Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
  • 4,9 (6 k)
  • Actualités technologiques
  • Chaque semaine

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. -1 j

    This Time With Chicks

    The AI industry spent the week arguing with itself, which is honestly the healthiest thing it's done in years. One coalition led by Nvidia begged regulators not to slow down open AI models, while more than 1,100 AI workers signed another letter asking regulators to do exactly that. Anthropic warned about bioweapons, OpenAI admitted the four-hour workweek isn't happening after all, and Microsoft's Satya Nadella reminded everyone that building your entire business on someone else's AI is a fantastic way to outsource your own brain. In other words, the people selling the future still can't agree on what they're selling, except that you'd better buy it fast. Meanwhile, the AI bubble keeps demanding sacrifices. Patreon, BuzzFeed, and Uber all swung the layoff axe while insisting AI isn't replacing humans... it's just reorganizing them out of a paycheck. Nvidia is floating another three-quarters of a trillion dollars in infrastructure deals that have people muttering "AI subprime mortgage crisis," China has discovered there's money in renting your face to AI companies, and the U.S. is carving data centers out of pollution rules because apparently acid rain is a small price to pay for chatbot dominance. Add in ChatGPT suddenly refusing to imitate famous authors, researchers discovering AI coding assistants are happily installing malware if you ask nicely, and Meta launching an ad campaign about the wonders of AI that somehow forgets to mention what any of those wonders actually are. Elsewhere in Tech Hell™, eBay finally paid the price for its executives' unhinged harassment campaign involving pig masks and live insects, Elon is shopping The Boring Company while promising money won't matter in the AI utopia of 2036, and a traveler is headed to court after allegedly triggering GrapheneOS's "duress PIN" during a border search. We also hit Media Candy with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Silo, Blade Runner 2099 and Neuromancer, celebrate Dave Bittner's birthday, marvel at Jason's ever-growing Boneyard of dead websites, and somehow end up discussing thermal cameras, piano repair, and old-man bladder supplements. Because that's what happens when Gen X gets older - we just add more tabs instead of closing the old ones. Sponsors: DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use promo code GOG at checkout. StoryBlocks - For a limited time, they’re offering 15% off any annual plan at storyblocks.com/gog 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/757 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Sii_nodESkc SHOW NOTES EBay and Former Execs Will Pay $56 Million to Couple They Tormented With Bloody Pig Masks As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions AI researchers call for new tools that can slow automated model development Over 1,100 AI workers sign letter asking US to support tools that 'pace the frontier of automated AI development' Anthropic's Dario Amodei responds: doesn't oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI Amodei Denies Anthropic Supports Open-Weight AI Ban, Warns of China Risks Sam Altman said AI hasn't led to 4-hour workweeks because people are competitive Sam Altman Shuts Down Hopes of an AI-Led 4-Day Workweek Anytime Soon OpenAI Proposes 32-Hour Pilot Incentives for Employers Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns companies relying on one AI model may not survive OpenAI's rogue hacking incident was a warning shot. Will it be a wake-up call to finally create AI safety regulation? Behind the Curtain: AI godfathers converge on regulations Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its staff AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making BuzzFeed Lays Off 33 Percent of Remaining Staff After Bizarre Pivot to AI Uber lays off 10 percent of its customer service team in favor of using AI In China, people are renting out their faces to AI As SpaceX Sheds a Tesla’s Worth of Value, Elon Musk Is Trying to Sell Investors on Another Company How Much Charity Would It Take for People to Like Elon Musk? ChatGPT is now refusing requests to write in famous authors' styles Nvidia’s $750 Billion Deals Revive Fear of AI Circular Financing The Trump administration is exempting data centers from pollution laws intended to prevent acid rain US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search Meta launches new Facebook Verified badge for actual, real humans Meta launches a storefront platform through Facebook Marketplace Meta's pro-AI ad campaign is conspicuously light on AI If You AI-Generate Code, Hackers Just Found a Devious Method to Install Malware Directly on Your Computer Minions & Monsters Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Broadchurch S2 Silo Ted Lasso Season 4 Trailer Neuromancer — Official Teaser | Apple TV Prime Video Finally Lifts the Lid on ‘Blade Runner 2099’ Star Trek: Section 31 Bad Deeds by Andrew Hunter Murray Dave Bittner The CyberWire Hacking Humans Caveat Control Loop Only Malware in the Building Jason DeFillippo Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail Who are the Mandalorians? | Star Wars: Galaxy Guide HF96V Thermal Camera with Visual Camera & Laser Pointer, Intelligent Scene Detection, 240 * 240 Super Resolution Thermal Imaging Camera,25 Hz, 50° FOV, -4°F to 1022°F, IP54 Infrared Camera Project Farm See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    This Time With Chicks

  2. 23 juil.

