613: Dirty Laundry
Grumpy Old Geeks12 Elo 2023

613: Dirty Laundry

Crypto Scammers & NFT Developers; superconductors & nuclear fusion; PayPal's crypto coin; opting out of TikTok's secret sauce; X sensitivity settings; Zoom wants people back in, not on Zoom, except for the rest of the world; blocking OpenAI's crawler; Lyft, robotaxis; supermodels & Instagram, oh my; Jason is Bourne; Good Omens, Star Trek cliffhangers; Tetris; Disney+ prices rising; Google, record label deepfakes; Callsheet; Flash games; JustWatch; Charles Stross Singularity Sky, Season of Skulls; Peter Cawdron First Contact; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Dirty Laundry; Eufy; steam mopping; the Empire Strips Back.

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FOLLOW UP

Charley's Restaurant & Saloon

The Morning After: Voyager 2 is alive!

FBI Alert: Crypto Scammers are Masquerading as NFT Developers


IN THE NEWS

Scientists have reproduced last year's nuclear fusion breakthrough

PayPal launches PYUSD stablecoin backed by the US dollar

TikTok Users Will Be Able to Opt Out of the Algorithm in Europe

X hopes ‘sensitivity settings’ will bring back advertisers

Twitter fined for belatedly complying with search warrant for Donald Trump's account

Zoom tells employees to return to the office, responds to generative AI pushback

Now you can block OpenAI’s web crawler

Lyft plans to ditch surge pricing, which riders hate 'with a fiery passion'

Robotaxis get the green light to expand to 24/7 service in San Francisco

Supermodel is 'Terrified' of Posting on Instagram After Photographer Sued Her

Bella Hadid Sued Over Copyright of Photo She Posted to Instagram


MEDIA CANDY

Bourne (franchise)

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Neil Gaiman Won't Let Good Omens' Story End Like That

Author says the Apple TV+ 'Tetris' movie ripped off his book

Disney+ is raising prices and cracking down on account sharing

Google, record labels working on deal covering musical “deepfakes”


APPS & DOODADS

Callsheet for iPhone lets you look up that actor you recognize without the IMDB cruft

How to Play All of Those Old Flash Games You Remember

ruffle

Deactivation of Flash may have crippled Chinese railroad for a day

All DJI Apps on Google Play are Frauds and Are Stealing Users' Money

JustWatch


AT THE LIBRARY

Singularity Sky by Charles Stross

Season of Skulls: Laundry Files, Book 12 by Charles Stross

Wherever Seeds May Fall (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

Generation of Vipers (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Boot Up with Jason

The 9 Best Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Games

Star Wars-themed burlesque show, "The Empire Strips Back," still going strong

The Empire Strips Back

Eufy security cams


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Dev world mourns loss of Vim creator Bram Moolenaar

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