654: Life EULA
Grumpy Old Geeks29 Jun 2024

654: Life EULA

ID authentication systems are a bad idea; Tesla traps a toddler inside car, vandalized Cybertrucks & Cybertruck run amok; Rivian makes a deal with VW; celeb crypto spam deepfakes & hacks; Assange free; META tags real photos as Made with AI; Apple, Microsoft run afoul of the EU; Google stops infinite scroll; Gen AI can't site sources; AI companies scraping websites despite protocols meant to block them; OpenAI exec doesn't care that you're going to lose your job; the Acolyte gets exciting; music industry sues or makes deals with AI companies; Paramount's financial troubles; new Prius; Rabbit R1 security flaws; Neil Gaiman; Peter Hook; AI will tear us apart, again.

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IN THE NEWS

Tesla Traps Toddler Inside Car After 12-Volt Battery Dies In 100-Degree Heat

Florida car lot full of vandalized cybertrucks

POLICE HUNTING VANDAL WHO SPRAY PAINTED "F**K ELON" ON 34 CYBERTRUCKS

Wild video shows out-of-control Cybertruck smash into neighbor's home hours after it was bought

Volkswagen and Rivian agree to $5 billion partnership

Deepfakes of Elon Musk are pushing crypto giveaway scams on YouTube Live

Someone apparently hacked 50 Cent’s accounts to peddle a memecoin and made off with millions

Julian Assange Receives $500,000 Bitcoin Donation as He Officially Becomes a Free Man

Meta is tagging real photos as 'Made with AI,' say photographers

Apple may face a mammoth fine after the EU said it violated competition rules

EU finds Microsoft violated antirust laws by bundling Teams

Google is killing infinite scroll on search results

Time strikes a deal to funnel 101 years of journalism into OpenAI's gaping maw

Generative AI Can’t Cite Its Sources

AI companies are reportedly still scraping websites despite protocols meant to block them

Reddit puts AI scrapers on notice

Can a /robots.txt be used in a court of law?

OPENAI EXEC SAYS AI WILL KILL CREATIVE JOBS THAT "SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE"


MEDIA CANDY

The Acolyte

Music industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms

YouTube reportedly wants to pay record labels to use their songs for AI training

Paramount Chiefs to Staff: We’re Cutting $500M in Costs After “Unacceptable” Profit Drops

Paramount Erases Archives of MTV Website, Wipes Music, Culture History After 30 Plus Years

Paramount+ is raising prices again for all of the Tulsa King fans out there

The YouTube Effect

New reality TV gameshow for flat earthers

'The Origin of Toys"R"Us', The First Brand Film Made Using OpenAI's Sora Technology


APPS & DOODADS

The New Prius is... SICK?!

Rabbit R1 security issue allegedly leaves sensitive user data accessible to anybody

FIRST NEURALINK PATIENT SAYS IMPLANT HAS GIVEN HIM INCREDIBLE GAMING SKILLS

Ebay Seller Offers $100,000 Stingray Device So You Can Track Your Friends and Enemies

eBay Removes Listing for StingRay Cellphone Spying Tech

How the ‘Owner’s Guide’ Became a Rare Book


AT THE LIBRARY

Neil Gaiman's How the Marquis Got His Coat Back - BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation

Neverwhere BBC Miniseries

Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division by Peter Hook

JOHN SCALZI DISCOVERS THAT ONE OF HIS BOOK COVERS WAS CREATED USING AI

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