691: Cry Me A River (to Cool Off My AI)

691: Cry Me A River (to Cool Off My AI)

This week, the Geeks wade into a swamp of tech meltdowns, governmental facepalms, and the usual Elon-flavored absurdity. Kicking things off, protesters take their beef with Tesla to the streets while Proud Boys decide this is the hill to vroom and die on. Meanwhile, Elon’s privacy prayers have finally been answered—thanks to new FAA rules, he and Tay-Tay can jet around untracked like it’s 1999. Oh, and while Earth dodges a killer asteroid, the Moon might be signing up for an unplanned smackdown. Sorry, Luna.

In the news, Signal’s reputation as the go-to encrypted app takes a nosedive thanks to Republican Senate drama and an Inspector General with receipts. The NSA warned us. Nobody listened. Now it’s “SignalGate” season. Elon continues his narcissist Voltron strategy by having xAI buy X (from Elon). Trump, meanwhile, is moonwalking into a $2.3B Truth Social payday, while his meme coin tanks post-tariff tantrum. OpenAI flexes with new AGI funding and 700M AI-generated images (probably 699M of them cursed), while the first therapy chatbot actually helps someone and a brain-voice interface starts sounding a lot like Skynet: The Prequel. Oh, and in shocking news: Trump’s war on “information silos” is code for “your personal data is about to be someone else’s business.”

Media Candy serves up a grab bag from punk docs (Turn It Around) to jungle pulp throwbacks (Tales of the Gold Monkey), and yes—Stephen Collins is still problematic. Apple’s prepping new AI-powered health apps, emoji drops, and a food tab for News+, because why not. WhatsApp now wants to be your phone, Alexa+ disappoints, and Zuckerberg tries to make Facebook usable again with a “Friends-only” feed. Meanwhile, Bill Gates pulls a nostalgia flex by dropping OG Microsoft source code like it’s a rare vinyl. In other dark corners: Kermit the Frog is now giving commencement speeches, Val Kilmer sadly exits stage left, and Elon fails in his bid to buy a state supreme court. Hands off, Elon. Just… hands off.


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FOLLOW UP

Crowds Turn Out Across the U.S. for ‘Tesla Takedown’ Protests

The Proud Boys and Militias Come to Tesla’s Defense

Taylor Swift and Elon Can Finally Fly Private Without Being Tracked Thanks to New FAA Rule

Earth Is Safe From Menacing Asteroid—but Our Moon Might Take the Hit


IN THE NEWS

Republican chair of Senate Armed Services Committee calls for investigation into Signal chat

DoD Inspector General Says He’s Looking Into SignalGate

Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world

NSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before Houthi strike chat

Trump administration fires director of National Security Agency

xAI, Elon Musk's AI company, just purchased X, Elon Musk's social media company

Trump kicks off sale of $2.3bn Truth Social stake

You’ll Never Guess What Happened to Trump’s Meme Coin After He Announced His Tariffs

OpenAI: New funding to build towards AGI

Oxygen Levels in Earth's Lakes Are Plummeting, Study Reveals

ChatGPT users have generated over 700M images since last week, OpenAI says

First Therapy Chatbot Trial Yields Mental Health Benefits

US Senate committee opens review into Meta’s efforts to gain access to China

Brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis restores naturalistic speech

Generative AI Leadership & Strategy Specialization

President Trump’s War on ‘Information Silos’ Is Bad News for Your Personal Data


MEDIA CANDY

The White Lotus

The Studio

Orphan Black: Echoes

Orphan Black

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

Tales of the Gold Monkey

Stephen Collins

Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk

Genres are bustin’ out all over in Strange New Worlds S3 teaser

Ferris Bueller's teacher schools Trump on tariffs


APPS & DOODADS

Project 2025 Tracker

Apple is reportedly on track to launch the M5 iPad Pro and MacBook Pro later this year

Apple is said to be developing a revamped Health app with a built-in AI doctor

iOS 18.4 is available now with new emoji, Apple News+ Food and priority notifications

Change the default apps on iPhone

WhatsApp can be your default calling and texting app on iPhone

Alexa+ is out, but missing a lot of features Amazon demoed last month

Facebook’s new Friends-only feed ditches all the algorithmic junk

Bill Gates Publishes Original Microsoft Source Code in a Blog Post

Red Salsa


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Dave Bittner

The CyberWire

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Only Malware in the Building

Kermit the Frog named University of Maryland commencement speaker


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101

Val Kilmer, Top Gun Actor and One-Time Batman, Dead at 65

Elon Musk tried to buy Wisconsin's Supreme Court. He lost.

