Check out our Episode 337 from October 16, 2024! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:
* Student was punished for using AI—then his parents sued teacher and administrators (ArsTechnica, 16 Oct 2024)
* People are using AI bots to create nude images of almost anyone online (BGR, 16 Oct 2024)
* The Vision Pro is being used to assist surgeons during live procedures (9to5Mac, 16 Oct 2024)
* The Antitrust Revolution: Liberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech (Harpers Magazine, (Oct 2024) – Wes’ Mastodon thread
* WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly forked and legal letters fly (The Register, 14 Oct 2024)
* SpaceX Calls New Starship Test a Success, Captures Rocket at Landing (Voice of America, 13 Oct 2024)
* Jason’s Geeks of the Week: OpenMCQ from MTDA – Fotorama from AppNation – Stupid AI Tricks
* “From all of our interactions what is one thing that you can tell me about myself that I may not know about myself”
* “Roast me like one of your French girls”
* Wes’ Geeks of the Week: Webinar on Google’s NotebookLM (archived) – Radio for preparedness: What lessons can we learn from Hurricane Helene? (47 min) – Wes’ Communitarian Prepper
Here are the links which made our show notes Google Doc, but we didn’t have time to discuss:
* AI Sexbots Are on the Rise. Should We Regulate Them? (The Intelligence Debrief, 16 Oct 2024)
* AI may not steal many jobs after all. It may just make workers more efficient (AP 2 September 2024)
* Ask Claude: Amazon turns to Anthropic's AI for Alexa revamp (Ruters; 30 August 2024)
* Tom Hanks warns followers to be wary of 'fraudulent' ads using his likeness through AI (NBC News; 30 August 2024)
* Anthropic flags AI's potential to 'automate sophisticated destructive cyber attacks (ZDnet, 16 Oct 2024)
* Inside the TikTok documents: Stripping teens and boosting 'attractive' people (NPR, 13 October 2024)
* The Internet Archive is under attack, with a breach revealing info for 31 million accounts (Verge, 9 Oct 2024)
* There’s Never Been a Better Time to Delete Your 23andMe Data. Here’s How to Do It (Gizmodo, 16 Oct 2024)
* South Texans are going after SpaceX after the company avoided launch delays (Houston Chronicle, 15 Oct 2024)
* Amazon finally has a color Kindle, and it looks pretty good (The Verge, 16 Oct 2024)
* Unknown drones breach US military bases, baffle defense officials (DroneDJ, 14 Oct 2024)
