Grumpy Old Geeks

Corona kills trust; Uber's back; programming errors; Tesla's crypto stock, 5 year olds are in charge; Google's Project Bernanke; Twitch will act on off-platform offenses; Facebook's Hotline; Pinterest creates a Creator Fund; Thiel on Bitcoin; China hits Alibaba with antitrust fine; Coded Bias; Made for Love; Hard; judging people on music taste, with science; Jon Stewart; Turntable.fm is back; the Serpent; the Nevers; working lightsabers; Logitech stops Harmony remote production; AR toys; Saturn's Monsters; Chuck Palahniuk; White Claw; nuclear sabotage at Natanz; LinkedIn, Clubhouse data scrapes; the Dutch are out of cheese.This episode is brought to you by Hover. For 10% off your first order head over to hover.com/gog and get your domain on!This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox. Go to ButcherBox.com/gog OR enter promo code gog at checkout.Show notes at https://gog.show/503FOLLOW UP“I Do Not Trust People in the Same Way and I Don’t Think I Ever Will Again”Uber says March was its biggest month everIN THE NEWSA Darkly Comical Programming Error Shows the Human Assumptions Behind CodeTesla (TSLA) now has crypto stock token by Binance to buy fractional sharesTesla Owners, Say ‘Open Butthole’ and Get a Little SurpriseGoogle’s Secret ‘Project Bernanke’ Revealed in Texas Antitrust CaseTwitch Will Act on ‘Serious’ Offenses That Happen Off-PlatformFacebook tests Hotline, a Q&A product that’s a mashup of Clubhouse and Instagram LivePinterest announces $500K Creator Fund, ‘Creator Code’ content policy, moderation tools and morePeter Thiel: China Using Bitcoin as a ‘Financial Weapon’Alibaba hit with $2.8 billion fine in China antitrust caseMEDIA CANDYHotel Transylvania 3Made for LoveHard Season 2Science now says you can judge people by their taste in music after allJon Stewart’s current affairs series coming to Apple TV+ this fall, titled ‘The Problem with Jon Stewart’An Interview With the Guy Who Yells “Mortal Kombat” in the Theme for Mortal KombatTurntable.fm Reminds Me How Much Fun the Web Can BeThe SerpentThe NeversThe next Star Trek movie is scheduled for 2023Spotify Has Now Deleted 42 Episodes of ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’APPS & DOODADSDisney Has Reportedly Revealed a Working LightsaberLogitech is done making Harmony remotesRoku’s latest streaming device gives 4K, HDR, and a voice remote for $40Google’s new AR toy fulfills the childhood dream of digging a hole to the other side of the EarthDoodlyFCC Wants You To Test Your Internet Speeds With Its New AppSkyWall Patrol Drone GunGoogle Photos just let me copy text from a photo into my web browserAT THE LIBRARYSaturn’s MonstersConsider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different by Chuck PalahniukTermination Shock: A Novel by Neal StephensonSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatRecorded FutureWhite Claw releases 8% seltzer, variety pack with 3 new flavorsWelcome to Black MirrorIran nuclear attack: Mystery surrounds nuclear sabotage at NatanzHackers scraped data from 500 million LinkedIn users — about two-thirds of the platform’s userbase — and have posted it for sale onlineScraped personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users has reportedly leaked onlineWhat Really Caused Facebook’s 500M-User Data Leak?Feds charge man with planning to blow up an Amazon data centerDutch supermarkets run out of cheese after ransomware attackSpace Jam 2Hacker NewsletterSticky Pickles podcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's not AI; NFT price crash; don't forget those taxes; Chrome was a memory hog; Deliveroo crashes in London IPO; bad April Fool's jokes by Deliveroo & Volts, I mean Volkswagen; Supreme Court rules in favor of Google over Oracle; Amazon, Google returning to offices; 23andMe's SPAC; John Woo's Monkey Master; Godzilla vs Kong; Star Trek news; cutting edge iMacs; Apple Arcade+; Roadie memoirs; Star Wars news; not-breaking Facebook leak news; malware hidden in cheat codes; own your website before sending out the press release; more 80s tunes; don't stop believing, you've gotta have faith, relax!This week we’re sponsored by Feals. Become a member today by going to Feals.com/gog and you’ll get 50% off your first order with free shipping.Show notes at https://gog.show/502FOLLOW UPStop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer SaysNFT Price Crash Stirs Debate on Whether Stimulus-Led Fad Is Over‘Silent crash’ as price floors collapse across NFT spaceCrypto-art investors could face a surprise on tax day since NFTs can lead to a hefty tax billNFTs Weren’t Supposed to End Like ThisGoogle proved me right, Chrome was a bloated memory hogIN THE NEWSDeliveroo drags on the LSE at £3.31, down 15% on its £3.90 pricing; closes down 44% on debut at £2.87Amazon-backed Deliveroo crashes in London IPODeliveroo April Fools’ joke backfires in FranceForget Voltswagen, Volkswagen is the real April FoolSupreme Court rules in Google’s favor in Oracle copyright caseAmazon says it expects some employees to return to the office this summer, most will return in fallFrustrated Amazon employees rip on the company for encouraging them to come back to the officeGoogle to welcome some employees back to office in April.Why It’s Taking So Darn Long to Figure Out Who Won Amazon’s Union VoteWe read all 323 pages of 23andMe’s SPAC filing. Here are the 5 biggest obstacles it faces ahead of its public debut.Scientists show you can collect DNA from the airMEDIA CANDYJohn Woo Producing and Maybe Directing Stan Lee’s ‘Monkey Master’ Marvel StoryGodzilla vs. KongCoded BiasStar Trek: Discovery | Season 4 Teaser | Paramount+Star Trek: Prodigy Debuts Their Captain JanewayWoman In Motion | Official Trailer | Paramount+Star Trek: Picard | Season 2 Teaser | Paramount+The Umbrella Academy on NetflixThe Umbrella Academy on ComixologyThe Last BlockbusterWhy your brain loves closed captioningAPPS & DOODADSHoloLens for 120,000 Army personnel: Microsoft inks $21.9 billion dealApple expands Apple Arcade with classic App Store gamesFlight ControlApple Magic Keyboard for iPadiwatch Charger 3 in 1 Cable car Charging Compatible USB Type-c iPhone ipad Portable Travel Wireless Fast Charging Cord Compatible for Apple Watch Series 6 5 4 3 2 1(3.9 ft)AT THE LIBRARYMemoir of a Roadie: Axl Said I Made a Great Cup of Tea… Scott Weiland Liked the Carpenters… & Ozzy Drinks Rosé. by Joel MillerMarte’s Reviews – The AlchemistSo I read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and it’s bad…SECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatRecorded FutureAhmed Best Confirms Jar-Jar Binks Will Not Be in the ‘Obi-Wan’ SeriesILM shows off the new Stagecraft LED wall used for season 2 of ‘The Mandalorian’Personal data for 533 million Facebook users leaks on the webThe latest malware hiding in video game cheat codesCheck You Own The Website Before You Send Out The Press ReleaseCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSPodcast Magazine April 2021 EditionPodcast Magazine Free Lifetime SubscriptionWild Business Growth Podcast with Jason DeFillippoSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I've got an NFT bridge to sell you; Substack raises millions; Anti-Vax Mondays at Krispy Kreme, Zoom-Free Fridays at Citi; Jack Dorsey multi-tasks; nowhere on Earth without satellite light pollution; Moderna vaccine posted on GitHub; Moroccan bit-bros; OpenAI spewing words; BitClout; Virgin lost Spaceship II, goes straight to III; 6 Minutes to Midnight; concerts are coming back, but are the roadies; the Alchemist; the Immortality Code; Obi-Wan Kenobi; hackers backdoor PHP source code; your life on your phone; don't post on YouTube if you're a fugitive; best 80's albums; Utah's porn filter; the funniest joke in the world.This episode is brought to you by Hover. For 10% off your first order head over to hover.com/gog and get your domain on!This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox. Go to ButcherBox.com/gog OR enter promo code gog at checkout.Show notes at https://gog.show/501FOLLOW UPKrispy Kreme’s Free Doughnut Promotion Has a Strange Provision for Anti-Vaxxers“On the Cockchain”Monty Python’s John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFTScoop: Substack is raising $65 million amid newsletter boomIN THE NEWSJack Dorsey Could Not Contain His Annoyance at Being Grilled by CongressStudy finds nowhere on Earth is safe from satellite light pollutionCiti Creates ‘Zoom-Free Fridays’ to Combat Pandemic FatigueStanford Scientists Reverse Engineer Moderna Vaccine, Post Code on GithubMorocco is seeing a huge surge in cryptocurrency useOpenAI’s text-generating system GPT-3 is now spewing out 4.5 billion words a dayWhat Is BitClout? The Social Media Experiment Sparking Controversy on TwitterVirgin Galactic unveils new SpaceShip IIIMEDIA CANDYSix Minutes to MidnightCOVID-19: 5,000 music fans attend Barcelona gig after passing same-day coronavirus screeningAs Concerts Prepare to Return From Pandemic Lockdown, Roadies Have Moved OnSiouxsie And The Banshees: the story of the band who band who saved punk from parody and invented gothEp18: Miles Hunt (The Wonder Stuff) on how Covid-19 stopped him from quitting the music businessSpotify is launching its own Clubhouse competitorAT THE LIBRARYThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and narrated by Jeremy IronsThe Immortality Code by Douglas E. RichardsSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatRecorded Future‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Series Cast Revealed, Including Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Kumail Nanjiani & MoreHackers backdoor PHP source code after breaching internal git serverA Man Says He Doesn’t Know Why He Stabbed His Grandma 50 Times—FBI Agents Hope His iPhone Will Tell ThemMafia fugitive caught after posting cooking show on YouTubeMORON OF THE WEEKUtah GOP Gov. Spencer Cox Signs Controversial Porn Filter MeasureBRIC-A-BRACHuge Scientific Study Reveals Funniest Joke In The WorldCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSJessica Walter and George Segal personified a time when movies grew upPodcast Magazine Free Lifetime SubscriptionSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

