636: Verified Terrorists
Grumpy Old Geeks17 Feb 2024

636: Verified Terrorists

Layoffs at Paramount, Instacart & Mozilla; Musk must testify in SEC investigation of Twitter takeover; Tesla driver not sure if he killed pedestrians because he was on autopilot; crowd burns Waymo car; 23andMe selling DNA data; Amazon Prime Video pulls Dolby Vision, Atmos on ad-supported plan; queer.af shut down by Taliban; X blue checks sold to literal terrorists; Past Lives; We Are the World; Jacqueline Novak; Somebody Feed Feel; Star Trek Disco; Downtown Abbey; AMC fined for 1988 law; Apple Cash to offer virtual cards; AI news round up; don't get an AI girlfriend; thought crimes; Sora & floating feet; Infinity Gate by M.R. Carey; the Bad Batch; cybercriminals stealing iOS users' face scans... are they, though?


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IN THE NEWS

Just to keep the pink slips chat going.. Paramount doing some work.

Paramount lays off 800 workers in cost-cutting bid: 'This is the right decision'

Instacart lays off 250 employees, or 7% of its workforce, to 'reshape' company

Mozilla is laying off around 60 workers

Court orders Elon Musk to testify in the SEC’s investigation of his Twitter takeover

Tesla Driver Says He's Not Sure If He Killed a Pedestrian Because He Was on Autopilot

Crowd Sets Waymo Self-Driving Car on Fire: ‘They Couldn’t Even Recognize the Vehicle’

23andMe Admits ‘Mining’ Your DNA Data Is Its Last Hope

Amazon Prime Video won't offer Dolby Vision and Atmos on its ad-supported plan

Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance

Elon Musk’s X Gave Check Marks to Terrorist Group Leaders, Report Says

ELON MUSK SELLING BLUE CHECKMARKS TO LITERAL TERRORISTS


MEDIA CANDY

Looney Tunes Movie Coyote vs Acme Expected to Be Destroyed Forever

Past Lives

The Greatest Night in Pop

Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees

Somebody Feed Phil, Season 7 - March 1

Star Trek: Discovery's Final Season Finally Has a Release Date

A Hail Mary to Save ‘The Daily Show’

Downton Abbey reportedly poised to return for a seventh season

John Cleese has “always loathed and despised” Eric Idle

AMC to pay $8M for allegedly violating 1988 law with use of Meta Pixel


APPS & DOODADS

Apple Cash will offer virtual card numbers for online shopping

Google's Gemini AI Keeps Your Conversations for Up to 3 Years (Even If You Delete Them)

OpenAI - Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors

AI ‘companions’ promise to combat loneliness, but history shows the dangers of one-way relationships

Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show

AI monitoring employee comms for 'thought crimes' in Slack & more

Memory and new controls for ChatGPT

NVIDIA’s new AI chatbot runs locally on your PC

OpenAI’s newest model Sora can generate videos — and they look decent

USPTO says AI models can’t hold patents


AT THE LIBRARY

Infinity Gate (The Pandominion Book 1) by M.R. Carey

A different, darker take on The Long Earth series by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

What Has Happened So Far on Star Wars: The Bad Batch?

Cybercriminals are stealing iOS users' face scans to break into mobile banking accounts

LM Studio

Lily-Cybersecurity-7B-v0.2

Propstore has an upcoming auction, including the Anthony Daniels collection.


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