Tech Gumbo

Altering Google Maps, NFL & Facial Recognition, Gemini Replacing Google Translate, SpaceX for Emergency Cellular Calls, Cars Talking To Cars

News and Updates:

• People are requesting to blur their homes on Google Maps
• NFL is using facial recognition for credentialing in Vegas, not everyone is happy with
• Will Google’s LLM Gemini replace Google Translate?
• SpaceX wants to provide emergency cellular calls to go across their system
• USDOT is pushing for car to talk to other cars, especially autonomous vehicles

Kids Bypassing Parental Controls On iPhones, Defending the Dissertation- Dr. Haggai D. Davis, III

The Question of the Week: I’ve been told it is easy for my kids to bypass the Parental Controls on iPhones, is this true?

The Big Story: Dr. Haggai D. Davis, III

Defending the Doctoral Dissertation:

Understanding, Assessing and Improving the Feasibility of Urban Freight Electrification

DOJ Sues TikTok, Win10 To Win11 Upgrade Mandate, Streaming Vs. Cable TV, Unique Challenge to Section 230, Social Security Number Breach, AI Creates IPA Beer

News and Updates:

• US Dept of Justice sues TikTok over Child Privacy law infractions
• Microsoft Confirms Oct 2025 as End of Life (Support) for Windows 10, Upgrade to Win 11 Now!
• Streaming platforms were 41% of TV watched in July, Cable TV was 20%
• New challenge to Section 230, trying to use it against Big Tech
• National Public Data was breached, 272 Mil Social Security numbers released
• NJ Brewery used AI to create a recipe for a new IPA to great reviews

Bluetooth Cyber Risk, ChatGPT Anti-Cheating Tool, Overturning Chevron V. NRDC

The Question of the Week: Are Bluetooth headphones, or EarPods, a cyber security risk?

 The Big Stories:

• ChatGPT has a tool to prevent cheating , OpenAI will not release it
• SCOTUS overturned Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, how that affects Big Tech

Google Ruled A Monopolist, Musk Sues Former Advertisers, Musk Moves Twitter HQ

News and Updates:

US Dept of Justice wins case against Google

• Illegally maintained a monopoly status
• Could possibly change search industry
• Could possibly change smartphone industry
• If Google is forced to change, what are the possibilities?
• Microsoft Edge, Mozilla and Firefox could benefit from the ruling
• Don’t expect changes from Google very quickly, probably in the courts for years

Elon Musk and Twitter/X

• Suing Global Alliance for Responsible Media, which represents lots of major advertisers
• Moving HQ from San Francisco to Texas for political and financial reasons

Guest Host William Sellers Talking About Datacenters

The Big Stories:

• What is a datacenter and what actually happens in a there
• What are the qualifications one would need to have to work in a datacenter?
• In your nearly 25 years of working in a datacenter, what are some of the biggest changes you seen?
• Are all datacenters alike? If not, what are some differentiators?
• DartPoints Datacenters

Guest Host William Sellers- Amazon Still Losing $$ On Twitch, Gemini For Search, EU Creating More Rules for AI, Technology’s Grip On Our Modern Lifestyles

News and Updates:

• Amazon paid $1B ten years ago and still losing money
• Using Google’s Gemini for search
• The EU is taking in consultation shaping rules for AI
• Our dependence on tech in our daily lives, highlighted by CrowdStrike

Guest Franz Borghardt, Attorney at Law, Discusses SCOTUS Social Media Decisions And 1st Amendment

The Big Stories:

• SCOTUS sent 2 cases, Texas and Florida attempted to regulate Social Media Platforms, back to lower courts for more work

CrowdStrike Details, Trump Shooter’s Phone, Stalkerware

The Question of the Week: How can our society minimize the effects of such things as the CrowdStrike Tech outages recently?

News and Updates:

CrowdStrike: Who are they, Who was affected, What caused the crash, Lessons learned

FBI gets into Trump shooter’s smartphone

Stalkerware: What is it?, How do you get it?, How do you get rid of it?

Guest Host Suzanne Wortmann- Archiving Data Files, Chicago PD & Machine Learning, Spotting Fake Videos, Social Media Influencers Money Woes

The Question of the Week: What is the best to save files for a long time?

