590: A Zucker Born Every Minute
Grumpy Old Geeks25 Helmi 2023

590: A Zucker Born Every Minute

CoinEx ex-USA; ChatGPT sendsyi Microsoft off the rails; AI beer; Section 230 & the Supreme Court; Tencent bails on the met averse; Temu; Amazon's hybrid work plan, One Medical rollout; Apple working on blood glucose tracking for Watch; Twitter's Twilio bill; Meta blue tick verification for cash; the Nevers; Picard; Netflix changes highlight soft products in tech; Dropbox versus iCloud; TripMode; Screens 4; Nest home products; Artifact; Rick Rubin, Hugh MacLeon on creativity; Nick Chater brain improvements; Miki Berenyi memoir; ChatGPT written or assisted books flooding the market; Mastodon; Spirit Me; AI-generated voice crime; Flipper Zero & TV-B-Gone; Dave's going to Disneyland!

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FOLLOW UP

Microsoft limits Bing conversations to prevent disturbing chatbot responses

Microsoft is already reversing some of the limits it put on Bing's AI chat tools

What did they know, and when did they know it? The Microsoft Bing edition.

This AI chatbot "Sidney" is misbehaving

Ben’s Bites

Lochhead on Marketing #167 The Monster Category Battle: OpenAI & Microsoft vs Google

This Vancouver Island brewery hopped onto ChatGPT for marketing material. Then it asked for a beer recipe


IN THE NEWS

The US Supreme Court Doesn’t Understand the Internet

Exclusive: Tencent scraps plans for VR hardware as metaverse bet falters

New online superstore surpasses Amazon and Walmart to become most downloaded app in US

Amazon wants employees to return to the office in May

Amazon welcomes One Medical

Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Tracking for Its Watch

Twitter is making text-based two-factor authentication a paid feature

Tesla workers accuse Twitter of hiding their union account from search results

Meta reveals its ‘blue tick’ verification service for Facebook and Instagram


MEDIA CANDY

The Nevers never had a chance — and still doesn’t, even with unaired episodes streaming for free

Netflix Crossed a Line

‘Last of Us’ Episode Has Embarrassing Mistake TikTok Calls “Better Than a Starbucks Cup”


APPS & DOODADS

TripMode

Screens 4 for MacOS

Nest Protect

Nest Doorbell

Instagram’s co-founders’ personalized news app Artifact launches to the public with new features

Biden declines to veto Apple Watch ban

There’s An Ozempic Shortage. Here's What Happens When You Stop Taking It.


AT THE LIBRARY

The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

Ignore Everybody: And 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod

The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain by Nick Chater

Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success by Miki Berenyi

The Kindle Store has a prolific new author: ChatGPT

Science Fiction Magazines Battle a Flood of Chatbot-Generated Stories


SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Welcome to Mastodon - Forget Twitter, Mastodon has 10x the engagement.

Spirit Me

How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice

I saw your KITT work, Dave, and I’m a major electronic musician and DJ, hold my beer...

A Device to Turn Traffic Lights Green

Hacker Uncovers How to Turn Traffic Lights Green With Flipper Zero

Report: Stress will drive a quarter of cyber defenders out the door

A Chess Master plays against ChatGPT.


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Richard Belzer, Extraordinarily Smart-Ass as a Comic and a TV Cop, Dies at 78

Happy Twin Peaks Day!

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