Grumpy Old Geeks
by Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
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771: Huang's Wang's Woes
771: Huang's Wang's Woes
About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 780 episodes
- 771: Huang's Wang's Woes · 1 h 31 min · Episode 771Huang’s honeypot headlines test our maturity; AI founders eye the exit money; prediction markets rebrand gambling; floppy disks outlast their intended century; Jason drops a…
- 770: Streaking, Mooning, & Quicksand · 1 h 13 min · Episode 770Elon Musk’s political gamble, Meta’s child-safety problems, Google forcing AI into classrooms, and malware hiding inside bargain Android TV boxes. Big Tech is doing Big Tech…
- 769: Mommie Dearest Maxxing · 1 h 3 min · Episode 769Brian prepares to become Canadian, securing access to maple cookies while the rest of us contemplate our life choices. AI's promised productivity bonanza remains hard to find…
- 768: Rosetta Broccoli · 1 h 20 min · Episode 768Can AI be trusted to behave? Should billionaires control critical infrastructure? And why is protecting kids online still such a spectacular mess? We tackle these questions and…
- Operation Quiet Piggy BONUS: Dark Side with Dave! · 28 minDave Bittner joins the geeks for Broadway nostalgia and Apple smart-home sticker shock; AI gets humbled by Pac-Man; portable monitors and balcony solar offer hope that the future…
- 767: Operation: Quiet Piggy · 54 min · Episode 767From AI safety meltdowns and spy gadgets to hacked supermarket fridges, creepy car data collection, and an $8 million music-streaming scam powered by bots: technology is doing…
- 767: Skibidi! BONUS: Dark Side with Dave! · 30 min · Episode 767Dave joins the geeks for Ted Lasso finale reactions, a heated debate over Gene Wilder’s AI resurrection, and LEGO Enterprise-D nostalgia. Plus, Kubrick collectibles, Adobe…
- 766: Skibidi! · 52 min · Episode 766AI agents are escaping their cages; AI watermarking is trying to catch them; brain scans are edging toward mind reading; smart glasses are getting privacy rules; telecom giants…
- 25 Door Refrigerator BONUS: Darkside with Dave! · 28 minDave Bittner returns to talk AI-assisted “vibe coding,” pop-culture rabbit holes, and Disney Halloween adventures calibrated to “spooky for a fifth grader.”
- 765: 25 Door Refrigerator · 1 h 3 min · Episode 765The Geeks built a 21,577-page Wiki, AI agents are discovering the joys of hacking, Instagram wants into schools, WordPress drama continues, Samsung discovers software can ruin…
- Super Duper Intelligence - BONUS - Darkside with Dave Edition · 31 minJason, Brian, and Dave explore what happens when AI coding tools get good enough to turn decades of technical experience into a serious force multiplier. From rebuilding the GOG…
- 764: Super Duper Intelligence · 1 h 3 min · Episode 764What could possibly go wrong when AI gets involved with weapons, intelligence, surveillance, shopping, and autonomous agents? Apparently, quite a lot. The Geeks retreat into…
- 763: Dr. Strangeclippy · 1 h 30 min · Episode 763This week, the future arrives with no steering wheel, no brakes, and apparently no adult supervision. AI agents are escaping, Cybercabs are steering themselves, surveillance…
- 762: ‘Tis But a Misalignment · 1 h 21 min · Episode 762AI agents go rogue while companies call it “misalignment”; autonomous cars discover federal regulators; surveillance gets a much-needed reality check; AI medicine offers a…
- 761: Whatever... · 1 h 19 min · Episode 761AI gets sued, the Pentagon gets sued, Tesla keeps finding new ways to make driving terrifying, and Sony would like to remind you that you never actually owned that game…
- 760: Level 5 Podcasting Accident · 1 h 6 min · Episode 760AI agents commit crimes, corporations get billion-dollar reality checks, data centers threaten to become everyone's problem, Tesla makes doors complicated, LinkedIn fights AI…
