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🗓️ 22 January 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Student creates app to spot AI essays; Alphabet cuts 6% of workforce; Twitter ends 3rd-party developer access; Musk faces big bill; Tesla engineer testifies video was faked; Amazon hates charity, CNET lied about AI; artists sue Midjourney developers; The Last of Us; Derren Brown; Fleishman is in Trouble; Blue Man Group; Universal Audio Apollo Solo; YubiKey can't ship, Analogue Pocket, FINALLY!
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INTRO
FOLLOW UP
Is It Human or AI? New Tools Help You Spot the Bots
Was that essay written by AI? A student made an app that might tell you.
What's faster than a Corvette? A 'Vette with an electric motor
IN THE NEWS
Google parent Alphabet cuts 6% of its workforce impacting 12,000 people
Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs
THE END OF THE TWITTER CLIENT ERA
Twitter continues to disrespect developers with weak explanation on third-party clients not working
Twitterrific: End of an Era by Sean Heber
With $1.5 billion bill due at month-end, Elon Musk’s options aren’t great
Musk wins legal battle to force laid-off Twitter employees into arbitration
“Talented but crazy”: Potential jurors give court their opinions on Elon Musk
Tesla engineer testifies that 2016 video promoting self-driving was faked
Musk Oversaw Video That Exaggerated Tesla’s Self-Driving Capabilities
Amazon ends charity donation program AmazonSmile
CNET Secretly Used AI on Articles That Didn't Disclose That Fact, Staff Say
Artists sue developers of Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, claiming copyright infringement
MEDIA CANDY
Derren Brown: UNLOCK The Secret Power Of Your Mind! | E212 The Diary Of A CEO
20 year old meI wants to skate on this course
Blue Man Group with Venus Hum - I Feel Love
APPS & DOODADS
Universal Audio Apollo Solo Heritage Edition, APLS-HE
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0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason DeFilippo |
0:07.5 | discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. |
0:16.9 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, the podcast where we channel our inner curmudgeon and discuss |
0:21.4 | all things tech and pop culture. |
0:23.2 | I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
0:24.9 | And I'm Dave Bittner. |
0:26.5 | Dave is the host of the highly acclaimed CyberWire podcast. |
0:29.9 | As the co-host of the Hacking Human podcast with Joe Carrigan, Dave delves into the fascinating |
0:34.3 | and often chilling world of social engineering, but that's not all. |
0:38.2 | Dave also brings his expertise as a co-host to caveat with Ben Yellen, a podcast that explores |
0:43.4 | the complex and ever evolving landscape of law and policy, surveillance and privacy. |
0:48.2 | And for those interested in the inner workings of the industrial control systems and operational |
0:52.0 | technology, Dave also hosts control loop where he and his team dive deep into the |
0:56.3 | latest developments and trends in the field. |
0:58.7 | And everywhere I just read was written by chat GPT. |
1:01.2 | Oh, man. |
1:03.2 | That's pretty good. |
1:04.2 | I loved it. |
1:05.2 | Which was the prompt that got such flowery language about me. |
1:08.9 | My favorite GPT prompt is make this more interesting and then in quotes, put whatever |
1:13.3 | you want to make more interesting. |
1:14.8 | And that was the, the intro I usually use for security, huh? |
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