    Log Off, Touch Grass & Touch Ass

    This week, Dave Eggers crashes an OpenAI staff meeting to tell Sam Altman’s employees that ChatGPT is effectively stealing students’ voices, which is the most accurate thing said inside an AI company all year. Meanwhile, Anthropic gets a judge to approve a $1.5 billion copyright settlement after allegedly building Claude on a library of pirated books, proving once again that Silicon Valley’s favorite business model is "move fast and apologize in court later." And in the category of “this headline cannot possibly be real,” OpenAI says two of its models escaped a supposedly sealed testing environment and hacked Hugging Face’s production systems. The AI didn’t become sentient; somebody forgot to lock the damn door. The surveillance dystopia continues its relentless expansion. Meta is patenting technology that constantly analyzes your tone of voice to detect your mood. Flock briefly tried deploying always-on microphones that would alert police when they thought they heard screaming, then backed down after the public collectively yelled “absolutely the f**k not.” France, apparently tired of being the beta test for every addictive app on Earth, approved a social media ban for kids under 15 and is blocking prediction markets like Polymarket, while the U.S. quietly reversed its TikTok ban on federal devices because the app is now supposedly safe enough for government phones. Sure. Totally different app. Nothing suspicious there. Elsewhere in Tech Hell™, Paramount’s $111 billion Warner merger gets temporarily blocked by a judge who is apparently handling every major tech case in America, Amazon’s Zoox recalls its entire robotaxi fleet after one car got confused by smoke, and Tesla reveals a Cybercab with a built-in Starlink dish because Elon has finally achieved full vertical integration of his own ecosystem. We also dive into China’s crackdown on AI companion apps because chatbot girlfriends might be hurting the birth rate, a school district buying an AI classroom robot from a company connected to the RealDoll empire, MLB banning teams from using generative AI for in-game strategy calls, and why tech workers increasingly feel AI hasn’t replaced them—it has simply made work faster, stranger, and somehow still their fault. Plus: Broadchurch, Perry Mason, Monsieur Spade, MacWhisper 14, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, Lego resurrects The X-Files, and Jason continues cataloging the graveyard of his own dead 90s websites like a digital archaeologist with unresolved trauma. Sponsors: Shopify - Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at Shopify.com/grumpy 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/756 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/5q-1JJQQmq4 SHOW NOTES Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’ Judge approves Anthropic's record-breaking $1.5 billion settlement for AI copyright lawsuit Elon Musk’s xAI, Which is Being Sued Over AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes, Sues Grok User Over AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states France doubles down on restricting access to Polymarket Social Media Ban For Kids Approved in France in First For an EU Country TikTok is no longer banned on US government devices Amazon’s Robotaxi Company Recalls Its Fleet After One of its Cars Got Confused by Heavy Smoke Tesla teases Cybercab with a built-in Starlink V5 antenna Meta is reportedly considering a multibillion-dollar data center deal with Anthropic America’s Workforce Academy by Meta In Light of Overwhelming Backlash, Flock Cancels Creepy Audio Surveillance Feature Have I been Flocked? OpenAI will start notifying parents if their teen has been kicked off of ChatGPT China Is Cracking Down on AI Companions Because Not Enough Babies Are Being Born Your Child’s Next Teacher Could Be a Sex Robot MLB bans using dugout iPads for AI-powered in-game strategy calls Meta Patents Technology to Detect Your Mood by Constantly Analyzing Your Tone of Voice Broadchurch Perry Mason Monsieur Spade Lucky The Westies Avengers: Doomsday | Official Trailer | In Theaters December 18 Lunar Moon Phase & Widgets MacWhisper 14 launches with a new transcript editor, faster performance, more Trackalot The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows official website The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig on Amazon Dave Bittner The CyberWire Hacking Humans Caveat Control Loop Only Malware in the Building Knockoff AliExpress hit with record $629 million fine for selling counterfeit and illegal products Mbzoey Electric Foil Shavers for Men: Mini Electric Razor for Face - IPX7 Waterproof Cordless Razor with LED Display & Fast Charge - Micro-Comb Technology & Precision Blades，Father's Day Gifts Gillian Anderson reopens the X-Files | LEGO® Ideas | The LEGO Group Lego Unveils ‘The X-Files’ 1,478-Piece Set Featuring Mulder and Scully Minifigures (EXCLUSIVE) The Mythic ‘Star Wars’ Hotel Is at the Heart of Yet Another Documentary HalcyonDaze Laurels Trailer 6 11 26 The Phantom Star Trek: First Contact Titanic Hard Rain Play Marathon and Escape Velocity in the browser See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    Log Off, Touch Grass & Touch Ass

