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Hey, hey we're all Monkees; Waymo rides; Sober Outfitters; the cruel passage of time; Telegram CEO arrested in France; Zuckerberg's bizarre open letter; Uber slapped with a big Dutch fine; Tesla semi crash; tariffs on Chinese EVs; NFT artist sues the SEC; Google Ireland refused data center due to power grid; solar panels on self-storage rooftops; Ted Lasson returning; Oasis reunion; the Grand Tour reaches the end of the road; Shkreli; Wonka; Palm Royale; Steve Martin; Starfleet Academy; another wearable AI, Plaud; AI news.

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The Monkees Playlist

Burglar Discovers You Can “Peel” Cybertruck and Access the Inside

Tesla deletes its blog post stating all cars have self-driving hardware

Sober Outfitters

Kittl

IN THE NEWS

After CEO Pavel Durov's arrest in France, Telegram says it's 'absurd' to blame a platform if users abuse it

Telegram CEO charges include distributing CSAM and money laundering

Zuckerberg Vows to Stay Neutral This Election, Complains Biden Pushed Meta to Censor Covid Content

Uber gets slapped with €290 million fine

NTSB sends team to investigate California crash and lithium-ion battery fire involving a Tesla Semi

Canada follows the US by slapping a 100 percent tariff on Chinese EVs

“Should art be regulated by the SEC?” NFT artists file lawsuit

Google Ireland refused planning permission for data centre due to insufficient capacity on power grid

Self-storage rooftops will become a nationwide 100MW+ solar farm

MEDIA CANDY

'Ted Lasso' is plotting a return for Season 4 as cast options have been picked up for Brett Goldstein, Hannah Waddingham and Jeremy Swift.

Gallaghers could earn more from Oasis reunion than ‘they made in entire 90s’

“The Grand Tour” reaches the end of the road on Sept 13

Martin Shkreli must surrender his Wu-Tang album copies

Wonka

Palm Royale

STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces

Starfleet Academy Beams Into Production

Everything to Remember Before Rings of Power Returns

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Official Trailer

APPS & DOODADS

This Wearable AI Notetaker Will Transcribe Your Meetings—and Someday, Your Entire Life

Just Press Record

MacWhisper

What’s Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models by Stephen Wolfram

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?

Most AI text detectors aren’t as reliable as advertised, study finds

AI Appears to Be Slowly Killing Itself

When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself

Marty Mcfly goes back to the time of Jesus to warn him of what is about to happen to him

What could be better, Muppets, Mad Max and AI!

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

NSA releases copy of internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rear Adm. Grace Hopper

Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982)

Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part Two, 1982)

Sober Outfitters

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Yes, we have all been p0wned; more Tesla recalls; Waymo honking greetings; Cruise recalls robotaxi fleet; more OpenAI content deals; Cortex delivers both fewer and more errors; just how bad was Musk's Twitter deal; billionaire calls major crypto PAC stupid & selfish; the Acolyte not getting renewed; Disney+ no longer a safe space; Chick-Fil-A streaming service; Megalopolis trailer shenanigans; revisiting Ted Lasso, House of Cards; the Anonymous; Alien: Romulus; more Overcast stuff; Sonos can't unroll app update; Procreate condemns GenAI; subscription sous vide.

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NPD Breach Check

Tesla issues an in-person recall for its Model X SUV

Microsoft will release controversial Windows Recall AI search feature to testers in October

Texas judge blocks the FTC from enforcing its ban on noncompete agreements

IN THE NEWS

Waymo director says the company's cars won't honk at each other anymore

Cruise recalls robotaxi fleet to resolve federal safety probe

OpenAI will now use content from Wired, Vogue and The New Yorker in ChatGPT's responses

Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI services

This invention has just destroyed the Internet forever: It programmes 100 million times faster than a human being

In a leaked recording, Amazon cloud chief tells employees that most developers could stop coding soon as AI takes over

Bankers Have Lost So Much Money Thanks to Elon’s Terrible Twitter Deal

Billionaire Pulls Support From Major Crypto PAC, Says It’s Too ‘Stupid’ and ‘Selfish’

