670: Just Buy the Thing!
Grumpy Old Geeks19 Okt 2024

670: Just Buy the Thing!

More Wordpress & WPEngine shots fired; hate mail; European road organizations reject the Cybertruck; EU fines against X; civil rights commission pans FART (facial recognition technology); FCC looking into broadband caps; NYT tells Perplexity to stop using its content; AI writing police reports; Instagram becoming Myspace; TikTok knows damn well how bad their product is; Google, Amazon go nuclear for their AI; the Diplomat; Lincoln Lawyer; Shrinking; Silo; Apple digital car keys; new Amazon kindles; robot vacuum hacked; Ham license update; fridges; old songs on road trips.


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Response to DHH - Original

Response to DHH - Edited

WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin

Secure Custom Fields

Internal blog post reveals Automattic's plan to enforce the WordPress trademark using 'nice and not nice lawyers'

Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos


IN THE NEWS

European Road Safety Orgs Are Terrified of the Cybertruck

The EU’s Fines Against Elon Musk May Be Much Larger Than Anticipated

Civil Rights Commission Pans Face Recognition Technology

FCC launches a formal inquiry into why broadband data caps are terrible

The New York Times tells Perplexity to stop using its content

From Elon Musk to cop car chases, how a software engineer launched a police AI startup

Prosecutors in Washington State Warn Police: Don’t Use Gen AI to Write Reports

Instagram is introducing profile cards to help users find new friends

TikTok is reportedly aware of its bad effects on teen users

Google strikes a deal with a nuclear startup to power its AI data centers

Amazon goes nuclear, to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors

NASA's Europa Clipper mission is on its way to Jupiter


MEDIA CANDY

The Diplomat, Season 1

The Lincoln Lawyer Season 3

Apple TV+ announces sixth season for “Slow Horses,” starring Gary Oldman

Shrinking on Apple TV+ gets early season 3 pickup

Silo — Season 2 Official Trailer | Apple TV+


APPS & DOODADS

Apple may be adding digital car key support for specific Volvo, Polestar and Audi vehicles

Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store

Adobe starts rolling out generative AI video tools in beta

Adobe shows off 3D rotation tool for flat drawings

Amazon announces first Kindle ever with color screen, retailing for $279

Robot vacuums spew racial slurs at owners in wake of hack

Walk the Distance app deleted...


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Dave Bittner

The CyberWire

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Only Malware in the Building

WP Engine asks court to stop Matt Mullenweg from blocking access to WordPress resources

HamStudy

She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain

Roll Out The Barrel

Oh! Susanna

I’ve Been Working On The Railroad

This Land is Your Land

Oh My Darling Clementine

Clementine (Live) - Tom Lehrer

This Land Is Your Land (Live) - The Clancy Brothers


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