605: The Golden Turd
Grumpy Old Geeks10 Jun 2023

605: The Golden Turd

AI carpetbaggers; crypto bros all pivoting to AI; Meta putting AI everywhere; Salesforce will donate to charity if you come back to the office; Binance, Coinbase sued by the SEC; Microsoft UI issue causing problems with COPPA; Twitter ad sales plummet; Meta has a Twitter clone; Instagram's pedo problem; OpenAI sued for libel; Waymo kills a dog; Edinburgh's Golden Turd; Daniel Sloss; Mrs. Maisel wraps it up; Good Omens 2; Spotify cut staff in podcast pivot; Silo; Freshbooks goes stale; Auphonic prices itself out of a customer; Arc browser; Apple WWDC thoughts; Ahsoka; Hannah Gadsby's take on Picasso; passkey arrives in 1Password beta; sextortionists using AI; Barra

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FOLLOW UP

Why AI Will Save The World

Jason Calacanis on Crypto in the age of AI

Today's AI is unreasonable

Meta plans to put AI everywhere on its platforms

Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning

Salesforce Tells Employees It Will Donate $10 Per Day to Charity if They Come Back to the Office


IN THE NEWS

SEC Says Binance Misused Customer Funds, Ran Illegal Crypto Exchange in U.S.

SEC sues Coinbase over alleged violations of securities laws

FTX MADE A VERY SMART INVESTMENT THAT MAY BE ABLE TO PAY BACK ITS CUSTOMERS

Microsoft will pay the FTC $20 million to settle charges over collecting children's data

Twitter's ad sales have reportedly dropped by 59 percent since last year

Screenshots of Instagram's answer to Twitter leak online

Instagram may roll out its own AI chatbot in the near future

Instagram Connects Vast Pedophile Network

OpenAI Sued for Libel After ChatGPT Allegedly Hallucinates Man Into Embezzlement Lawsuit

A Waymo self-driving car killed a dog in ‘unavoidable’ accident

Is It Just Me, or Does That Hotel Look Like…?


MEDIA CANDY

Daniel Sloss: Socio

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Good Omens Season 2 - Official Trailer | Prime Video

Spotify Cut Staff, Talent to Enter its YouTube Era


APPS & DOODADS

Stripe

iZotope RX 10 Advanced

macOS Ventura Problems: 5 Things You Need to Know

First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS

Hands-on with Apple Vision Pro: This is not a VR headset

Eyes (and head) on with the Apple Vision Pro

The metaverse is cooked

Diablo IV


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Begin | Ahsoka | Disney+

Hannah Gadsby's Picasso exhibit is getting roasted by art critics

Passkey support for 1Password arrives in beta today

Sextortionists are making AI nudes from your social media images

Total Compromise of Physical Barracuda ESG Appliances

Barracuda: Immediately rip out and replace our security hardware

Can AI report a radio story?

Tom Hanks gives the commencement speech at Haaa-vaaad...

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