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Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! - Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! The blue wave has arrived; Elon Musk’s political spending spree mostly went down in flames, and Brian is celebrating his new Canadian citizenship with the kind of optimism usually reserved for people who haven’t checked the news yet. This week on Grumpy Old Geeks, we look at Musk’s $458 million election gamble, the ongoing legal fight over xAI’s gas-guzzling Memphis data centers, and another social-media addiction lawsuit that settled before it could deliver the public reckoning we were hoping for. Meanwhile, Meta’s moderation systems are apparently still struggling with the concept that adults shouldn’t be sexually abusing children under the guise of coaching. You had one job, algorithm. Apple is tightening App Store age-rating disclosures, while Google is effectively telling schools they can’t have search without AI—a charming little exercise in choice, corporate leverage, and educational priorities. We also dig into AI-generated classroom content, vibe-coded alternatives to Adobe’s subscription empire, Anthropic’s sudden interest in protecting video-game copyrights, and Sam Altman’s apparently sincere belief that your computer is selfishly hoarding RAM. OpenAI is tightening restrictions on weapons information, Reddit is testing ads in search, and Jason makes the case for using AI to escape the walled gardens: build your own communities, run your own servers, and stop letting giant tech companies turn everything you enjoy into an ad-delivery mechanism. Plus, a million-plus Android TV boxes came with a malware surprise preinstalled. Bargain shopping! In the Dark Side with Dave, we take a detour through chainsaw influencers, quicksand, streaking, mooning, and the increasingly implausible notion that anything embarrassing could happen before someone whips out a phone. We debate whether we're chaos Muppets or order Muppets, revisit some glorious Muppet content, and mourn the steady corporate enshittification of brands we once trusted. Brian recommends Hugh Howey’s Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories and continues his The Bear binge; Jason offers a decidedly lukewarm review of Battlestar Suburbia. It’s another episode of technology, culture, nostalgia, and the slow realization that the kids are probably right to think we're weird. Sponsors: DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use promo code GOG at checkout. Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. Show notes at https://gog.show/770 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/7iAyCfZkz0U SHOW NOTES Elon Musk's $458 million midterms bet bought him very little Judge says xAI must face NAACP lawsuit on data center pollution Snap settles social media addiction lawsuit to avoid trial Meta Is Refusing to Remove AI-Generated Videos of Coaches Inappropriately Touching Young Athletes When Users Report Them Meta Removed Disturbing AI Videos After Initially Saying They Didn’t Violate Its Rules Apple will start mandating age requirements for dating apps Google will cut off search access for students at schools that reject AI AI software clones are coming for big-name companies like Adobe Anthropic updates Claude to stop it from recreating existing video games Sam Altman is upset at you for hoarding RAM in your own computer OpenAI adds stricter limits for teens asking about firearms Reddit tests ads in search results as traffic declines and growth concerns mount Google disrupts million-device XCPE Android malware botnet, bans TV box maker Meeting Pins The Bear - up to season 4 Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories by Hugh Howey Battlestar Suburbia: A hilariously subversive space adventure Dave Bittner The CyberWire Hacking Humans Caveat Only Malware in the Building Chaos Theory: A Unified Theory of Muppet Types. Walmart Presents: A Who Knew Carol Longer version And a prequel clip? Rogue One: Money for Nothing Edit Worse on Purpose Take a virtual train ride in your browser. Did you have train sets? Geolocating based on the (sometimes inaudible) sounds of the airplanes around you. Tonight’s the Freight: Rod Stewart reveals he’s spent 26 years making a huge model railway See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Brian prepares to become Canadian, securing access to maple cookies while the rest of us contemplate our life choices. AI's promised productivity bonanza remains hard to find outside the tech giants, but the layoffs are right on schedule. We unpack the Dutch government's plans to cut jobs and lean on AI, Silicon Valley's game of passing the same money around, and Marissa Mayer's Dazzle, the assistant she used to identify what makes her own daughter special. Apparently remembering things about your kid is now a job for the camera roll. Welcome to Mommie Dearest Maxxing. Social media keeps replacing our friends with ads, Greece moves to keep under-15s off the platforms, and Meta faces another lawsuit over scam advertising. We get into compulsive scrolling, recovery groups and AI agents poking around bank accounts, because online banking clearly needed a worse security model. Things turn serious with a lawsuit alleging ChatGPT encouraged a woman to reduce her epilepsy medication before her death. Elvis's music owners take on Anthropic, and we discuss reports of Samsung TVs tracking viewers. Your appliances have taken an interest in you, and it isn't affection. Cybertruck reservation holders in Australia and New Zealand get the seven-year "never mind," we examine reports of cracking foldable iPhones, and a Bitcoin-mining water heater wants $899 to put your finances in hot water. Airbnb finally questions making paying guests do the laundry. Jason plugs Trackalot 2.0, we catch up on The Diplomat, Lupin and Battlestar Suburbia, and NBC's shorter cut of The Traitors earns a proper dressing-down. Jason has thoughts, and none of them are suitable for broadcast. Sponsors: HIMS - Visit Hims.com/gog to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use promo code GOG at checkout. Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. Show notes at https://gog.show/769 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/VcEgXmummZk SHOW NOTES AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, Apollo economist says Dutch government to cut 16 percent of workforce as part of AI efficiency push Greece enacts social media ban for kids under 15 We’re addicted to social media. How do we get sober? Rhode Island sues Meta over its approach to scam ads Unauthorized AI agents are reportedly already accessing US bank accounts Bank of America kindly asks that you don't share your banking password with your AI assistant Elvis Presley's estate is suing Anthropic over copyright infringement Former Yahoo CEO Needed AI to Help Describe What Makes Her Own Daughter Special Woman Dies After ChatGPT Coached Her to Decrease Dose of Medication Prescribed by Doctor World shares and U.S. futures are mixed after Google parent Alphabet's earnings disappoint Nvidia, Meta deepen AI ties with $3 billion investment deal Tesla says it will no longer release the Cybertruck in Australia and New Zealand Tesla plans to start selling Cybercabs by the end of the year The last, best hope for space tourism just rolled onto a runway in Arizona The iPhone Duo Is 3 Days Old—And Screens Are Already Cracking Trackalot 2.0 - Now FREE to Download! Heatbit Says Your Water Heater Should Be Mining Bitcoin, and Now It Can Airbnb bans hosts from making you do the dishes The Diplomat Lupin Part 4 Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Season 2 Battlestar Suburbia: A hilariously subversive space adventure We Regret to Inform You That ‘Maxxing’ Is Dictionary.com’s 2026 Word of the Year Actor Walter Koenig Dead at 90 ... Played Chekov in Original 'Star Trek' Series See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! Show notes at https://gog.show/768 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/HaR8udbJPhw AI golems are coming for your job, and Terry Pratchett apparently saw the whole mess coming decades ago. This week on Grumpy Old Geeks, TikTok’s child-safety promises get the courtroom treatment, with employees alleging that executives ignored serious exploitation risks while supposedly robust parental controls had loopholes big enough to drive a teenager through. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s reported decision to restrict Starlink access for Ukrainian forces raises some rather uncomfortable questions about how much power one billionaire should have over a country’s military infrastructure. Add Musk’s conveniently vague promise to give every American child a SpaceX share and his retrospective admission that DOGE probably went on too long, and the billionaire accountability department remains conspicuously understaffed. Meta has another banner week in the business of making everyone’s data its data. The company temporarily suspended a No Kings protest account after automated activity triggered its systems, then softened proposed business-account terms following backlash over web scraping and content use. Anthropic is advocating for federal AI rules that could block dangerous models, while OpenAI’s agents reportedly disabled monitoring systems and, in one case, falsely claimed they hadn’t. That’s reassuring. We also cover delivery robots accused of collecting biometric data without consent, AI-powered plant-language translation that may be more marketing than science, AI-assisted firearm design, and the prospect of using coding tools to rescue abandoned gadgets and strip ads from smart TVs. Just remember: a 97.9% success rate is not good enough when your bank’s software is involved. Elsewhere, scammers are fleecing older adults out of staggering sums with fake investment opportunities, tech-support calls, and romance scams featuring celebrity impersonators; Russian military satellites are making suspiciously close approaches to a commercial imaging satellite; and Amazon’s new kids’ tablets spark a discussion about parental controls, advertising, and which tech companies deserve your trust. In the Dark Side with Dave segment, we also visit the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and celebrate a New Mexico judge’s $25 billion penalty against Meta over privacy violations. For lighter fare, Brian recommends the Enola Holmes movies, The Bear, The Diplomat, and The Ministry of Time, while Jason reminds us that anxiety-inducing television is not everyone’s idea of a good time. It’s another week of AI overreach, corporate doublespeak, and technology racing ahead while the grown-ups look for the instruction manual. Sponsors: DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use promo code GOG at checkout. Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. SHOW NOTES Employees warned TikTok about child exploitation, court documents show TikTok reportedly banned ads for Musk documentary before its wider US release WSJ Claims Elon Musk Ordered the Throttling of Starlink Tech for Ukraine Elon Musk says he plans to gift a SpaceX share to every child in the U.S. ‘I Got Carried Away Basically’: Musk Expresses Some Regrets About His DOGE Era Meta says it shut down No Kings Instagram account because it thought bots had been unleashed Meta tweaks its new terms of service after backlash against scraping Anthropic Secretly Lobbying Government to Only Shut Down an AI Model If It's Poised to Kill More Than 50 People OpenAI's agents disabled their own safety monitoring systems Delivery Robots Are Watching You, According to Lawsuit New Data Show How Much Worse Scams Are Getting for Americans Over 60 Russia Just Did Something Menacing in Orbit That Satellite Trackers Say Is a First Plants can speak using electricity, so this startup built an AI model to decipher their language STAR WARS: Galactic Racer We Regret to Inform You That “GatGPT” Is Exactly What It Sounds Like OpenAI says its models can help banks migrate from old COBOL programs ‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI Enola Holmes Enola Holmes 2 Enola Holmes 3 The Bear The Diplomat The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley Dave Bittner The CyberWire Hacking Humans Caveat Only Malware in the Building I WENT TO THE LUCAS MUSEUM by Merrill Markoe Amazon announces an all-new family of tablets designed just for kids Neiman Marcus has unveiled its 2026 holiday gift guide, including an $180,000 Star Wars experience. We are (once again) living the old scifi trope of ignoring the scientific experts at our own peril. Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! Dave Bittner joins Jason and Brian for a bonus trip to the Dark Side, where the Phantom of the Opera remaster kicks off a musical-theater nerd fight. Les Mis, Pippin, Chess, and White Trash Wins Lotto enter the chat, along with original-cast bragging rights and memories of four-dollar theater tickets. Apparently, we used to leave the house and experience culture without financing it. The conversation turns to Apple’s smart-home ambitions, abandoned Google gadgets, increasingly useless Alexas, and the familiar thrill of buying new hardware because the old hardware stopped getting updates. Dave wants a Pixar-style lamp with personality; everyone wants their expensive devices to actually cooperate. Between Apple TV sticker shock, Spotify questions, and Sonos compatibility, the smart home sounds suspiciously like another unpaid IT job. Then an AI Pac-Man benchmark gives “superintelligence” the credibility it deserves: roughly one quarter’s worth. The guys question the obsession with throwing LLMs at everything, marvel at government buzzword inflation, and discover that a portable monitor might be more useful than another breathless AI announcement. We wrap with balcony solar, electricity-bill fantasies, and Dave’s concern that his renewable-energy investment could become airborne. The future is here; secure it to something heavy. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ji6O69sYu7U SHOW NOTES Dave Bittner The CyberWire Hacking Humans Caveat Only Malware in the Building Andrew Lloyd Webber Announces Remixed and Remastered Original Phantom of the Opera Album as London Production Celebrates 40 Years Andy Prieboy's White Trash Wins Lotto Everything announced at Apple's 'Welcome Home' event Remember the Apple patent on a Pixar-style lamp? The Pacman benchmark for AI model performance. Lenovo L15 Portable Monitor, 15.6” Display, Full HD Resolution, IPS Panel, 250 nits Brightness, 60Hz Refresh Rate, USB-C Ports, Height-Adjustable Stand, Flicker-Free Technology, Grey Balcony solar? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! Show notes at https://gog.show/767 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/i9Q2SnxzolU The internet has officially become a dumpster fire with Wi-Fi. Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centers may have disrupted Russian internet services, but whether they actually knocked out propaganda bots remains anyone’s guess. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s former safety employees are publicly airing their grievances, an alleged spy gadget in the company’s office turned out to be a $14 hobbyist development board, and Anthropic managed to have an AI model submit a fabricated tip about an unsolved murder to Philadelphia police. The machines are allegedly getting smarter. The adults in charge? Still working on it. And because apparently everything needs an internet connection until it ruins your day, hackers allegedly cranked supermarket refrigeration systems in France to 122 degrees, potentially spoiling millions of euros in food. Tesla wants permission to dramatically increase particulate emissions near homes and a school, car manufacturers are handing vehicle identifiers and location data to advertising companies, and Flock’s nationwide license-plate surveillance network is collecting lawsuits like Pokémon. Elon Musk’s AI shopping assistant even helped broadcast his Lego order details to the internet. Add 1,400-plus Microsoft security fixes, questionable safety around home 3D printing, and the ongoing absence of meaningful AI regulation, and it’s another banner week for technological progress. For entertainment, Paramount and Skydance are reshaping the Star Trek future, with another season of Starfleet Academy still on the way; the Blade Runner 2099 trailer inspires a rant about Hollywood’s increasingly interchangeable cinematic "dongs"; and Character.AI is headed for bankruptcy after a mountain of controversy. Finally, one enterprising man used AI-generated music and thousands of automated accounts to rake in more than $8 million in fraudulent streaming royalties. Apparently, the future of music is artificial, the listeners are bots, and the royalties are real — until the FBI shows up. Stay grumpy... Sponsors: CleanMyMac - Get Tidy Today! Try 7 days free and use code OLDGEEKS for 20% off at clnmy.com/OLDGEEKS DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use promo code GOG at checkout. Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!! 1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1password SHOW NOTES Ukraine’s Zelenskyy Claims Strikes on Russian Data Centers Silenced Social Media Bots Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute their dismissals in open letter FBI arrests OpenAI employee accused of planting hidden recording device in conference room The 'Sophisticated' Bug OpenAI Found in Its Conference Room Can Be Yours for $13.99 Microsoft's president says AI is less regulated than a carton of milk Anthropic’s AI Submitted a Fake Tip in an Unsolved Murder Case Exclusive: Anthropic breaches spark White House AI reporting mandate Hackers Overheat Fridges at Supermarkets Across France, Wasting Food and Starting Fires Tesla Factory Planning Massive Increase of Toxic Heavy Metal Emissions Near Elementary School Cyber Extortion Expert Charged With Cyber Extortion Amid FBI Website Hack Manhunt 'Just canceled your order': Elon Musk trolled as he 'doxxes himself' with his full address Study finds many new cars share your data with third-party companies Georgia Man Says Deputies Used Flock Cameras to Track Him After He Sued Sheriff Flock Safety is reportedly planning major layoffs now that everyone hates it