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We're back, but less social; no death robots; Twitter's downward spiral; sure, this kills primates but let's trial Neuralink on people; NFTs decline, go to museums; collateral FTX damage; Meta fined for data scraping; DoorDash, Deliveroo profitability problems; I am Groot's Holiday; Mickey Mouse's evolution; Wednesday; BritPop; Knives Out; Memory; the White Lotus; Neal Brennan; Dropbox changes; Spotify festival posters; AI gets... weird & creepy; Apple Karaoke; FTC wants to stop Microsoft's acquisition of Activision; the Tower; Dennis E. Taylor; Jesus Jones & the cesspool of the music industry; Nine Nasty Words; the Muppets & adult Star Wars; Radioshack, Kinkos & Egghead; Goblin mode! Sponsors: Kolide - Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here. Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.
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FOLLOW UP San Francisco approves police petition to use robots as a 'deadly force option' San Francisco lawmakers vote to ban killer robots in drastic U-turn Who Said It: Kanye or Hitler?
IN THE NEWS Chinese Bots Inundate Twitter With Pornographic Spam Amid COVID Protests Twitter has stopped enforcing its COVID-19 misinformation policy Twitter data leak exposes over 5.4 million accounts Twitter’s Janitors Are on Strike at Its San Francisco Headquarters Neuralink CEO Elon Musk expects human trials within six months NFTs, on the Decline Elsewhere, Are Embraced by Some Museums Crypto lender BlockFi files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid FTX fallout Meta fined €265 million over Facebook data scraping in the EU DoorDash is laying off around 1,250 corporate employees ‘Purely economic’: Deliveroo Australia’s CEO on why management pulled the pin
MEDIA CANDY The Peripheral The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special Mickey: The Story of a Mouse Wednesday This is Pop: Hail Britpop! Knives Out Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Memory The White Lotus Neal Brennan - Blocks What The Cameras Don't Show You On Guy's Grocery Games
APPS & DOODADS Dropbox support for macOS FAQs 20-year-old California student creates viral Spotify festival poster app OpenAI’s New Chatbot Will Tell You How to Shoplift And Make Explosives UPDATED: It’s way too easy to trick Lensa AI into making NSFW images Prisma Labs, maker of Lensa AI, says it is working to prevent accidental generation of nudes Meet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators Unstable Diffusion Adobe Stock begins selling AI-generated artwork Apple abandons controversial plan to check iOS devices and iCloud photos for child abuse imagery Apple Music’s Latest Party Trick? Karaoke! F.T.C. Sues to Block Microsoft’s $69 Billion Acquisition of Activision The Tower - Idle Tower Defense
AT THE LIBRARY Outland by Dennis E. Taylor Death Threats From an 8 Year Old - The Story of Jesus Jones by Mike Edwards The Birth and Impact of Britpop: Mis-Shapes, Scenesters and Insatiable Ones by Paul Laird Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever ‘Goblin mode’ chosen as Oxford word of the year for 2022 Critical Mass
SECURITY HAH! The CyberWire Dave Bittner Hacking Humans Caveat Control Loop The Muppets Christmas Carol Extended Cut Coming to Disney+ Video press kit for Star Tours when it launched, showing that Anthony Daniels is a team player. Star Wars w/ Dan Zehr | I Don't Know About That with Jim Jefferies #131 RadioShack Computer Repair Technicians Are Stealing Your Data Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraid TikTok ‘Invisible Body’ challenge exploited to push malware LastPass reveals another security breach GPT-2 Output Detector Demo
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS Farewell to Christine McVie, who gave us music for all time Super Steve’s Holiday See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. |