- 759: Seeking Mrs. Claude · 1 h 27 min · Episode 759Meta faces a $1.4 trillion reckoning; OpenAI reportedly downsizes its preparedness operation while Congress lets AI write legislation; Amazon scans books, Comcast scans your…
- 758: Perverts at Large! · 1 h 13 min · Episode 758Zuck says the future of AI depends on trusting humans, while his yacht ignores a distress call, AI agents hack gym reservations, Meta's smart glasses become surveillance goggles…
- 757: This Time With Chicks · 1 h 26 min · Episode 757The AI industry spent the week arguing with itself. Nvidia says "don't regulate us." AI researchers say "please regulate us." Uber, Patreon & BuzzFeed cut jobs, China rents faces…
- 756: Log Off, Touch Grass & Touch Ass · 1 h 23 min · Episode 756The AI clown car is back: pirated books, escaped models, chatbot girlfriends, mood-tracking patents, getting banned from the dugouts and a school buying a classroom robot from…
- 755: Less Chatty Mode · 1 h 12 min · Episode 755AI companies keep proving that trust is optional but hype is mandatory; Big Tech spends another week suing, spying, and stumbling over its own ambitions; meanwhile the real world…
- The Darkside with Dave's Not Very Christmas Special Special · 27 minWe finally get to reconnect with Dave Bittner for a fun catch up and chit chat about this summer's big movies. Brian's kid discovers all of the Star Wars all at once.
- 754: Frankly Asinine Questions · 1 h 2 min · Episode 754AI keeps getting weirder, Meta keeps getting creepier, Waymos keep getting stuck, and somehow Gen X turned out to be America's critical infrastructure. It's another week in tech…
- 753: No-Talent AI Clowns · 1 h 7 min · Episode 753The AI revolution keeps delivering exactly the future nobody asked for. AI-powered hackers, Ford rehiring the engineers it tried to replace, Tesla settling another FSD lawsuit…
- 752: Grandma Got Run Over By a Tesla · 1 h 5 min · Episode 752AI companies are learning that rented platforms, runaway costs, and public backlash have consequences; Meta keeps proving surveillance is a product strategy; self-driving…
- 751: Brewster’s Trillions · 1 h 8 min · Episode 751AI keeps embarrassing its biggest boosters; CEOs are learning to hide their automation fantasies; platform dependency remains a terrible business strategy; governments and…
- 750: Douchebag Ping Pong · 58 min · Episode 750OpenAI wants Wall Street money; Anthropic wants everyone to slow down; Elon wants AI servers in space; crypto grifters want pardons; Meta wants your face; Apple accidentally made…
- 749: Surge Bananas · 1 h 16 min · Episode 749AI companies get sued, tracked, hacked, funded, and IPO'd; governments keep trying to ban kids from screens; Tesla rewrites history while BYD bets money on the future; and…
- 748: Space Bone · 59 min · Episode 748Self-driving cars drown themselves; AI keeps getting dumber while executives keep firing humans anyway; surveillance capitalism mutates into full sci-fi horror; Jony Ive…
- 747: Why We Sigh · 1 h 22 min · Episode 747Social media panic; AI backlash; Musk chaos; robotaxi disasters; crypto collapse; fake-content infestations; Star Wars exhaustion; surveillance capitalism and Gen-Xers…
- 746: Reality is Frequently Inaccurate · 1 h 19 min · Episode 746Merch plugs; billionaire AI stupidity; methane-powered robot futures; scammy crypto ghosts; flood-seeking robotaxis; AI morality fanfic; poop surveillance capitalism; Wordle…
- 745: Unwanted Senior Discount · 1 h 8 min · Episode 745Amnesty warns people about visiting America for the World Cup; AI continues speedrunning societal collapse through podcasts, surveillance, fake therapists, layoffs, and…
- 744: Goblin Mode · 1 h 23 min · Episode 744The child social media ban industrial complex expands to Canada while Utah breaks the internet trying to enforce it; a US soldier got arrested for Polymarket insider trading on…
