633: Brie Break
Grumpy Old Geeks27 Tammi 2024

633: Brie Break

Ello, Goodbye; Layoffs at eBay, Alphabet, Microsoft & TikTok; more doomed crypto firms; sneaking porn onto Wikimedia & Instagram; France fines Amazon over employee tracking accuracy; facial recognition leads to wrongful jailing; Meta Oversight Board remains useless; cool medical science; EVs need new tires shockingly often; Lift; Death and other Details; the Brothers Sun; Ultraviolet; Jon Stewart back to the Daily Show; more Apple+ sci-fi; Masters of the Air flies; Netflix kills lower ad-free plan; Screens 6; Paste; Tesla working on compact crossover; Apple car still coming; the Artifact; Slow Productivity; office poop etiquette; Eufy security cameras; Amazing Ring does something good; Apple stolen device protection.


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FOLLOW UP

The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams

George Carlin’s Estate Sues Creators of AI-Generated Comedy Special


IN THE NEWS

eBay is laying off 9 percent of its workforce

Alphabet is cutting dozens of jobs at its X moonshot lab

Microsoft Lays Off 1,900 Activision Blizzard, Xbox Staff One Day After $3 Trillion Valuation

TikTok is reportedly laying off workers to cut costs

Doomed crypto firm Terraform Labs files for bankruptcy in the US

Wikimedia's Pornographers

How to Upload Porn to Instagram

France fines Amazon $35 million over ‘intrusive’ employee surveillance

Facial recognition used after Sunglass Hut robbery led to man’s wrongful jailing, says suit

Meta’s Oversight Board raises concerns over automated moderation of hate speech

6 Deaf Children Can Now Hear After a Single Injection

Florida EV Buyers Shocked To Learn Their Cars Eat Tires


MEDIA CANDY

Lift

Death and Other Details

The Brothers Sun

Ultraviolet

Jon Stewart Returns to ‘The Daily Show’ as Host

Apple just dropped a mysterious trailer for its latest sci-fi series Constellation

Masters of the Air

Netflix, hungry for more growth, signals more price hikes


APPS & DOODADS

Screens 5

Paste on SetApp

Tesla is reportedly building a compact crossover codenamed 'Redwood'

The Apple car apparently still exists, could debut in 2028 with reduced autonomy


AT THE LIBRARY

The Artifact (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

Slow Productivity by Cal Newport


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Anker finally comes clean about its Eufy security cameras

Amazon’s Ring App Will No Longer Make It Easy for Cops to Get Video Footage

Apple releases iOS 17.3 with new Stolen Device Protection for your iPhone


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

Porn Star Jesse Jane Dead at 43 After Apparent Overdose with Boyfriend

Playboy, Maxim Model Masuimi Max Dead at 45

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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