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🗓️ 2 September 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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FBI warns about DeFi; SEC after crypto; Facebook supports NFTs while trading tanks; Metaverse standards; blinking pants MetaHTML; Nvidia top AI chip dog; Snap layoffs; Substack reins in spending & perks for writers; Twitter's Onlyfans plans canned; Elon's bad prediction record; Pixar; A League of Their Own; NFT performers at the MTV awards; the Church; the Boys; Animal Kingdom; iPassword; UK police game Waze; digital art & AI created content; Midjourney; FTC sues data broker; malware hidden in James Webb images; Apple antitrust complaint; Google's automated tool messed up, shocking.
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IN THE NEWS
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U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China
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California Legislators Seek To Burn Down The Internet — For The Children
Truth Social's inadequate moderation is keeping it off the Google Play Store
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EXPERTS SAY ELON MUSK IS WRONG ABOUT THAT POPULATION THING HE KEEPS SAYING
MEDIA CANDY
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APPS & DOODADS
UK police accused of uploading misleading Waze reports to encourage safer driving
Jason Allen takes 1st place in "Digital Category" at Colorado State Fair with AI-Generated content
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SECURITY HAH!
FTC sues company for selling identifiable location data, including abortion clinic visits
Hackers hide malware in James Webb telescope images
Apple may face a DOJ antitrust complaint over AirTags
A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.
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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. |
0:16.4 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
0:20.8 | Brian, we get a lot of questions about our endorsements of private internet access. |
0:25.3 | Yes. Where you can get to by going to GOG. Show slash VPN. |
0:28.0 | And we've said for ages that they are, you know, the best no log VPN because they were tested by |
0:33.6 | the FBI in court. Yes. And that was a long time ago. It was. Yeah. So apparently they've been |
0:39.4 | getting this question a lot too because they went out and hired Deloitte to actually do an audit |
0:44.2 | of their no log policy and they get a clean bill of health. And let me tell you that ain't cheap. |
0:50.0 | No, that ain't cheap at all. No, Deloitte, they're the big dogs. They are the big dogs. Yes, |
0:56.1 | they are. All right. So you can rest assured that your privacy is intact now. So GOG. Show slash VPN. |
1:02.3 | If you want a true tested by the FBI and Deloitte VPN, go get it private internet access. |
1:08.7 | I just wanted to bring that up because it was big news. I thought it is big news. And we got |
1:12.8 | we got tagged on a couple of Twitter posts about it. We got some emails about it saying, |
1:17.3 | I'm more like, yeah, we know, we know. That's why we recommend them. What I can't recommend, |
1:21.6 | though, man, these author newsletters on Substack. I signed up for Chuck Palinock's newsletter. |
1:28.5 | Yeah. Yeah. How's that? How'd that go? I was a little. You don't want to see him making the sausage. |
1:35.8 | That's the thing. That's the thing. And there's a lot. There's a lot of dead pigs on the side of |
1:40.6 | the road for that sausage. I tell you. Yeah. There's like multiple posts a day. I'm like, you know what? |
1:45.7 | I think I just might wait for the novel or better yet, the movie adaptation of the novel. So. |
1:52.0 | Yeah. I should have tested that one out without paying for the year, I guess. I just I just I don't |
1:59.1 | I didn't see the appeal. Like I want the finished product. Like I've spent enough time in the |
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