738: A Sprinkling of Random

738: A Sprinkling of Random

13 years of podcasting has taught us nothing; companies are lying about AI layoffs while Meta destroys itself from the inside; Andreessen has zero introspection and it shows; Dune 3 looks incredible; Firefly lives again; one idiot executive staked Buffy; Adobe paid $75M for being evil; your AI passwords are garbage; Dave Bittner is here to make you feel worse about all of it.


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FOLLOW UP

GOG Ep 1: How to Make Money on the Internet - March 25th, 2013

The ‘AI-Washing’ of Job Cuts Is Corrosive and Confusing

Race on to establish globally recognised 'AI-free' logo

Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.

Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story


IN THE NEWS

Atlassian to cut roughly 10% jobs in pivot to AI

Meta is reportedly planning to cut up to 20 percent of its staff in upcoming layoffs

Meta Is Building an Encrypted Chatbot After AI Agents Went Rogue and Exposed Sensitive Data

Meta Says It Is Removing End-to-End Encryption From Instagram Direct Messages

Meta is testing clickable links in Instagram captions for verified subscribers

Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI for copyright and trademark infringement

Senators tell ByteDance to shut down Seedance 2.0 AI video app 'immediately'

Things Are Suddenly Looking Incredibly Bad for Trump’s Social Media Company

Trump administration will reportedly get $10 billion for brokering the TikTok deal

The Billionaire Backlash Against a Philanthropic Dream

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Now Setting Readers’ Subscription Prices With Uber-Style AI


APPS & DOODADS

Adobe agrees to pay settlement for making its subscriptions hard to cancel

Everything you need to know to design with Stitch

What is DESIGN.md?

Warning: Your AI-Generated Password Is a Major Security Risk. Here’s What to Use Instead


MEDIA CANDY

Dune: Part Three | Official Teaser Trailer

How ‘Dune: Part Three’ Is Changing the Entire ‘Dune’ Franchise

"Paradise" has been renewed for Season 3 at Hulu, Variety has learned.

Paradise on Hulu

Mars Express

Nathan Fillion Says ‘Firefly’ Animated Series In Development With Co-Stars Set To Reprise Roles; Concept Art Revealed

Sarah Michelle Gellar Says a Single Executive Was Responsible for Killing the ‘Buffy’ Reboot

‘V For Vendetta’ at 20: We Spoke to Its Director About the Increasingly Relevant Comic Adaptation


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Dave Bittner

The CyberWire

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Only Malware in the Building

Disney's 100% Rotten Tomatoes Masterpiece Returns This Fall With Brand-New Release

Shhh… It’s zombie proof. Kia’s all-electric range

The Last Quiet Thing by Terry Godier

Evel Knievel Kings Island 1975 - Farthest Successful Jump at 133 feet

70's Evel Knievel Toy Commercial IDEAL

Evel Knievel's 14 Greyhound Bus Jump Oct 25th 1975 HD enhanced. Epic WORLD RECORD.

Craig Ferguson’s Evel Knievel Story is Wild!!

Being Evel

Wembley 50th Anniversary Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle Set – Limited Gold Edition

Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle - Trail Bike Edition

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