Grumpy Old Geeks

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We dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Cobain threw down with Tom from MySpace, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg in a back alley brawl. No mercy, no filter—if tech had a walk of shame, this would be it.

  1. A Bald Woody

    9 HR AGO

    A Bald Woody

    If you thought the internet was a dumpster fire before, the EU LAUNCHES SECOND INVESTIGATION INTO GROK because Musk’s bot won't stop generating nonconsensual imagery. Meanwhile, META LARGELY FAILS TO PROTECT KIDS FROM AI CHATBOTS, proving that their internal safety checks are about as effective as a screen door on a submarine. If that doesn't creep you out, AFTER RING PRIVACY BACKLASH over police partnerships, a LEAKED EMAIL SUGGESTS RING PLANS TO EXPAND ‘SEARCH PARTY’ from finding lost dogs to total neighborhood surveillance. Of course, REDDIT, META, AND GOOGLE VOLUNTARILY GAVE DHS INFO on users critical of ICE, because why stand up for privacy when you can just comply? In the news, we look at OPENCLAW, OPENAI AND THE FUTURE as the project’s founder joins the Borg, even though META AND OTHER TECH FIRMS PUT RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF OPENCLAW because it’s basically a security hole that can click your mouse for you. Peak stupidity has arrived with RFK JR'S NEW CHATBOT giving rectal dietary advice, while AI COMPANIES BOUGHT OUT ALL OF WESTERN DIGITAL’S HARD DRIVES through 2026, meaning you can't have storage because the bots need it more. Even VALVE ADMITS STEAM DECK AVAILABILITY IS AFFECTED by this memory hoarding. We also touch on STEVE BANNON SUED OVER MAGA CRYPTO SCHEME, LOS ANGELES COUNTY FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST ROBLOX for being a safety nightmare, and the fact that TESLA ROBOTAXIS REPORTEDLY CRASHING at four times the human rate. TESLA DODGES 30-DAY SUSPENSION by simply killing the word "Autopilot," while NEW YORK HITS THE BRAKES ON ROBOTAXI EXPANSION to keep the chaos at bay. Finally, POLYMARKET WITHDRAWS EXPLOSIVE ARTEMIS BETTING MARKET because betting on dead astronauts is too much even for them, leading the ETHEREUM CREATOR STARTING TO THINK THIS WHOLE PREDICTION MARKET THING MIGHT BE GAMBLING. As NEVADA SUES KALSHI and Jack Dorsey oversees INSIDE THE ROLLING LAYOFFS AT JACK DORSEY’S BLOCK—using AI to summarize the misery of his employees—just remember: YOU’LL BE SORRY WHEN YOU HEAR WHAT JUSTIN BIEBER’S $1.3 MILLION BORED APE IS WORTH NOW. Hint: it’s twelve grand. In this week's MEDIA CANDY, we’ve got FREE BERT, KAT WILLIAMS: THE LAST REPORT, and the eternal return of SHREK. We’re checking out MARK ROBER on Netflix, the return of MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS, and the trailer for GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE. If you need a soundtrack for the apocalypse, Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq has you covered with STOP USING GENERATIVE A.I and the Gen-X anthem I'VE NO MORE F*S TO GIVE!. Moving to APPS & DOODADS, OBSIDIAN TO NOTES is a $14 well spent, unlike CURSOR and VISUAL STUDIO CODE which are getting bogged down by slow models. APPLE’S AI PENDANT sounds like a watered-down Humane pin that relies on your phone to think, and APPLE PODCASTS AND VIDEO remains a pipe dream because bandwidth costs money. We’ve reached the point where THERE’S A GRIM NEW EXPRESSION: “AI;DR” for things not worth reading, and THERE'S A NEW TERM FOR WORKERS FREAKING OUT over being replaced—AIRD, or AI Replacement Dysfunction—which is basically the low-grade panic of being made obsolete by a machine that thinks bananas go in your bum. AT THE LIBRARY, we’re thumbing through CLEAVE THE SPARROW, THE REGICIDE REPORT by Charles Stross, and Robin Ince being NORMALLY WEIRD AND WEIRDLY NORMAL. Then we descend into THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE, where the Muppets are taking over with THE MUPPET SHOW and MUPPETS NOW. We catch the latest on THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU and TOY STORY 5, while tracking the PENTAGON PIZZA INDEX to see if war is breaking out. For the kids, we look at a 3D PRINTER / ENTRY LEVEL FOR KIDS like the Bambu Lab A1, and for the nerds, A STAR WARS-CENTRIC RSS FEED and a NEAT IDEA FOR AN RSS READER, “CURRENT,” which lets news drift away like water under a bridge. We wrap it all up with some HORROR IN UNDER TWO MINUTES and IMPECCABLE COVERS OF 80S SYNTH MUSIC, because at least the 80s had better soundtracks than this AI-generated nightmare. Sponsors: DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use promo code GOG at checkout. SquareSpace - go to squarespace.com/GRUMPY for a free trial. And when you’re ready to launch, use code GRUMPY to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!! 1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1password Show notes at https://gog.show/734 FOLLOW UP EU launches second investigation into Grok's nonconsensual image generation Meta largely fails to protect kids from AI chatbots, per its own tests After Ring privacy backlash, company abandons plans for police partnership Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says IN THE NEWS OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future Meta and Other Tech Firms Put Restrictions on Use of OpenClaw Over Security Fears RFK Jr's new chatbot advises the public on 'best foods to insert into rectum' AI Companies Bought Out All of Western Digital’s Hard Drives for 2026 Already Valve admits Steam Deck availability is affected by memory and storage shortages Steve Bannon sued over MAGA crypto scheme Los Angeles County files lawsuit against Roblox over child protections Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That’s 4x Higher Than Humans Tesla dodges 30-day suspension in California after removing Autopilot New York hits the brakes on robotaxi expansion plan Polymarket withdraws explosive Artemis betting market after backlash Ethereum Creator Starting to Think This Whole Prediction Market Thing Might be Gambling Nevada sues Kalshi for operating a sports gambling market without a license Inside the Rolling Layoffs at Jack Dorsey’s Block You’ll Be Sorry When You Hear What Justin Bieber’s $1.3 Million Bored Ape Is Worth Now MEDIA CANDY Free Bert Kat Williams: The Last Report Shrek Mark Rober Monarch: Legacy of Monsters GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE | Official Trailer | February 13 - Only in Theaters STOP USING GENERATIVE A.I (Original Song) by Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq I've No More F*s To Give! by Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq APPS & DOODADS Obsidian to Notes Cursor Visual Studio Code Apple’s AI Pendant Sounds Like a Watered-Down Humane Ai Pin There’s a Grim New Expression: “AI;DR” There's a New Term for Workers Freaking Out Over Being Replaced by AI AT THE LIBRARY Cleave the Sparrow by Jonathan Katz The Regicide Report (Laundry Files Book 14) by Charles Stross Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity by Robin Ince THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE Dave Bittner The CyberWire Hacking Humans Caveat Control Loop Only Malware in the Building The Muppet Show Muppets Now The Mandalorian and Grogu | Official Trailer | In Theaters May 22 Toy Story 5 | Official Trailer | In Theaters June 19 Pentagon Pizza Index Bambu Lab A1 A Star Wars-centric RSS feed Current RSS Reader Horror in under two minutes. Impeccable covers of 80s synth music Top Gun - Opening Theme (Synth Cover) CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS Green Eggs and Ham narrated by the Reverend Jesse Jackson See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    1h 25m
  2. Predator Friendly Hunting Ground