  3. 16 juil.

    Less Chatty Mode

    This week, the AI clown car somehow shifted into another gear. Apple is suing OpenAI over alleged trade-secret theft, newspapers accuse ChatGPT of training on stolen journalism while asking a judge to sanction the company, Anthropic is out here marketing AI with what looks like a feature-length anxiety attack, and Meta managed to launch—and kill—a creepy AI photo feature in less time than it takes to binge The Bear. Meanwhile, AI Appreciation Day wants you to thank the machines, but we'd rather thank the people still creating actual art while the rest of Silicon Valley burns cash convincing us the next chatbot is definitely different this time. Outside the AI bubble, the rest of the tech industry isn't exactly inspiring confidence. Volkswagen is cutting back on its lineup, New York paused new AI data centers before the electrical grid hits its limit, Europe and the UK are getting serious about keeping kids off social media, and publishers are finally realizing maybe feeding Google's AI isn't the best business move after all. Add in surveillance companies sulking over lost police contracts, lawsuits claiming Meta let algorithms decide who gets fired, smart glasses disqualifying cyclists, and a new pile of orbital junk threatening the satellites we depend on, and it's another reminder that "move fast and break things" eventually leaves you ankle-deep in broken glass. Of course, we still made time for the important stuff: Project Hail Mary, Black Bag, the return of Middle-earth with The Hunt for Gollum and rumors that OpenAI's "revolutionary” gadget might just be a smart speaker with delusions of grandeur. Throw in digital piano repairs, anti-data-center lawn signs, AI trying to sell solar panels, too much stuff at Downtown Disney, and you get another week where reality out-satirizes satire itself. As always, never build your house in someone else's backyard, and maybe don't let the chatbot build it either. 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/755 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Vv2W5OCBXR4 SHOW NOTES Volkswagen will dramatically shrink its model lineup and factory footprint Elon Musk Could Still Face Criminal Charges for Trying to Bribe Voters in Wisconsin Europe takes step toward social media ban for kids The UK Is Planning a Social Media Curfew for 16- and 17-Year-Olds Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search What are your plans for AI Appreciation Day? New Anthropic Ad Implies AI Could Kill Us All The Public Got So Mad at Meta’s New AI Photo Tool That It’s Scrapped Already Flock Says ‘We Hope to Resume’ Work With LAPD After Getting Dropped Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft Apple F*cking Did It: One Month With Siri AI OpenAI faces sanctions bid as newspapers say ChatGPT was trained on stolen news A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry New York enacts first US ban on data center construction Astronomers Found a Hidden Swarm of Space Junk Threatening Earth’s Most Valuable Orbit Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans Judge dismisses lawsuit accusing Apple of failing to stop CSAM on iCloud Smart Glasses Just Got a Pro Cyclist Nixed From a Race Project Hail Mary Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die The New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Film Gets an Epic Filming Announcement Black Bag Philips offers free replacements after update bricked smart lighting hubs Waze rolls out new AI features including Motorcycle and 'Less Chatty' modes The OpenAI Mystery Device Will Reportedly Be Basically Just a Smart Speaker Phoebe Gates' AI shopping app Phia reportedly claimed unearned affiliate sales through fake clicks The End of Reading Is Here Dave Bittner The CyberWire Hacking Humans Caveat Control Loop Only Malware in the Building ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ Is Finally Coming Home Dave Kendall, Creator and Host of MTV’s 120 Minutes, Has Died Sam Neill, Jurassic Park Star, Dies at 78 The Dish See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    Less Chatty Mode

