink
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58min
May 18, 2025Techgrumps 3.27 - The New Frankenstien, Virturally corpse free
Techgrumps
Can't remove the Meta AI button from WhatsApp
NAS DRM on hard drives?
The Vatican guide to AI
Digital Legacy and victim sentencing
GDS playbook for AI
Ryans Enshittification corner
Duolingo flys too close to the sun
Discord looking to IPO
AOB (any other business)
Surveillance tips for protesters
So you want to be a dissident
EFF tips
RFKjr wants to test vaccines against a placebo.
Mozilla Festival 2025
Republica 2025 - Six feet under the data centre
Dungeon Crawler Carl, Project Hail Mary, and Murderbot
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1h
May 16, 2025Techgrumps 3.26 - Its like being in a whirlpool of apps
Techgrumps 3.26
NHS prescription app
Vape-o-gotchi
Pebble is a sign of the times
AOB
Torturing AI to get better results
AI being used for avoiding whale collisions
Mozilla Global Festival Nov 2025 in Barcelona
Shelfies
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56min
March 18, 2025Techgrumps 3.25.r3 When the bed is moving at 2am
Techgrumps 3.25
Secret UK order tells Apple to give up their users data
HP is acquiring Humane for $116 million
Computational Photography/capture, is getting boring and flattering everything
My bed is spying on me
AOB: Any other business
Cory Doctorows's The Bezzle
Ian's Framework 13 laptop
Long article on Zizian's dark AI future
Balatro challenges
Open Rights Group, Save our sites
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1h 6min
February 05, 2025Techgrumps 3.24: They only care about AIs with purchase decisions
Techgrumps 3.24
Meta is changing things up, again.
Pebble source code is open and promises good things
DeepSeek (because everyone else is)
$Trump memecoin
Any other business
Outdraw AI
Framework laptop
Wendy is playing live!
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59min
January 08, 2025Techgrumps 3.23 - Bluesky clubbing and dumpster diving
Fediverse discussion
End of clubbing & raving?
Dumpster diving?
Any Other Business
Privacy, cars and e*** m***
https://ingredifind.co.uk
Honey Influencer Scam
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1h 19min

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