    13 FEB

    Predator Friendly Hunting Ground

    We kick things off in FOLLOW UP with the ongoing "nuclear war" between Automattic and WP Engine, where discovery has revealed Matt Mullenweg’s alleged hit list of competitors and a desperate attempt to bully payment processors—because nothing says "open source" like an eight-percent royalty shakedown. Meanwhile, the Harvard Business Review confirmed what we already knew: AI isn’t reducing our work; it’s just compressing it until we’re all working through lunch and burning out faster while Polymarket turns our collective brain rot into a literal "attention market" where you can bet on Elon’s mindshare. Transitioning to IN THE NEWS, Elon has officially pivoted SpaceX from Mars to the Moon, presumably because building a "self-growing lunar city" is easier than admitting the Red Planet is hard, though his xAI all-hands rant about "ancient alien catapults" suggests he’s been staring at the sun too long. Between X allegedly taking blue-check lunch money from sanctioned Iranian leaders, Meta facing trials for creating "predator-friendly hunting grounds," and Russia finally pulling the plug on WhatsApp, the internet is looking more like a digital dumpster fire than ever. Add in Discord leaking 70,000 government IDs, OpenAI shoving ads into ChatGPT while safety researchers flee the building like it’s on fire, and a "cognitive debt" crisis eroding our ability to think, and you’ve got a recipe for a tech-induced psychosis that even crypto-funded human trafficking can’t outpace. In MEDIA CANDY, we're wondering about the soft-core porn intro in the latest Star Trek: Starfleet Academy while Apple buys the total rights to Severance for seventy million dollars—because in-house production is the only way to keep those ballooning budgets under control. Super Bowl trailer season gave us a glimpse of The Mandalorian and Grogu and a Project Hail Mary teaser, while Babylon 5 has finally landed on YouTube for free, proving that even 90s serialized sci-fi eventually finds its way to the clearance bin. Over in APPS & DOODADS, Meta Quest is nagging us for our birthdays like a needy relative, while Roblox had to scrub a mass-shooting simulator—because "AI plus human safety teams" is apparently just code for "we missed it until it hit the forums." Ring’s Super Bowl ad for "Search Party" accidentally terrified everyone by revealing a mass surveillance network for pets that’s a slippery slope toward a police state, and Waymo is now paying DoorDashers ten bucks just to walk over and close the car doors that autonomous tech still can’t figure out. Wrapping up with THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE, we dive into the Mandalorian Hasbro reveal where Sigourney Weaver’s action figure comes with no accessories because her existence is enough of a flex. We explore the grim reality of "RentAHuman," where humans are paid pittance to pretend AI agents are actually doing work, and look at "Trash Talk Audio," which sells a $125 microphone made out of a literal old telephone for that authentic Gen-X "get off the line, I'm expecting a call" aesthetic. From Marcia Lucas finally venting about the prequels and a rare book catalog specifically for our aging generation, we’re reminded that while the future is a chaotic mess of "GeoSpy" AI and corporate reshuffling at Disney, at least we still have our cynical memories and some free versions of Roller Coaster Tycoon to keep us from losing it completely. Sponsors: CleanMyMac - Get Tidy Today! Try 7 days free and use code OLDGEEKS for 20% off at clnmy.com/OLDGEEKS DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use promo code GOG at checkout. Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!! 1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1password Show notes at https://gog.show/733 FOLLOW UP Automattic planned to target 10 competitors with royalty fees, WP Engine claims in new filing AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It Polymarket To Offer Attention Markets In Partnership With Kaito AI Israel Arrests Members of Military for Placing Polymarket Bets Using Inside Information on Upcoming Strikes IN THE NEWS Unable to Reach Mars, Musk Does the Most Musk Thing Possible We’ll Find the Remnants of Ancient Alien Civilizations’: Read Musk’s Gibberish Rant from His xAI All-Hands Meeting Elon Musk’s X Appears to Be Violating US Sanctions by Selling Premium Accounts to Iranian Leaders Meta Faces Two Key Trials That Could Change Social Media Forever WhatsApp is now fully blocked in Russia Russia is restricting access to Telegram, one of its most popular social media apps. Here’s what we know DOJ may face investigation for pressuring Apple, Google to remove apps for tracking ICE agents Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model Testing ads in ChatGPT OpenAI Researcher Quits, Warns Its Unprecedented ‘Archive of Human Candor’ Is Dangerous OpenAI Fires Top Safety Exec Who Opposed ChatGPT’s “Adult Mode” Anthropic AI Safety Researcher Warns Of World ‘In Peril’ In Resignation Musk’s xAI loses second co-founder in two days America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs Monologue: No, Something Big Isn’t Coming The Scientist Who Predicted AI Psychosis Has a Grim Forecast of What’s Going to Happen Next Crypto-Funded Human Trafficking Is Exploding MEDIA CANDY Shrinking Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Poor Things Project Hail Mary | Final Trailer Minions & Monsters | Official Trailer Disclosure Day | Big Game Spot The Mandalorian and Grogu | A New Journey Begins | In Theaters May 22 Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube Apple acquires all rights to ‘Severance,’ will produce future seasons in-house Optimizing your TV APPS & DOODADS Tumbler Ridge Shooter Created Mall Shooting Simulator in Roblox Here's how to disable Ring's creepy Search Party feature Waymo Is Getting DoorDashers to Close Doors on Self Driving Cars TikTok US launches a local feed that leverages a user's exact location Apple just released iOS 26.3 alongside updates for the Mac, iPad and Apple Watch THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE Dave Bittner The CyberWire Hacking Humans Caveat Control Loop Only Malware in the Building We Call It Imagineering Your First Look at Hasbro's 'Mandalorian and Grogu' Figures Is Here (Exclusive) I Tried RentAHuman, Where AI Agents Hired Me to Hype Their AI Startups Trash Talk Audio Roger Reacts to Star Wars - A New Hope Marcia Lucas Finally Speaks Out | Icons Unearthed: Unplugged (FULL INTERVIEW) What’s wrong with the prequels? Rare Books, Gen X edition GeoSpy CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS Robert Tinney, who painted iconic Byte magazine covers, RIP Bud Cort See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    1h 24m
  3. We’re Not In the Files!

