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Grumpy Old Geeks

600: Technically Sweet

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

News, Security, Web, Internet, Tech News, Tech, Comedy, Scams, Entertainment, Music, Lifestyle, Social, Code, Business, Society & Culture, Technology, Engineering

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

AI doesn't exist but may be dangerous anyway; self-destruct buttons are important for rockets; Kamala Harris & Snoop Dogg weigh in on AI; IBM pauses hiring, looking to onboard AI; Marissa Mayer takes another whack; open-sourced AI is where the real dangers are; Lyft is lost, no exit in sight; Google layoffs, cuts in perks but one hell of a CEO payout; Facebook furious they can't exploit youth data; Dune Part 2; Paramount+ doing well; RIP, Says You; NPR podcasts; Succession; Ted Lasso; Silo; Zero gravity concerts, watch out for that Portaloo; TweetDelete; Brydge collapses; RSA Conference recap; May the 4th; sorting out baseball workarounds.


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FOLLOW UP

There Is No A.I. by Jaron Lanier

‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead

Ex-Apple employee sentenced to three years in prison after $17 million fraud scheme

Apple drops lawsuit against former exec who accused company of spying

Apple’s Unionized Store Wants to Start Accepting Tips from Customers


IN THE NEWS

SpaceX's Starship didn't immediately respond to a self-destruct command

Vice President Harris tells tech CEOs they have a moral responsibility to safeguard AI

Snoop Dogg on AI risk: “Sh–, what the f—?”

IBM Pauses Hiring to Onboard AI Instead

Marissa Mayer on the AI search race, technology fears, and her biggest Yahoo regrets

ChatGPT is once again available in Italy after a temporary ban

We Have No Moat

Lyft shares tumble as investors react to dim outlook

Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs

Google will retire Chrome’s HTTPS padlock icon because no one knows what it means

Blue verified checkmarks are coming to Gmail

Facebook furious at FTC after agency proposes ban on monetizing youth data

US Job Growth Remains Strong


MEDIA CANDY

Dune: Part 2

Paramount+ tops 60 million subscribers thanks to 'Picard' and the NFL

RIP, Says You

Ask Me Another

Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me

Planet Money

All Things Considered

Morning Edition

Succession

Someone posted the entire ‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ on Twitter

Amazon rolls out free Roku-like TV channels for Fire devices

Casa Grande

Pornhub Goes Dark in Utah to Protest Age Verification Law

SEARCHES FOR VPN SOAR IN UTAH AMIDST PORNHUB BLOCKAGE

AI Made this VLOG by Casey Neistat and GPT4

How To Make Katsu Curry by HowToBasic

Zero Gravity Concerts

TOURISM COMPANY OFFERING ZERO-G CONCERTS


APPS & DOODADS

TweetDelete

The downfall of Brydge: iPad keyboard company folds, leaving staff unpaid and customer orders unfulfilled

Get a Tesla if you want to learn about AI trying to kill you, says Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak


AT THE LIBRARY

The Seventeenth Year (The World Walker Series Book 3) by Ian W. Sainsbury

Season of Skulls: A Novel in the World of the Laundry Files


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

How Logan Arcade got its Misfits-playing robot dogs

Outtakes from Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, and James Earl Jones's recordings for the Star Wars 1-800 phone line (1979)

For May the 4th, Carrie Fisher of 'Star Wars' gets a Hollywood Walk of Fame star

Apple releases its first rapid-fire security updates for iPhone, iPad and Mac

Microsoft Planning Privacy-Focused Version of ChatGPT as Apple AI Efforts Flounder


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Eggs are perl T-Shirt

Eileen Saki dead: Final 'MASH' Rosie actor was 79

Gordon Lightfoot, Hitmaking Singer-Songwriter, Is Dead at 84


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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

0:06.7

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

0:16.5

Welcome to Garumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. We are

0:21.0

celebrating our 600th show or actually more just to stop on the way to 66. We just have 66 more to go

0:28.6

until the final grumpy grumpy off C is fulfilled. The podcast of the beast. Yes. Oh god,

0:35.2

show title. That's already done. Oh yes. I was actually on episode 666 of Pengellet's show.

0:41.6

Oh, I'm sure he celebrated appropriately. Anyway, quick little bit of follow up. As I was talking

0:47.0

about last week about on this new microphone, well, yeah, it sounded like shit because I forgot

0:52.0

to change a bunch of settings for the new microphone. So that's why there were two versions that

0:56.8

came out last week. I thought actually I sounded like shit, not you because of the volume levels

1:02.4

or something like that. It was a well, no, you were one of us was too. I think you were too hot. I

1:07.4

was too low. It doesn't matter. I went back and I fixed it. But this this microphone was actually

1:12.7

set up for I was using all of the plugins for a shotgun microphone. And this is a large condenser

1:18.0

microphone. It's slightly different. So that's why some people got two versions of the show. If you

1:22.5

are on Patreon, you kind of got the notification. But if you are one of the unwashed masses,

1:28.0

then you didn't. So there we go. And another little bit of follow up. I found out with the MTE

1:33.4

for Vans MTE is it's called made for the elements should be MFTE then. But you know,

1:40.6

that's not how things work. I was trying to I was trying to shoehorn a minuto joke in there,

1:44.8

but I couldn't figure out TME quickly enough for in Spanish. So okay,

1:50.0

just keep Google it.

1:52.6

All right. A little bit of follow up here on some AI news.

1:58.6

Jaren Lanier, who we've talked about ad nauseam on the show back in the day.

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