Grumpy Old Geeks 671: Lorum Ipsum Is My Sister
San Fran embracing self-driving cars; not-Bitcoin creator in hiding; i h8 ai; anti-AI artist open letter; X updates their policies; more people leave OpenAI; SynthID; 23andMe and your genetic data; no more fake online reviews; private equity acquires Squarespace; right to repair; Tesla Blade Runner AI ripoff; Star Trek frogs; the Riker Maneuver; de-extinction; a whole slew of great new shows dropping - Star Trek, Dune, Silo & more; Good Omens season 3 now just a movie; Cruel World and nostalgia fatigue; are we not retired? we are Devo; Fresco, free; Penguin adds a robots.txt file to their books.
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FOLLOW UP
How San Francisco Learned to Love Self-Driving Cars
Peter Todd Is in Hiding After a Documentary Named Him as Bitcoin’s Creator
IN THE NEWS
More than 10,500 artists sign open letter protesting unlicensed AI training
X updates its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI models with its data
Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law
OpenAI and Microsoft are funding $10 million in grants for AI-powered journalism
ByteDance intern fired for planting malicious code in AI models
Longtime policy researcher Miles Brundage leaves OpenAI
Google offers its AI watermarking tech as free open source toolkit
23andMe faces an uncertain future — so does your genetic data
A federal ban on fake online reviews is now in effect
Private Equity Firm Permira Acquires Squarespace for $7.2 Billion
The Feds Are Coming for John Deere Over the Right to Repair
Meta bans private jet tracking accounts on Instagram and Threads
Elon Musk, Tesla and WBD sued over alleged 'Blade Runner 2049' AI ripoff for Cybercab promotion
Seven newly named frog species make whistles that sound like Star Trek
De-extinction company provides a progress report on thylacine efforts
MEDIA CANDY
Star Trek: Lower Decks S5 - Oct 24
Star Trek: Section 31 - Jan 25, 2025
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S3 - 2025
‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Gets Early Season 2 Renewal, Adds Tatiana Maslany As Recurring
‘Black Mirror’: ‘Outer Banks’ & ‘She Hulk’ Actor Nicholas Cirillo Joins Cast Of Season 7
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Is Finally Streaming for Free in Time for Halloween
Lioness | Season 2 Sneak Peek | Paramount+ - Oct 27th
Devo Has the Uncontrollable Urge to Retire
APPS & DOODADS
Adobe made its painting app completely free to take on Procreate
Midjourney launches AI image editor: how to use it
AI in Marketing: Fast-track your skills
Perplexity AI app for macOS now available on the Mac App Store
Bluesky Teases Creator Payments While New Sign-Ups Explode After Elon Musk’s Destruction of Twitter
New AirPods Pro 2 firmware now available for iOS 18.1’s hearing health features
Apple’s macOS Sequoia lets you snap windows into position — here’s how
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San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks
AT THE LIBRARY
Penguin Adds a Do-Not-Scrape-for-AI Page to Its Books
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78
Dodgers icon Fernando Valenzuela is gone. But 'Fernandomania' will live forever.
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