    7 FEB

    We’re Not In the Files!

    In this week’s FOLLOW UP, Bitcoin is down 15%, miners are unplugging rigs because paying eighty-seven grand to mine a sixty-grand coin finally failed the vibes check, and Grok is still digitally undressing men—suggesting Musk’s “safeguards” remain mostly theoretical, which didn’t help when X offices got raided in France. Spain wants to ban social media for kids under 16, Egypt is blocking Roblox outright, and governments everywhere are flailing at the algorithmic abyss. IN THE NEWS, Elon Musk is rolling xAI into SpaceX to birth a $1.25 trillion megacorp that wants to power AI from orbit with a million satellites, because space junk apparently wasn’t annoying enough. Amazon admits a “high volume” of CSAM showed up in its AI training data and blames third parties, Waymo bags a massive $16 billion to insist robotaxis are working, Pinterest reportedly fires staff who built a layoff-tracking tool, and Sam Altman gets extremely cranky about Claude’s Super Bowl ads hitting a little too close to home. For MEDIA CANDY, we’ve got Shrinking, the Grammys, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s questionable holographic future, Neil Young gifting his catalog to Greenland while snubbing Amazon, plus Is It Cake? Valentines and The Rip. In APPS & DOODADS, we test Sennheiser earbuds, mess with Topaz Video, skip a deeply cursed Python script that checks LinkedIn for Epstein connections, and note that autonomous cars and drones will happily obey prompt injection via road signs—defeated by a Sharpie. IN THE LIBRARY, there’s The Regicide Report, a brutal study finding early dementia signals in Terry Pratchett’s novels, Neil Gaiman denying allegations while announcing a new book, and THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE, vibing with The Muppet Show as Disney names a new CEO. We round it out with RentAHuman.ai dread relief via paper airplane databases, free Roller Coaster Tycoon, and Sir Ian McKellen on Colbert—still classy in the digital wasteland. Sponsors: DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use promo code GOG at checkout. SquareSpace - go to squarespace.com/GRUMPY for a free trial. And when you’re ready to launch, use code GRUMPY to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!! 1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1password Show notes at https://gog.show/732 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/uFfEI2fuWaM FOLLOW UP Bitcoin drops 15%, briefly breaking below $61,000 as sell-off intensifies, doubts about crypto grow Bitcoin Is Crashing So Hard That Miners Are Unplugging Their Equipment Grok, which maybe stopped undressing women without their consent, still undresses men X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok Spain set to ban social media for children under 16 Egypt to block Roblox for all users IN THE NEWS Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company SpaceX wants to launch a constellation of a million satellites to power AI needs A potential Starlink competitor just got FCC clearance to launch 4,000 satellites Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from Waymo raises massive $16 billion round at $126 billion valuation, plans expansion to 20+ cities Pinterest Reportedly Fires Employees Who Built a Tool to Track Layoffs Sam Altman got exceptionally testy over Claude Super Bowl ads MEDIA CANDY Shrinking Star Trek: Starfleet Academy The Rip Neil Young gifts Greenland free access to his music and withdraws it from Amazon over Trump Is it Cake? Valentines APPS & DOODADS Sennheiser Consumer Audio IE 200 In-Ear Audiophile Headphones - TrueResponse Transducers for Neutral Sound, Impactful Bass, Detachable Braided Cable with Flexible Ear Hooks - Black Sennheiser Consumer Audio CX 80S In-ear Headphones with In-line One-Button Smart Remote – Black Topaz Video Epstein Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign AT THE LIBRARY The Regicide Report (Laundry Files Book 14) by Charles Stross Scientists Found an Early Signal of Dementia Hidden in Terry Pratchett's Novels Neil Gaiman Denies the Allegations Against Him (Again) While Announcing a New Book THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE Dave Bittner The CyberWire Hacking Humans Caveat Control Loop Only Malware in the Building The Muppet Show Disney announces Josh D’Amaro will be its new CEO after Iger departs A Database of Paper Airplane Designs: Hours of Fun for Kids & Adults Alike Online (free!) version of Roller Coaster tycoon. Speaking of coasters, here’s the current world champion. I am hoping this is satire... Sir Ian McKellen on Colbert. CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS Catherine O’Hara: The Grande Dame of Off-Center Comedy Standing with Sam 'Balloon Man' Martinez See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    1h 16m
  4. I Want My 13 Trillion Dollars!