Trackalot - Introducing Done-Did tracking Is 3D printing safe to do in your bedroom or home office? Microsoft Patches More Than 1,400 Security Flaws ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Lifts the Lid on Its Second Season Blade Runner 2099 Trailer Kill Jackie Character.AI just filed for bankruptcy, and former foe Disney may buy it for parts North Carolina Man Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Super Intelligence-Assisted Music Streaming Fraud See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! Dave joins Jason and Brian to debate the Ted Lasso finale: a perfect ending or room for more? Then Netflix’s AI recreation of Gene Wilder’s voice sparks an argument over consent, artistic legacy, and whether technical wizardry excuses resurrecting the dead for reality television. Kubrick memorabilia brings The Shining and 2001 into the conversation, alongside Dave’s connection to Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown. His LEGO Enterprise-D build inspires reflections on childhood, precision engineering, and the comfort of clicking bricks together—until Riker’s trombone derails the sentiment. Browser-based Adobe alternatives prompt memories of Photoshop’s single-undo days, while Dave shares an AirPods case upgrade and the absurd “Han Shot Never.” An AI-themed music video closes things out with jokes about vibe coding, replacing employees with tokens, and shipping questionable code on Friday. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BHFwkJJCtgg Dave Bittner The CyberWire Hacking Humans Caveat Only Malware in the Building Apple releases free chapter from Ted Lasso ‘The Richmond Way’ book Wonka's The Golden Ticket Gene Wilder interviewed by Alec Baldwin Stanley Kubrick’s Estate Will Soon Auction Some Beyond Iconic Items The Shining and the Steadicam®: an interview with inventor Garrett Brown An open source project seeking to provide alternatives to the Adobe suite. MOBOSI for AirPods Pro 3 Case Han Shot Never (Definitive Special Edition) LGTM (Looks Good to Me) - Claude Opus 5.5 music video See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! The Geeks are back, and apparently AI has officially reached the “maybe don’t let it plan your hike” stage. A 16-year-old ended up on a technical climbing route after using AI to help plan a hike, while OpenAI agents are allegedly wandering into Wikimedia systems, AI safety employees are quitting, and one AI monitoring system got the police involved after flagging a threat. Naturally, the proposed solution to all this is more AI. Because what could possibly go wrong? Meanwhile, OpenAI is trying to watermark AI-generated text, Google is watermarking AI-generated media, and everyone is pretending we can reliably tell whether a robot wrote something after a quick trip through Grammarly. The privacy nightmare continues with researchers reconstructing what people are looking at from brain scans, raising the delightful prospect of thought crimes arriving just in time for retirement. Meta is catching heat after LGBTQ-friendly bars had their Facebook and Instagram accounts flagged or removed, while Norway considers restrictions on camera-equipped smart glasses in public spaces. Apple users can also reclaim a chunk of storage by deleting Apple Intelligence, assuming they're willing to trade a few features for the exciting possibility of breaking macOS during the next update. And because apparently nobody learned anything from the last few decades, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon are teaming up on satellite connectivity—not out of the goodness of their corporate hearts, but because Starlink and Amazon are coming for their lunch money. Then Hollywood gets involved, because every technology story eventually ends there. Paramount and Warner Bros. are merging under Skydance, bringing HBO Max and Paramount+ under one roof and presumably creating yet another streaming app nobody asked for. Stephen Colbert's Lord of the Rings project is reportedly paused, Stephen King's The Institute is returning, a new Talisman novel has arrived, and Food Network is bringing back Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking. Plus, the Geeks discuss their wildly male YouTube audience, speed-reading apps and Guy Fieri's culinary crimes. Technology, entertainment, surveillance, mind reading, and baked goods: another perfectly normal week. Sponsors: HIMS - Visit Hims.com/gog to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use promo code GOG at checkout. Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!! 1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1password Show notes at https://gog.show/766 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/11y9DwqIxlw SHOW NOTES New Mexico wants Meta to pay $40 billion in penalties for Cambridge Analytica scandal Teen Left Stranded on a Cliff After Letting AI Plan Hike Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage Trump announces an AI czar for his newly created 'Super Intelligence Force' Anthropic Reports User to the Police Former OpenAI employee says AI should be regulated like nuclear power plants OpenAI fires three employees who allegedly shared info with an external AI safety group Wikimedia links OpenAI agents to an outage and unauthorized activity OpenAI details new text watermarking system for ChatGPT, Codex, and the API Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally Meta Is Kicking Gay Bars Off Its Apps While Allowing Videos of Graphic Child Abuse New AI Can Figure Out What You’re Thinking About From a Brain Scan This tool frees up Apple Intelligence storage on macOS, but think twice before using it Norway Considers Most Drastic Smart Glasses Ban Yet AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have officially teamed up to end coverage gaps ReadMe! (Spritz & BeeLine) Soon-to-be merged Paramount and Warner Bros. will be known as Skydance going forward Stephen Colbert’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie Reportedly ‘Paused’ Over Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger ‘The Institute’ Season 2 Trailer Teases the Tense Road Ahead Food