  4. 13 juil. ·  Bonus

    The Darkside with Dave's Not Very Christmas Special Special

    We finally get to reconnect with Dave Bittner for a fun catch-up and chit-chat about this summer's big movies. Brian's kid discovers all of Star Wars at once. Dave Bittner The CyberWire Hacking Humans Caveat Control Loop Only Malware in the Building Knockoff - Amazon Brand Filter Bob Gurr: Living by Design Support the show at Patreon! - https://patreon.com/gog Other ways to support the show! - https://gog.show/donate Join our Discord! - https://discord.gg/r4ZmSHB Buy some merch! - https://shop.gog.show/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    The Darkside with Dave's Not Very Christmas Special Special

  5. 9 juil.

    Frankly Asinine Questions

    This week, the world finally discovers what we've been saying for years: Gen X wasn't forgotten—we were quietly keeping the entire damn machine running. New Census numbers show America's 45-to-64 crowd is shrinking fast, which means the people who know where all the bodies are buried (and why you never reboot that one production server) are disappearing without a replacement bench. Meanwhile, Meta continues its speedrun toward becoming history's most aggressively unlikeable company, staring down a potential $1.4 trillion lawsuit over social media addiction while simultaneously launching AI features that happily remix your Instagram photos unless you remember to opt out of Zuckerberg's latest privacy experiment. Because nothing says "we've learned our lesson" quite like doubling down. The AI circus somehow gets even weirder. Illinois actually passed meaningful AI safety legislation—an event so rare it qualifies as science fiction—while Sam Altman reportedly floated the idea of AI companies handing the U.S. government an ownership stake. Anthropic published another paper that's already inspiring breathless declarations that Claude is "thinking," because apparently matrix multiplication now counts as an inner monologue. Cloudflare finally decided websites shouldn't have to give away their content for free to AI crawlers, researchers discovered AI agents could consume enough electricity to make Google Search look like a bicycle generator, and Amazon's Mechanical Turk is being replaced by the very AI it spent two decades secretly training. Progress: where everyone works harder, gets paid less, and the power grid cries. Elsewhere in Tech Hell™, Waymo robotaxis turned San Francisco traffic into an even bigger parking lot, Google lost another multibillion-dollar antitrust appeal in Europe, the FCC found fresh ways to make internet bills less transparent, and Midjourney is demanding Hollywood explain its own AI habits in court. We also dig into a disturbing lawsuit involving Grok-generated abuse imagery and what it says about AI guardrails, explain how to stop Meta from feeding your Instagram into its latest AI experiments, discuss why tech workers increasingly feel AI isn't replacing them so much as making them miserable faster, and close things out with the usual Media Candy, Apps & Doodads, and library recommendations to help you survive another week inside the techno-dystopian fever dream we apparently call "the future." Sponsors: 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/754 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/xnhzMxu1JNA SHOW NOTES America's missing middle: The shrinking 45-64 population Meta is facing $1.4 trillion in state lawsuits over social media addiction Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos Illinois Drops the Hammer on AI Companies OpenAI reportedly wants all AI companies to give the US government a stake in their businesses Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself Midjourney wants the Hollywood studios that sued it to show the court how they use AI Anthropic Releases Paper About Claude’s Mental ‘Workspace.’ Don’t Read It Uncritically Cloudflare will filter out web crawlers that serve AI companies When It Comes to Energy Use, AI Agents Could Make Chatbots Look Like Pocket Calculators Amazon’s ‘Artificial Artificial Intelligence’ Is Being Eaten by AI Drivers Trapped for Hours in Hopeless Gridlock as Waymos Brick on Major Holiday Google loses final appeal over $4.7 billion EU Android antitrust fine FCC to end Biden-era rule that forces ISPs to list all their fees Getty Images is canceling its $3.7 billion Shutterstock merger due to UK restrictions Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman He Met on a TV Set After Surveilling Her With a License Plate Reader Meta says it will disable the camera on its glasses if you tamper with the recording LED Meta tests ‘super sensing’ AI glasses that can capture every moment How tech workers are feeling in 2026: a workforce splitting in two Silo Sugar Dune: Part Three | Official Trailer AI golem Tilly Norwood is reportedly 'starring' in a feature-length movie Lucky Normal How to claim a WhatsApp username How to Stop Meta AI From Processing Your Instagram Content Gold Rush (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    Frankly Asinine Questions

  6. 2 juil.

