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.
This episode of Grumpy Old Geeks covers technology news, films and television, Apple devices, and listener support. The hosts discuss ridesharing, Waymo cars, spam texts, Tesla insurance, Amazon’s private brands, VPNs, and the proposed...
This episode of Grumpy Old Geeks covers technology news, streaming entertainment, devices, and online privacy. The hosts discuss platform outages and safety features, company funding and subscriptions, recent shows, and VPN use. William...
This episode covers Facebook’s outage and whistleblower disclosures, technology and climate policy, and recent television and film releases. The hosts also discuss consumer devices, a mistaken cryptocurrency payout, security flaws,...
The hosts discuss AI output, repairable laptops, cryptocurrency restrictions, consumer devices, and digital privacy. They also review television and film, debate how people find files, and close with listener updates. DeepMind’s...
This episode covers Bitcoin payments, technology news, media recommendations, Apple devices, and account security. The speakers also discuss accessibility challenges, a reported AI-assisted assassination, and proposed restrictions on...
In episode 522, Jason DeFillippo and Brian Schulmeister discuss gig work, technology news, entertainment, and consumer gadgets. The conversation ranges from cryptocurrency regulation and App Store rules to television, cookware, and a...
In this episode, the hosts discuss technology and science news, including Apple’s delayed iPhone photo-scanning plan, facial recognition on Moscow’s subway, Virgin Galactic’s flight deviation, and cracks in the ISS. They also review...
Jason DeFillippo and Brian Schulmeister discuss NFTs, technology news, online security, and media. The episode covers platform rule changes, children’s gaming limits in China, several security incidents, and the hosts’ reactions to shows,...
This episode covers technology news, streaming media, digital products, and cybersecurity. The hosts discuss the Poly Network cryptocurrency heist, Tesla Autopilot, California’s gig worker initiative, Facebook, Netflix, and several reported...
Brian Schulmeister discusses his move to Canada and the difficulty of managing online accounts across borders. The hosts then cover technology policy, platform privacy, entertainment, devices, repair, internet culture, and creativity. The...
Jason DeFillippo and guest Eric Hunley discuss technology company fines, Amazon’s response to union organizing, the metaverse, and restrictions on researchers’ access to Facebook data. They also debate Apple’s proposed system for...
In this episode, the hosts discuss COVID-19 concerns, workplace policies, technology news, and entertainment. Later, they turn to facial recognition, location data, video embeds, and QR code tracking. The hosts discuss COVID-19 exposure,...
In this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks, the hosts discuss COVID misinformation, technology news, media and privacy. Topics include Uber’s reduced fine, Worldcoin’s proposed iris scans, Spotify’s payments to artists, Pegasus spyware and the...
This episode covers technology policy, online platforms, spaceflight, streaming media, books, and software. The hosts also discuss sports cars with Dave Bittner and examine two cybersecurity stories. Listener mail from Norway leads to a...
In this episode, the hosts discuss Brian Schulmeister’s preparations to move abroad, Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web source code NFT, and technology and business news. They also cover television, podcasts, gadgets, smart home controls, and...