655: GOG’s Influencer

Grumpy Old Geeks

Happy Birthday, America; Amazon investigating Perplexity AI for scraping sites without consent; Texas age-verification law for porn going to the Supreme Court; Greece adopts 6-day working week; Paramount axes Comedy Central site, 25+ years of content; the first millennial saint; influencers aren't getting famous like they used to, urged to actually do something or have a skill; Google greenhouse gas emissions climbed 50 percent due to AI; new ChatGPT-based virus; taxing crypto-bros; full self-driving & full self-sanitizing; Winner shoots down drone; Inside Out 2; Celine Dion; Beverly Hills Cop; the Acolyte; Redbox; Canada, land of pirates; web accessible cameras in bars is bad; Japan says sayonara, floppy.

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FOLLOW UP

Amazon reportedly investigating Perplexity AI after accusations it scrapes websites without consent

Texas age-verification law for pornography websites is going to the Supreme Court

FCC chair asks telecoms companies to prove they're actually trying to stop political AI robocalls

Greece becomes first EU country to introduce a six-day working week

Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gone

IN THE NEWS

A teen tech whiz nicknamed 'God's influencer' will become the first millennial saint

Influencers Aren’t Getting Famous Like They Used To

You Can Ask YouTube to Take Down AI-Generated Content That Looks or Sounds Like You

Cloudflare is taking a stand against AI website scrapers

Google’s greenhouse gas emissions climbed nearly 50 percent in five years due to AI

Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug

Sneaky Virus Uses ChatGPT to Send Human-Like Emails to Your Contacts to Spread Itself

US Treasury finalizes crypto rules to prevent tax evasion

Tesla Megafan Receives Two Subsequent Cybertrucks That Completely Fail

Tesla Full Self-Driving is "a bad thing" for getting public buy-in for autonomous driving tech, rival engineer says

Tesla patents "Full Self Sanitizing" taxis

Police say a man shot a Walmart drone. Armed Americans could pose a headache for air deliveries.

NASA Praises Boeing's Stranded Starliner For Managing Not To Explode While Docked To Space Station

MEDIA CANDY

Inside Out 2

I Am: Celine Dion

The Mole Season 2

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

The Acolyte

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (TCF, 1983), Carrie Fisher "Princess Leia" Production Made Bikini Costume from Richard Miller.

The owner of Redbox has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Supreme Court Blow: ISP Bill Payers Aren’t Piracy Police or Instantly Liable

AI is ruining the internet by Drew Gooden

APPS & DOODADS

People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are

OpenDyslexic for iOS

Diablo IV

Japan’s government says goodbye to floppy disks

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app was storing conversations in plain text

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