The Big Stories:

• Machine learning predicting shootings in Chicago
• Can you really spot a fake video online?
• Social Media Influencers are not making much money
• Influencing is still hard to walk away from

Guest Host Suzanne Wortmann- Car Dealership Woes, AT&T Client Data Leak, No New Siri, Google Maps Upgrade, Google Advanced Protection, Google Monitoring Dark Web

News and Updates:

• CDK Global ransomware attack cripples car dealerships then pays ransom
• Entire AT&T Customer Base phone and text data released. White hat hacker deletes the data
• Apple will not upgrade Siri with new AI until Spring 2025
• Google Maps gets upgrades on Car Play
• Google Advanced Account Protection is easier to use
• Google will monitor Dark Web for you for free

Which Accounts need MFA, Big $$ Investments in AI Startups, Smaller AI May Be Better, AI Bubble?, Training AI LLM’s, Too Much Spent On AI, Little ROI

The Question of the Week: Is MFA more important on different types of accounts?

The Big Stories:

• Investors put $56B into startups in Q2- 2024, ½ went to start up AI Companies
• AI Companies are trying smaller Large Language Models to save money
• We are in an AI Bubble, are we headed for an AI Burst
• AI Companies are spending billions on training their LLM’s
• When, if ever, will investors see a return on their money?

The End Of: Japan’s Floppy Disk, Wii U, Amazon’s Astro Robot, 1 Million Check Boxes, 10B Passwords Leaked, Tips for Better Passwords, Hackers Stealing Crypto

News and Updates:

• Japan has finally stopped requiring 3.5 inch floppy disc
• Nintendo will no longer support/fix the Wii U
• Amazon ends the Astro Robot program
• One Million Checkboxes is useless and fun!
• 10 Billion Password leaded in largest ever data breach
• 4 Tips for creating better passwords
• Hackers have stolen $1.4B in Crypto currency so far this year

Carl England & Monika England Interview- Industrial Design & Architecture (Part 2 of 2)

Carl England & Monika England Interview- Industrial Design & Architecture (Part 2 of 2)

• Motivation to get into Design & Architecture
• How Design & Architecture have been altered by technology

Carl England & Monika England Interview- Industrial Design & Architecture (Part 1 of 2)

Carl England & Monika England Interview- Industrial Design & Architecture (Part 1 of 2)

• Evolution of technology in Design and Architecture
• Tech tools used in Design & Architecture
• How technology both hindered and helped the design process

Olympic AI Al Michaels, Don’t But An iPhone This Summer, Wi-Fi 7 and Win11, YouTube Defeats Ad Blockers

News and Updates:

• NBC will have a GenAI Al Michaels giving personal Olympic updates
• Do not buy an iPhone, iPad or Mac this summer, wait until the fall’s new line up
• If you want Wi-Fi 7, you will need Win11 on your PC
• YouTube has a new way of defeating Ad Blockers

A Special 1-Year Later Discussion on LLM’s And Generative AI (Part 3 of 3)

The Expert Panel:

Don Monistere, CEO & President - General Informatics

Justin Obney, CTO – Paystar

Kenny Nguyen, CEO – ThreeSixtyEight

 

From a year ago:

• Can we trust these LLM’s?
• What has been the acceptance rate?
• What does the next 1 Year look like?

A Special 1-Year Later Discussion on LLM’s And Generative AI (Part 2 of 3)

The Expert Panel:

Don Monistere, CEO & President - General Informatics

Justin Obney, CTO – Paystar

Alexander Adams Founder/CEO - Vigilus & Griffin Games

Kenny Nguyen, CEO – ThreeSixtyEight

 

From a year ago:

• What have we learned about Generative AI?
• What is the predominant status of Generative AI?

A Special 1-Year Later Discussion on LLM’s And Generative AI (Part 1 of 3)

The Expert Panel:

Don Monistere, CEO & President - General Informatics

Justin Obney, CTO – Paystar

Alexander Adams Founder/CEO - Vigilus & Griffin Games

Kenny Nguyen, CEO – ThreeSixtyEight

 

From a year ago:

• What were we right about Generative AI?
• What were we wrong about Generative AI?

iOS 18 Features, Apple intelligence, Apple AI on your iPhone 15 or newer, AI Candidates Running For Parliament and For Mayor In Wyoming Microsoft’s New AI Tool

The Question of the Week: When is ChatGPT coming to my iPhone?

