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Grumpy Old Geeks

649: Garbage In, Garbage Out

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

🗓️ 25 May 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Dead Internet Theory & Shrimp Jesus; the Portal is back; Apple set photo visibility to zero; jailbreaking major LLMs; OpenAI party time; getting some decent data in; you win an award, now you're suspended; Google sends DOJ a check; TikTok cracking down on drug promotion; stealing crypto; Bitcoin Pizza Day; Franklin; Sugar; Beetlejuice; 3 Body Problem; Dexter prequel; Pixar layoffs; Scarlett Johansson's voice; Humane up for sale; Windows Recall; Han Solo; Star Wars & Star Trek; snakes and clouds, maaaannnnn...

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FOLLOW UP

Is The 'Dead Internet Theory' True? Shrimp Jesus Phenomenon Explained

Using memes, social media users have become red teams for half-baked AI features

Following OnlyFans-Related Mishap, the Portal Is Back

Apple’s Photo Bug Exposes the Myth of ‘Deleted’

Apple fixes ‘rare’ iPhone bug that restored deleted pictures

Apple elaborates on iOS 17.5 bug that resurfaced deleted photos


IN THE NEWS

UK's AI Safety Institute easily jailbreaks major LLMs

Machine Learning Researcher Links OpenAI to Drug-Fueled Sex Parties

Sam Altman is ‘embarrassed’ that OpenAI threatened to revoke equity if exiting employees wouldn’t sign an NDA

OpenAI will reportedly pay $250 million to put News Corp's journalism in ChatGPT

Emory University awarded two students $10,000 for their AI study tool, then suspended them

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Can Appeal His Extradition to the US, British Court Says

Another patient will get Neuralink’s brain implant

Google sends DOJ unexpected check in attempt to avoid monopoly jury trial

The DOJ makes its first known arrest for AI-generated CSAM

What happened when TikTok said users can’t promote weight-loss drugs

US brothers arrested for stealing $25m in crypto in just 12 seconds


MEDIA CANDY

Franklin

Sugar

Ghostbusters II

BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE

More 3 Body Problem Is Coming, But How Much More?

Dexter Prequel Series Casts Young Dexter and Christian Slater as His Mentor

Disney is laying off around 175 Pixar workers as it pulls back on original streaming shows


APPS & DOODADS

Scarlett Johansson says she is 'shocked, angered' over new ChatGPT voice

Wearable AI Pin maker Humane is reportedly seeking a buyer

New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Star Trek: TNG – "Five-card Stud, Nothing Wild... And the Sky's the Limit."

Physics of snakeskin sheds light on sidewinding

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Transcript

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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 with finer points of what went wrong on the internet and

0:10.5

who's to blame. Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason De Philipo.

0:18.0

And I'm Brian Schillmeister.

0:20.0

This is going to be a very interesting show, Brian.

0:22.0

Why is that?

0:22.7

I might have a heart attack in the middle of it.

0:24.7

You see, I've been doing decaf for several months now,

0:29.0

except this morning I went to Whole Foods

0:31.9

and I got a vanilla iced coffee that I used to get all the time not realizing that it's not decaffinated.

0:37.0

So in three sips I had more caffeine than I have in three days.

0:42.0

So...

0:43.0

Oh, I'm having flashbacks to that year-long period where you were over-caffeinated.

0:48.0

Basically every show.

0:50.0

I apologize. I apologize. Not my fault, man, not my fault. I had a brain fart. Which is perfect because maybe that will offset my under preparedness this week because yesterday my Max Studio died. I spent all day trying to get that back and it is still a brick.

1:07.8

Thanks. And the rest of the week I was over at my friend Andy's house because his keyboard was getting these

1:14.4

weird MIDI echoes and we spent two days trying to figure it out and finally at 11 o'clock last night we kind of figured

1:20.0

out that it was a control surfaces issue. So it's been fun. It's been a fun week. So I don't know how this is going to play out, but bear with us people. We're going to make this a show.

1:31.0

All right, well, the follow-up section is all you, so let's see how fast this goes.

1:36.0

Okay, this might be 30 seconds here.

1:38.8

I had been posting stuff on Instagram all week.

1:41.5

I did like, you know, post know post here post there and one of my

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