TechGrumps

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

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

• 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!

• Fediverse discussion
• End of clubbing & raving?
• Dumpster diving?
• Any Other Business
  • Privacy, cars and e*** m***
  • https://ingredifind.co.uk
  • Honey Influencer Scam

Techgrumps 3.22.5 (2024 holiday special)

• Verbal review of Vapiano Great Portland Street, London
• Ed Zitron's very long rant
• House of Lords debate about AI scraping and Robots.txt
• Earl Pomerantz, "Your Presents Are Requested" presented by the Techgrumps
• Any other business
  • Chrome stopping common and useful adblockers
  • James Lileks for preserving something digital
  • Vote for Six feet under a data centre for SXSW London 2025 - https://cubicgarden.com/2024/12/12/vote-for-digital-legacy-at-sxsw-london-2025/
  • Limitarianism book
  • 10 years and the Apple M4 has no usable USB
  • Ian is leaving BBC R&D

Techgrumps 3.22

• The end of twitter again?
• The demise of 23andMe
• The top ten grossing films of this year are all sequels?

AOB

Techgrumps 3.21

• Sam Altman and that Worldcoin
• Digital legacy and death in the age of the internet and before
• The whole Webarchive/archive issue
• Russia fines Google more money than exists
• Any other business
  • The Divide - A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions - by Jason Hicke
  • TFL post-cyberattack
  • Cory Doctrow on bluesky
  • iO domain will disappear

The techgrumps are back into the swing of things, feeling the pumpkin spice and considering its effect on the tech industry. Of course theres a bit of diversion to the poohniverse… Oh yes, oooh-errr!

The grumps this time include the voices of Ian Forrester, David Eastman, Wendy Grossman and Ryan Alexander. As they rant and rave about the monthly tech stories.

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Topic discussed this month…

• The surveillance of cars and TVs.
• The return of the network state?
  • Trump promising charter cities
  • Forest City is a duty-free zone in Malaysia
• The soap opera of Automattic and WP Engine
• Other business…
  • UK black history month
  • Cory’s Disenshittify or die at Defcon24
  • Simon Sinek & Trevor Noah in conversation
  • Peter Pan (Neverland Nightmare) and Infinity Train
  • Taylor Swift, whose rerecording her albums
  • Wutheringbytes

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The techgrumps are back from a busy summer holiday, straight into the nexus of tech news.

The grumps this time include the voices of Ian Forrester, Wendy Grossman, Andy Piper and Ryan Alexander. As they rant and rave about the monthly tech stories.With that great quote from Jon Stewart.

“Your fear of some dystopian authoritarian future is making it impossible for the rest of us to make life better in our dystopian present” – Jon Stewart

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Topic discussed this month…

• Rise in DNA tests to claim Citizenship
• Following the trend of AI and IOT
  • Friend and the backstory
  • Plaud notepin
• Power balance of governments
  • Telegram arrest
  • Brazil banning X
• The Future of the Past is Present
• Other business…
  • Grace Hopper’s 1982 lecture
  • Teens drawing in One Million Checkboxes
  • UrbanArtistry Presents… Spiritual Letters
  • OggCamp is back October 12-13th
  • Fediverse for Freedom

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The techgrumps are back with a slew of mainly AI stories as they parse through the electronic chaff and wheat.

The grumps this time include the tones of Ian Forrester, Wendy Grossman, David Eastman and Andy Piper. as they reflect on the monthly tech stories.

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Topic discussed this month…

• Researchers study AI in use by stand-up comedians, other AI madness including bionic duckweed as consumers turning off.
• Can alternative business models like John Lewis & partners survive in the climate of Shareholder supremacy? Journalism is already using alternatives.
• CEO of Zoom wants AI clones in meetings, Microsoft is losing on AI and more AI reflections down the stack.
• Amazon Alexa has no profit timeline
• Other business…
  • Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being by Paul Mason
  • Wuthering Bytes
  • MNT Pocket Reform
    • Blog post
    • Unboxing

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