    30 JAN

    I Want My 13 Trillion Dollars!

    We kick off FOLLOW UP by checking in on Elon Musk’s personal dumpster fire, where the EU is investigating Grok for deepfake slop while Tesla’s “unsupervised” robotaxis turned out to be supervised by literal chase cars — shocker. At least some of you are getting Siri settlement crumbs in your bank accounts, though you could probably double it betting against Musk’s worthless promises on Polymarket. Transitioning to IN THE NEWS, Tesla is killing off the Model S and X to build robots while sales crater, proving that mixing hard-right politics with EV sales is a brilliant move for the balance sheet. Meanwhile, the corporate bloodbath continues with massive layoffs at Ubisoft, Vimeo (courtesy of the Bending Spoons buzzsaw), and Amazon, because “removing bureaucracy” is apparently HR-speak for 16,000 families losing their livelihoods. If that’s not enough, Google is settling yet another privacy suit for $135 million, the EU is threatening to weaponize its tech sovereignty against the US, and the Trump administration wants Gemini to write federal regulations—because if there's one thing we want drafting airline safety rules, it's a hallucinating chatbot. Still IN THE NEWS, Waymo is under federal investigation for passing school buses and hitting children, while South Korea’s new AI laws manage to please absolutely no one. Record labels are suing Anna’s Archive for a cool $13 trillion—roughly three times the GDP of India—and the Winklevoss twins have finally admitted that NFTs are dead by shuttering Nifty Gateway. We pivot to MEDIA CANDY, where the Patriots and Seahawks are heading to Super Bowl 60, and the Winter Olympics are descending on Milan. We’re doing the math on the Starfleet Academy timeline, celebrating the return of Ted Lasso and Shrinking, and trying to decide if Henry Cavill is the second coming of Timothy Dalton in the Highlander reboot. Plus, Jessica Jones is back in the Daredevil: Born Again trailer, and Colin Farrell’s Sugar is returning to explain that wild noir twist we all totally saw coming. In APPS & DOODADS, the TikTok Armageddon is upon us as the new US owners break the app and drive everyone to UpScrolled, while Native Instruments enters insolvency, leaving our music-making dreams in restructuring limbo. Apple is dropping AirTag 2 with precision finding for your watch, which is great for finding the keys you lost while doom-scrolling. We wrap up with THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE, featuring the new Muppets trailer and Steve Whitmire’s deep thoughts on the state of the felt, plus a look at the artisans in Disneyland Handcrafted. Finally, Looney Tunes finds a new home on Turner Classic Movies, proving that the classics never die—they just move to a cable channel your parents actually watch. Dave finally learns about the Insta360 camera, a countertop dishwasher but no Animal Crackers, and a guide to gas masks and googles... for no particular reason. Sponsors: DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use promo code GOG at checkout. SquareSpace - go to squarespace.com/GRUMPY for a free trial. And when you’re ready to launch, use code GRUMPY to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!! 1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1password Show notes at https://gog.show/731 Watch the episode at https://youtu.be/B54je_oJWjM FOLLOW UP The EU is investigating Grok and X over potentially illegal deepfakes People on Polymarket Are Making a Fortune by Betting Against Elon Musk’s Famously Worthless Promises Elon Musk Made Tesla Fans Think Unsupervised Robotaxis Had Arrived. They Can’t Find Them Tesla Quietly Pauses Its “Unsupervised” Robotaxi Rides as Reality Sets In Apple Siri settlement payments hitting bank accounts. What to know. IN THE NEWS Tesla bet big on Elon Musk. His politics continue to haunt it. With Tesla Revenue and Profits Down, Elon Musk Plays Up Safety Tesla Kills Models S and X Ubisoft proposes even more layoffs after last week's studio closures and game cancellations Vimeo lays off most of its staff just months after being bought by private equity firm Amazon Laying Off 16,000 as It Increases ‘Ownership’ and Removes ‘Bureaucracy’ Report Says the E.U. Is Gearing Up to Weaponize Europe's Tech Industry Against the U.S. Google will pay $135 million to settle illegal data collection lawsuit GDPR Enforcement Tracker NTSB will investigate why Waymo's robotaxis are illegally passing school buses Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica Video shows Waymo vehicle slam into parked cars in Echo Park Trump admin reportedly plans to use AI to write federal regulations South Korea’s ‘world-first’ AI laws face pushback amid bid to become leading tech power Spotify and Big 3 Record Labels Sue Anna’s Archive for $13 Trillion (!) Alleging Theft Amazon converting some Fresh supermarkets, Go stores to Whole Foods locations SEC agrees to dismiss case over crypto lending by Winklevoss' Gemini Winklevoss Twins Shut Down NFT Marketplace in Another Sign Crypto Art Is Dead MEDIA CANDY Plur1bus Shrinking A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Steal How to watch the 2026 Super Bowl: Patriots vs. Seahawks channel, where to stream and more Winter Olympics: How to watch, schedule of events, and everything else you need to know about the 2026 Milano Cortina games Wait, So When Is 'Starfleet Academy' Set, Anyway? The First ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 Trailer Brings Back Jessica Jones Marvel Television’s Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 | Teaser Trailer Ted Lasso Gets Kicked Back to Apple TV There Can Only Be One First Look at the ‘Highlander’ Reboot Colin Farrell’s Detective Show ‘Sugar’ Will Finally Have to Address that Wild Twist This Summer APPS & DOODADS TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection — here's what it means TikTok’s New US Owners Are Off to a Very Rocky Start TikTok Data Center Outage Triggers Trust Crisis for New US Owners Yes, TikTok is still broken for many people Social network UpScrolled sees surge in downloads following TikTok's US takeover Native Instruments enters into insolvency proceedings, leaving its future uncertain Wispr Flow AirTag 2: Three tidbits you might have missed THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE Dave Bittner The CyberWire Hacking Humans Caveat Control Loop Only Malware in the Building The Muppet Show | Official Trailer | Disney+ Steve Whitmire, former Kermit the Frog performer, has written a long, thoughtful piece about the current stae of the Muppets. Disneyland Handcrafted ‘Looney Tunes’ Has Found a New Home: Turner Classic Movies The Dark Side of Scooby Doo A Disturbing (Yet Convincing) Theory Reveals There Were Never Any "Monsters" In Scooby Doo Cartoon Conspiracy Theory | Scooby Doo and The Gang Are Draft Dodgers?! Producing A Multi-Person Interview With An Insta360 Camera A listener on Mastodon pointed out that The Verge had a story on countertop dishwashers A Demonstrator’s Guide to Gas Masks and Goggles Emma Repairs See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    1h 19m
  5. Ethical Broads

