Off The Hook

The evasiveness of AI companies, calls for a nationwide datacenter moratorium, Amazon backs out of Sam Altman biopic, Pentagon used Grok AI to fire missiles at Iran, MSG made dossier on activists who opposed facial recognition.

There were a lot of sports this week, LinkNYC kiosks used to stream Knicks game, UK bans social media for children, leak exposes members of Peter Thiel's secretive 'Dialog' society.

Alex is in a karaoke bar in Seville, Knicks drama in NYC, whitehouse.gov propaganda, new head of 60 Minutes Nick Bilton was one of the founders of NYC Resistor, Seattle enacts moratorium on datacenters.

Scott Pelley fired from 60 Minutes after standing up to management, listener phone calls.

World Cup problems, open source OSes will be exempt from age verification, social media problems.

Eric Schmidt commencement speech booed, experts condemn payment of ransom by Canvas, concern about ASU's AI course builder, AI announcer mispronounced and skipped names during a graduation at Arizona community college, listener email.

Smart glasses being used to covertly film people, datacenter guzzles 30M gallons of water without being billed, fallout from the Canvas hack.

Utah bans VPN used to circumvent age verification, North Carolina found 34k deceased voters on rolls, musician sues Google over AI overview that falsely claimed he was a sex offender, new Christian phone network blocks porn and LGBT content, listener phone calls.

Alex is in Manchester, 2600 meetings are this Friday, weaponization of the US justice system, Trump administration threatens Jimmy Kimmel again, the chilling effect on dissent, nationwide general strike planned, facial recognition glasses for ICE.

Alex had an eventful week, unequal application of laws, Kash Patel sues The Atlantic, Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges, tech companies falling in line with the Trump administration, more age verification problems.

Jason Scott joins the panel, news sites blocking Internet Archive, hard drive shortage, origins of the Internet Archive, disappearing domains, rides of glory, DiscMaster.

The Artemis II mission, Five Nights at Epstein's, Microsoft says not to trust Copilot, Target says it's not responsible for its AI shopping assistant, Amazon abandons old Kindle models.

A old April Fools prank, astronauts are on their way to the moon, Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial, listener phone calls.

Alex is in Taipei, FBI seizes leak sites of pro Iranian hackers, INTERPOL takes down 45000 malicious IPs, US bans foreign made Internet routers, listener mail, Joybubbles documentary.

Iran's supreme leader has a Twitter account, the lack of interoperability between platforms, President Trump's private phone number, listener email.

Pushback against age verification technology, monetization of social media, listener criticism, 1 billion identity records exposed in ID verification data leak, Iranian hacking group targeted Stryker in attack, hackers broke into FBI system, Jello Biafra hospitalized after stroke.

Alex is in Old Blighty, flight disruptions, presidential power, Anthropic pushes back against Pentagon, elected officials on Twitter, FCC encourages patriotic content.

Surviving the blizzard, impending RAM shortage, new app detects nearby smart glasses, listener phone calls.

Alex is in London, Ring cuts ties with Flock, Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files, AI agent complains about rejected code contribution, DHS wants social media sites to expose anti-ICE accounts.