637: Outragery!
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Let's game the system; Rivian layoffs; Air Canada's chatbot lied; Twitter didn't violate data security because they ignored Musk orders; Science Corner: smartwatches & rings don't measure blood sugar, AMOC collapsing, Taylor Swift's planes could use new paint, red light improves eyesight; we're back on the moon; ChatGPT goes temporarily insane; Pentagon testing LLMs; the Bad Batch; Last Week Tonight on YouTube to be delayed; Amazon shutting down Freevee wait no they aren't; FuboTV accuses Disney, Fox, WBD of antitrust; TikTok grows up; BIGO; Office Space; No Values festival; browser market share; watching ads on TV through built in TV ads; Ultra 2 watch tips; Apple iMessage Level 3; Lockbit cybercrime group takedown; Pixel Envy; a deep dive into Wampas.
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IN THE NEWS
Rivian is laying off 10 percent of its salaried employees
Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount
FTC concludes Twitter didn’t violate data security rules, in spite of Musk's orders
Don't use smartwatches and rings that claim to measure blood sugar without needles, the FDA warns
It Looks a Lot Like Taylor Swift Had Two Private Jets for Her Super Bowl Flight
Scientists develop 'nanosphere' paint that could reduce planes' carbon dioxide emissions
Staring At A Red Light In The Morning Improves Worsening Eyesight, Study Shows
Private lander makes first US moon landing in more than 50 years
ChatGPT goes temporarily “insane” with unexpected outputs, spooking users | Ars Technica
Scale AI to set the Pentagon’s path for testing and evaluating large language models | DefenseScoop
MEDIA CANDY
'Last Week Tonight with John Oliver' on YouTube will now be delayed
Amazon Shutting Down Freevee: Report
Amazon Says ‘No Changes’ Coming to Freevee Despite Reports of the Streamer Shuttering
FuboTV accuses Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. of antitrust practices over joint streaming service
Tyler Perry Raises Alarm on AI, Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold – The Hollywood Reporter
Office Space Murdered Office Culture 25 Years Before It Died: ’99 Rewind
APPS & DOODADS
Browser Market Share Worldwide
'Soaring' over hills or 'playing' with puppies, study finds seniors enjoy virtual reality | AP News
Why Walmart is buying Vizio | CNN Business
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
Apple Updates iMessage With a New 'Post-Quantum' Encryption Protocol
Lockbit cybercrime gang faces global takedown with indictments and arrests | Reuters
A question about the Wampa in ESB.
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back | Deleted Scenes HD
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason |
| 0:06.7 | de Philippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and |
| 0:10.3 | who's to blame. Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason Developo. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm Brian Schillmeister. |
| 0:21.0 | Jason I did something really stupid. |
| 0:23.0 | What'd you do? |
| 0:24.0 | Well, it's been a week. |
| 0:25.0 | It's not been anything in particular. |
| 0:27.3 | It's been a thousand million things. |
| 0:28.8 | It's one of those death by a thousand paper cuts kind of weeks. Yeah. So I've been like angry and on edge and |
| 0:34.8 | grumpy and frustrated would have been perfect for this show. Would you take a |
| 0:40.0 | Xanax before we started? I did 45 minutes of slow flow yoga last night |
| 0:43.8 | sat down and put it together a LEGO set with my kid and I totally zend out and now I'm |
| 0:47.8 | fine. Oh, sorry. What the hell's wrong with you? |
| 0:53.6 | I know, really bad timing. |
| 0:54.8 | I should have waited, but here we are. |
| 0:56.7 | So welcome to pleasantly okay, old geeks. |
| 0:59.4 | Well, half of. |
| 1:00.6 | I'm still, I have no child in yoga in Legos and all of that crap I just had a very long week |
| 1:08.9 | All right. Let's get into it then. Maybe you'll get me grumpy as we go along. Oh Oh I think I'll have no problem. All you have to do is go |
| 1:14.5 | Elon Musk. Damn it! We'll get there. Okay. Elon Musk. Okay. |
| 1:19.2 | Okay, perfect. I'm not going to talk about Elon though. I want to talk about something we used to do that was really fun. |
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