MEDIA CANDY

Star Wars: The Acolyte isn't getting a second season

Don’t Expect Boba Fett to Make an Appearance In The Mandalorian and Grogu

After massive public outcry, Disney stops attempt to kill lawsuit after killing restaurant guest

Disney+ is no longer a safe space after it added Hulu content

Chick-Fil-A Reportedly Planning to Launch a Reality TV Streaming Service

Denny’s New Beetlejuice Menu Could Give You Sandworms

Megalopolis‘s New Trailer Prepares You for a Critical Backlash

Lionsgate Admits Using Fake Quotes in New Megalopolis Trailer

Revisting Ted Lasso

House of Cards

The Anonymous

Alien: Romulus

APPS & DOODADS

Overcast Account Link

Apple Podcasts now has a useful web interface for browsing and listening to shows

“Disappointing”: Sonos CEO says old, user-preferred app can’t be re-released

iPad Illustration App Procreate Condemns Generative AI

Procreate

Anova will charge customers to use its sous vide app, because everything must be a subscription

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CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Phil Donahue, talk show host pioneer and husband of Marlo Thomas, dies at 88

Alain Delon, Seductive Star of European Cinema, Dies at 88

Zorro 1975 | Alain Delon, Stanley Baker | Action, Adventure, Comedy | Full Length Movie

Alain Delon’s family refuse to put down pet dog the actor wanted to be buried with

Nasir Ahmed: An Unsung Hero of Digital Media His digital-compression breakthrough helped make JPEGs and MPEGs possible

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Opting out of META AI data training; 11 steps, or be in the EU; why I hate Elon, let me count the ways; SCiFi Foods, Fisker shut down; social media warning labels; TikTok child privacy case; Safe SuperIntelligence; Apple Pay Later discontinued; Adobe lawsuit; Amazon labor law fines; emotion canceling & mental shields; Dell return to work not working; real phot wins AI image contest; Time Bandits reboot, Spaceballs sequel; the Boys; Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution; Runway Gen-3; SoundLabs; McDonalds ditches drive-thru AI; the Acolyte & Oreos; small home projects that spin out of control.

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11 steps to keep Meta from stealing your data to train AI

IN THE NEWS

Tesla investors sue Elon Musk for diverting carmaker’s resources to xAI

SPACEX'S STARLINK MAY BE KEEPING THE OZONE FROM HEALING, RESEARCH FINDS

SpaceX debuts portable Starlink Mini for $599

Buzzy Bay Area lab-grown meat company shuts down

Fisker is the latest EV startup to declare bankruptcy

Social media apps with tobacco-like warning labels? It may happen

Surgeon General Can't Convince Himself on Social Media Warning

The FTC has referred its child privacy case against TikTok to the Justice Department

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist, launches new AI company

Meta pauses plans to train AI using European users’ data, bowing to regulatory pressure

Apple discontinuing Apple Pay Later, ahead of new features launching this fall

Apple Pay Later withdrawal likely because of a law passed in 1968

The US has sued Adobe over early termination fees and making subscriptions hard to cancel

Amazon faces nearly $6 million in fines over California labor law violations

Call Centers Introduce ‘Emotion Canceling’ AI as a ‘Mental Shield’ for Workers

More than 1,000 students pledge not to work at Google and Amazon due to Project Nimbus

Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”

Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs

Artist Wins AI Image Contest with Real Photo, Then Gets Disqualified

MEDIA CANDY

Apple TV+ announces the date for “Time Bandits” starring Lisa Kudrow

Shaun of the Dead

The Boys

Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution

The Schwartz Is With Us: That Spaceballs Sequel Is Apparently Actually Happening

MoviePass Gets Investment From Comcast's Forecast Labs

APPS & DOODADS

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Apple @ Work: If you think Apple 'Sherlocked' 1Password, you aren't paying attention

Don’t Expect a Next-Gen Apple Vision Pro Anytime Soon

Final Cut Camera and Updates to Final Cut Pro for iPad and Mac Are Available Today

Runway Gen-3 Can Make AI Videos of 'Photorealistic Humans'

The World’s Largest Music Company Is Helping Musicians Make Their Own AI Voice Clones