500 episodes & 8 years of grump; crushing Dreams because copyright; still no self-driving cars; buy your Tesla with Bitcoin; Dispo gonna disappear; men behaving badly; India says no Bitcoin; your NFT is gonna disappear; Facebook's AI kicks off punk rockers; paying creators to pump up platforms; uBiome charged with fraud; Jeff Goldblum's world; Sting; Tower Records; the Last Blockbuster; smart bird feeders from Slovenia; Tinder lets you get a Lyft; Neil Gaiman; Amoralman; everyone has a podcast; feedback.Show notes at https://gog.show/500See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Facebook censorship & playbooks; Kalanick, again; Twitter Spaces; Clubhouse upgrades; Bitcoin's problems; Uber, Lyft sharing banned driver data; Amazon gamification expands; NiFTy News; crypto-grifters; the Grammys weren't bad; Pivot; Netflix cracking down on password sharing; iPhone 12 upgrade; HomePod discontinued; FAA drone rules; Cyberweapons Arms Race; deepfakes in suburbia; hacking as a service; anonymized data is bullshit; Zoom Escaper; who wants to be the Technoking?Show notes at https://gog.show/499See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

NFT bubble grows; music & art blockchain applications; Banksy Morons; NFTs are the new eggs; ChiaCoin; Google eats their cookies; gig worker shortage; UBI seems to work; Facebook SEER AI; McAfee crypto fraud; Square aquires Tidal; Patrice O'Neal; Condor; Jungle Books; Coming to America 2; teleprompter gear; ripping audio; deep fakes are the new eggs; Solarwinds throws an intern under the bus; TALON; feedback.Show notes at https://gog.show/498See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Baseball cards on the blockchain, NFT's go mainstream; Grimes 133tsp33k; Coinbase admits Bitcoin could crumble; pandemic stats; Twitter announces Super Follows; Star Trek news; Frasier's listening; the Lady and the Dale; Boss Obama not-a-podcast; Gell-Mann Amnesia; bye, bye Fry's; gadget ages; Radio Garden; Citizen notifications; Dispo; Where For; Sigh, Gone; subtitles; Facebook privacy lawsuit; Tom Cruise deep fakes; Microsoft's decentralized IDs; German pandemic words; feedback.Show notes at https://gog.show/497See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's time to get things started; regulations; still hacking tractors; Google has an ethical AI ethicist problem; UK slaps Uber with the law; Facebook stops news in Australia, restarts it as Australians abandon it; Facebook caught lying about metrics, again; WhatsApp details privacy change policy; Influencers for health; Hot Ones; Twitch & Metallica; Spotify HiFi; Reply All host hiatus; Amazon's Kickstarter; Think Again; CyberWar & the Lost Colony; Clubhouse concerns; Mac M1 malware; Nvidia anti-cryptomining drivers; Elon Musk & Bitcoin; Gwyneth's COVID long game; feedback.Show notes at https://gog.show/496See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Bitcoin goes up, must come down; Facebook privacy payouts; Zuck wants to inflict pain on Apple; Oculus problems; Spotify unrolls Work From Anywhere program; AI can manipulate human behavior; Russia dealing with TikTok politics; Chappelle gets paid; Whedon cancelled twice; the Stand falls on landing; Discovery Plus shows; web sleuths at the Cecil Hotel; Kim's Convenience; iPad Life; Clubhouse facts & privacy; signs of intelligent life with Avi Loeb; supply-chain attacks; Bloomberg doubles down; Axel F; Intel mocks Apple; feedback.Show notes at https://gog.show/495See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Flash, a-ah, saviour of the universe; WeWork might be just fine; Tesla buys bitcoin; Robinhood still very popular; Twitter confirms experiments with new models, subscriptions; AI COVID predictions; Amazon's new CEO; WFH causes chip shortages; Toyota's self-drifting car; In & Of Itself; the Expanse season finale; Fake Famous; Samsung's ridiculously large monitor; seven screen laptops; supplements on the blockchain; Heaven's River; tracked at the Capitol; hacker breaks into water supply; Pornhub biometrics; deep fakes as a service; feedback.Show notes at https://gog.show/494See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.