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Grumpy Old Geeks
We dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Cobain threw down with Tom from MySpace, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg in a back alley brawl. No mercy, no filter—if tech had a walk of shame, this would be it.
Episodes
Grumpy Old Geeks656: Cyber Winnebago
Opting out & class actions; school TikTok mob attack; Boeing's troubles; health crisis in a Texas Bitcoin town; unlocking Ticketmaster resales; Trump threatens…
Grumpy Old Geeks655: GOG’s Influencer
Happy Birthday, America; Amazon investigating Perplexity AI for scraping sites without consent; Texas age-verification law for porn going to the Supreme Court…
Grumpy Old Geeks654: Life EULA
ID authentication systems are a bad idea; Tesla traps a toddler inside car, vandalized Cybertrucks & Cybertruck run amok; Rivian makes a deal with VW; celeb…
Grumpy Old Geeks653: To Violate, or Not to Violate?
Opting out of META AI data training; 11 steps, or be in the EU; why I hate Elon, let me count the ways; SCiFi Foods, Fisker shut down; social media warning…
Grumpy Old Geeks652: Casual Pirates
OpenAI was open to bidding wars between USA, China & Russia; AI hitting wall where it can't get smarter; visibility set to zero; walking back Windows Recall…
Grumpy Old Geeks651: Inci Dont’s
Humane AI chargers go up in flames; Google scales back AI Overviews; we've all been pwnd; Windows Recall a Category 5 s-storm; Microsoft downsizes mixed…
Grumpy Old Geeks650: The Ewok Line
Google AI search is a mess; robocall fines; no one wants a used Tesla; Neumann gives up on WeWork; OpenAI, Twitch give up pretending they have Safety Advisory…
Grumpy Old Geeks649: Garbage In, Garbage Out
Dead Internet Theory & Shrimp Jesus; the Portal is back; Apple set photo visibility to zero; jailbreaking major LLMs; OpenAI party time; getting some decent…
Grumpy Old Geeks648: Some Superheroes Ride Motorized Scooters
Inappropriate portal behavior; RTO drives away top talent; Apple may add OpenAI to iOS; garbage in, garbage out; AI continues to promise more than it can…
Grumpy Old Geeks647: DarJar
Neuralink, insulin pump software bugs & abandoned brain implant technologies; Dorsey peaces out from Bluesky; Dell RTO tracking; Meta pumps businesses for…
Grumpy Old Geeks646: Thanks, Gary!
Kagi not worth it; RIP Passcodes; Sora demo not exactly Sora; FCC fines carries for selling location data; TikTok ban signed; Meta's ad-buying AI blows through…
Grumpy Old Geeks645: A Man on the Nude
FTC restores net neutrality, ends non-competes; TikTok divest-or-ban bill passes; more bad news at Tesla; X TV; Amazon ends California drone deliveries; AI in…
Grumpy Old Geeks644: Grok Hole Sun
ISP's get nutrition labels; Truth Social continues to drop; X, for free speech, gets anti-speech lawsuit dismissed; Grok fake news; Tesla taxi, maybe; problems…
Grumpy Old Geeks643: Mechanical Goslings
Gmail turns 20; Google isn't good; coding with ChatGPT; court bans "AI-enhanced" evidence; AI Goslings everywhere; NYC chatbot spews out dangerously inaccurate…
Grumpy Old Geeks642: Nerd Plumage
Apple Vision Pro in the wild; everyone hates Sam; META's Project: Ghostbusters; getting device-blocked on Facebook; Meta & Google restricting reproductive…
Grumpy Old Geeks641: Subscription Screaming
Lots of suggestions, no regulations: cars, broadband, AI & more; Apple lawsuits; drone delivery, again; Starbucks NFT program ending; Glassdoor adds real names…
Grumpy Old Geeks640: A Minute of Silence
11 years & nothing's changed; IG impersonators & weird animal video creepiness; Apple restores Epic, for now; TikTok ban bill passes House but will most likely…
Grumpy Old Geeks639: TikTok MotherF#C&3R!
Cybertruck vs. sign; the UK loves short weeks; US wants TikTok ban while TikTok frets; Meta's support sucks; Apple fined $2B; Musk sues OpenAI; Klarna's AI job…
Grumpy Old Geeks638: Dave’s Lumber Yard
AI's unintended consequences; chat bots; pink slips in podcasting, Playstation, Electronic Arts & Fisker; Tesla racism class action lawsuit; Apple pivots away…
Grumpy Old Geeks637: Outragery!
