646: Thanks, Gary!

646: Thanks, Gary!

Kagi not worth it; RIP Passcodes; Sora demo not exactly Sora; FCC fines carries for selling location data; TikTok ban signed; Meta's ad-buying AI blows through budgets; fighting the algorithm; OpenAI privacy complaints; Amazon ad revenue big leap, wonder why; blockchain's real use case; ludicrously hard-core at Tesla; Lord of the Rings returns to theaters; Dune Part 2; The Bad Batch series finale; Fallout; UMG artists return to TikTok; Walmart selling IRL items to kids in Roblox; Snapchat will let you edit chats, if you pay; Bluesky ads GIFs; short sci-fi fiction with Amazon; Essentialism; AI wrappers; Gary's valuable GOG contributions; vision issues; stay on target, stay on target!

Show notes at https://gog.show/646


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FOLLOW UP

Kagi

TURNS OUT THAT EXTREMELY IMPRESSIVE SORA DEMO... WASN’T EXACTLY MADE WITH SORA


IN THE NEWS

FCC Fines Major U.S. Wireless Carriers for Selling Customer Location Data

Social media companies have too much political power, 78% of Americans say in Pew survey

Biden Signed the TikTok Ban. What's Next for TikTok Users?

Customers say Meta’s ad-buying AI blows through budgets in a matter of hours

A researcher is suing Meta for the right to ‘turn off’ Facebook’s news feed

OpenAI hit with another privacy complaint over ChatGPT’s love of making stuff up

Amazon Q1 Ad Revenue Leaps 24% to $11.8 Billion, Lifted by Prime Video

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao sentenced to four months in prison

A Vast New Data Set Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering

Elon Musk loses at Supreme Court in case over “funding secured” tweets

Tesla is reportedly getting 'absolutely hard core' about more layoffs, according to Elon Musk

OnlyFans hits UK regulator's radar for age-verification failures around porn access


MEDIA CANDY

Lord of the Rings Trilogy to Return to Theaters this Summer, Extended and Remastered

Dune Part 2

The Bad Batch - Series Finale

Fallout

Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time

Olivia Rodrigo, Drake and other Universal artists return to TikTok

Watch the Powerful First Trailer for Lee Miller Biopic Starring Kate Winslet


APPS & DOODADS

Walmart thinks it's a good idea to let kids buy IRL items inside Roblox

Snapchat will finally let you edit your chats


AT THE LIBRARY

Hello World (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

The Forward Collection, curated by Blake Crouch

Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less By: Greg McKeown

Audible to test using Prime Video data for audiobook recommendations as Spotify competition heats up


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

LM Studio

AI For Humans Podcast

Pinokio

Ollama

Creative Computer Publishes Interview with the Guy Behind the Death Star Trench Run (1978)

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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