651: Inci Dont’s

Humane AI chargers go up in flames; Google scales back AI Overviews; we've all been pwnd; Windows Recall a Category 5 s-storm; Microsoft downsizes mixed reality division; leaked Google privacy incidents; ChatGPT AI hype & reckless race for dominance; AI fake stories in NewsBreak; parental control over kids social media; Shutterstock cashing in; Instagram testing in-feed ads you can't scroll past; SpaceX new milestones; Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire; Jim Henson: Idea Man; the Acolyte; music react videos; Spotify raising prices even though "content costs near zero"; expensive Boba Fett dolls; Joshua T. Calvert's Hard Science Fiction; Erik Larson; content, content, content. Show notes at https://gog.show/651 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. SetApp - With a single monthly subscription, you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!! FOLLOW UP After its reputation went up in flames, Humane warns users its charging case may too If you aren't seeing AI Overviews in your search results, it's probably thanks to Google IN THE NEWS Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI The Ultimate Infostealer … Microsoft Recall? Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster. Analysts join the call for Microsoft to recall Recall Microsoft announces layoffs and restructuring in its mixed reality division EU accuses Micrsoft of secretly collecting children's data Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents The New ChatGPT Offers a Lesson in A.I. Hype OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance OpenAI Offers a Peek Inside the Guts of ChatGPT This Week in AI: Ex-OpenAI staff call for safety and transparency Intro thread by Daniel Kokotajlo A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence SITUATIONAL AWARENESS - The Decade Ahead by Leopold Aschenbrenner (PDF) Popular US news app accused of using AI to make up fake stories US agencies to probe AI dominance of Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI New York is about to give parents more control over their kids' social media feeds Shutterstock Made $104 Million Licensing Assets to AI Devs Last Year Meta is testing a new ad in the Instagram feed that you can't scroll past Vengeful Club Penguin Hackers Reportedly Steal 2.5 GB of Disney’s Data SpaceX soars through new milestones in test flight of the most powerful rocket ever built Boeing's new Starliner capsule carrying 2 astronauts safely docks with space station MEDIA CANDY Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Godzilla Minus One Jim Henson: Idea Man The Acolyte ‘3 Body Problem’ to End With Season 3 on Netflix Alien: Romulus Nathan Brown Music Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers APPS & DOODADS Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again Max Announces New Price Increases for Ad-Free Plans YouTube is putting new age restrictions on gun videos This Rocket-Firing Boba Fett Is Officially the World's Most Valuable Vintage Toy AT THE LIBRARY The Object: Hard Science Fiction by Joshua T. Calvert The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson