672: Elon or Not?
Grumpy Old Geeks2 Marras 2024

672: Elon or Not?

Cash App class action; Tesla camera-based FSD questioned; Trump Media stock swings; standing desks are the new eggs; Dropbox layoffs; OpenAI Whisper invents parts of transcriptions, frequently; ChatGPT search; post scarcity AI BS; AI coding ouroboros of confusion; Musk crypto scams; Underworld; The Cure; A Man on the Inside; the Diplomat; Instagram throttles video quality; META to fill feeds with more AI; SetApp; Echoes of Extinction; Polostan; the Cube Rule of food identification; Disney hack; this is Halloween.


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Show notes at https://gog.show/672


FOLLOW UP

Cash App users can claim thousands of dollars in a data breach settlement

Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct


IN THE NEWS

Trump's social media company is now worth more than Musk's X after recent surge in stock price

Trump loses $1.3 billion in net worth after the worst-ever day for his social media stock

Standing Desks Aren’t Just Useless—They Might Also Be Bad for Your Health

Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight

Dropbox is laying off 20 percent of its workforce

OpenAI's Whisper invents parts of transcriptions — a lot

Introducing ChatGPT search

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says lack of compute capacity is delaying the company's products

Google CEO says a quarter of the company’s new code is already AI generated

Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition

Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams


MEDIA CANDY

Underworld - Strawberry Hotel

The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

A Man on the Inside


APPS & DOODADS

Mosseri confirms Instagram reduces video quality for posts that aren’t raking in views

Mark Zuckerberg Pledges to Fill Facebook With Even More AI Slop

Feds Recall Humane AI Pin Charger Due to Fire Risk

From Goodreads' founder, Smashing debuts its AI-powered app for online readers

Smashing

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Mac Geek Gab Podcast

Obsidian

Ulysses

Craft

Apple Notes


AT THE LIBRARY

Destiny: Echoes of Extinction: Book 4 by D. Ward Cornell

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Dave Bittner

The CyberWire

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Only Malware in the Building

Skeleton Crew | Official Trailer | Disney+

The Cube Rule of Food Identification

A fired Disney employee allegedly altered menus to change allergy markers


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Jeri Taylor, Co-Creator of Star Trek: Voyager, Dies at 86

Teri Garr, Star of ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie,’ Dies at 79

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