McDonald's Ditches AI Drive-Thru Partnership With IBM

GOP Candidate Endorsed By ‘Back From The Dead’ MLK In Unhinged AI Video

U.S. House of Representatives Narrowly Passes DJI Drone Ban Bill

Your Apple Watch can now control DJI Osmo Mobile gimbals

TDK claims insane energy density in solid state battery breakthrough

Get ready for a wave of Threads apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Only Malware in the Building

The Acolyte

Star Wars Oreos

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again

Giants legend Willie Mays dies at 93

Donald Sutherland Dead at 88

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Hot, Hot, Hot; Google fires engineer that claimed AI was sentient; Shkreli, Cracker Barrel enthusiast & ponzi schemer, is back; ghosted politician wants to make ghosting a crime; Senate grills Apple, Google over crypto app scams; Jon & Punch & the CHIPS act; Westworld turns the ship around; John Oliver is back; the Old Man; Spotify gains users, loses money, ditches Car Thing; hiding AirTags on bikes; Instagram's very busy week; Twitter Blue price hike; Snapchat+ inexplicably doing well; Tinder "desk mode"; smart scarves; Chuck Palahniuk's Plot Spoiler; Star Trek coffee table book; Happy Birthday Dave!

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White House launches a website to help people cope with extreme heat

Google fired engineer who said its AI was sentient

GOOGLE FIRES ENGINEER WHO SAID ITS EXPERIMENTAL AI GAINED SENTIENCE

IN THE NEWS

Martin Shkreli Is Out of Prison, So of Course He's Getting Into web3

A Filipino politician wants to make ghosting a criminal offense

Senate committee chair grills Apple, Google over protection against crypto app scams

CHIPS Act passes House on way to Biden signing

MEDIA CANDY

STAR TREK CONTINUES

‘The Old Man’ Finale: Producers Address Mysterious Morgan & Whether Zoe (And Those Dogs) Will Be Back

Spotify has 188 million Premium users, but continues to lose money

Spotify has stopped making its Car Thing dashboard accessory

APPS & DOODADS

Instagram gets worse with dark patterns lifted from TikTok

Instagram will survey US users about race to assess if it is ‘fair and equitable’

Instagram Pauses Changes to Feed After Week-Long Drama

Twitter raises the price of its ‘Blue’ subscription for the first time

Social subscription Snapchat+ is already faring better than Twitter Blue

Tinder revives 'Desk Mode' feature for singles returning to the office, offering them a button to quickly hide swiping

Manchester City shows off a smart scarf that tracks fan reactions

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Apple’s Butterfly Keyboard Fiasco Leads to a $50M Settlement

Latest iOS 16 beta limits the ability to edit and delete messages

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Chuck Palahniuk's Plot Spoiler

Star Trek: Designing the Final Frontier: How Midcentury Modernism Shaped Our View of the Future

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

David Warner, British Actor Known for ‘The Omen’ and ‘Tron,’ Dies at 80

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A rare in-person show; space news; piracy is good, so are eggs; Millennium Tower keeps sinking; TikTok job cuts; Twitter trial moves forward; Russian & Chinese fines on big tech; Microsoft hard pass on NFTs; crypto energy use; all the Star Trek; Netflix's confusing sharing plans; Game of Yawns; stories behind the songs; Instagram is dead; Jason's $Eaves; we stole Nothing; regulating VPNs; US government buying location data; TikTok security shuffle; GPS security flaws; it's a bit warm out there, isn't it?

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The James Webb Space Telescope is capturing the universe on a 68GB SSD

IN HUGE REVERSAL, RUSSIA LETTING SPACEX FLY COSMONAUTS TO SPACE STATION

Buzz Aldrin's moon landing jacket is up for auction

Research Suggests That Software Piracy Lowers Poverty

IN THE NEWS

Once again, the Millennium Tower is sinking and tilting faster than before

TikTok is cutting jobs around the world

Judge rules that Twitter can expedite its trial against Elon Musk

Russia hits Google with a $375M fine for allowing ‘prohibited’ Ukraine news on its platforms

China’s $1B fine on Didi could end the mobility giant’s troubled year

Minecraft says ‘No F-ing Thanks’ to NFTs

Cryptomining boom has people’s energy bills skyrocketing; feds mull new rules

Cryptomining Capacity in U.S. Rivals Energy Use of Houston, Findings Show

Crypto has a whole new boondoggle to sell you

Blockchain-powered carbon offset company Land Life starts 35,000-acre forest fire in Spain

Elon Musk discloses that Tesla owns Dogecoin, but how much does it have?