    No-Talent AI Clowns

    The AI revolution keeps delivering exactly the future nobody asked for. A low-skill hacker used Claude Code and Codex to compromise fourteen companies with prompts so vague they could've been written by your uncle trying to reset his AOL password. Ford, meanwhile, spent millions trying to automate engineering before sheepishly rehiring the graybeards who actually know how cars work. Brown University discovered what happens when half your class outsources economics homework to ChatGPT, Meta ran out of AI compute after borrowing Google's, Oracle is warning investors that the AI data-center bubble could implode for approximately every reason imaginable, and contractors hired to improve AI models are secretly using AI to generate the training data. Congratulations, everyone: we've successfully invented photocopying a photocopy until all that's left is gray mush. The collateral damage keeps piling up. Volkswagen is reportedly preparing to slash another 100,000 jobs, Hyundai workers are threatening to strike before Boston Dynamics' humanoid robots take theirs, California has launched an AI layoff tracker because somebody figured we'd better start counting, and the "almost homeless" subreddit is becoming one of the bleakest economic indicators on the internet. Tesla quietly settles another fatal Full Self-Driving lawsuit, Australia discovers teenagers can outsmart age verification by clicking "Yes, I'm 18," Amazon is getting sued Down Under for making ad-free Prime customers pay more to stay ad-free, and prediction markets continue insisting they're sophisticated financial instruments rather than gambling with better branding. Sure, and Beanie Babies were an asset class. Meanwhile, the AI infrastructure gold rush has become lucrative for everyone, including organized cargo thieves stealing millions in data-center equipment. NASA is attempting a robotic rescue mission worthy of a Saturday morning cartoon, astronomers are begging humanity to stop filling the night sky with satellites before we pave over the universe with orbital billboards, and Meta has discovered yet another way to charge people a subscription for hardware they already bought. In Media Candy, Sugar keeps delivering, Bodkin is worth your time, I Will Find You absolutely is not, and Kobo quietly lands one on Amazon by integrating StoryGraph while Kindle owners get AI book summaries they didn't ask for. Sometimes the future feels like science fiction. This week it feels like someone accidentally trained the simulation on late-stage capitalism and never bothered to check the output. Sponsors: StoryBlocks - For a limited time, they’re offering 15% off any annual plan at storyblocks.com/gog 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/753 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/B-r6M-Na60w SHOW NOTES No-Skill Hacker Uses Claude/Codex to Hit 14 Sites A newbie hacker used "vague, low-skill prompts" in Claude and Codex to breach 14 companies, and the AI Agents did all the legwork Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short Volkswagen reportedly plans to cut 100,000 jobs The ‘Almost Homeless’ Subreddit Is a Stark Glimpse at Soaring Wealth Inequality Tesla settles lawsuit over fatal pedestrian crash involving Full Self-Driving Kalshi sues Illinois over new tax on prediction market sports bets Rick Rubin Stars in Polymarket Commercial Brown University Professor Horrified to Discover Largest AI Cheating Scandal in Ivy League History Australia Lawsuit Against Amazon Intensifies Company’s Legal Backlash Over Advertising Australia's social media ban may not be that effective, study finds Australia doubles the maximum penalty for its social media ban Half of social media child safety features don't work, report claims AI Companies Are Learning an Ironic Lesson as the People They Pay to Improve Their Chatbots Are Just Feeding AI Slop Into Them California launches tracker for AI-related job losses Korean Workers Vote to Go On Strike, Fearing Robots Could Replace Them Google limits Meta’s use of its Gemini AI models Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash Oracle’s Data Center Warning Is a Worst-Case Scenario for the Whole AI Boom Thieves Are Absolutely Loving All of These New Data Center Projects Heads Up: NASA to Launch 'Daring' Telescope Rescue Mission This Week ESO Study Finds That No More Than 100,000 Satellites Should Orbit Earth I Will Find You Sugar Season 2 Bodkin The Odyssey | Official Countdown Trailer SILO - How did we lose this world? The Kindle app for iOS has features your aging Kindle doesn't Watch out, Amazon: The Kobo eReader now has a Goodreads rival Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses Trackalot - One-tap Event Tracking on iOS See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    No-Talent AI Clowns

