AI's Nightly Honking and the Chuck E. Cheese Survival Guide
Aug 16, 2024•27 min•Ep. 346
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In this episode:
- Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads
- My experience with Google's new 'Add Me' feature: Take a pic of your friends and end up in the group shot
- Waymo robotaxi parking lot is waking neighbors with nightly honking
- AI Trained on Old Scientific Papers Makes Discoveries Humans Missed
- Elon Musk’s X just sued a nonprofit advertising group out of existence
- Judge orders CDC to stop deleting emails of departing staff, calling it ‘likely unlawful’
- We received internal Trump documents from ‘Robert.’ Then the campaign confirmed it was hacked.
- Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades
- Intel issues statement on microcode update that addresses CPU instability and crashing errors — claims patch has negligible performance impacts, future processors not impacted
Weird and Wacky:
- Electric bandages could heal wounds faster
- Chuck E. Cheese targets inflation-weary families with a bargain subscription program
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