Inside Apple’s Eight-Year Struggle to Build a Self-Driving Car

NFTs 101: Taxes, Risks, and More by Charles Schwab

NFT collector loses 100 ETH (~$150,000) in a joke gone wrong

MEDIA CANDY

Set Phasers to Stream: Here’s All the ‘Star Trek’ Content on Paramount+

Netflix lost nearly 1 million subscribers last quarter

Netflix is fighting password sharing in Latin America by charging for additional 'homes'

HBO’s new ‘House of the Dragon’ trailer offers a peek at the ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel

AN EXPERIMENTAL HORROR ARG IS TESTING THE BOUNDARIES OF AI ART

Glitch Goods Store

Holiday T-shirt

The Story Behind Why Garbage’s Shirley Manson Is “Only Happy When It Rains”

APPS & DOODADS

Instagram is dead by Om Malik

Instagram rolling out new map experience to help users discover more places

Empire Avenue

Dbrand’s ‘Something’ skins make your phone look like a Nothing Phone 1

TextExpander, which lets users build shortcuts to speed up business communications, raises $41.4M, its first-ever funding

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

US Congress calls for the FTC to regulate how VPN companies operate

Records reveal the scale of Homeland Security's phone location data purchases

TikTok's global security chief is stepping down amid US user data controversy

Security flaws in a popular GPS tracker are exposing a million vehicle locations

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Back from vacation; borrowing for crypto; saving lives; speed news recap: YouTube trailers, Apple & Ive, Microsoft layoffs, Instagram & TikTok for search, Nothing phone, political email spam, GameStop NFT's, population; James Webb telescope images; Twitter sues Elon; Ev leaves Medium; Rivian cost-cutting; Peloton outsources products; Meta generative AI; Star Trek: Strange New Worlds wrap up; Umbrella Academy; Let's Make a Sci-Fi; AirTags & Prime deals; Wayne Hussey, Hercule Poirot & humans being wrong; scam centers & trafficking victims; Scum & Villany; you can never have too many helmets.

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Survey: Americans Borrow Money, Default on Bills to Buy Cryptocurrency

IN THE NEWS

YouTube TV now has topped 5 million subscribers and ‘trialers,’ says Google

Apple Ends Consulting Agreement With Jony Ive, Its Former Design Leader

Jony Ive is no longer an Apple consultant, says report

Daily Crunch: Microsoft lays off hundreds of employees as it kicks off fiscal year 2023

Google exec suggests Instagram and TikTok are eating into Google’s core products, Search and Maps

The Nothing Phone is official as a mid-ranger, with some lights on the back

Gmail users “hard pass” on plan to let political emails bypass spam filters

Analysis: GameStop’s NFT marketplace earns the company just $45K in first day

NFT marketplace OpenSea lays off 20% of its staff: ‘We have entered … crypto winter’

EARTH'S POPULATION IS ABOUT TO HIT 8 BILLION

NASA reveals more stunning images from James Webb telescope

Twitter sues Elon Musk for attempting to back out of $44 billion buyout deal

Medium founder and CEO Ev Williams is stepping down

Rivian CEO tells staff the company is carrying out a 'major' cost-cutting effort

Peloton gives up on building its own products after just three years

Facebook Parent Meta Details Human-Rights Efforts

Meta’s latest generative AI system creates stunning images from sketches and text

MEDIA CANDY

Netflix to Partner With Microsoft on New Ad Supported Subscription Plan

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

The Orville New Horizons

The Umbrella Academy

Let's Make A Sci-Fi!