    23 JAN

    Ethical Broads

    Ep 730: Ethical Broads PRIVATE We kick off FOLLOW UP with California’s AG sending a cease-and-desist to xAI over Grok generating creepy deepfakes of minors, while regulators finally notice Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter illegally running methane turbines in Memphis. The FTC is also appealing its loss in the Meta monopoly case, because apparently breaking up Zuckerberg’s data empire is still the hill they want to die on. IN THE NEWS, Washington joins the age-verification-for-porn parade, the UK considers an Australia-style social media ban for kids under 16, and governments everywhere continue demanding your ID before you’re allowed to enjoy the internet. OpenAI rolls out age prediction for ChatGPT accounts ahead of a rumored adult mode—though hey, at least you can now group tabs in ChatGPT’s Atlas browser. Anthropic rewrites Claude’s “constitution” to make it more vibes-based, Nevada moves to block Polymarket because gambling is only legal when the house owns the house, and YouTube promises even more AI features in 2026. Elsewhere, a Swiss suicide pod gets an AI “mental fitness” upgrade, Microsoft’s CEO begs AI developers to do something useful before the grid collapses, Musk hunts for a $134 billion payday from OpenAI and Microsoft, and makes yet more Davos predictions about robotaxis and aliens that are absolutely happening this year. On the bright side, A-list creatives push back on AI and Comic-Con bans AI art, buying humans a little more time. MEDIA CANDY finds us slogging through Wish, The Pitt, and the “Mel’s Diner in Space” look of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. We confirm 20-year-old CGI wargs still look terrible, get cautiously excited for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and note that Fallout Season 2’s weekly drops may not be working for a binge-rotted audience. In APPS & DOODADS, X launches Bluesky-style starter packs—presumably to help you find more Nazis—while ICE becomes one of the most-blocked accounts on Bluesky. Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, proving the “federated future” is just another Zuck app. And yes, we think we know what the Apple AI pin is—and definitely what it isn’t. AT THE LIBRARY, we check out The Elements, Jet Tila’s 101 Thai Dishes You Need to Cook Before You Die, Half Baked Harvest: Quick & Cozy, and Southern Living’s A Southern Gentleman’s Kitchen. Scott reports back from a Jim Butcher talk, where we learn Harry Dresden sounds suspiciously like Han Solo. We close with THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE, who is juggling five podcasts while reading Going to the Top: The Story of Videopolis, plus teasers for Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord and a baffling Masters of the Universe trailer, a rant on what “remastered” even means anymore, a dishwasher follow-up, and the grim news that a lot of snow is coming. Sponsors: DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use promo code GOG at checkout. SquareSpace - go to squarespace.com/GRUMPY for a free trial. And when you’re ready to launch, use code GRUMPY to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!! 1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1password Show notes at https://gog.show/730 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/LiwVkLKr8Co FOLLOW UP California AG sends cease and desist to xAI over Grok's explicit deepfakes Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter generating extra electricity illegally, regulator rules Zuck stuck on Trump’s bad side: FTC appeals loss in Meta monopoly case IN THE NEWS Washington is the latest state pursuing an age verification law for porn sites The UK is mulling an Australia-like social media ban for users under 16 OpenAI is launching age prediction for ChatGPT accounts You can now group tabs on OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser Anthropic Updates Claude's 'Constitution,' Just in Case Chatbot Has a Consciousness Nevada files to block Polymarket from offering ‘unlicensed wagering’ in the state YouTube CEO promises more AI features in 2026 Controversial Swiss Suicide Pod Gets an AI-Powered Mental Fitness Upgrade Microsoft CEO urges AI developers 'to get to a point where we are using this to do something useful,' or 'lose even the social permission...to generate these tokens' Elon Musk is looking for a $134 billion payout from OpenAI and Microsoft Elon Musk Sure Made Lots of Predictions at Davos A-List creatives sign up to fight AI, say it enables 'theft at a grand scale' Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback MEDIA CANDY Wish The Pitt Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple 'Fallout' Season 2's Weekly Drops May Not Be Working APPS & DOODADS X is also launching Bluesky-like starter packs ICE becomes one of the most-blocked accounts on Bluesky after its verification Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows I think I know what the Apple pin is, and definitely know what it isn't Apple Developing AirTag-Sized AI Pin With Dual Cameras Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Apple is reportedly developing an AI wearable Siri’s iOS 27 upgrade sounds exactly right. Apple’s AI pin sounds exactly wrong AT THE LIBRARY The Elements by John Boyne 101 Thai Dishes You Need to Cook Before You Die by Jet Tila Half Baked Harvest Quick & Cozy: A Cookbook by Tieghan Gerard Pestle Southern Living A Southern Gentleman's Kitchen: Adventures in Cooking, Eating, and Living in the New South by Matt Moore THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE Dave Bittner The CyberWire Hacking Humans Caveat Control Loop Only Malware in the Building Going to the Top: The Story of Videopolis—Part One Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord | Official Teaser Trailer | Streaming April 6 on Disney+ Masters of The Universe – Official Teaser Trailer CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS Classic-Era Scorpions Bassist Francis Buchholz Dies at 71 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    1h 27m
  6. Alright Alright Alright™

