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Grumpy Old Geeks

618: Seal Team Aibo

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

🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

AI using a ton of water; individual efforts just a drop in the bucket; X suing California over disclosure law; TikTok accidentally blocked strike videos, hit with fine over privacy settings for children; oral decongestant on sale for 50 years just doesn't work; Mila & Ashton's bad week, Stoner Cats; Lyft Women+ Connect; Bluesky hits a million Scalzis; manifesting yourself broke; government web design systems; no AI Grammys; Spotify payola; Milli Vanilla; Interview with the Vampire; PodCast One; WhatsApp; Unity; Aibo Foster program; Apple leaking radiation in France; the Witcher; Elon Musk; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Levar Burton; lost Star Wars props; laserdiscs & Blue-Rays; the house lost in Vegas this week; programming language inventor or serial killer?

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FOLLOW UP

Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa–with a lot of water


IN THE NEWS

X is suing California over social media content moderation law

TikTok accidentally blocked Hollywood writers strike videos while casting a QAnon net

TikTok hit with €345 million fine over privacy settings for children

The most common oral decongestant in the US does not work, FDA finds

Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher’s ‘Stoner Cats’ NFTs get smoked by the SEC

Lyft Can Now Connect Women and Nonbinary Passengers With Drivers of the Same Gender

Bluesky officially hits 1 million users

People who ‘manifest’ big dreams are more likely to go bankrupt

SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million

U.S. announces official web design system

GOV.UK Design System


MEDIA CANDY

AI-generated Drake and The Weeknd track won’t be winning a Grammy

Spotify will promote artists' music on your Home feed, if they pay

Milli Vanilli | Official Trailer | Paramount+

We Tried to Tell You About Interview With the Vampire

Netflix’s live-action One Piece to set sail with even more episodes

PodcastOne’s Stock Is Off To Rough Start, Losing More Than Half Its Value.

With PodcastOne’s Stock Still Falling, Parent LiveOne Opens Door To Buying Back Shares.

Exposing a Podcast Scam by Coffeezilla


APPS & DOODADS

WhatsApp tests feature that could open it up to other messaging apps

Unity cancels town hall over reported death threats

Sony will repair aging Aibo robot dogs to help them find their forever homes

Apple Says It’s Going to Fix Those Alleged High-Radiation iPhone 12s


AT THE LIBRARY

Apothecary (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Universe Returns in a New Audio Drama

Levar Burton Reads

The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Long-lost ‘Star Wars’ X-wing model up for auction with starting price of $400,000

Star Wars Helmets

Disney celebrating centennial with a $1,500 box set of these 100 films

Caesars reportedly paid millions to stop hackers releasing its data

Hacking a Vegas casino may just take a single phone call

The Terms and Conditions game.

Programming language inventor or serial killer?

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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on the go.

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Brompe Old Geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason DeFilippo

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

0:43.9

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

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Brian something has come to pass that we said was going to come to pass so business is

0:52.5

usual.

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So this so this come through the pipe last like early this week and it is artificial

1:00.4

intelligence technology behind chat GPT was built in Iowa with a lot of water.

1:06.4

So it turns out turns out lots of these computers get really hot just like Bitcoin mining just

1:13.4

like we said before.

1:15.0

So nobody's well some people are still mining Bitcoin if you can get those sweet deals

1:18.6

in Texas where they just pay you to turn the computers off dig that one.

1:23.0

But if you're actually going to be doing work with these tens of thousands of computers

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you got to keep them cold and that requires a lot of water.

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So now everybody's saying yes we need a couple more millions millions of gallons of water.

1:35.2

Great.

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