There’s a lot of AI news to cover this week, call us crazy, but we think this might be a thing. We’ve also got some Super Bowl talk, tech job cuts, balloons, bloated phones, and so much more. Enjoy!
Followup:
Super Bowl Ads (00:55)
FTX’s new boss explains security weaknesses (05:15)
Mastadon continues to lose users (07:00)
Google Bard flubs answer in ad (09:40)
Microsoft’s ChatGPT event (11:25)
You can jailbreak ChatGPT (12:10)
Getty Images sues Stable Diffusion for copyright infringement (13:10)
Disney cutting 7000 jobs (14:05)
Yahoo to lay off more than 20% of staff (115:55)
Dave’s Pro Tip of the Week: Control+Enter for spreadsheets and more ()
Takes:
US shoots down 4th object from the sky (21:20)
Samsung Galaxy S23 comes with 60GB of storage used (23:50)
SF subway runs off floppy disks (25:35)
Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software (26:50)
Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users’ control (29:00)
Bonus Odd Take: Vulture’s Stunt Awards (30:20)
Picks of the Week:
Dave: Synology DS420j NAS (32:05)
Nate: Free PDF Tools (38:30)
Notpicks Giveaway (41:35)
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