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On this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks: Staingate delamination gets messy; Trump’s meme coin gets government domains; Elon wears two hats to a Trump meeting; DOGE hands housing laws to AI; MoviePass launches crypto box office bets; 4chan limps back online; Meta’s bots get creepy; AI rewrites 30% of Mi…

Fyre Festival reboots as a music app; Amazon and Microsoft hit pause on AI infrastructure; Google’s AI hallucinates confidently; Kevin Roose wants us to feel bad for Skynet Jr.; OpenAI wants Chrome despite being broke; Perplexity brags about stalking your browser; Meta axes more VR staff while faki…

Fyre Fest 2 is postponed again; Automattic’s leak-hunting watermarks creep everyone out; Katy Perry’s space PR stunt flops harder than her last album; Elon Musk juggles baby mamas, GOP cash, and creepy DMs; DOGE may have swiped labor data; OpenAI wants to be a social network now; 4chan’s down for t…

On this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks: Fyre Fest’s con man promises a sequel; the IRS shares migrant tax info with ICE and promptly loses its commissioner; Microsoft lets OpenAI burn cash while plotting global domination; Musk’s DOGE spies on critics as Tesla tanks and Cybertrucks become trade-in rej…

Protests erupt across the U.S. in a “Tesla Takedown” while Elon merges his AI and social media empires and dodges jet trackers alongside Taylor Swift; meanwhile, Signal faces government heat over military chat mishaps as OpenAI flexes AGI funding and ChatGPT users flood the internet with 700M fresh…

This week on Grumpy Old Geeks: Dunning-Kruger takes the spotlight, Elon’s approval sinks, TikTok tries to stay patriotic, 23andMe files for bankruptcy, and Napster rises again. Plus, AI, security chaos, and more!

🤖 AI-generated Down syndrome influencers selling NSFW content, Cybertruck crashes into fake tunnel wall, Tesla recalls 46k trucks. Meanwhile, ICE watches 200+ locations & OpenAI keeps eating books. Tech dystopia's here—and it's wild. #TechNews #AIGoneWrong

Pi Day gets its due; Y Combinator marks 20 years of “disruption”; Americans lose $12.5B to scams thanks to AI and social media; Deliveroo posts a profit but still tanks on Wall Street; Twitter’s security remains a joke; Pinterest steals user content for AI; and a rogue developer gets busted for a k…

Techdirt has embraced politics as tech’s twin dumpster fire; Google’s AI Mode proves the internet is just Clippy with better PR; Billy McFarland’s Fyre Festival 2 is literally lost at sea; Tesla sales plummet as Elon’s antics spark protests; Sergey Brin wants engineers to work 60-hour weeks to buil…

The U.S. government gets slapped for violating privacy laws; Holmes and Balwani stay locked up; Bitcoin and Trump Coin take a dive; Warner Bros. kills game studios; Google cuts jobs while AI spending skyrockets; HUD office TVs play AI-generated Trump-Musk foot fetish content; Musk’s Grok AI doles o…

Jason and Brian tackle Elon Musk’s surreal CPAC appearance, Tesla’s anti-theft dye measures for Supercharger cables, and protests against Musk’s growing political influence; they explore NASA’s fluctuating asteroid impact odds for 2032, Meta’s ambitious undersea cable project, and The New York Time…

Jason and Brian tackle tech absurdities, financial scandals, and Elon Musk’s latest chaos, covering everything from the never-ending email unsubscribe struggle to a British IT worker’s desperate plan to reclaim lost Bitcoin by buying an entire landfill. They also dive into the Trump Coin disaster, …

Elon Musk’s growing control over government tech sparks chaos, with DOGE employees facing restrictions, USAID crumbling, and U.S. officials warning of legal issues, while AI developments surge—Amazon bets $100 billion on AI, the EU bans high-risk systems, and Google lifts its ban on AI weapons. In …

Brian and Jason kick things off with a look at why Gen Z grads are getting fired just months after landing jobs and a curiously viral declassified CIA sabotage guide. Speaking of sabotage, U.S. students are struggling with their lowest reading scores in decades, raising questions about the future w…

Brian, Jason, and Dave dive into the chaos of tech, media, and politics, covering everything from Elon Musk’s bizarre admission to paying people to play video games for him to Trump’s controversial pardon of Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht. They discuss AI hype fading amid soaring costs, Amazon’s h…

This week on Grumpy Old Geeks, Jason and Brian dissect the latest tech and cultural news, starting with a TikTok tempest. The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a law potentially banning the app in the U.S. leaves the ball in Trump’s court, while TikTok’s CEO plans to attend his inauguration. As us…

In Episode 679 of Grumpy Old Geeks, “Set Sanity to Zero,” Brian and Jason tackle tech news, cultural trends, and AI advancements, from wildfire apps and deepfake legislation to Meta controversies and AI-powered innovations, while rounding out the show with entertainment picks and insightful recomme…

WordPress has officially jumped the pineapple, forcing users to agree that pineapple belongs on pizza to log in. Critics call it a kindergarten move, especially when serious feature requests are ignored. Meanwhile, the crypto world is celebrating its new political allies, but experts warn we’re inc…

In this episode, Jason DeFillippo and Brian Schulmeister dig into the Hawk Tuah meme coin disaster and where influencer-driven crypto schemes go off the rails, leaving chaos in their wake. They unpack WP Engine’s big win against Automattic in a high-stakes WordPress legal battle and take a closer l…

We dive into the TikTok ban drama, Elon Musk’s Tesla pay controversy, and a Chinese ship crew allegedly sabotaging undersea cables. In the news, the former Celsius CEO pleads guilty, Canadian media takes on OpenAI, and Elon Musk wants to rein in ChatGPT. Plus, drug smugglers with Starlink, Meta’s n…

This week, author Tim Ferriss is our special guest. Tim sat with us for an hour, and we talked about his new show on HLN, his fantastic new book club, cool stuff about the quantified self, sleep hacking, and more. We even got a story that wasn't in the books!

In this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks, we dive into the wild, wacky, and often worrying world of tech, media, and everything in between. From a Swiss church using AI to preach the gospel to OpenAI facing a copyright conundrum, and a DNA testing company ghosting its customers, the news is packed with …

In this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks, we break down the latest chaos in tech, pop culture, and humanity’s never-ending quest to out-stupid itself. Hackers are raiding Ticketmaster accounts (again), and Chegg is circling the drain after ChatGPT obliterated its business model. Meanwhile, Amazon is haw…

This episode covers the fast-evolving world of tech, media, and AI controversies, starting with OpenAI’s recent legal victory against news outlets over copyright in AI training. We dive into ongoing layoffs in major companies like Nissan, iRobot, and the Mozilla Foundation, while also exploring the…