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Grumpy Old Geeks

510: Delightfully Evil Algorithm

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Apple WWDC; NFT market collapsed; Clubhouse shark-fin; Stack Overflow gets a buyer; Twitter's geo-political problems; Facebook ends special treatment for politicians; G7 moves to shut down tax havens; Bezos takes flight; Facebook rolls out Bulletin, which is not them but is; Apple employees don't want to go back; Old; Danny Elfman; A Glitch in the Matrix; assimilating your watch; Airport fetish gear; time travel books; Ring asks for assistance; FBI follows the Bitcoin; here's your bad guy phone; TikTok's delightfully evil algorithm.

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FOLLOW UP

Here’s everything Apple announced at the WWDC 2021 keynote

The NFT Market Has Collapsed, Oh No

US Pentagon changes its mind about DJI Drones

The Drop-In Audio App Clubhouse Is Dying. It Was Fun While It Lasted

Clubhouse downloads are falling off a cliff: The app was downloaded only about 900,000 times in April, down from February’s peak of 9.6 million

IN THE NEWS

Kinda a big announcement

Twitter suspended in Nigeria amid face-off over president’s tweet

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sent beard shavings to Azealia Banks so she could make an amulet to protect him from ISIS

Facebook to end special treatment for politicians after Trump ban

G7 deal will likely raise taxes for tech giants like Apple and Google

Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of his company Blue Origin in July

Facebook’s ‘Bulletin’ newsletter platform could launch before the end of June

Apple employee group rejects planned return to the office

MEDIA CANDY

Old – Official Trailer [HD]

Danny Elfman Previews First Solo Album in 37 Years With New Song ‘True’

Cruel World Festival

A Glitch in the Matrix

Here’s How Long it Takes to Binge-Watch More Than 50 Popular TV Shows

Apple Watch Faces / Borg and Startrek

Exclusive: watch Lush in A Far From Home Movie

The Missing Cryptoqueen

APPS & DOODADS

Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla team up for a ‘common vision’ on extensions

Logitech MX Keys Advanced Illuminated Wireless Keyboard for Mac – Bluetooth/USB

Airportag

A SpaceX fanatic created a website to find out when Starlink satellites were visible in his location.

AT THE LIBRARY

One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

Ring Launches Request for Assistance Posts on the Neighbors App

Justice Dept. Claws Back $2.3M Paid by Colonial Pipeline to Ransomware Gang

Trojan Shield: How the FBI Secretly Ran a Phone Network for Criminals

DOJ Charges Criminal ‘Influencers’ Who Worked For FBI’s Honeypot Phone Company

Maryland and Montana Pass the Nation’s First Laws Restricting Law Enforcement Access to Genetic Genealogy Databases

TikTok Quietly Updated Its Privacy Policy to Collect Users’ Biometric Data

CBC SecureDrop

MORON OF THE WEEK

S.Korean designer creates ‘Third Eye’ for ‘smartphone zombies’

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason

0:06.8

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

0:16.5

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister.

0:20.4

I think Apple had something come out yesterday, Brian. Oh wait wait no they didn't actually have

0:24.8

anything came out. Come out it was all about what might be coming out in the future.

0:28.8

Yeah, I saw, as you know, I never watched these things. I saw you tweeted a couple times as you

0:34.9

were up on it and I saw yeah there was a lot of, wow this might be cool whenever it shows up.

0:40.4

Yeah in the fall and of course it's going to be two years before it actually works correctly.

0:45.3

That's how Apple works. There was some neat stuff but man they really need to bring in some

0:50.6

professional talent for that thing. The nerds were definitely running the keynote. I mean it was

0:55.3

Craig Federicki was kind of painful to watch on some of those and I'm pretty sure Susie Sibilance

1:01.3

was running the soundboard as well because oh my god my ears hurt. I had I stopped watching because

1:07.0

there was so many s's throughout the whole thing that it was just it drove me crazy.

1:14.3

Well the production quality has gone down quite a bit since Steve Jobs left. Oh god give me a

1:18.7

breath. I think James Cameron fucking directed this thing or you kidding me. Paulie short-rode it

1:25.7

though. That's the downside. So yeah it doesn't need stuff in there. I'm looking forward to it

1:31.1

when it does actually come around to shipping. Right yeah nothing nothing really caught my eye.

1:37.2

Nothing seems to have blown up the the Twitter sphere either so. Oh god the universal.

1:42.4

The universal control thing is awesome. Yeah that's pretty cool. Yeah I like that part.

1:47.9

That's the one I dig the most I think but yeah I've got I've got enough tools around here to do

1:53.4

that already so I don't yeah kind of. It's just made made half your gear redundant now. Yeah so much

2:00.4

for Luna display they might as well pack up shop but yeah oh well that's a hundred dollars down

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