638: Dave’s Lumber Yard
Grumpy Old Geeks2 Maalis 2024

638: Dave’s Lumber Yard

AI's unintended consequences; chat bots; pink slips in podcasting, Playstation, Electronic Arts & Fisker; Tesla racism class action lawsuit; Apple pivots away from an electric car; TikTok's tussle with Universal Music continues, but UMG is just fine; call me on X; Bitcoin up, crashes Coinbase; OpenAI probe; Gemini woke prompt re-writing; Facebook News tab going away; Glasgow's sad Ooompa Loompa; where's the surge priced beef; Constellation; Neuromancer; The Crow Flies Again; Naked Gun; Ray Donovan; Next Goal Wins; Dune; transparent laptops & super DVDs; SetApp; Farscape; Losing Mars; Strong Songs; Beverly Hills drones; tripping the iPhone light fantastic; Dance your PhD.


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IN THE NEWS

PlayStation is laying off 900 staff across Naughty Dog, Insomniac and other studios

EA is laying off over 650 employees

Tesla must face racism class action from 6,000 Black workers, judge rules

Fisker is laying off 15% of staff and says it needs more cash ahead of a 'difficult year'

R.I.P. Apple's Electric Car

TikTok is muting more songs amid its tussle with Universal Music

UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP N.V. REPORTS FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THE FOURTH QUARTER AND FULL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2023

X starts giving non-paying users the ability to make audio and video calls

Bitcoin's so high, it crashed Coinbase today

US SEC probes whether OpenAI investors were misled, WSJ reports

Google brings Stack Overflow's knowledge base to Gemini for Google Cloud

Google CEO Admits Gemini AI Image Failures: 'We Got It Wrong'

AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating

Facebook plans to shut down its news tab in the U.S. and Australia

Camera Inside Varda's Space Capsule Captured Its Wild Trip Back to Earth

The Asteroid Dimorphos Looks Totally Different After NASA's DART Mission Walloped It

Cops Called to 'Willy Wonka Experience' as Crying Children Realize AI Ads Were Lies

Glasgow’s Sad Oompa Loompa Isn’t Gonna Sugarcoat This

Wendy’s Surge Pricing Is Off the Menu After Internet Beef


MEDIA CANDY

Constellation

Neuromancer Is Finally Getting Its Long-Awaited Adaptation

First Look: The Crow Flies Again With Bill Skarsgård and FKA Twigs

‘Naked Gun’ Reboot With Liam Neeson Lands 2025 Release From Paramount

Guy Ritchie to Direct a ‘Ray Donovan’ Spinoff ‘The Donovans’ for Paramount+

Next Goal Wins


APPS & DOODADS

Lenovo’s Project Crystal is the world’s first laptop with a transparent microLED display

This 'Super DVD' Can Hold 20 Million Photos

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Analogue Pocket

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MacPaw's Setapp becomes one of the first to agree to Apple's controversial DMA rules

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AT THE LIBRARY

FARSCAPE 25th Anniversary Comic Book Celebration

Losing Mars (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16 By: Moshe Kasher

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things By: Adam Grant

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection By: Charles Duhigg

Bounce Back: 12 Warrior Principles to Reclaim and Recalibrate Your Life By: Travis Mills

Infinity Gate By M. R. Carey


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Strong Songs

Curb Your Enthusiasm - Larry Has Issues with Siri

Weli - Kangaroo Time (Club Edit) (from Dance Your PhD 2024 - Overall Winner)


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

After Dark perfected the screensaver

Richard Lewis, Comedian and Curb Your Enthusiasm Actor, Dead at 76

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