AI's unintended consequences; chat bots; pink slips in podcasting, Playstation, Electronic Arts & Fisker; Tesla racism class action lawsuit; Apple pivots away from an electric car; TikTok's tussle with Universal Music continues, but UMG is just fine; call me on X; Bitcoin up, crashes Coinbase; OpenAI probe; Gemini woke prompt re-writing; Facebook News tab going away; Glasgow's sad Ooompa Loompa; where's the surge priced beef; Constellation; Neuromancer; The Crow Flies Again; Naked Gun; Ray Donovan; Next Goal Wins; Dune; transparent laptops & super DVDs; SetApp; Farscape; Losing Mars; Strong Songs; Beverly Hills drones; tripping the iPhone light fantastic; Dance your PhD.
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IN THE NEWS
PlayStation is laying off 900 staff across Naughty Dog, Insomniac and other studios
EA is laying off over 650 employees
Tesla must face racism class action from 6,000 Black workers, judge rules
Fisker is laying off 15% of staff and says it needs more cash ahead of a 'difficult year'
R.I.P. Apple's Electric Car
TikTok is muting more songs amid its tussle with Universal Music
UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP N.V. REPORTS FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THE FOURTH QUARTER AND FULL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2023
X starts giving non-paying users the ability to make audio and video calls
Bitcoin's so high, it crashed Coinbase today
US SEC probes whether OpenAI investors were misled, WSJ reports
Google brings Stack Overflow's knowledge base to Gemini for Google Cloud
Google CEO Admits Gemini AI Image Failures: 'We Got It Wrong'
AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating
Facebook plans to shut down its news tab in the U.S. and Australia
Camera Inside Varda's Space Capsule Captured Its Wild Trip Back to Earth
The Asteroid Dimorphos Looks Totally Different After NASA's DART Mission Walloped It
Cops Called to 'Willy Wonka Experience' as Crying Children Realize AI Ads Were Lies
Glasgow’s Sad Oompa Loompa Isn’t Gonna Sugarcoat This
Wendy’s Surge Pricing Is Off the Menu After Internet Beef
MEDIA CANDY
Constellation
Neuromancer Is Finally Getting Its Long-Awaited Adaptation
First Look: The Crow Flies Again With Bill Skarsgård and FKA Twigs
‘Naked Gun’ Reboot With Liam Neeson Lands 2025 Release From Paramount
Guy Ritchie to Direct a ‘Ray Donovan’ Spinoff ‘The Donovans’ for Paramount+
Next Goal Wins
APPS & DOODADS
Lenovo’s Project Crystal is the world’s first laptop with a transparent microLED display
This 'Super DVD' Can Hold 20 Million Photos
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Analogue Pocket
Tetris Game Boy Cartridge
MacPaw's Setapp becomes one of the first to agree to Apple's controversial DMA rules
SetApp
AT THE LIBRARY
FARSCAPE 25th Anniversary Comic Book Celebration
Losing Mars (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron
Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16 By: Moshe Kasher
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things By: Adam Grant
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection By: Charles Duhigg
Bounce Back: 12 Warrior Principles to Reclaim and Recalibrate Your Life By: Travis Mills
Infinity Gate By M. R. Carey
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
The CyberWire
Dave Bittner
Hacking Humans
Caveat
Control Loop
Strong Songs
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Larry Has Issues with Siri
Weli - Kangaroo Time (Club Edit) (from Dance Your PhD 2024 - Overall Winner)
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
After Dark perfected the screensaver
Richard Lewis, Comedian and Curb Your Enthusiasm Actor, Dead at 76
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