Grumpy Old Geeks

Apr 04 2025 695 ep. 73 mins 3.4k
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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.

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691: Cry Me A River (to Cool Off My AI)

Apr 04 2025 79 mins  
Protests erupt across the U.S. in a “Tesla Takedown” while Elon merges his AI and social media empires and dodges jet trackers alongside Taylor Swift; meanwhile, Signal faces government heat over military chat mishaps as OpenAI flexes AGI funding and ChatGPT users flood the internet with 700M freshly minted images. Trump tries to cash in on Truth Social, tanks his meme coin wit

690: An Insult to Life Itself

Mar 28 2025 68 mins  
This week on Grumpy Old Geeks: Dunning-Kruger takes the spotlight, Elon’s approval sinks, TikTok tries to stay patriotic, 23andMe files for bankruptcy, and Napster rises again. Plus, AI, security chaos, and more!

689: What Would Dave Do?

Mar 21 2025 77 mins  
🤖 AI-generated Down syndrome influencers selling NSFW content, Cybertruck crashes into fake tunnel wall, Tesla recalls 46k trucks. Meanwhile, ICE watches 200+ locations & OpenAI keeps eating books. Tech dystopia's here—and it's wild. #TechNews #AIGoneWrong

688: Why, Combinator?

Mar 14 2025 83 mins  
Pi Day gets its due; Y Combinator marks 20 years of “disruption”; Americans lose $12.5B to scams thanks to AI and social media; Deliveroo posts a profit but still tanks on Wall Street; Twitter’s security remains a joke; Pinterest steals user content for AI; and a rogue developer gets busted for a kill switch scheme. Severance Season 2 costs $20M per episode; Ted Lasso returns

687: Uncanny Spaceballs

Mar 07 2025 65 mins  
Techdirt has embraced politics as tech’s twin dumpster fire; Google’s AI Mode proves the internet is just Clippy with better PR; Billy McFarland’s Fyre Festival 2 is literally lost at sea; Tesla sales plummet as Elon’s antics spark protests; Sergey Brin wants engineers to work 60-hour weeks to build their replacements; Trump Media funneled cash to Don Jr. while indie musici

686: Not All Heroes Vibe Code

Feb 28 2025 60 mins  
The U.S. government gets slapped for violating privacy laws; Holmes and Balwani stay locked up; Bitcoin and Trump Coin take a dive; Warner Bros. kills game studios; Google cuts jobs while AI spending skyrockets; HUD office TVs play AI-generated Trump-Musk foot fetish content; Musk’s Grok AI doles out chemical weapon recipes; Andor returns with a binge-friendly drop; Kathleen Kenn

685: Bezos, Jeff Bezos

Feb 22 2025 64 mins  
Jason and Brian tackle Elon Musk’s surreal CPAC appearance, Tesla’s anti-theft dye measures for Supercharger cables, and protests against Musk’s growing political influence; they explore NASA’s fluctuating asteroid impact odds for 2032, Meta’s ambitious undersea cable project, and The New York Times integrating AI tools into its newsroom; plus, they break down Uber’s la

684: Don’t Be a Dick

Feb 15 2025 85 mins  
Jason and Brian tackle tech absurdities, financial scandals, and Elon Musk’s latest chaos, covering everything from the never-ending email unsubscribe struggle to a British IT worker’s desperate plan to reclaim lost Bitcoin by buying an entire landfill. They also dive into the Trump Coin disaster, AI making people dumber, brutal layoffs at Meta, and entertainment news like Myth

683: There IS a Spoon!

Feb 08 2025 80 mins  
Elon Musk’s growing control over government tech sparks chaos, with DOGE employees facing restrictions, USAID crumbling, and U.S. officials warning of legal issues, while AI developments surge—Amazon bets $100 billion on AI, the EU bans high-risk systems, and Google lifts its ban on AI weapons. In entertainment, The Devil May Cry anime’s wild theme song stands out, Buffy eyes

682: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Luigi

Feb 01 2025 87 mins  
Brian and Jason kick things off with a look at why Gen Z grads are getting fired just months after landing jobs and a curiously viral declassified CIA sabotage guide. Speaking of sabotage, U.S. students are struggling with their lowest reading scores in decades, raising questions about the future workforce. Meanwhile, Google Maps’ controversial renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to �