Grumpy Old Geeks
We dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Cobain threw down with Tom from MySpace, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg in a back alley brawl. No mercy, no filter—if tech had a walk of shame, this would be it.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 73 minutes
- Episodes
- 716
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
674: Welcome to DOGE! The Department of Grumpy Entertainment
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), an…
01:19:42 |
Sat 16 Nov 2024
673: Copyright Win for OpenAI, Internet Shock for North Koreans, and much more...
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 …
01:09:45 |
Sat 09 Nov 2024
672: Elon or Not?
Cash App class action; Tesla camera-based FSD questioned; Trump Media stock swings; standing desks are the new eggs; Dropbox layoffs; OpenAI Whisper invents parts of transcriptions, frequently; ChatG…
01:12:04 |
Sat 02 Nov 2024
671: Lorum Ipsum Is My Sister
San Fran embracing self-driving cars; not-Bitcoin creator in hiding; i h8 ai; anti-AI artist open letter; X updates their policies; more people leave OpenAI; SynthID; 23andMe and your genetic data; n…
01:07:34 |
Sat 26 Oct 2024
670: Just Buy the Thing!
More Wordpress & WPEngine shots fired; hate mail; European road organizations reject the Cybertruck; EU fines against X; civil rights commission pans FART (facial recognition technology); FCC looking…
01:11:34 |
Sat 19 Oct 2024
669: HamFest
The beginning of the end for Wordpress; open source, or not; police Cybertrucks; Apple Intelligence rolling out; dystopian AI text summaries; X sends money to the wrong bank, argues that Twitter ceas…
01:13:55 |
Sat 12 Oct 2024
668: Weaponized Puffery
OpenAI training data, dynamic pricing & digital IDs; Elon's good week; dockworkers strike over robots averted, for now; more AI models; some AI training techniques make AI better at deceiving humans;…
01:17:57 |
Sat 05 Oct 2024
667: Nuclear Recall
Sam Altman stands alone at OpenAI; Gen Z employees not impressing bosses; X complies with Brazil's Supreme Court, but kill blocking; former FTX Exec given light sentence; Microsoft to reopen Three Mi…
00:57:01 |
Sat 28 Sep 2024
666: The Episode of the Beast
Fun 666 Facts; Notebook AI follow up; Moviepass fraud; 23andMe settlement, disappearing board; Elon's deleted tweet; AI laws in California; Trump cryptocurrency; Amazon returns to work 5 days a week;…
01:30:29 |
Sat 21 Sep 2024
665: Human Referees
Gaiman & Good Omens; Waymo means Uber drivers are cooked; local muggers; EU not messing around with Apple, Google; DOJ after Google as well; another genetic testing company with security breach disas…
01:17:42 |
Sat 14 Sep 2024
664: I Love It When a Ding Dong Comes Together
SEC AI crackdown; Starlink & X vs Brazil; Navy's STINKY Wi-Fi; Microsoft tool for deepfake scrubbing on Bing; Clearview fines for violating GDPR; Bitcoin ATM scams; mobile phones not linked to brain …
01:22:54 |
Sat 07 Sep 2024
663: Habsburg AI
Hey, hey we're all Monkees; Waymo rides; Sober Outfitters; the cruel passage of time; Telegram CEO arrested in France; Zuckerberg's bizarre open letter; Uber slapped with a big Dutch fine; Tesla semi…
01:06:38 |
Fri 30 Aug 2024
662: Tempest in an Instant Pot
Yes, we have all been p0wned; more Tesla recalls; Waymo honking greetings; Cruise recalls robotaxi fleet; more OpenAI content deals; Cortex delivers both fewer and more errors; just how bad was Musk'…
00:58:33 |
Sat 24 Aug 2024
661: The Nightmare Before Overcast
AI label turning off consumers; Sonos app mess continues; SAG-AFTRA makes an AI agreement with Narrativ; former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says go ahead and steal content, let the lawyers clean it up af…
01:22:38 |
Sat 17 Aug 2024
660: The Bendy Piece
NFTs & crypto, oh my; Google ruled a monopolist in search; you can't run an AI company ethically - with plenty of examples; Grokking without consent; Google's targeting "unknown" minors loophole; Met…
01:13:50 |
Sat 10 Aug 2024
659: Shark or Not
Well hello, there, LA; State of the AI Union: staggering amounts of money, power & water for what; COPPA 2, electric boogaloo; no phone searches without warrants by border agents; TikTok data collect…
00:59:20 |
Sat 03 Aug 2024
658: Red Hot Chili Coasters
The yes, dear AI boom; Altman supporting UBI; step counts are the new eggs; Crowdstrike buys partners a coffee for their troubles; search news; video game performers striking over AI; platforms strug…
01:25:15 |
Sat 27 Jul 2024
657: Dick Detector
Microsoft outage linked to Crowdstrike takes down computers around the world; german floppies; AT&T Snowflake crowd hack; Verizon piracy lawsuit; META won't offer future AI models in EU; EU over-regu…
01:19:15 |
Sat 20 Jul 2024
656: Cyber Winnebago
Opting out & class actions; school TikTok mob attack; Boeing's troubles; health crisis in a Texas Bitcoin town; unlocking Ticketmaster resales; Trump threatens Zuckerbucks; Humane execs leave to laun…
01:33:36 |
Sat 13 Jul 2024
655: GOG’s Influencer
Happy Birthday, America; Amazon investigating Perplexity AI for scraping sites without consent; Texas age-verification law for porn going to the Supreme Court; Greece adopts 6-day working week; Param…
00:42:31 |
Sat 06 Jul 2024
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