Let's game the system; Rivian layoffs; Air Canada's chatbot lied; Twitter didn't violate data security because they ignored Musk orders; Science Corner…
Grumpy Old Geeks636: Verified Terrorists
Layoffs at Paramount, Instacart & Mozilla; Musk must testify in SEC investigation of Twitter takeover; Tesla driver not sure if he killed pedestrians because…
Grumpy Old Geeks635: Optical Vortex
Science should be taken seriously; Read Write Own; layoffs at Snap, Microsoft, Grammarly & Warner Music Group; Americans going back into credit card debt…
Grumpy Old Geeks634: How the Sausage is Sequenced
AI Carlin was people; FTX not coming back; Neuralink implants a human; Yaccarino invents a new company; Senate hearing on online child exploitation; Universal…
Grumpy Old Geeks633: Brie Break
Ello, Goodbye; Layoffs at eBay, Alphabet, Microsoft & TikTok; more doomed crypto firms; sneaking porn onto Wikimedia & Instagram; France fines Amazon over…
Grumpy Old Geeks632: Stuck in Porn Mode
Google search results really are getting worse; Artifact shutting down; more Google layoffs, even more coming; Uber shuts down Drizzly; Sandberg leans out of…
Grumpy Old Geeks631: Zamboni Sunsets
We're back; class-action lawsuits; Hertz ditching TVs; SEC approves Bitcoin ETFs but does not endorse Bitcoin; ChatGPT store, auto implementations; a pink-slip…
Grumpy Old Geeks630: Roast Beast
Last show of the year; YouTube jail; Google; Blue Origin; AI bubbles; dealing with Musk; Hue pink slips; brain-scale supercomputers; more tech fraud; X under…
Grumpy Old Geeks629: Throbbing Rocket
Pink slips and "challenging environments" at Hasbro, Etsy, Cruise & Twit; San Fran tech CEO slave contract; Epic will case vs Google; Meta fact-checking plan…
Grumpy Old Geeks628: Same Day Pink Slip
California Forever, EPCOT & Story Living; Cruise threatened by regulators; pink slips flying at Spotify, Tidal, Washington Post, New Yorker & more; Weird Al's…
Grumpy Old Geeks627: Lords and Peasants
Unsubscribe season; Unwrapped & unpaid; Q-bot; META's all for the kids; stealing page views with AI; the coming change in the web; Boring; Ronaldo NFT lawsuit…
Grumpy Old Geeks626: Slammer Cast
While we were away; Thanksgiving gratitude bombs; OpenAI's overworked HR department; Meta disbands Responsible AI team; Truth Social hemorrhaging money; no…
Grumpy Old Geeks625: If I Only Had a Brain
Adventures in Covid; Bored Ape NFT event causes severe eye-burn; WeWork files for bankruptcy; Microsoft watermarks for deepfakes; Cruise's robotaxis even worse…
Grumpy Old Geeks624: Captain Executive Order
Tesla off the hook; bees; SBF guilty on all counts; White House AI EO; META mostly ad-free plan;, toothless oversight board; WeWork nears bankruptcy; more X…
Grumpy Old Geeks623: Super Spanx!
Our AI Super Hero, Cyber Sentinel, is joined by Tech Guardian & DataWraith; Happy Xiversary, everything Elon has broke in one year; SBF talking himself into…
Grumpy Old Geeks622: Never Fear, Cyber Sentinel is Here!
Cancelling everything; Crypto-Winkle-Ferraris; we've gone 10G; leaving X/Twitter has zero impact on traffic; X starts to charge new users; TikTok's plans for…
Grumpy Old Geeks621: Cryptomucil
The band's getting bigger; Microsoft closes Activision deal; sobriety & London boozers; misinformation everywhere, but X in particular; SBF/FTX trial recap…
Grumpy Old Geeks620: Hello Sluts!
