651: Inci Dont’s
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Humane AI chargers go up in flames; Google scales back AI Overviews; we've all been pwnd; Windows Recall a Category 5 s-storm; Microsoft downsizes mixed reality division; leaked Google privacy incidents; ChatGPT AI hype & reckless race for dominance; AI fake stories in NewsBreak; parental control over kids social media; Shutterstock cashing in; Instagram testing in-feed ads you can't scroll past; SpaceX new milestones; Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire; Jim Henson: Idea Man; the Acolyte; music react videos; Spotify raising prices even though "content costs near zero"; expensive Boba Fett dolls; Joshua T. Calvert's Hard Science Fiction; Erik Larson; content, content, content.
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After its reputation went up in flames, Humane warns users its charging case may too
If you aren't seeing AI Overviews in your search results, it's probably thanks to Google
IN THE NEWS
Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned
This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI
The Ultimate Infostealer … Microsoft Recall?
Analysts join the call for Microsoft to recall Recall
Microsoft announces layoffs and restructuring in its mixed reality division
EU accuses Micrsoft of secretly collecting children's data
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents
The New ChatGPT Offers a Lesson in A.I. Hype
OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance
OpenAI Offers a Peek Inside the Guts of ChatGPT
This Week in AI: Ex-OpenAI staff call for safety and transparency
Intro thread by Daniel Kokotajlo
A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS - The Decade Ahead by Leopold Aschenbrenner (PDF)
Popular US news app accused of using AI to make up fake stories
US agencies to probe AI dominance of Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI
New York is about to give parents more control over their kids' social media feeds
Shutterstock Made $104 Million Licensing Assets to AI Devs Last Year
Meta is testing a new ad in the Instagram feed that you can't scroll past
Vengeful Club Penguin Hackers Reportedly Steal 2.5 GB of Disney’s Data
SpaceX soars through new milestones in test flight of the most powerful rocket ever built
Boeing's new Starliner capsule carrying 2 astronauts safely docks with space station
MEDIA CANDY
‘3 Body Problem’ to End With Season 3 on Netflix
Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers
APPS & DOODADS
Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again
Max Announces New Price Increases for Ad-Free Plans
YouTube is putting new age restrictions on gun videos
This Rocket-Firing Boba Fett Is Officially the World's Most Valuable Vintage Toy
AT THE LIBRARY
The Object: Hard Science Fiction by Joshua T. Calvert
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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. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason De Philip O. And I'm Brian Jell-Mister. |
| 0:21.0 | Hah! Night time recording. Myster. Ah. |
| 0:23.0 | Nighttime recording. |
| 0:25.0 | A lot better. |
| 0:26.0 | I just cracked a beer. |
| 0:27.0 | Oh, shut up. |
| 0:28.0 | Just one. |
| 0:29.0 | As soon as we're done, I got to go to a goddamn AA meeting, so kiss my ass. Well you now you got something to talk about. Oh great yeah. Just kidding. Okay so let's get into this. You made AI as if the withering reviews and lack of anything to actually do with it was not enough. |
| 0:47.0 | In an email sent to AI Pin owners, all three of them, the company said it had received a report of a charging issue that led to a quality issue with a battery cell supplied by a third-party vendor using your charge case accessory. |
| 0:58.0 | A. K. It's a fire risk. |
| 1:01.0 | Oh, dear old me. |
| 1:04.0 | Yep, so not only is it useless, it can kill you. |
| 1:07.0 | Lovely. |
| 1:08.0 | Now they have not used the word recall yet, but they are advising people to stop using the charging cases immediately. |
| 1:14.0 | Okay, yeah here here's a deal you keep them we don't want them back this is not a |
| 1:18.6 | recall we don't want them they're gonna catch fire. Now let me remind you this is a process this is a |
| 1:24.3 | company that is in the process of attempting to sell itself for a self-valued |
| 1:28.6 | 750 million to one billion dollars. Yeah. They have one product. Nobody wants it and the |
| 1:36.3 | battery case can light on fire. Yeah, yeah. And I mean they do have 250 |
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