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Nikon is reportedly halting DSLR camera development

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Watch the Apple RoomPlan API empty a room of furniture, ready for augmented reality shopping

AT THE LIBRARY

Salad Daze by Wayne Hussey

Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans

The Dawn of Everything A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie

The Labours of Hercule

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Scum and Villainy Cantina

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Adam Savage talks Kenobi

Jury convicts ex-CIA engineer for leaking the agency's hacking toolset

From Industrial-Scale Scam Centers, Trafficking Victims Are Being Forced to Steal Billions

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CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Last surviving member of ‘Band of Brothers’ dies aged 97

Larry Storch (1923-2022)

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Fun with compound pejoratives; TLDR; the layoffs are coming; old-timey Uber problems; Airbnb parties no more; space travel & the environment; limiting sales of Plan B; Facebook seems to be able to moderate abortion pills posts but not much else; cryptocurrency still a joke, massive losses of money; Apple exec busted for insider trading; HBOMax app issues; Roadrunner & revisiting Bourdain; Westward; the Orville; charging cables; Snapchat+ lets you pay to beta test; Opal C1; Disneyland; TikTok; what to do about privacy data; Things Dave Likes.

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Compound pejoratives on Reddit – from buttface to wankpuffin

IN THE NEWS

Tesla reportedly lays off 200 Autopilot employees in latest jobs cut

Uber’s Blast from the Past

Airbnb is banning party houses permanently

Space Travel Will Absolutely Gut the Environment, Scientists Warn

Amazon to limit purchases of Plan B and other emergency contraceptive pills

Facebook Is Banning People Who Say They Will Mail Abortion Pills

Swedish Radio created fake pharmacy - reveals how Facebook stored sensitive information

‘Axie Infinity’ is back open for business following $625 million hack

Former Apple exec tasked with enforcing insider trading rules admits to insider trading

MEDIA CANDY

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

How Do You Tell the Story of Anthony Bourdain?

Westworld

The Orville: Scrapped Season 3 Episode to Be Released as Novella

The Nevers Season 2 Release Date – HBO’s Sci-Fi Drama Is On The Way!

Cinerama Dome Returning With New Name, Plans for Two Bars and Restaurant

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NOAA triples its supercomputing capacity for improved storm modeling

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AT THE LIBRARY

The Year Under the Machine by Peter Danielsson

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Disneyland guest says they were evacuated from Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance three times in one day

FCC Commissioner urges Google and Apple to ban TikTok

TikTok can’t stop users from doxxing the Supreme Court

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NFT giant OpenSea reports major email data breach

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Breaking News! TikTok, COVID & coked-up shrimp; ad-targeting problems; Metaverse Standards Forum; designer clothes in the Metaverse; Tesla racial abuse; TikTok US data moved to Oracle; Twitter brings back Chirp, adds blogs; hail a Lyft with cash, sort of; crypto not so decentralized; tracking layoffs; beaver outage; the Orville; Crypto Critics Corner; Cal Newport; the Old Man; Animal Kingdom; continuing HBOMax issues; Cameo; flying death mobiles; levitating with sound; DALL-E; David McRaney changing minds; Obi-Wan wrap up; crypto's PR problem; Microsoft phases out some facial recognition tech; Sanas AI voice technology.

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Khaby Lame is now the most followed TikTok star in the world after surpassing Charli D'Amelio

Shrimp Fail Drug Test For Cocaine, Ketamine, Xanax, And Valium

Boy, gig companies sure hire disastrously sloppy lawyers

IN THE NEWS

Meta settles US lawsuit over housing discrimination

Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Unity and others form Metaverse Standards Forum

Meta is launching an avatar store, and designer clothes are the first products

Former Tesla contractor rejects $15 million payout in racial abuse lawsuit

TikTok Moves All U.S. User Data to Oracle Servers

Twitter revives its developer conference after a seven-year hiatus

Twitter wants writers to publish longform content with 'Notes'

You can pay for your Lyft ride with cash now

Cryptocurrency is more centralized than many advocates claim, according to report

Layoffs.fyi Tracker

Single beaver caused mass internet, cell service outages in Northern B.C.

MEDIA CANDY

The Orville

Crypto Critics Corner

The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class by Cal Newport

Deep Questions with Cal Newport - Ep. 201: Making a Living Online

The Obamas are leaving Spotify for Audible

The Old Man

Animal Kingdom

Oblivion

APPS & DOODADS

Cameo - Maryanne Oketch

Flying Car Company Boss Completes 'First Ever' Commute in $83K Space-Age Vehicle

SCIENTISTS ARE GETTING BETTER AND BETTER AT LEVITATING OBJECTS WITH SOUND WAVES

DALL·E mini has a mysterious obsession with women in saris

AT THE LIBRARY

Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charles Stross

You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier

How Minds Change - The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion by David McRaney

Why are you removing multiple features on Goodreads?