Authentic pub experiences; Yaccarino's bad X week; Amazon monopoly lawsuit; FTC challenging Microsoft's Activision bid, again; H&R Block, Meta & Google slapped…
Grumpy Old Geeks619: Monkey Gone to Heaven
Booting down; Unity, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Hudson & Bill Maher have heard you & have been listening; so much water; Tesla class action; Wayne testing…
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618: Seal Team Aibo
AI using a ton of water; individual efforts just a drop in the bucket; X suing California over disclosure law; TikTok accidentally blocked strike videos, hit…
Grumpy Old Geeks617: It’s Just Business
Burning Man; UK wises up about encryption; McPoutine; hello, Ello; ad free Facebook in the EU; META back to office; Grindr loses half staff due to…
Grumpy Old Geeks616: Cheech & Chong for President
Twitter may not have legs, but Meta finally does; blown Foxconn promises; SEC charges Impact Theory for NFTs; Worldcoin already dying; Cat, I Farted Enterprise…
Grumpy Old Geeks615: Cat, I Farted
Stick around until the end for a BONUS episode of Boot Up with Jason! If you want to subscribe to the show (yes, you want to), go to BootUp.show! Unfortunate…
Grumpy Old Geeks614: Put Me In Coach
Humans are horrible; robotaxis; Trump, X, DMs, set visibility to screwed; OpenAI lawsuits might wipe ChatGPT clean; Snapchat's AI glitches; using AI to ban…
Grumpy Old Geeks613: Dirty Laundry
Crypto Scammers & NFT Developers; superconductors & nuclear fusion; PayPal's crypto coin; opting out of TikTok's secret sauce; X sensitivity settings; Zoom…
Grumpy Old Geeks612: TwiX are for Kids
Threads is Twitter; Twitter is TwiX; Instagram preparing AI labels; META begins Canadian news blackout; NFT sales continue to decline; China considers more…
Grumpy Old Geeks611: The Everything Episode
The X-files; everything is becoming an everything app; Spotify grew a lot, still losing money; Meta doing great, still sinking money into the metaverse no one…
Grumpy Old Geeks610: And You Get a Tent!
NFT bros are sad no one cares; Russia bans state officials from using Apple devices; Tesla directors overpaid themselves; Full Service Driving, which doesn't…
Grumpy Old Geeks609: Freshly Wrong
xAI seeks to understand the nature of the universe; Twitter shenanigans continue; AI risks; FTC investigating ChatGPT; ye olde craftliee understandinge; EU…
Grumpy Old Geeks608: The Way of the Grift
Hello, summer; disinformation professor falsifies own data; AI is eating itself, recursion & model collapse looming; scammers, liars, grifters prosper…
Grumpy Old Geeks607: Pagers and Paperbacks
We don't hate technology, we just hate how it's being implemented; Spotify grifters; car rental companies ruining EVs; Elon vs Zuck; Facebook blows uo their…
Grumpy Old Geeks606: Peppa Swisher
Online mattresses; Holmes claims broke; Google class action lawsuit; Coinbase whines like a 4 year old; Reddit's kerfuffle; Spotify GDPR fine; Tesla's…
Grumpy Old Geeks605: The Golden Turd
AI carpetbaggers; crypto bros all pivoting to AI; Meta putting AI everywhere; Salesforce will donate to charity if you come back to the office; Binance…
Grumpy Old Geeks604: Systematic Ambivalence
Facebook generation wants boundaries; doom scrolling & devices are messing with us; AI boom running out of chips; AI is both an object of ridicule & presents…
Grumpy Old Geeks603: Self-Driving Human
AI CEOs say AI poses existential threat, plow forward anyway; Meta fined for violating EU data privacy; Twitter #DeSaster; Lorem Epsom NoNummy Amazon snacks…
Grumpy Old Geeks602: Urban Doom Loop
Theranos is the New Black; Section 230 upheld; UBI to combat AI; Montana bans TikTok; EU approves Microsoft takeover of Activision Blizzard; another Apple…
Grumpy Old Geeks601: How Does Work Work?
RIP, Metaverse; nobody knows how LLMs work; CEOs that don't go into offices want you to go in; ChatGPT is low-paid people; sure, let's let AI generate mRNA…
Grumpy Old Geeks600: Technically Sweet
AI doesn't exist but may be dangerous anyway; self-destruct buttons are important for rockets; Kamala Harris & Snoop Dogg weigh in on AI; IBM pauses hiring…
Grumpy Old Geeks599: Osaka
Spin the wheel of Invictus; more tech layoffs; ChatGPT's staggering daily cost; it's not your data; AI-generated political ads are here; Spotify CEO unsure…
Grumpy Old Geeks598: Universal Loser Income
Spam calls are back; we're done with Twitter; human or not?; Buzzfeed News shuttered; TruthGPT; the race to AI without pausing for thought; Niantic shutters…
Grumpy Old Geeks597: Annoyingly Well-Informed
The MoviePass Titanic; real-world costs of crypto & generative AI; Tesla class-action lawsuit; Twitter is now X Corp., NPR & PBS leave; cold culture war has…