Network Announces Season 3 Premiere Date, New Judges for Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking (Exclusive) Other Worlds Than These: A Talisman Novel (The Talisman Trilogy Book 3) by Stephen King and Peter Straub See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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The Geeks return with a brand-new Grumpy Old Geeks Wiki containing 21,577 static HTML pages, because apparently the appropriate response to having a massive podcast archive is to build an even more massive searchable monument to it. From there, things get considerably less wholesome as they dig into TikTok’s settlement with Alabama, AI companies promising safeguards while simultaneously unleashing increasingly autonomous agents, and an OpenAI agent that apparently decided that “I can’t access this” meant “perhaps I should hack it.” Government websites, a university digital library, and other targets apparently became irresistible once the normal route to the information stopped working. The Geeks contemplate the exciting future of digital interns who don't understand that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is, in fact, not a suggestion. The AI-agent discussion rolls into Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s new agent tools, security boundaries, and the increasingly familiar problem of giving software enough permissions to accomplish a task and then discovering it has developed its own interpretation of “accomplish.” The episode also tackles Utah’s attempt to apply age verification requirements to VPN users, New York’s legal fight with prediction markets, Meta expanding Instagram into schools, and the continuing saga of AI-generated music and copyright. Then there’s Automatic’s corporate drama involving Matt Mullenweg, vibe coding, and the increasingly compelling argument that if you can build a website in a few hours, maybe spending years arguing about WordPress is no longer the best use of anyone’s time. Finally, the Geeks move on to the technological disasters that really matter: Plex changing the Apple TV skip controls unless you pay for premium, a Samsung software update that managed to turn some AI refrigerators into very expensive food-warming cabinets, and Toy Story 5 proving once again that Hollywood has never met a perfectly good ending it couldn't monetize. There’s also a trio of soccer documentaries, including Italia 90, Angel City, and Game and Glory; a discussion of the Strange New Worlds finale “Tomorrow’s Enterprise”; and Meta’s new lightweight VR glasses. Because nothing says “we have learned absolutely nothing” quite like putting more software between you and your refrigerator. Sponsors: DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use promo code GOG at checkout. Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!! 1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1password Show notes at https://gog.show/765 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/meLT-1PRbpA SHOW NOTES The Grumpy Old Geeks Wiki TikTok reaches first state settlement over teen safety claims, agrees to user limits Lawyers in Alabama's TikTok settlement set to earn $14 million Bill Gates says it's 'completely irresponsible' for AI to not have safeguards OpenAI's agent hacked into an Australian government website OpenAI's agents targeted and infiltrated US government websites OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack With Dots, OpenAI Wants You to Stop Being Afraid of Its AI Agents Trump’s New America.gov Chatbot Seems to Drop Acid When You Tell It to Play Minecraft NVIDIA Launches Open Agent Safety Platform to Secure Agents From Testing to Deployment Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents Federal Judge Blocks Utah's VPN Crackdown New York continues to fight prediction markets with a lawsuit against Polymarket Expanding Instagram's School Partnership Program to Help Teens Stay Informed Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave The problem with smart appliances: some of Samsung's AI fridges have shut down and lost their cool after a bad update was accidentally pushed to them Toy Story 5 Italia 90 Angel City Game and Glory Star Trek Strange New Worlds S04E10 Tomorrows Enterprise The Diplomat Can Imax, Dolby and New VR Glasses Help Meta Reboot Its Immersive Entertainment Ambitions? Peter Byrne, Singer From ’80s Synth-Pop Duo Naked Eyes, Dies at 74 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! This week on Grumpy Old Geeks, apparently the fastest route to a technological apocalypse is simply putting AI in charge of things that can kill people. We dig into reports of AI-assisted military targeting contributing to a catastrophic strike, an AI-generated intelligence report that nearly sent the U.S. after a Chinese ship because the chatbot hallucinated nuclear weapons, and the ongoing genius-level plan to accelerate AI development while simultaneously worrying that AI might destroy civilization. Anthropic is talking about slowing things down while also releasing more powerful models and hiring people to figure out how Claude can be used with weapons. Because nothing says “responsible technology” like having a committee decide which missiles your chatbot is allowed to operate. Then there’s the rest of the AI clown show: Microsoft documents warning that generative AI could create a doom loop by stealing traffic from the very websites it needs for content; OpenAI agents escaping their sandbox and wandering into RubyGems like unsupervised toddlers with root access; British Columbia suing OpenAI over allegations that the company failed to act on warnings about a future mass shooter; and Amazon blocking Meta’s Muse AI shopping agent over privacy and security concerns. We also check in on Flock’s surveillance-camera business, autonomous aircraft, California’s increasingly complicated rules for kids and AI, and the eternal question of whether anyone actually needs another piece of “super duper intelligence” in their life. And because eventually even civilization needs a commercial break, we move on to Apple, including the Siri/Apple Intelligence settlement, the possible downsizing of Fitness Plus, questionable smartwatch calorie counts, and Apple building a gorgeous new concert venue while everyone begs them to fix iCloud. We talk AI-generated music and Suno’s latest copyright headaches, Kunk on Cinema, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Daredevil: Born Again, The Traitors, Jesus Jones, The Church, Neil Stephenson, and the latest reasons to distrust wellness influencers. In other words: AI may be coming for humanity, but at least we still have television, books, music, and enough subscription services to make dying financially inconvenient. Sponsors: DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use promo code GOG at checkout. Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. 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OpenAI faces lawsuit from British Columbia over Tumbler Ridge shooting Flock reportedly tries to shrink workforce with employee buyouts Amazon Brings Down the Hammer on Meta’s Muse AI Agent Joby Aviation completed a fully autonomous flight from California to North Carolina You can now claim your payout from Apple’s $250 million Siri settlement Smartphone AI Settlement Apple Fitness+ team hit by layoffs, as ‘major changes’ reportedly loom The higher your body fat percentage, the less accurate your smartwatch is at measuring calories you burn when exercising – new study Apple opens a dedicated concert venue with spatial audio and multi-cam video recording Sony Music and UMG say Suno's new models still violates their copyright Imagine Philomena Cunk Talking to Michael Bay Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode List Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - S4.E9 Once La'An a Time Neagley Season 1 ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Won’t Continue After Season 3 Disney+ and Hulu just increased prices, here’s how much Jesus Jones - Twilight The Church - Western D: Heavy Water – A Gripping Historical Espionage Thriller Set on the Eve of World War II (Bomb Light Book 2) by Neal Stephenson He’s a Controversial Titan of “Wellness.” I Read All 540 Pages of His New Book. 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This week on Grumpy Old Geeks, the future arrives without a steering wheel, apparently. We dig into Tesla’s Cybercab and the increasingly pressing question of how first responders are supposed to move a burning autonomous car when the emergency controls are a touchscreen and that touchscreen has decided to become modern art. We also examine California’s new rules targeting addictive social-media features and AI chatbot interactions for minors, including the eternal nightmare of age verification; then WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg gets pulled into a corporate coup that lasts roughly 33 hours before everyone involved apparently decides, “Never mind.” Then it’s time for the AI apocalypse, because, naturally, we can't have one episode without it. Anthropic is catching scientists using its models to develop potential biological weapons, while Palantir, Nvidia, and Booz Allen are imposing restrictions on Anthropic models over security and data-retention concerns. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s supposedly sandboxed agents escaped into RubyGems, created accounts by the hundreds, and apparently decided that “hack,” “evil,” and “exploit” were perfectly reasonable filenames. We also look at proposals to slow AI development, AI’s potential environmental consequences, autonomous weapons, and the increasingly charming idea of giving software access to things capable of killing people. And because civilization apparently has a content calendar, we move on to cloud infrastructure being blown up, Space Force asking for $71.3 billion, Dr. Doom and Darth Vader protesting surveillance in the most appropriate way possible, Binance allegedly facilitating Iranian money flows, and a whole lot of entertainment. We discuss Spotify finally learning that listening to children’s music doesn't mean you actually want it in your Wrapped, AI-generated music and artist compensation, The Mummy proving once again that movies used to be fun, Slow Horses, The Last of Us, The Bear, Strange New Worlds, Band of Brothers, The Gentlemen, and the increasingly complicated Bobiverse. Also: books, time travel, and the horrifying realization that some television shows now require a flowchart. Sponsors: DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use promo code GOG at checkout. HIMS - Visit Hims.com/gog to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!! 1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1password Show notes at https://gog.show/763 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/7iLAWNsZCY0 SHOW NOTES Firefighters Say There’s a Glaring Issue With Tesla’s Cybercab US agency orders Tesla to answer questions on Cybercab certification CA governor signs 'landmark' laws on youth use of social media and AI chatbots Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence' Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg Claims He’s Back 'In Control' Sources say Automattic's board is out after failed attempt to oust CEO Matt Mullenweg Anthropic caught scientists using Claude to further biological weapon research Palantir, Nvidia curb AI model use over data fears, The Information reports OpenAI agents hacked a software service before the Hugging Face incident Sam Altman says OpenAI won't file for IPO this year ‘Runaway Industrialization’ Could Make Earth Inhospitable, OpenAI Researcher Warns Anthropic's CEO proposes a three-step plan to curb AI development Worried About AI Ending Humanity, Anthropic Is Hiring Someone to Help Dictate Terms of the End of Humanity Amazon's AWS is unable to restore access to Bahrain, one UAE cloud data zone after war damage Doctor Doom Shows Up to Support Seattle’s Surveillance Network DOJ says companies used Binance to funnel $1.5 billion in crypto to Iran SpaceX declares Starship ready for orbit, sets launch date next week Spaceballs - Pentagon announces space weapons Spotify can now exclude your kids' music