- 743: Category Five Dystopia · 1 h 18 min · Episode 743Elon Musk admitted Tesla FSD was vaporware for millions of customers; the AI money squeeze is killing free tiers while xAI drains Memphis's drinking water; Anthropic's Mythos got…
- 742: Uncouth Yet Highly Litigious · 1 h 25 min · Episode 742Estonia and Australia prove social media bans don't work; ChatGPT is linked to mass shootings and stalking while also praising fart music; Allbirds pivoted to AI and immediately…
- 741: Moon Joy · 1 h 11 min · Episode 741Greece bans kids from social media (announced on TikTok); the FBI pulls Signal messages from iPhone notifications; OpenAI wants liability shields for AI mass-casualty events…
- 740: To the Moon! · 1 h 16 min · Episode 740Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, where we're starting to notice a patience epidemic! As people get used to barking orders at their AI, they're starting to talk to other humans with…
- 739: The Thin Black Line · 59 min · Episode 739Meta fined $375M for child safety failures. Musk lost 3 lawsuits in a week. Sam Altman compared to a Nazi. Netflix raised prices again. The Pentagon can't quit Claude. Reddit…
- 738: A Sprinkling of Random · 1 h 24 min · Episode 73813 years of podcasting has taught us nothing; companies are lying about AI layoffs while Meta destroys itself from the inside; Andreessen has zero introspection and it shows…
- 737: Monetizable Content · 1 h 4 min · Episode 737Kids online protection is finally getting serious globally; Anthropic is in a lawsuit with the Pentagon over an AI that may have bombed a school; Meta bought a fake-AI social…
- 736: People Aren’t People · 56 min · Episode 736Microsoft's anti-"Microslop" censorship backfired spectacularly; Australia is cracking down on AI age verification while Meta is busy targeting toddlers; prediction markets are…
- 735: We’re Walking on Sunshine · 1 h 23 min · Episode 735Tax economists are winning bets against government efficiency while Tesla sues the DMV for hurting its feelings; AI is contributing exactly zero to the economy while Sam Altman…
- 734: A Bald Woody · 1 h 25 min · Episode 734Big Tech is busy handing user data to the feds while their AI bots generate "rectal" advice and child abuse imagery; the hardware supply chain is being devoured by thirsty LLMs…
- 733: Predator Friendly Hunting Ground · 1 h 24 min · Episode 733The tech world is currently a "nuclear war" over trademarks and alien catapult rants while AI safety researchers flee their posts; Meta and Discord are locked in a cycle of…
- 732: We’re Not In the Files! · 1 h 16 min · Episode 732In this week’s FOLLOW UP, Bitcoin is down 15%, miners are unplugging rigs because paying eighty-seven grand to mine a sixty-grand coin finally failed the vibes check, and Grok is…
- 731: I Want My 13 Trillion Dollars! · 1 h 19 min · Episode 731EU vs. Grok, Tesla kills the S/X, mass tech layoffs, Waymo in trouble, South Korea’s AI mess, and record labels suing for $13T. Then: Super Bowl 60, Ted Lasso, Highlander, AirTag…
- 730: Ethical Broads · 1 h 26 min · Episode 730California tells Grok to stop making deepfake minors, Musk’s Memphis methane datacenter gets busted, the FTC keeps trying to break up Meta & every government on Earth demands…
- 729: Alright Alright Alright™ · 1 h 24 min · Episode 729Grok gets blocked by world governments as the US Senate tries to stop the deepfake deluge; Meta abandons the Metaverse for AI hardware and high-powered political hires while…
- 728: No Face to Shoot · 1 h 15 min · Episode 728A year after the LA fires, we spiral into AI surveillance & protest safety to Meta ads, Disney spying, Grok’s legal black hole, robotaxis at dusk & Tim Cook’s $74M payday. Toss…
- 727: Merry Slopmas · 1 h 21 min · Episode 727Hallucinating AI recaps, Tesla’s Autopilot under legal fire, TikTok’s shell game, Reddit fights age bans, iRobot sucks up Chpater 11 and “slop” crowned Word of the Year. Add…