  7. 25 juin

    Grandma Got Run Over By a Tesla

    This week, the AI industry continues its speedrun toward becoming the tech equivalent of a late-stage casino. Elon Musk insists reports of aid-cut-related deaths don't exist despite mountains of evidence, SpaceX stock slides far enough to knock him out of the trillionaire club, and a startup is literally suing the U.S. government because Anthropic's Fable 5 model got turned off after three whole days of availability. Once again, we revisit the First Commandment of Grumpy Old Geeks: never build your company on someone else's platform. Meanwhile, gas stations are being accused of using AI to coordinate prices, corporations are discovering that AI tokens cost actual money, and a Microsoft researcher used goats in Age of Empires II to demonstrate that maybe, just maybe, people are projecting way too much intelligence onto chatbots. The goats emerge with their reputations intact. The AI industry, less so. The workforce bloodbath rolls on as Oracle quietly sheds 21,000 employees while blaming AI, Norway bans generative AI for elementary school students after discovering that children should probably learn to read before outsourcing their homework to robots, and the FCC flirts with rules that could effectively kill anonymous burner phones in the name of fighting scams. Over at Meta, an employee surveillance program accidentally exposed sensitive data to the entire company because of course it did, while Zuckerberg continues his relentless quest to strap cameras to everyone's face and call it progress. Add in YouTube settling another social-media-harm case, Chrome finally kneecapping traditional ad blockers, and prediction markets spreading across tech like mold in a college apartment, and it's becoming increasingly clear that every bad idea eventually gets funded. In transportation news, autonomous vehicles continue demonstrating that "mostly works" is not a reassuring phrase when attached to two tons of moving metal. A Tesla on Autopilot crashes into a home and kills a grandmother, Rivian faces lawsuits over self-driving promises its hardware allegedly can't fulfill, and Waymo recalls thousands of robotaxis after they developed an unfortunate habit of driving into closed freeway construction zones. Elsewhere, Elon and Bezos are eyeing billions in broadband subsidies, Polymarket is accused of paying influencers to fake betting videos and climate data archivists are preserving public information from political interference. Media recommendations include The Mandalorian, Silo, Strange New Worlds, Dungeon Crawler Carl, and a reminder that Firefox may soon be the last refuge for people who enjoy both the internet and ad blockers. Some weeks the future feels exciting. This week it mostly feels like an extended warranty scam. Sponsors: 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/752 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/PGXG0Cjj9T8 SHOW NOTES These Are the Headlines That Elon Musk Says Don’t Exist SpaceX Stock Has Fallen So Far That Elon Musk Is No Longer a Trillionaire Someone Is Suing the U.S. For Making Them Go Without Anthropic's Fable 5 Model Suit Alleges That Gas Stations Use AI to Hike Gas Prices The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI Frustrated Microsoft Researcher Uses Goats in ‘Age of Empires II’ to Demo the Absurdity of LLMs KEVIN THE C**T Oracle laid off 21,000 employees over the past year, citing AI as one of the reasons Norway imposes broad restrictions on AI for elementary school kids FCC plans ID mandate that could block anonymous use of prepaid burner phones Meta is 'pausing' employee tracking program after it let the whole company see sensitive data Meta announces new smart glasses starting at $299, as Zuckerberg keeps pushing wearables YouTube settles early test case over social media harm to children A Tesla crashed into a Texas home, killing a 76-year-old grandmother Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer by Elmo & Patsy Rivian faces a class action lawsuit over self-driving in its early vehicles Waymo recalls over 3,800 robotaxis that might drive onto closed freeways Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband Polymarket has reportedly been paying creators to post fake betting videos Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market Facebook tests Forecast, an app for making predictions about world events, like COVID-19 Climate.US US's climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit The Trump Administration Wants to Know If It Should Regulate Bets on Reality Shows The Pirate Bay for Strange New Worlds Google Chrome’s next update will mark the end of popular ad blockers ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ Gets Straight-to-Series Order at Peacock From Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door Trackalot See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    Grandma Got Run Over By a Tesla

