689: What Would Dave Do?
Grumpy Old Geeks21 Mars 2025

689: What Would Dave Do?

AI influencers with Down syndrome are selling nudes; Tesla’s Autopilot crashes into a cartoon wall while 46,000 Cybertrucks get recalled; ICE ramps up creepy surveillance; OpenAI’s copyright grab faces pushback; California might hand AI to Big Tech on a silver platter; BYD dunks on Tesla with lightning-fast EV charging; White Trash Wins Lotto returns; Max kills the Looney Tunes; Apple gets sued, Amazon spies harder, and Roku pushes autoplay ads; Dave geeks out on keyboards like it’s 1994.


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CISA scrambles to contact fired employees after court rules layoffs ‘unlawful’

Director of rural broadband program exits with a warning about shift to ‘worse’ satellite internet

The court rejects Elon’s latest attempt to slow OpenAI down

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

California’s A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI Monopoly

OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use

China's EV champ BYD reveals super-fast charging that leaves Tesla eating dust


MEDIA CANDY

WHITE TRASH WINS LOTTO

Andy Prieboy talks 'White Trash Wins Lotto'

Spotify's latest custom playlist highlights artists with upcoming shows in your area

Oddly catchy remix of Hootie & the Blowfish singing to The Smiths' music (video)

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Moana 2

Mythic Quest

The White Lotus

Daredevil

The Wheel of Time Season 3

Max Removes the Rest of the Original Looney Tunes Cartoons

Spectrum is finally offering a streaming-only subscription for Dodgers

New ‘Starship Troopers’ Movie in the Works from ‘District 9’ Filmmaker Neill Blomkamp (Exclusive)

Mark Cuban Shares the Dumbest Video Ever Uploaded to Bluesky

Severance

Severance: The Lexington Letter


APPS & DOODADS

Apple hit with lawsuit over 'false advertising' of Apple Intelligence features

MacWhisper Pro

Amazon’s Echo will send all voice recordings to the cloud, starting March 28

Roku testing auto-play video ads before loading the home screen

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Dave Bittner

The CyberWire

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Only Malware in the Building

the Seneca

Apple Extended Keyboard II

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