624: Captain Executive Order

Tesla off the hook; bees; SBF guilty on all counts; White House AI EO; META mostly ad-free plan;, toothless oversight board; WeWork nears bankruptcy; more X shenanigan; Bezos has been a naughty boy; Google .ing a th.ing; Loki; finales for Lower Decks, Gen V & Billions; the Traitors; World Series drones; Highlander reboot; Disney buys all of Hulu; loyal Max subscribers get less for more; Apple Journal; Microsoft Copilot; YouTube cracking down on ad blockers; Obsidian; Scalzi's Interdependency; Facebook tips & tricks; Space Mountain & Behind the Attraction; the Beatles; AI & ML definitions; Baader-Meinhof & my phone is reading my mind. Sponsors: 1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1password Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. Show notes at https://gog.show/624/ FOLLOW UP Tesla's Autopilot was not to blame for fatal 2019 Model 3 crash, jury finds Meta will stop forcing your Threads posts onto Facebook and it can’t come soon enough The Beekeepers Who Don’t Want You to Buy More Bees IN THE NEWS Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all seven counts Sweeping White House executive order takes aim at AI's toughest challenges Meta Launches $10 Monthly Ad-Free Plan For Facebook and Instagram in EU Meta’s Oversight Board: Dangerous diet videos can remain, but please demonetize them Once valued at $47 billion, coworking-space provider WeWork nears bankruptcy X won’t pay creators for tweets that get fact checked with community notes Major critic of X sues after being banned from platform Regulators blame Bezos for making Amazon worse in new lawsuit details Google is officially trying to make .ing domains a th.ing Introduc…ing the .ing top-level domain MEDIA CANDY Loki Star Trek: Lower Decks Gen V Billions The Equalizer 3 The Traitors Plunkett & Macleane Fox Sports will use drones in World Series broadcasts for the first time Lionsgate Moving Forward With Henry Cavill & Chad Stahelski ‘Highlander’ Reboot As Action-Fantasy Pic Heads To AFM To Enliven A Strike-Hit Market Disney’s Officially Buying (All of) Hulu Netflix will cut the number of ads you see if you binge-watch; ad-supported downloads also coming soon Is streaming video even still worth it? Betteridge's law of headlines. APPS & DOODADS Day One Apple iPad EU Common Charger Law May Be Final Nail in Coffin for DSLRs Apple's 'Scary Fast' Mac event was shot on iPhone 15 Pro Max Microsoft Copilot Launches Worldwide Tomorrow, but What the Hell Is It? Leo, Brave’s browser-native AI assistant, is now available in Nightly version for testing YouTube is cracking down on ad blockers globally Obsidian AT THE LIBRARY The Consuming Fire: The Interdependency, Book 2 by John Scalzi The Last Emperox: The Interdependency, Book 3 by John Scalzi 44 New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Add to Your November Reading List Murderbot Struggles to Pass for Human in This Excerpt From Martha Wells' Exit Strategy THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE The CyberWire Dave Bittner Hacking Humans Caveat Control Loop Friendly Social Browser FB Purity Space Mountain, with the lights on Disney Behind the Attraction The Beatles - Now And Then (Official Audio) Learn the full story behind 'Now And Then' - watch the documentary today. What's the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon? CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS Patreon on Google Play Store Matthew Perry cause of death inconclusive pending toxicology tests