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Grumpy Old Geeks

639: TikTok MotherF#C&3R!

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

🗓️ 9 March 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Cybertruck vs. sign; the UK loves short weeks; US wants TikTok ban while TikTok frets; Meta's support sucks; Apple fined $2B; Musk sues OpenAI; Klarna's AI job fears; Twitter execs sue Musk; NFTs seek meaning; Bitcoin's inflation-adjusted; flop—science nixes sun dimming; Netflix drops 'The Brothers Sun'; 'Crime Scene Kitchen' cooks on; Tech toys abound, and books offer escape; Cyber threats grow; FCC fights shady doorbells; AI spooks; and TikTok's conspiracies rise.


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FOLLOW UP

A Tesla Cybertruck lost its battle against the iconic "Beverly Hills Hotel" sign (video)

Making It Stick: The UK Four-Day Week Pilot One Year On - Autonomy


IN THE NEWS

US House to vote next week on TikTok crackdown bill

TikTok Seems Pretty Worried About Getting Banned

Inside the World of TikTok Spammers and the AI Tools That Enable Them

Podcast: AI-Powered TikTok Hustlers

41 state attorneys general tell Meta to fix their customer support for hacking victims

EU fines Apple nearly $2 billion for 'blocking' alternative music apps

The law doesn't allow Apple to threaten Epic, says EU

Elon Musk sues OpenAI over AI threat

OpenAI and Elon Musk

Elon Musk took drugs with Tesla board members: Report

Klarna CEO says AI can do the job of 700 workers. But job replacement isn't the biggest issue.

How Klarna uses AI on Ben’s Bites

Twitter's former CEO and other execs are suing Elon Musk and X for $128 million in unpaid severance

Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

Proposed class action lawsuit accuses Apple of monopolizing cloud storage for its devices

Google launches $5m prize to find actual uses for quantum computers

OpenSea’s partnership with Coachella is a sign that NFTs can be more than profile pictures

Actually, Bitcoin Didn’t Hit an All-Time High If You Adjust for Inflation

Scientists Warn 'Dimming The Sun' Is Simply Too Dangerous. Here's Why.


MEDIA CANDY

Constellation

‘The Brothers Sun’ Canceled by Netflix After One Season

'Crime Scene Kitchen' Renewed For Third Season By Fox

Fallout - Official Trailer | Prime Video

Max will start cracking down on password sharing this year


APPS & DOODADS

Epstein

Drafts

Ghost

JPD.Me

CleanMyPhone

SetApp


AT THE LIBRARY

The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport

The Art of War (First Contact Series) by Peter Cawdron

What’s Going On with Kara Swisher’s Book Tour?


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Iran's cyber quest in Middle Eastern aerospace.

Andor Will Soon Give You the Most Politically Tense Sequence in Star Tours

New FCC rules would crack down on connected vehicle abuses

Microsoft AI engineer says Copilot Designer creates disturbing images

Ignore This Title and HackAPrompt: Exposing Systemic Vulnerabilities of LLMs through a Global Scale Prompt Hacking Competition

These Video Doorbells Have Terrible Security. Amazon Sells Them Anyway.

Police warn of thieves using wifi-jamming tech to disarm cameras, alarms

Why TikTok Is Becoming a Conspiracy Playground

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Grumpy old geeks a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and

0:06.4

Jason de Philippo discussing with finer points of what went wrong on the internet

0:10.2

and who's to blame.

0:19.0

Welcome to grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason De Philipo. And I'm Brian Shalomister.

0:20.0

I had my first cyber truck sighting yesterday Brian. Oh yeah. Yeah. It's uglier

0:26.2

that I thought it was going to be. I've yet to see one in person but what exactly

0:30.9

did I write you yesterday when you told me? I said, I mean just from the pictures it looks like a

0:36.8

Fucking prop that they made with no money at the very last season when they knew they were being canceled of the original Battlestar Galactica.

0:43.6

That's what the thing looks like.

0:45.6

Yeah, and I said it was a rejected design from Demolition Alley.

0:50.0

Yeah.

0:51.0

It's about the same size because I don't know if you remember that demolition alley truck used to be on

0:55.4

Coango when you'd come over the hill towards Universal. I vaguely remember that, yeah.

0:59.4

It was always there and I always wanted to buy it because it was for sale. Some guy in Texas ended up buying it.

1:04.0

But anyway, I digress.

1:05.0

The thing is fucking huge and ugly.

1:08.0

I saw the thing go buy like this silver whale and I'm like,

1:12.0

damn. Here's that. like this silver whale and I'm like damn here's the other thing that struck me

1:16.0

was I thought it was you know maybe there was gonna be some kind of

1:18.9

intrinsic value in seeing it in person to make it kind of pop and go whoo neat no it looks cheap it

1:26.7

looks absolutely cheap it does yeah I mean just you can even tell from the photos like

1:31.7

I can't wait for a sighting in the wild I don't

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