Hands Off!

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66: German Potato Salad

66: German Potato Salad

Some TMI follow-up from last weeks episode. We touch on the obligatory potato salad story. Brian doesn’t even gloat about the Germany win. We dish on some books and software. A little disruption sneaks in too. Listen or subscribe in iTunes If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes! If you’d like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code “gog” while signing up & receive up to 2 months free! Show Notes Potato Salad Leftshitz piece Study Shows that 10,000 Hours of Practice Isn’t the Magic Number Original source LeBron James Website is the HTML Apocalypse LeBron hasn’t got shit on Jim Carrey. Google’s Larry Page: “I Think the Government’s Likely to Collapse Under Its Own Weight.” Homestar Runner Is Coming Back! Brazil Thought Magical Thinking Would Win Them the World Cup. They Were Wrong. Google Maps can now tell you the exact distance between two points LAPD Exposes Login To Data Harvesting Software During Interview With CNN Crypto weakness in smart LED lightbulbs exposes Wi-Fi passwords “Weaponized” exploit can steal sensitive user data on eBay, Tumblr, et al. Security company says your data can easily be recovered from ‘wiped’ Android phones Big Data should not be a faith-based initiative NSA trove shows 9:1 ratio of innocents to suspicious people in “targeted surveillance” Robogenesis: A Novel Amped Why The Music Industry’s Next Big Disruption Is In The Recording Studio DiskMaker Why Did Starfleet Allow Families Aboard the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation? Bill Murray’s Unreleased 1984 Sci-Fi Comedy Is Now Online Transcendence Gracepoint The Killing 35 Genius Travel Tips That Will Change Your Life Forever The First Text Message Ever Was Sent 21 Years Ago Today RocketSkates let you zip along the sidewalk at a top speed of 12MPH Reid’s Chocolates SAVE OUR PODCASTS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND Music by Amungus See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

11 Juli 20141h 6min

65: Not Your Parents Sex Toy

65: Not Your Parents Sex Toy

For the Birthday of 'Murica episode we discuss the technology of "self-love" and the rise of the F'ables. A little talk about the MKNewsfeed scandal, the future of the indie music biz, and Brian shares his best travel tip to avoid a sprain at the TSA. Listen or subscribe in iTunes If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes! If you'd like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat Show Notes You can now literally have sex with your iPad AutoBlow 2 Building A Better Blowjob Machine The AutoBlow Original for people who are looking for the original. Oh yes! It was Crowdfunded!!! RealTouch has been around for ages. There's the ever popular Fucking Machines for the ladies Arse Elektronika 'So Who Wants to F**k a Robot?' Jacob Appelbaum on Wikipedia Automatic Sperm Extractor Introduced Into A Chinese Hospital "Feminism is a sexual strategy": Inside the angry online men's rights group "Red Pill"In the "manosphere," men resent women for "withholding" sex. And the scariest part is that they're far from alone Can We Stop Saying Tinder Is Good for Women Now? An Incompetent Attack on the Innovator's Dilemma Why we should be celebrating the rise of robot journalism instead of criticizing it MKNewsfeed! The background on Project MKUltra Facebook Experiments Had Few Limits. Data Science Lab Conducted Tests on Users With Little Oversight What does the Facebook experiment teach us? Growing Anxiety About Data Manipulation by Danah Boyd Facebook Got Permission To Do 'Research' On Users 4 Months After Emotion Manipulation Study News feed: 'Emotional contagion' sweeps Facebook Facebook tinkered with users' feeds for a massive psychology experiment Facebook's science experiment on users shows the company is even more powerful and unethical than we thought Facebook deliberately made people sad. This ought to be the final straw Facebook and Engineering the Public Everything You Need to Know About Facebook's Controversial Emotion Experiment The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats Medium Hires Tech Writer Steven Levy as It Moves From Platform to Publisher Blade, a Helicopter-Booking App, to Partner With Uber This Startup Had Over 5 Million Users And A Great Product. Then It Folded Stop predicting music's future: The next Pixies, White Stripes or Adele will come from the indie ranks Is This The End Of SoundCloud For DJs? An emoji-only social network: Ridiculous … or brilliant? (Or Sharkbaiting?) Serious Android crypto key theft vulnerability affects 86% of devices Google Starts Removing Search Results Under Europe's 'Right to be Forgotten' Data breaches in 2013 exposed 14% of all debit cards Microsoft Darkens 4MM Sites in Malware Fight How a password changed my life. 1Password with Touch ID integration in iOS 8 is truly amazing The 1s and 0s behind cyber warfare Disqus Wordpress Plugin Flaw Leaves Millions of Blogs Vulnerable to Hackers Exclusive: A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid Robogenesis: A Novel by Daniel H. Wilson They're making a Robopocalypse movie. Maybe. Fitbit Update ReadMe! by Pierre DiAvisoo The Internet's Own Boy (Paid) The Internet's Own Boy (Free) The Internet's Own Boy (Kickstarter) Starz Developing 'American Gods' Series Sherlock renewed for a 4th season and a Special! Man vs Food star has show taken off air after 'thinspiration' rant SAVE OUR PODCASTS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND Music by Amungus Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code "gog" while signing up & receive up to 2 months free! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

