Cash App class action; Tesla camera-based FSD questioned; Trump Media stock swings; standing desks are the new eggs; Dropbox layoffs; OpenAI Whisper invents parts of transcriptions, frequently; ChatGPT search; post scarcity AI BS; AI coding ouroboros of confusion; Musk crypto scams; Underworld; The Cure; A Man on the Inside; the Diplomat; Instagram throttles video quality; META to fill feeds with more AI; SetApp; Echoes of Extinction; Polostan; the Cube Rule of food identification; Disney hack; this is Halloween.
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FOLLOW UP
Cash App users can claim thousands of dollars in a data breach settlement
Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct
IN THE NEWS
Trump's social media company is now worth more than Musk's X after recent surge in stock price
Trump loses $1.3 billion in net worth after the worst-ever day for his social media stock
Standing Desks Aren’t Just Useless—They Might Also Be Bad for Your Health
Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight
Dropbox is laying off 20 percent of its workforce
OpenAI's Whisper invents parts of transcriptions — a lot
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says lack of compute capacity is delaying the company's products
Google CEO says a quarter of the company’s new code is already AI generated
Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition
Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams
MEDIA CANDY
The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
APPS & DOODADS
Mosseri confirms Instagram reduces video quality for posts that aren’t raking in views
Mark Zuckerberg Pledges to Fill Facebook With Even More AI Slop
Feds Recall Humane AI Pin Charger Due to Fire Risk
From Goodreads' founder, Smashing debuts its AI-powered app for online readers
AT THE LIBRARY
Destiny: Echoes of Extinction: Book 4 by D. Ward Cornell
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
Skeleton Crew | Official Trailer | Disney+
The Cube Rule of Food Identification
A fired Disney employee allegedly altered menus to change allergy markers
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Jeri Taylor, Co-Creator of Star Trek: Voyager, Dies at 86
Teri Garr, Star of ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie,’ Dies at 79
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