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Grumpy Old Geeks

652: Casual Pirates

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

🗓️ 15 June 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

OpenAI was open to bidding wars between USA, China & Russia; AI hitting wall where it can't get smarter; visibility set to zero; walking back Windows Recall; Tesla FSD false advertising, SpaceX bad behavior; refreezing the arctic; casual piracy; flying the personalized ad skies; Netflix wins the hot dog wars; Stax; Interview with the Vampire; Camden; Bad Boys; Computer, wine, no merlot; Shkreli; the 90s; Adobe pricing; everything Apple killed at WWDC 2024; smartphones are the new eggs; Spotify; A Science-Fiction Thriller; the Acolyte; Kings Dominion & theme parks; driving in the USA.

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FOLLOW UP

Former OpenAI Employee Says Company Had Plan to Start Agi Bidding War With China and Russia

AI Appears to Rapidly Be Approaching Brick Wall Where It Can't Get Smarter

Cheating husband sues Apple after wife discovered ‘deleted’ messages sent to sex workers

Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns


IN THE NEWS

Tesla shareholders vote yes again to approve Elon Musk’s $56B pay plan

Tesla Must Face False Advertising Claims Around 'Full Self-Driving' in California: Report

Elon Musk sued for alleged sexual harassment and retaliation by former SpaceX engineers

Scientists Working on Desperate Plan to Refreeze Arctic

The Ads on Your United Airlines In-Flight Screen Are Getting a Lot More Specific

Netflix has Sherlocked Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest

OpenAI adds former NSA chief to its board


MEDIA CANDY

Cheaper Prices Reduce Indirect Visits to Pirate Sites, Research Finds

Stax: Soulsville U.S.A

Interview With The Vampire

Camden

The Boys Will End After Season 5

Bad Boys: Ride or Die

Paul Giamatti Is Beaming Aboard Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli accused of copying $4m one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album

90’s Electronica / Alternative


APPS & DOODADS

Everything Apple Tried to Kill at WWDC 2024

Smartphones May Affect Sleep—but Not Because of Blue Light

Spotify’s HiFi plan could finally arrive this year, but you may need to pay extra

Spotify will start showing you personalized banners and messages based on your listening habits

Music publishers accuse Spotify of 'bait-and-switch subscription scheme'

watchOS 11 lets you take a day off working out without losing your streak

Elon Musk Just Cancelled iPhones

X is about to start hiding all likes

AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway

MacWhisper

Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested


AT THE LIBRARY

The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman

Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery by Scott Young

Unidentified: A Science-Fiction Thriller by Douglas E. Richards


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

The Acolyte

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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

0:10.3

who's to blame.

0:19.0

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason De Philip O. And I'm Brian Schillmeister.

0:20.0

Brian, we have a little bit of follow-up today.

0:22.8

All right.

0:23.8

Mason wrote in hi guys old school hard drives needed defragging because of how they

0:28.4

read data on a spinning platter with a moving head.

0:31.1

Newer computers use SSDs instead which don't have the same

0:34.0

limitations and therefore don't need it. Duh I forgot about that. Me too. Yeah. We've

0:40.4

been using SSDs for so long I just totally forgot. I'm like, oh yeah, that's right.

0:44.0

Yeah, all the things that have gone by the wayside,

0:47.0

defrag screens and flying toasters for screen savers.

0:51.0

Res edit.

0:52.0

And an entire list of things that we're going to get to in a few minutes

0:55.0

that Apple just put out of business. Yes and S Thomas Sears from Patreon agrees he said

1:00.5

the defrag function on Wym 311 was hypnotic. I used I think I used Norton back in the day

1:06.6

I believe I did as well. Yeah they had colors. Yeah. Yeah. Here's a fun one.

1:13.0

Former open AI employee says company had a plan to start AGI bidding war with China and Russia.

1:20.0

Okay, that doesn't sound good.

1:22.0

No, in a recent interview, former open AI safety researcher,

1:25.4

Leopold, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

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