652: Casual Pirates
Grumpy Old Geeks15 Kesä 2024

652: Casual Pirates

OpenAI was open to bidding wars between USA, China & Russia; AI hitting wall where it can't get smarter; visibility set to zero; walking back Windows Recall; Tesla FSD false advertising, SpaceX bad behavior; refreezing the arctic; casual piracy; flying the personalized ad skies; Netflix wins the hot dog wars; Stax; Interview with the Vampire; Camden; Bad Boys; Computer, wine, no merlot; Shkreli; the 90s; Adobe pricing; everything Apple killed at WWDC 2024; smartphones are the new eggs; Spotify; A Science-Fiction Thriller; the Acolyte; Kings Dominion & theme parks; driving in the USA.

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FOLLOW UP

Former OpenAI Employee Says Company Had Plan to Start Agi Bidding War With China and Russia

AI Appears to Rapidly Be Approaching Brick Wall Where It Can't Get Smarter

Cheating husband sues Apple after wife discovered ‘deleted’ messages sent to sex workers

Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns


IN THE NEWS

Tesla shareholders vote yes again to approve Elon Musk’s $56B pay plan

Tesla Must Face False Advertising Claims Around 'Full Self-Driving' in California: Report

Elon Musk sued for alleged sexual harassment and retaliation by former SpaceX engineers

Scientists Working on Desperate Plan to Refreeze Arctic

The Ads on Your United Airlines In-Flight Screen Are Getting a Lot More Specific

Netflix has Sherlocked Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest

OpenAI adds former NSA chief to its board


MEDIA CANDY

Cheaper Prices Reduce Indirect Visits to Pirate Sites, Research Finds

Stax: Soulsville U.S.A

Interview With The Vampire

Camden

The Boys Will End After Season 5

Bad Boys: Ride or Die

Paul Giamatti Is Beaming Aboard Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli accused of copying $4m one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album

90’s Electronica / Alternative


APPS & DOODADS

Everything Apple Tried to Kill at WWDC 2024

Smartphones May Affect Sleep—but Not Because of Blue Light

Spotify’s HiFi plan could finally arrive this year, but you may need to pay extra

Spotify will start showing you personalized banners and messages based on your listening habits

Music publishers accuse Spotify of 'bait-and-switch subscription scheme'

watchOS 11 lets you take a day off working out without losing your streak

Elon Musk Just Cancelled iPhones

X is about to start hiding all likes

AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway

MacWhisper

Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested


AT THE LIBRARY

The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman

Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery by Scott Young

Unidentified: A Science-Fiction Thriller by Douglas E. Richards


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

The Acolyte

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