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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IN THE NEWS

Atlassian to cut roughly 10% jobs in pivot to AI

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Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI for copyright and trademark infringement

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The Billionaire Backlash Against a Philanthropic Dream

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

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

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THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Only Malware in the Building

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