4 Juli 20141h 27min

64: Grumpy Old Geeks 3.0! Sorta...

64: Grumpy Old Geeks 3.0! Sorta...

This week's show is a work in progress and we were strapped for time so our new bumpers are pretty rough. All apologies. Otherwise, we make more fun of Yo!, Google I/O, Android "L"oser, and toss in some productivity talk.    Show notes: http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/64 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

27 Juni 20141h 23min

63: Yo! Can I have a quarter?

63: Yo! Can I have a quarter?

It's a good week for us. Yo!, Slingshot, and Washboard are all the buzz and we're all left scratching our heads on what the hell is going on. Brian apologizes. Jason is sick as a dog and contrary to Brians accusations, there was only 1 swig of Jamesons. Show Notes at: http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/63   Show Notes What Elon Musk did — and did not — do when he “opened” Tesla’s patents Does the World Cup Have a Lingua Franca? Two Dots update THE DISRUPTION MACHINE This startup that will sell you $10 of Quarters for $14.99 People Invested $1 Million In An App That Just Says ‘Yo’ Facebook launches Slingshot Amazon Fire Phone Amazon’s Fire Phone might be the biggest privacy invasion ever (and no one’s noticed) Amazon starting their Mobile Ad offering with a $6 guaranteed CPM for the first few months. YouTube Confirms Subscription Service Imminent, Warns of Takedowns SoundExchange DIGITAL RADIO REPORT Dr. Oz’s bad medicine It’s Official, You Can Finally View GIFs on Twitter Which VPN Services Take Your Anonymity Seriously? 2014 Edition Private Internet Access AT&T offers customers affected by data breach one year of credit monitoring US Marshal CCs, rather than BCCs, those interested in anonymous Bitcoin auction Robert Scoble thinks privacy advocates have "overstepped their bounds", has useful advice for victims of violent stalkers, and is jealous of your threesomes SmartWater CSI Proton Mail begging for money The Long Mars It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens The Sweet Set-up Jason on Quit! Reeder 2 for Mac Reeder 2 for iOS Swarm Tech Douchebags Jason on Tech Douchebags Safety First with Jordan Cooper The Feed by Libsyn Today in iOS Negativland gives away ‘U2’ multi-track master, invites fans to remix infamous single https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6gPSSYxex0 Very cool little music tool Ringly - Vibration goodie for your phone Marpac Dohm-DS Dual Speed Sound Conditioner Philips Hf3321 goLITE BLU This Graphic Shows How Americans Spend Money In Real Time Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2h1TOfeVFA Fermented Turmeric Tea See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

20 Juni 20141h 14min

62: Quantified Laziness

62: Quantified Laziness

We discuss the dark side of the quantified self and discuss the tools of laziness, which for the next 30 days are mainly beer and soccer. Some goodness in the world of patents and how F-Me money might just save the day. Show notes: http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/62 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

13 Juni 201459min

61: Good Evening Monsters

61: Good Evening Monsters

It's an interestingly grumpy and funny week as the guys talk about Orange is the New Black, WWDC, the state of the Internet and Google and Facebooks stranglehold on content as well as a journalist who's gone rogue. Some interesting security news & more! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/61 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

6 Juni 20141h 25min

60: It Could Be Sunshine

60: It Could Be Sunshine

Brian's up in arms about crowdfunding again but in a good way. Jason reviews the Shine by Misfit and a new book on sleep. Google has a crappy new car and we both agree that the Internet needs to consciously uncouple from Gwyneth Paltrow for good. Show notes: http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/60 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

30 Maj 20141h 19min

59: Is Edward Snowden in a Dystopian Gay Mafia?

59: Is Edward Snowden in a Dystopian Gay Mafia?

After a week of epic media consumption the guys defend Adam Carolla, crap on Julian Assange, review a ton of books and podcasts, drink tasty tea, and run down the top NSA stories this week. A full-on frenzy of goodness with minimal grump. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/59 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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