633: Brie Break

Ello, Goodbye; Layoffs at eBay, Alphabet, Microsoft & TikTok; more doomed crypto firms; sneaking porn onto Wikimedia & Instagram; France fines Amazon over employee tracking accuracy; facial recognition leads to wrongful jailing; Meta Oversight Board remains useless; cool medical science; EVs need new tires shockingly often; Lift; Death and other Details; the Brothers Sun; Ultraviolet; Jon Stewart back to the Daily Show; more Apple+ sci-fi; Masters of the Air flies; Netflix kills lower ad-free plan; Screens 6; Paste; Tesla working on compact crossover; Apple car still coming; the Artifact; Slow Productivity; office poop etiquette; Eufy security cameras; Amazing Ring does something good; Apple stolen device protection. 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/633/ FOLLOW UP The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams George Carlin’s Estate Sues Creators of AI-Generated Comedy Special IN THE NEWS eBay is laying off 9 percent of its workforce Alphabet is cutting dozens of jobs at its X moonshot lab Microsoft Lays Off 1,900 Activision Blizzard, Xbox Staff One Day After $3 Trillion Valuation TikTok is reportedly laying off workers to cut costs Doomed crypto firm Terraform Labs files for bankruptcy in the US Wikimedia's Pornographers How to Upload Porn to Instagram France fines Amazon $35 million over ‘intrusive’ employee surveillance Facial recognition used after Sunglass Hut robbery led to man’s wrongful jailing, says suit Meta’s Oversight Board raises concerns over automated moderation of hate speech 6 Deaf Children Can Now Hear After a Single Injection Florida EV Buyers Shocked To Learn Their Cars Eat Tires MEDIA CANDY Lift Death and Other Details The Brothers Sun Ultraviolet Jon Stewart Returns to ‘The Daily Show’ as Host Apple just dropped a mysterious trailer for its latest sci-fi series Constellation Masters of the Air Netflix, hungry for more growth, signals more price hikes APPS & DOODADS Screens 5 Paste on SetApp Tesla is reportedly building a compact crossover codenamed 'Redwood' The Apple car apparently still exists, could debut in 2028 with reduced autonomy AT THE LIBRARY The Artifact (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron Slow Productivity by Cal Newport THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE The CyberWire Dave Bittner Hacking Humans Caveat Control Loop Anker finally comes clean about its Eufy security cameras Amazon’s Ring App Will No Longer Make It Easy for Cops to Get Video Footage Apple releases iOS 17.3 with new Stolen Device Protection for your iPhone CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 Porn Star Jesse Jane Dead at 43 After Apparent Overdose with Boyfriend Playboy, Maxim Model Masuimi Max Dead at 45