658: Red Hot Chili Coasters
Grumpy Old Geeks27 Jul 2024

658: Red Hot Chili Coasters

The yes, dear AI boom; Altman supporting UBI; step counts are the new eggs; Crowdstrike buys partners a coffee for their troubles; search news; video game performers striking over AI; platforms struggling to deal with child safety; deepfake porn bill passed; Furiosa; the Flash; the Spiderverse; Sunny; TAG; Time Bandits; Quite a Good Sport; Dead Can Dance; sharks on cocaine; Spotify making bank; AI for comedy; Weird Al; timeline of Musk's broken promises; AI implementation not working; Dave's Amazon review gambit; Mr. Eisner, we have some Muppet & Star Wars related ideas for you; HOAs.

Show notes at https://gog.show/658/


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FOLLOW UP

AI terminology, explained for humans

AI boyfriends from Replika and Nomi are attracting more women

Sam Altman Has Been Quietly Giving Out Money for Basic Income

Scientists Reveal The Optimal Number of Daily Steps to Offset Sitting Down

I’m the original Hawk Tuah girl!


IN THE NEWS

CrowdStrike Offers Partners Gift Cards That Don’t Work to Make Up for Global Outage

After years of uncertainty, Google says it won’t be ‘deprecating third-party cookies’ in Chrome

Non-Google search engines blocked from showing recent Reddit results | Ars Technica

Microsoft is adding AI-powered summaries to Bing search results

Humble Games reportedly lays off its entire staff

Video game performers will strike over AI concerns

UK school reprimanded for unlawful use of facial-recognition technology

5th Circuit court upends FCC Universal Service Fund, ruling it an illegal tax

Uber, Lyft, DoorDash can continue to classify drivers as contractors in California

Apple accused of underreporting suspected CSAM on its platforms

Roblox failing to deal with its "pedophile problem"

US and European antitrust regulators agree to do their jobs when it comes to AI

Senate Unanimously Passes Anti-Deepfake Porn Bill


MEDIA CANDY

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

The Flash 2023

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Sunny

Tag: The Assassination Game

Time Bandits

Jeff Goldblum Plays a Vengeful Zeus in the First Trailer for Kaos

Quite a Good Sport

Dead Can Dance

Dead Can Dance Toward the Within SACD audio DVD video

Brazilian Sharks Test Positive for Cocaine

Apple TV+ attempts to rein in budgets on new projects, as The Morning Show season four spends $50 million on cast alone

Spotify Q2 earnings: A full quiver of upward-pointing arrows

Marc Andreessen Thinks AI Could 'Save' Comedy

"Weird Al" Yankovic's new video: Polkamania!


APPS & DOODADS

Elon Musk Pushes Back Timeline for Optimus Robots

Original Elon Broken Promises Video

Sonos CEO apologizes for its new app, details timeline for fixing it

Prime Video rolls out an improved streaming experience—here's what’s new

Amazon Prime Video’s New Look Hopes to End Decision Paralysis

Apple Maps launches on the web to take on Google - The Verge

SearchGPT Prototype

Meta releases its biggest 'open' AI model yet

Meta's New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky

The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B

FTC is investigating how companies are using AI to base pricing on consumer behavior

The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes

Study Finds That AI Is Adding to Employees' Workload and Burning Them Out

Astronomers discover technique to spot AI fakes using galaxy-measurement tools

Amazon Horrified to Find Out What People Actually Use Alexa For

CARROT Weather


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Dave Bittner

The CyberWire

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Only Malware in the Building

Disneyland workers authorize potential strike ahead of ongoing contract negotiations

Disney Plus Viewership Data Explains Why The Mandalorian Is Star Wars' Next Movie

Homeowner association

Columbia Association HOA

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