Grumpy Old Geeks

We dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Cobain threw down with Tom from MySpace, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg in a back alley brawl. No mercy, no filter—if tech had a walk of shame, this would be it.

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645: A Man on the Nude

645: A Man on the Nude

FTC restores net neutrality, ends non-competes; TikTok divest-or-ban bill passes; more bad news at Tesla; X TV; Amazon ends California drone deliveries; AI in law enforcement is just a bad idea; META'...

27 Apr 20241h 24min

644: Grok Hole Sun

644: Grok Hole Sun

ISP's get nutrition labels; Truth Social continues to drop; X, for free speech, gets anti-speech lawsuit dismissed; Grok fake news; Tesla taxi, maybe; problems with Starlink; Biden considering droppin...

13 Apr 20241h 18min

643: Mechanical Goslings

643: Mechanical Goslings

Gmail turns 20; Google isn't good; coding with ChatGPT; court bans "AI-enhanced" evidence; AI Goslings everywhere; NYC chatbot spews out dangerously inaccurate information; Amazon's mechanical turks; ...

6 Apr 20241h 22min

642: Nerd Plumage

642: Nerd Plumage

Apple Vision Pro in the wild; everyone hates Sam; META's Project: Ghostbusters; getting device-blocked on Facebook; Meta & Google restricting reproductive health ads; anti-trans hate widespread on MET...

30 Mar 20241h 26min

641: Subscription Screaming

641: Subscription Screaming

Lots of suggestions, no regulations: cars, broadband, AI & more; Apple lawsuits; drone delivery, again; Starbucks NFT program ending; Glassdoor adds real names to accounts without consent; AI news rou...

23 Mar 20241h 5min

640: A Minute of Silence

640: A Minute of Silence

11 years & nothing's changed; IG impersonators & weird animal video creepiness; Apple restores Epic, for now; TikTok ban bill passes House but will most likely die in Senate; X usage declines, launchi...

15 Mar 202449min

639: TikTok MotherF#C&3R!

639: TikTok MotherF#C&3R!

Cybertruck vs. sign; the UK loves short weeks; US wants TikTok ban while TikTok frets; Meta's support sucks; Apple fined $2B; Musk sues OpenAI; Klarna's AI job fears; Twitter execs sue Musk; NFTs seek...

9 Mar 20241h 25min

638: Dave’s Lumber Yard

638: Dave’s Lumber Yard

AI's unintended consequences; chat bots; pink slips in podcasting, Playstation, Electronic Arts & Fisker; Tesla racism class action lawsuit; Apple pivots away from an electric car; TikTok's tussle wit...

2 Mar 20241h 14min

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