    16 JAN

    Alright Alright Alright™

    We kick things off with the existential dread of FOLLOW UP and the absolute joy of jury duty. While xAI’s Grok is busy getting banned in Malaysia and Indonesia for its CSAM-generating "features," the Senate is unanimously passing the DEFIANCE Act to give us some legal teeth against the deepfake machine. Meta is busy nuking 550,000 Australian accounts to appease regulators, while Roblox’s age verification is so broken that a drawing of stubble or a photo of Kurt Cobain can get you into the adult lounge. Moving IN THE NEWS, Meta is trading its $70 billion Metaverse graveyard for a Reality Labs layoff and a pivot to AI hardware, fueled by an "AI infrastructure" buildout that’s hiring former Trump advisors. Bandcamp is heroically banning AI "slop," Matthew McConaughey is trademarking his own face to fend off the bots, and ICE’s AI hiring tool is such a disaster it’s accidentally fast-tracking mall security as "officers." Between self-help gurus charging $99 for chatbot "advice," GM finally settling its driver-spying suit with the FTC, and NASA prepping for a February moon shot while China plans to launch 200,000 satellites into our already crowded orbit, the future looks exactly as messy as we expected. For MEDIA CANDY, we’ve got Lord of the Rings marathons, the diner-bridge of Starfleet Academy, and the usual joy of streaming price hikes hitting our "Premium" plans. We’re tracking the 2025 "In Memoriam" and Gabriel Pagan’s exhaustive movie list before sliding into APPS & DOODADS. Jony Ive and Sam Altman are reportedly building an hearing aide called "Sweetpea" to kill your AirPods, Siri is officially Google Gemini’s new puppet, and Apple is finally bundling its creative apps into a "Creator Studio" subscription trap. Tesla is making Full Self-Driving a subscription-only Valentine’s gift (good luck with that), Ring is rebranding surveillance as a "fire-watching" assistant, and a Chinese app called "Are You Dead?" is the new must-have for the lonely. To cap it off, the internet proved its maturity by using "Words.zip"—an infinite word-search grid—to draw a giant phallus, because of course they did. AT THE LIBRARY features the Anthony Bourdain Reader, the return of Bob in the new Laundry Files book, and Jimmy Carr’s guide to happiness, which is apparently cheaper than therapy. Then we descend into THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE, where the dishwasher-installing, ham-radio-lunching Dave Bittner reveals Disney World has job openings for those of us who spent high school in the AV club. Lucasfilm is finally entering a new era as Kathleen Kennedy steps down, just as Galaxy’s Edge admits the original trilogy exists, and we wrap it all up with lock-picking kits and the terrifying realization that Seymour from H.R. Pufnstuf is the ultimate Gen-X fursona. Sponsors: DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use promo code GOG at checkout. Gusto - Try Gusto today at gusto.com/grumpy, and get three months free when you run your first payroll. Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!! 1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1password Show notes at https://gog.show/729 Watch on YouTube! https://youtu.be/1Y1jnRDw7g0 FOLLOW UP Malaysia and Indonesia are the first to block Grok following CSAM scandal Senate passes Defiance Act for a second time to address Grok deepfakes Meta closes 550,000 accounts to comply with Australia's kids social media ban Roblox's age verification system is reportedly a trainwreck IN THE NEWS Meta refocuses on AI hardware as metaverse layoffs begin Meta’s Layoffs Leave Supernatural Fitness Users in Mourning Meta Creates High-Powered Team to Oversee AI Infrastructure Buildout Bandcamp prohibits music made ‘wholly or in substantial part’ by AI Matthew McConaughey fights unauthorized AI likenesses by trademarking himself ICE’s AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster Self-Help Ghouls Are Charging People Absurd Prices to Talk to Impersonator Chatbots The FTC's data-sharing order against GM is finally settled NASA is ending Crew-11 astronauts' mission a month early NASA makes final preparations for its first crewed moon mission in over 50 years As SpaceX Works Toward 50K Starlink Satellites, China Eyes Deploying 200K MEDIA CANDY Beast Games Season 2 Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Grumpy Old List The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1069: 2025 in Memoriam Depeche Mode: M APPS & DOODADS Jony Ive and Sam Altman’s First AI Gadget May Try to Kill AirPods Apple's Siri AI will be powered by Gemini Apple’s Mac and iPad creative apps get bundled into “Creator Studio” subscription Tesla's Full Self-Driving is switching to a subscription-only service Ring founder details the camera company's 'intelligent assistant' era Are You Dead?: The viral Chinese app for young people living alone Give the Internet an Infinite Word Search and the Internet Will Draw a Dick on It AT THE LIBRARY The Anthony Bourdain Reader: New, Classic, and Rediscovered Writing by Anthony Bourdain Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful Businessman by Robert Updegraff Before & Laughter by Jimmy Carr The Regicide Report (Laundry Files, 14) by Charles Stross THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE Dave Bittner The CyberWire Hacking Humans Caveat Control Loop Only Malware in the Building How to Read a Book: A Novel by Monica Wood Walt Disney World Resort is looking for Entertainment Stage Technicians Galaxy’s Edge Will Soon Cover All Eras of ‘Star Wars’ Kathleen Kennedy steps down as Lucasfilm president, marking a new era for the Star Wars franchise See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    1h 24m
  7. No Face to Shoot

