657: Dick Detector
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Microsoft outage linked to Crowdstrike takes down computers around the world; german floppies; AT&T Snowflake crowd hack; Verizon piracy lawsuit; META won't offer future AI models in EU; EU over-regulation with X, META; AI models still using YouTube for training data; USPS sharing data; Instagram and teen mental health; birds versus drones; public Venmos; set Phasers to pricey; AMC makes distribution deal with Netflix; BeetleJuice & Dune trailers; John Wick 4; the Boys & the Acolyte season finales; AI courses; AI new model releases; Scott Adams taught ChatGPT dangerous techniques; AI diseased hot dog or not app shuts down; Apple public betas; Overcast update fail; more alternative power for Dave; dark patterns everywhere.
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FOLLOW UP
Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World
German Navy still uses 8-inch floppy disks, working on emulating a replacement
IN THE NEWS
Nearly all AT&T subscribers’ call records stolen in Snowflake cloud hack
AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records
Verizon faces lawsuit after record labels say it profits from piracy
Scoop: Meta won't offer future multimodal AI models in EU
Elon Musk’s X faces big EU fines as paid checkmarks are ruled deceptive
Meta accused of breaking European law with its ‘pay or consent’ model
USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
Meta Would Also Like to Know If Instagram Is Bad for Teens
Meta gives researchers access to Instagram data for teen mental health study
TikTok will still be a 'gatekeeper' under the Digital Markets Act, EU rules
Tinder will use AI to help you pick your best profile picture
OpenAI Wants to See All of the New York Times Reporters’ Notes and Memos
‘Very Annoyed’ Birds Are Waging War on NYC’s Beach Drones
J.D. Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows
Researchers track individual neurons as they respond to words
MEDIA CANDY
Now You Can Own Captain Kirk’s Original ‘Star Trek’ Phaser (Exclusive)
AMC Inks Expanded Deal With Netflix, Bringing 13 Series to Streaming Giant
Internal Disney Communications Leaked Online After Hack
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Official Trailer 2
Dune: Prophecy Teaser Trailer 2
APPS & DOODADS
GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence
My trip to the frontier of AI education
Anthropic teams up with venture capital firm to kickstart $100M AI startup fund
Dilbert Creator Claims He Taught ChatGPT ‘Dangerous’ Hypnosis Techniques
Apple releases public betas for iOS 18, macOS, and more
Amazon discontinues Astro for Business robot security guard to focus on Astro home robot
The Tragedies of Reality Are Coming for You
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
FTC study finds 'dark patterns' used by a majority of subscription apps and websites
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Charmed Star Shannen Doherty Has Died at Age 53
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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. Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason dellapo. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm Brian Jill Lester. |
| 0:21.0 | Brian, we just talked the other day about how dumb it is to have auto software updates on. |
| 0:26.5 | So I've got some literally breaking news. |
| 0:29.4 | I think everybody in the world will probably hear about this one right now but the huge there's a huge |
| 0:34.7 | huge Microsoft outage right now which they're claiming is a Microsoft outage but it's actually not. |
| 0:39.6 | It's not. |
| 0:40.6 | Yes it's it's security software that runs on Microsoft computers is the problem. |
| 0:46.0 | Yes. |
| 0:47.0 | So yeah, if you're stuck in an airport right now or had been stuck in an airport before you listen to this, |
| 0:52.0 | you're like, no shit, Sherlock. |
| 0:54.9 | So CrowdStrike, which is a security software company, released a patch that didn't work and is causing blue screens of death everywhere in the world right now as we record this, which is really funny. |
| 1:07.0 | It is. I'm very glad I'm not traveling this week. |
| 1:10.0 | Yes, or trying to go to a bank in some places or in a hospital. |
| 1:14.0 | Yes. |
| 1:15.0 | Do you think we maybe have too many singular points of failure in this world? |
| 1:19.0 | Well, that's what everybody's saying right now, that this is just another SPAF, you know, it's a pretty big one. |
| 1:25.2 | It's a pretty big one. |
| 1:26.2 | I love this. |
| 1:27.3 | The Brody Nisbet, the director of Overwatch, fired at CrowdStrike, posted on X indicating the work around that they have issued. |
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