572: I Like It, Except When It Sucks
Grumpy Old Geeks1 Loka 2022

572: I Like It, Except When It Sucks

Why haven't you deleted TikTok yet; Google search gets immersive; Apple Pay Later coming... later; why we aren't going EV or even hybrid yet; space news makes tech cool again; Meta brings the NFTs and... Make-A-Video; James Earl Jones retires, AI Darth Vader is your daddy now; Bruce Willis sells rights to Deepfake firm; Three-Body Problem, Avatar: the Way of Water have us snoozing; Netflix building a game studio; Bravo; Aphex Twin software 20 years too late; tortilla robots and predictive AI; OG app announced, dead on arrival; Amazon's hardware event; the Forever War; Matthew Mather; Cloudflare eSIM; Uber, GTA 6 hack suspect arrested; Andor.

Show notes at https://gog.show/572/

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FOLLOW UP

Elon Musk Is Convinced He's the Future. We Need to Look Beyond Him


IN THE NEWS

UK warns TikTok of £27 million fine over child privacy violations

TikTok breaks records as top grossing app in Q3, as overall app store revenue declines

TikTok Seen Moving Toward U.S. Security Deal, but Hurdles Remain

Google to Make Search and Maps More ‘Immersive’

Apple Pay Later may not arrive until next year due to 'technical and engineering' setbacks

Department of Transportation approves EV charging plans for all 50 states

Webb and Hubble capture detailed views of DART impact

Hurricane Ian Flyover Coverage

All Facebook and Instagram users in the US can now share NFTs, cross-post between both apps

Meta announces Make-A-Video, which generates video from text


MEDIA CANDY

An AI program voiced Darth Vader in ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ so James Earl Jones could finally retire

Actor Bruce Willis Becomes First Celebrity to Sell Rights to Deepfake Firm

Netflix’s adaptation of 'The Three-Body Problem' will arrive in 2023

Avatar: The Way of Water | Official Teaser Trailer

Netflix is building its own game studio


APPS & DOODADS

Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners

Aphex Twin's free 'sample mashing' app feeds on your music library

Chipotle is moving its tortilla robot to a real restaurant

The OG App promises you an ad-free Instagram feed

Apple removed The OG App from the App Store for unauthorized access of Instagram’s services

Star Trek: Lower Decks - The Badgy Directive

Here's everything Amazon announced at its fall hardware event


AT THE LIBRARY

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

Matthew Mather (1969-2022)

Matthew Mather Books


SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Boot Up with Jason

Andor

Cloudflare launches an eSIM to secure mobile devices

How Your Smartphone Is Listening to You

AI Searches Public Cameras to Find When Instagram Photos Were Taken


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Coolio Found Dead at Age 59

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