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Microsoft will phase out facial recognition AI that could detect emotions

Sanas Demo 

That agent who sounds like they’re from Paris, Texas? Try Paris, France 

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Crypto-crash; grifters gonna grift; Google chat-bot building system builds a really good chatbot, not an AI; how not to get people to track your jet; Uber & Lyft lose in Massachusetts; smart license plates; Spotify's safety council; 10 strikes and you're out at Facebook; Barry; Umbrella Academy; For All Mankind; Apple+ sports streaming; festival pee; Google Nest Protect; audio weapons; Internet Explorer, big in Japan; Peter Danielsson; Warren Ellis; Adrian Tchaikovsky; Obi-Wan; adapters & NFC cards; fingerprint scanning; Rage Against the Winklevii.

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FOLLOW UP

The rise and fall of Adobe Flash

Uncut

Tanner Campbell - @tannerhelps - I'm getting sucked into NFTs.

Anna Sorokin wants to move away from her 'scammer' persona... by selling NFTs

IN THE NEWS

Google places engineer on leave after he claims group’s chatbot is “sentient”

The teen who tracks Elon Musk's jet agreed to stop monitoring Mark Cuban's flights on Twitter after the billionaire offered business advice: 'By ending this you have me as a friend for life'

Massachusetts court rejects proposed gig worker ballot measure

Michigan approves digital license plates by startup Reviver

Crypto Exchange Coinbase to Lay Off 18% of Staff

After Rogan COVID-19 controversy, Spotify forms a safety council to rethink its content moderation policies

Facebook enforces ban on gun sales with 10-strikes-and-you’re-out policy

MEDIA CANDY

Grace and Frankie

Somebody Feed Phil

Barry

Umbrella Academy Season 3

For All Mankind

Apple TV will stream every MLS game for a decade starting in 2023

Drug-Laced Pee Seeps Into Rivers Near Music Festivals, Threatening Rare Eels

No talent required in the new and lucrative era of the gentleman amateur

‘Most tragically hilarious/infuriating thing’: Winklevoss twins perform Rage Against the Machine cover—after laying off staff

APPS & DOODADS

Google Nest Protect

US Navy Develops Weapon That Could Make It Impossible To Speak

Report reveals half of Japan's businesses had yet to ditch Internet Explorer

Bosu Balance Trainer, 65cm "The Original"

Elgato Key Light Professional - Mac, PC, iOS, Android (Renewed)

Anker USB C Charger, 735 Charger (Nano II 65W), PPS 3-Port Fast Compact Foldable Wall Charger for MacBook Pro/Air, iPad Pro, Galaxy S20/S10, Dell XPS 13, Note 20/10+, iPhone 13/Pro, Pixel, and More

AT THE LIBRARY

The year under the Machine by Peter Danielsson

The year under the Machine by Peter Danielsson - Kindle

Orbital Operations by Warren Ellis

Normal: A Novel by Warren Ellis

Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture Book 1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Syntech USB C to USB Adapter Pack of 2 USB C Male to USB3 Female Adapter Compatible with MacBook Pro 2021 iMac iPad Mini 6/Pro MacBook Air 2022 and Other Type C or Thunderbolt 4/3 Devices Space Grey

50PCS 215 NFC Round Cards, 25mm(1 inch) NFC Tags Ntag215 Chip Blank PVC Coin Card NFC Coin Cards Enabled Mobile Phones & Devices

Cops Will Be Able to Scan Your Fingerprints With a Phone

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Autopilot indeed, built in deniability as a feature!

Character Actor Mike Hagerty— Who Appeared on ‘Friends,’ ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ More — Dead at 67

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As one of the longest-running podcasts, "Grumpy Old Geeks" discovers what went wrong on the Internet, and who's to blame. Every week they cut through the BS from big tech and tell you what's really going on. With wide-ranging topics, this show has something for everyone. There is a reason Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and that crowd all hate this podcast. Listen and find out for yourself!

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