    9 JAN

    No Face to Shoot

    Welcome back to the digital wasteland, fellow survivors. We kick things off in the FOLLOW UP by marking a year since the LA Fires—hello, PTSD—alongside a 4th Strokiversary and three years of sobriety, all while wondering why America is currently obsessed with shooting its own civilians in the face. In the IN THE NEWS segment, Wired is finally teaching us how to protest safely in the age of surveillance, and the EFF is cheering on the hackers fighting ICE’s Nazi-adjacent tracking tactics. Meanwhile, Meta is harvesting your AI chats for targeted ads, Disney is paying $10 million for spying on kids, and Grok has spent the holidays generating nonconsensual child abuse material—a problem Elon Musk won't have to legally reckon with until the Take It Down Act hits in May. Instagram’s Adam Mosseri has basically surrendered to the AI "slop", suggesting we fingerprint "real" media because the fake stuff has already won the war. As we continue the descent, OpenAI is launching a ChatGPT Health portal despite their "loser energy" and compute limits, while Character.AI and Google are quietly settling lawsuits for bots that encouraged teen suicide. Polymarket gamblers are learning that "decentralized" juries will fist you over the definition of an "invasion" just as fast as a bank. Uber showed off a new Lucid-based robotaxi, but we’re pumping the brakes on the safety hype given that autonomous vehicles are five times more likely to crash at dusk. To wrap up the news, Tim Cook took home $74 million last year, which is a lot of "systematic philanthropy" he could be doing right now instead of just writing checks to his own ego. In MEDIA CANDY, we’re suffering through the Stranger Things wrap-up and a John McTiernan holiday marathon, though the real highlight is MTV Rewind’s tribute to music videos. We’ve got Traitors, The Pitt, and even a John Candy doc on the list, while APPS & DOODADS brings us the DJI Osmo 8, Victrola’s turntable-vibrating speakers. At least California’s DROP tool lets you purge your data from 500 brokers at once. Finally, we go to THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE to hear Dave Bittner rant about holiday tech support, health insurance gouging, and Dave Filoni taking the Star Wars reins. We close out with a look at ILM’s 50th, the deepfake porn cesspool formerly known as Twitter, and a birthday toast to the Starman himself, David Bowie. Sponsors: CleanMyMac - Get Tidy Today! Try 7 days free and use code OLDGEEKS for 20% off at clnmy.com/OLDGEEKS Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!! 1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1password Show notes at https://gog.show/728 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/x-2GTUC6rcU IN THE NEWS How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE Meta’s New Privacy Policy Opens Up AI Chats for Targeted Ads Disney to Pay $10 Million After Feds Say It Broke Kids’ Privacy Rules on YouTube People Spent the Holidays Asking Grok to Generate Sexual Images of Children Here's When Elon Musk Will Finally Have to Reckon With His Nonconsensual Porn Generator Instagram chief: AI is so ubiquitous 'it will be more practical to fingerprint real media than fake media' ChatGPT is launching a new dedicated Health portal Character.AI and Google settle with families in teen suicide and self-harm lawsuits Gambling platform Polymarket not paying bets on US invasion of Venezuela Uber reveals the design of its robotaxi at CES 2026 Maybe We Should Pump the Brakes on the Idea That Robotaxis Are Safer Here’s how much Tim Cook and other Apple execs made last year MEDIA CANDY The Pitt Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale Jurassic World Rebirth The Darjeeling Limited Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Honey Don’t John Candy: I Like Me MTV Rewind is a developer's tribute to 24/7 music video channels APPS & DOODADS DJI Osmo Mobile 8 Netflix Games This speaker by Victrola sits underneath turntables and streams audio via Bluetooth Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE Dave Bittner The CyberWire Hacking Humans Caveat Control Loop Only Malware in the Building Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation Dave Filoni to run Star Wars Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    1h 15m
  8. Merry Slopmas