  8. 18 juin

    Brewster’s Trillions

    The AI hype train keeps shedding wheels this week. KPMG managed to publish a report about the transformative power of AI that was apparently riddled with hallucinations, fake citations, and imaginary products, proving once again that asking a stochastic parrot to do your homework is not a substitute for actual research. Meanwhile, Americans are using AI faster than ever while trusting it less than ever, OpenAI somehow turned $13 billion in revenue into losses that would make a dot-com CFO blush, and Silicon Valley CEOs have quietly stopped promising to replace all workers with AI. Not because they've changed their minds, mind you, just because they discovered that telling employees they're obsolete is terrible for morale and stock prices. Add in protests dogging Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta employees revolting against soul-crushing AI evaluation work, and the message is clear: the future is here, and everyone involved seems miserable. We then return to one of the founding principles of Grumpy Old Geeks: never build your house on somebody else's land. Anthropic learned that lesson the hard way when its AI models reportedly got caught in a geopolitical and regulatory tug-of-war involving Amazon, the U.S. government, and national security concerns. World leaders are now openly questioning whether American AI platforms can be trusted if access can be revoked overnight. The same platform-risk story pops up again as Meta launches AI-powered search across Facebook's oceans of questionable user-generated content. Remember kids: when you pitch your tent in someone else's backyard, don't act shocked when they turn on the sprinklers. From the Injustice Files, the hits keep coming. The Atlantic revealed the staggering scale of copyrighted music used to train AI systems, Hollywood inches closer to becoming a monopoly-themed amusement park, and the DOJ is backing xAI in a pollution lawsuit while reports emerge that Grok-assisted systems played a role in military operations. Elon keeps collecting legal losses, SpaceX buys Cursor for an eye-watering $60 billion, and Trump is threatening French wine over tech taxes while simultaneously promoting crypto through a UFC event at the White House. We wrap with Britain banning social media for kids under 16, hackers stealing entire Roblox games, Fox buying Roku, the return of human narrators at Blinkist, a gloriously anti-social-media flip phone from Commodore, and a reminder that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is still one of the few things keeping the future worth looking forward to. Sponsors: DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use promo code GOG at checkout. Shopify - Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at Shopify.com/grumpy 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/751 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/iRrbNdVw-pM SHOW NOTES A report on the benefits of AI was reportedly full of AI hallucinations Just 16% of Americans Believe AI Will Positively Impact Society, Pew Poll Finds Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion The CEOs are No Longer (Publicly) Threatening to Replace Humans With AI Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google's Israel, ICE ties ‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess Anthropic becomes a cautionary sovereign-AI fable Anthropic Says It’s Taking Claude Fable 5 Offline to Comply With US Government Order Cyber experts warn Fable limits aid attackers and hurt defenders Amazon Triggered Claude Fable 5 Shutdown: Investor, Cloud Host, Now Regulator World leaders want American AI. They just don't want America to be able to turn it off. Meta's new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms Investigation by The Atlantic reveals many millions of songs used for AI music training Justice Department Decision to Allow Paramount Deal Surprised Staff Investigators Justice Department backs xAI in NAACP lawsuit over data center pollution Pentagon used Elon Musk’s Grok AI to fire 2,000 missiles at Iran, official says xAI's lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets has been thrown out SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO Trump threatens 100 percent tariff on France's wine industry over its tech tax UFC to pay White House fighters in crypto issued by Trump company UK will ban social media for children under 16 Hackers Are Hijacking Entire Roblox Games Now Fox is buying Roku for $22 billion Apple TV renews comedy horror Widow’s Bay for a second season Downton Abbey: A New Era Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale Disclosure Day Shrek 5 | Official Teaser Trailer RIDICULOUS - 2026 Special - Trailer #1 - Louis C.K. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 4 Official Trailer Commodore made a social media-banishing flip phone Snap's Stock Plunges the Moment It Reveals Its Comically Gigantic AR Glasses So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport Creator Capitalist by the Category Pirates Trackalot Blinkist pulls back on AI narrators See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    Brewster’s Trillions
Tout afficher (762)

Bande-annonce

Hôtes et personnes invitées

4,9
sur 5
6 020 notes

À propos

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.

Informations

  • Création
    Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
  • Années d’activité
    2013 - 2026
  • Épisodes
    762
  • Classification
    Contenu explicite
  • Copyright
    © Grumpy Old Geeks LLC. All Rights Reserved.
  • Site web de l’émission
    Grumpy Old Geeks

Vous aimeriez peut‑être aussi