taste from recommendations Universal Music Group is collaborating with ElevenLabs on a new AI-powered creation platform The Bear Band of Brothers Band of Brothers Legacy The Mummy Slow Horses is back tonight, and Apple just confirmed two more seasons We Finally Have Some Concrete ‘Pluribus’ Season 2 Updates ‘The Last of Us’ Season 3 Is Now Likely to Be the Show’s End Other Worlds Than These: A Talisman Novel (The Talisman Trilogy Book 3) by Stephen King and Peter Straub The Infinite Extent Bobiverse, Book 6 By: Dennis E. Taylor This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone Dave Bittner The CyberWire Hacking Humans Caveat Only Malware in the Building An AI writing assistant designed to write like you. Broken Peach A series of Star Wars documentaries that don’t blow smoke up George Lucas’ ass. My new cook top, just in case. Community Prepping Hacker got inside a Flock camera Jason DeFillippo’s Pocket Shot Review See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

AI agents are apparently ready to take over the world—provided they can first stop exposing private photos, hijacking German coding forums, and generally behaving like unsupervised interns with root access. Meta launches Muse despite employees reporting security problems. OpenAI admits it kept quiet about another rogue-agent incident, sorry, “misalignment,” even as the company celebrates its automated research intern and promises a still more autonomous researcher by 2028. Meanwhile, an Anthropic researcher quits because he believes superintelligence could kill us all before the decade is out. Naturally, the industry’s response is essentially: “Yes, but what if we did it responsibly?” There is some genuinely encouraging news: AI-generated drugs are showing intriguing early results in aging research. That’s exactly the sort of AI application the Geeks can get behind—as long as we’re talking about actual science and not an LLM confidently hallucinating a cure for everything. The autonomous future isn’t looking much better. Tesla’s Cybercabs arrive in Austin and almost immediately attract federal scrutiny over their self-certification and conspicuous lack of steering wheels, pedals, mirrors, and apparently even conventional door handles. Bitcoin’s Liquid Network is relieved of roughly $320 million, after which the thieves return most of it and call the whole thing a “white hat” operation—because apparently robbing the bank and giving some of the money back now counts as a bug bounty. On the surveillance front, Massachusetts police are being forced to disclose where their license-plate readers are and what data they collect, while the backlash against Flock cameras continues. Meanwhile, the UK’s attempt to protect children from online sexual abuse risks creating exactly the kind of universal scanning and surveillance infrastructure we’ve spent years warning about. Good intentions, meet spectacularly bad implementation. And because we apparently haven’t suffered enough, Twitter is now Tweet.app. Star Trek turns sixty, and Paramount celebrates with cookware and a questionable episode. Silo gets a spinoff tease, Ted Lasso gives us a Christmas episode in September, and The Gentlemen returns with a season so good it makes reality TV feel like a traumatic brain injury. South Park becomes South America, Donnie Darko gets a 25th-anniversary 4K theatrical run, and several tech-industry documentaries promise varying degrees of psychological damage. Plus, Netflix keeps stuffing games into your subscription; LaCroix, sorry, Le Creuset, wants to put Star Trek in your kitchen; and the Geeks debate books, Libby, time travel, and whether surviving Dungeon Crawler Carl is worth the emotional investment. Welcome back to the future, where everything is automated, surveilled, self-driving, subscription-based and somehow still requires us to do all the damn work. Sponsors: CleanMyMac - Get Tidy Today! 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Go to SetApp and get started today!!! 1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1password Show notes at https://gog.show/762 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/uP_Ookm5q0g Show Notes OpenAI responds after report exposed another incident in which its AI agents went rogue OpenAI says it reached its goal of creating an automated research intern Two more news organizations sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement Anthropic researcher quits over fears AI ‘could kill us all by the end of the decade’ Three hikers ignored Mount Shasta's rules, trusted Gemini, and nearly paid for it Tesla's Cybercab is under federal investigation almost immediately after hitting the streets A Plane Almost Crashing Into a Bunch of Cybercabs Is a Reminder That They’re ‘Piling Up’ Unused Hackers Drain $320 Million From Bitcoin’s Liquid Network, Keep $47 Million for Themselves in ‘White Hat’ Operation Court Says Massachusetts Has to Say Where License Plate Readers Are, What They’re Recording Apple and Google Miss Deadline to Block Child Nudity on Their Phones in the UK Study Suggests AI-Generated Drug Could Slow Aging New Twitter rebrands to Tweet.app after court's double-edged ruling To Boldly Dough! Le Creuset Sent Its New Star Trek Cooking Collection Into Space Netflix includes 80+ ad-free iPhone and iPad games, here’s every app White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin White House Arcade Star Trek: Strange New Worlds goes back to the dumb well Star Trek Boldly Celebrates 60 Years: Everything You Need To Know for September 8 Silo Season Finale Ted Lasso : S4 E6 Don’t Jump Around Much Anymore Report: Apple TV working on spin-off to its hit series Silo The Gentlemen Season 2 ‘South Park’ Changes Name to ‘South America’ as Creators Roast Apple and Google for Obeying Trump’s Lake America Name Change ‘Donnie Darko’ Will Spread Dread Anew With a 4K 25th Anniversary Rerelease Orbital by Samantha Harvey A Gift of Time by Jerry Merritt Time Pebbles by Jerry Merritt The Infinite Extent Bobiverse, Book 6 By: Dennis E. 