    20/12/2025

    Merry Slopmas

    Welcome back to another hour of digital cynicism. We kick things off with a FOLLOW UP on Amazon’s Fallout recaps, which were apparently so hallucination-heavy they made the actual wasteland look organized; naturally, they’ve been nuked along with the "Video Recaps" feature. In a massive dose of IN THE NEWS, Tesla is finally getting a legal side-eye in California for its deceptive "Autopilot" branding, while TikTok is performing a corporate shell game by selling a 45% stake to Oracle and friends to keep the feds happy. Reddit is fighting Australia’s under-16 ban like it’s a constitutional crisis, Louisiana’s age-verification law just got benched by a judge, and Merriam-Webster officially crowned "slop" as the Word of the Year—which is fitting, given that OpenAI is selectively hiding chat logs from murder-suicides while their Chief Scientist warns that recursive AI self-improvement might end the human experiment by 2030. If the "intelligence explosion" doesn’t get us, the CRASH Clock says we’ve got roughly 2.8 days before Elon’s satellite swarm turns low-earth orbit into a permanent scrapyard. In our MEDIA CANDY segment, we mourn the transition year of Star Trek, which was mostly a series of unmitigated disasters and corporate retreats, though the Oscars moving to YouTube in 2029 means we can finally ignore them in 4K. Meta is testing a "pay-to-share-links" feature because they clearly haven't alienated creators enough, and a new study suggests Amazon’s "dynamic pricing" is basically just a high-tech way to gouge public school districts for pencils. Moving to APPS & DOODADS, iOS 26.2 is here with a "Liquid Glass" slider—groundbreaking stuff, really—while Microsoft’s Copilot+ push is effectively killing the laptop market by making 16GB of RAM a luxury item only a data center could love. Meanwhile, iRobot has officially sucked its last bit of dust into a Chapter 11 filing, proving that even a twenty-year head start can’t save you from a 46 percent tariff and better Chinese competition. AT THE LIBRARY, we find out that librarians are ready to quit because people keep demanding books that only exist in a ChatGPT hallucination, proving once again that the "Information Age" was a lie. We descend into THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE with the tireless Dave Bittner to discuss why modern movies feel like plastic, the bizarre paradox of James Cameron’s Avatar dominance, and a bittersweet farewell to Rob Reiner. We wrap it up with the return of The Muppets, a look at plug-in solar panels for the budget-conscious prepper, and the Sedaris siblings proving that even grief can be a podcast topic. It’s all the tech "progress" you never asked for, delivered with the appropriate amount of Gen-X side-eye. Show notes at https://gog.show/727 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hHnGD4lIFzA Sponsors: MasterClass - Get up to 50% off at MASTERCLASS.com/GRUMPYOLDGEEKS Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!! 1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1password FOLLOW UP Amazon pulls its bad AI video recaps after Fallout fallout IN THE NEWS Tesla used deceptive language to market Autopilot, California judge rules TikTok agrees to deal to cede control of US business to American investor group Reddit sues Australia over underage social media ban Judge blocks Louisiana's social media age verification law Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die Trump orders creation of litigation task force to challenge state AI laws 'Slop' is Merriam-Webster's word of the year Anthropic’s Chief Scientist Says We’re Rapidly Approaching the Moment That Could Doom Us All Model collapse OpenAI Is Going Into the New Year With Some Real Loser Energy New ‘CRASH Clock’ Warns of 2.8-Day Window Before Likely Orbital Collision A Facebook test makes link-sharing a paid feature for creators Study links Amazon's algorithmic pricing with erratic, inflated costs for school districts MEDIA CANDY A Man on the Inside S2 Oh. What. Fun. The End of an Era The West Wing F1® The Movie - Apple TV The Running Man Welcome to Derry Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery Is it Cake? Apple TV releasing Pluribus season finale early next week Warner Bros. Discovery rejects Paramount's hostile bid 2025 Was a Turning Point for ‘Star Trek’, Whether It Knew It or Not THE ACADEMY PARTNERS WITH YOUTUBE FOR EXCLUSIVE GLOBAL RIGHTS TO THE OSCARS® AND OTHER ACADEMY CONTENT STARTING IN 2029 APPS & DOODADS iOS 26.2 is here with another Liquid Glass tweak, new Podcasts features and more Oh, the Irony: Microsoft’s Push for Copilot+ PCs Could Stall Laptop Sales iRobot has filed for bankruptcy and may be taken over by its primary supplier AT THE LIBRARY Flybot by Dennis E. Taylor Making Space (The Time Traveler's Passport) by R. F. Kuang For a Limited Time Only (The Time Traveler's Passport) by Peng Shepherd Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE Dave Bittner The CyberWire Hacking Humans Caveat Control Loop Only Malware in the Building Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore The Avatar Paradox - Why Nobody Talks About These Movies Don't F**k with James Cameron Every James Cameron Movie, Explained by James Cameron | Vanity Fair ‘The Muppet Show’ Returns for One Night Only Next February The Muppet Show | Official Teaser | Disney+ Small plug-in solar panels gain traction as an affordable way to cut electricity bills 'You don't know what it's like till you lose a parent': Sedaris siblings share their grief story CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS “Enshittification” YouTube “Enshittification” Spotify “Enshittification” SoundCloud (with a direct download) Len (a.k.a. Funny Name) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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We dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Cobain threw down with Tom from MySpace, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg in a back alley brawl. No mercy, no filter—if tech had a walk of shame, this would be it.

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