611: The Everything Episode
Grumpy Old Geeks29 Juli 2023

611: The Everything Episode

The X-files; everything is becoming an everything app; Spotify grew a lot, still losing money; Meta doing great, still sinking money into the metaverse no one wants; AI companies pay lip service to White House about safety & ethics; Tesla under investigation, again; Wayne gives us self-driving trucks for taxis; Meta, Microsoft & Amazon release open map dataset; Musk lies, a lot; Star Trek: Strange New Worlds; Boys spin-off Gen V; Good Omens Season 2; Justified: City Primeval; Threads goes chronological; X goes dark; Mastodon's CSAM problem; TikTok adds... text; the Dial of Destiny & Whatsherface; Artifact's AI voices; Happy Birthday, Dave!

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FOLLOW UP

Twitter CEO teases banking and payment plans in memo about X rebrand

Elon Musk Took the ‘X’ Twitter Handle From a Photographer Without Asking

X tells advertisers to spend $1,000 per month or risk losing verification status


IN THE NEWS

Spotify grew far more than expected, but is still losing money

Meta had its best quarter since 2021 despite losing more money on the metaverse

Meta, Google, and OpenAI promise the White House they’ll develop AI responsibly

Publishers want billions, not millions, from AI

Tesla under investigation in California over Autopilot safety issues and false advertising

Waymo pushes back its self-driving truck efforts to focus on ride hailing

Meta, Microsoft and Amazon release open map dataset to rival Google Maps, Apple Maps

Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

Pluralistic: Tesla’s Dieselgate (28 July 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow


MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek Strange New Worlds

The Boys spinoff Gen V looks like a bloody bacchanal in new trailer

Good Omens Season 2

Justified: City Primeval


APPS & DOODADS

Threads adds a chronological feed as Twitter burns to the ground

Google Docs can now automatically add line numbers

Elon Musk says Twitter will soon only offer dark mode because it’s ‘better in every way’

Is dark mode better or worse for your eyes?

Mastodon's decentralized social network has a major CSAM problem

Express your creativity with text posts on TikTok


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

News app Artifact adds AI text-to-speech voices, including Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth Paltrow

SEC: Public companies must report cyberattacks within four days


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Sinéad O’Connor, Irish singer behind ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ and more, dead at 56

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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