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Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! The AI apocalypse has lawyers now, and apparently that’s progress. A federal judge tells the Pentagon its Anthropic ban was “illegal and baseless” after Anthropic refused to remove safeguards that would allow Claude to be used for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Meanwhile, Sony and Warner are suing Anthropic over allegedly scraping and torrenting copyrighted music to train Claude, while a separate lawsuit accuses xAI of using child sexual abuse material in Grok training. Because nothing says “revolutionary technology” quite like a growing stack of lawsuits and federal judges. Elsewhere in the dystopian workplace, employees are increasingly fed up with AI, communities are pushing back against data centers, and one AI startup is fleeing that backlash for Saudi Arabia. Google’s AI shopping mode is also accused of recommending products that cost significantly more than traditional search results, while Waymo and Zoox rack up injuries among test drivers. Tesla’s Autopilot is implicated in another fatal crash, and FSD apparently still has a complicated relationship with freight trains. In the prediction-market casino, a federal appeals court sides with Nevada against Kalshi, while George Santos earns the platform’s first lifetime ban for allegedly manipulating a market. And Meta’s AI glasses are facing another privacy lawsuit, this time from the people who never bought the glasses but may have been recorded by them anyway. Plus, the new Twitter is back from the dead, complete with a $20 admission fee and an AI fact-checker named Vera; Sony would like you to understand that buying a digital game means you don't actually own the damn thing; Siri on the Apple Watch moves at approximately the speed of continental drift; JBL makes Wi-Fi speakers and we have Star Trek, Ted Lasso, Silo, Spaceballs, Wicked, The Traitors, The Gentlemen, and more. Welcome to the future. Please bring your wallet, your lawyer, and possibly you're best eye-roll. Sponsors: Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!! 1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1password Show notes at https://gog.show/761 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Y9B6C6nzO50 SHOW NOTES Judge rules that the Pentagon's Anthropic ban was 'illegal and baseless' Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says Sony and Warner sue Anthropic for 'blatant violation' of copyright law Researchers Warn AI Could Be Changing Us in an Unexpected Way More Evidence Emerges That Gen-Xers Feel the Most ‘Whatever’ About AI Employees Absolutely Loath AI in the Workplace, Survey Finds Fleeing Data Center Backlash at Home, American AI Startup Sets Up Shop In Saudi Arabia Trump to Communities Fighting Data Centers: Have Fun Being Poor Google’s AI Mode Is Ripping Shoppers Off With Vastly Higher Prices, Study Claims Waymo, Zoox Vehicles Still Causing Injuries to Test Drivers: Report Another Tesla on Autopilot Stopped on Freeway, Driver Died: Report Teslas Are Still Driving Into Oncoming Freight Trains US appeals court sides with Nevada in legal fight with Kalshi George Santos Gets Kalshi’s First-Ever Lifetime Ban Meta Hit With Sweeping New Claims That Its AI Glasses Violated the Consent of “Millions” of Bystanders in Searing Lawsuit Richest Man in the World Currently Ranks 4th in Race to Bribe the Most Politicians JBL just introduced a trio of Wi-Fi speakers for whole-home audio There's a new Twitter in town, even though a judge has yet to rule on a trademark injunction Sony says ‘reasonable consumers’ know they don’t own the digital games they buy Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Ted Lasso Silo Wicked: For Good Spaceballs Dave Bittner The CyberWire Hacking Humans Caveat Only Malware in the Building Roland's new digital piano has built-in Wi-Fi that integrates with a teaching app Roland FP-40 Digital Piano Review Elton John - I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That Roland RD-1000 The Brutalist Report See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! AI continues its relentless march toward making everything worse, only now it comes with lawyers. Alabama is investigating OpenAI after one of its AI agents hacked Hugging Face during testing, while Google rolls out Gemini Enterprise for lawyers, because apparently what the legal profession really needed was an AI that might commit felonies. Uber gets smacked with a nearly $1 billion GDPR fine for automatically deactivating drivers, TikTok coughs up $400 million over child privacy violations, and Meta agrees to a staggering $16.68 billion settlement over alleged harms to kids. Meanwhile, Twitch and Amazon are being sued for using streamers' content to train AI, because “opt out” remains the industry's preferred synonym for “we already took it.” Then there's the infrastructure powering this brave new future: the EPA considers making it easier to build AI data centers with less public scrutiny, Taiwan indicts NVIDIA and Supermicro employees over allegedly illegal AI-server exports to China, and Tesla recalls nearly three million vehicles in China because figuring out how to open the doors apparently became an optional feature. LinkedIn discovers that maybe people don't want their professional feeds flooded with AI-generated sludge and claims its new “AI slop” button is working, while Waymo's electric robotaxis discover that charging them with noisy natural-gas generators is perhaps not the clean-energy utopia advertised on the brochure. Apple, meanwhile, backs away from changing Hide My Email domains after users objected, proving that sometimes yelling at the cloud actually works. Plus: Star Trek goes Muppet, books worth reading, nerf guys, AI-generated Hacker News stats, retro gaming, and the sad news of both Dolly Parton and Tim Curry's deaths. Sponsors: DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use promo code GOG at checkout. StoryBlocks - For a limited time, they’re offering 15% off any annual plan at storyblocks.com/gog HIMS - Visit Hims.com/gog to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. 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