The Big Stories:

• Apple new AI started in Google datacenter, runs local on your phone or Mac
• Apple’s AI will require the iPhone 15 Pro or later to get all of the features of iOS 18
• An AI candidate is running for Parliament in the UK
• An AI candidate wants to run for Mayor in Cheyenne, Wy- Sec of State says NO!
• Microsoft’s new AI tool VASA-1 can create realistic videos from a still photo

Surgeon Gen’s Warning Label for Social Media, Mouse-Mover get workers fired, Online Passport Renewals, Microsoft Delays “Recall”, Ending Samsung Repair Programs

News and Updates:

• The US Surgeon General urges Congress to put a Warning label on Social Media
• Remote workers caught using “Mouse-Mover” technology get fired
• You can renew your US Passport online, if you are quick enough to log on at 1pm ET
• Microsoft decides against rolling out “Recall” and negative feedback and security risk
• BestBuy and iFixit ending their Samsung repair programs

Conner Leblanc joins as Special Co-Host- Is Starlink Profitable?, Apple’s Entry in to AI, Siri Gets ChatGPT Integration

The Question of the Week: You mentioned recently that Starlink now has over 6,000 satellites, my question is, “Are they making or losing money”?

The Big Stories:

• Apple’s WWDC announces new “Apple Intelligence”, their entry in the AI arena
• Apple Intelligence will be integrated into the iOS, iPadOS and macOS
• Apple’s Siri will get ChatGPT Integration, so will it suck a lot less

Conner Leblanc joins as Special Co-Host- Microsoft Teams and Office, Windows Recall, MacBook’s Secret Radio, China’s Prepositioned Cyber Threat, Randy Travis’ New AI Generated Song

News and Updates:

• The EU has force Microsoft to split Teams from Office
• Microsoft’s Copilot+ will have a feature called “Windows Recall”
• MacBooks and iPads have secret radio that does nothing?
• China is reading cyber attacks aimed at US infrastructure
• Randy Travis has released an AI Generated song and it debuted on Billboard’s Country chart

Restarting Smart Phones, OpenAI’s Next Frontier and SuperAlignment Team, Google Gives Strange Results, Google’s Algorithm Leaked, Can You Trust AI?, Celebrity AI, Low Adoption Rate for AI Worldwide

The Question of the Week: You Should Restart Your Phone Weekly: Here's Why

The Big Stories:

• OpenAI begins planning for their “Next Frontier Model”
• OpenAI is restarting their SuperAlignment Team to put in safeguards and better training
• Google’s Gemini Give bizarre search results and scrambles to remove weird answers
• Google confirms leaked documents about their search algorithm are legitimate
• Can you trust AI, especially at work?
• Would you want to talk to an AI of your favorite celebrity or influencer?
• Worldwide adoption rate to Generative AI is very low

Hackers Breach Christie’s Auction House, FTC Warns Of More Scams, Preventing Facebook From Sharing Your Data, Win 10 EOL Options, Zoom Stupidities

News and Updates:

• Hackers breach Christies’ Auction House, Christies’ ignores ransom demands!
• FTC warns scammers are using more email and less cell phones using big brand names
• How to stop Facebook from sharing all of your personal data
• Windows 10 End Of Life is Oct2025, what are your options
• A man Zooms into his court proceed about a suspending driver’s license, while driving

How Big Is Google, Smartphones Banned From The Classroom, Parents Struggle With The Ban, Does Banning Smartphones From The Classroom Make A Difference?

The Question of the Week: You guys talk about it, but how big is Google?

The Big Stories:

• Schools ban smartphones, social media usage goes down, things get better
• 43% of schools already have a ban on smartphones, very few actually enforce the ban
• Parents struggle with smartphone ban more than students
• Should smartphones be allowed in the classroom?

TikTok Sues U.S., iPhone Spyware, 3rd Party iOS App Store, Google and Microsoft on Passkeys, LinkedIn Games Launches, Starlink Update

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AI Hype Bubble, Gen AI And Job Loss?, Gen AI Relacing Call Centers, Catholic AI Priest Gives Strange Answers

The Big Stories:

• Is the Gen AI Hype leveling off?
• Google says Gen AI will not take jobs any time soon
• Gen AI could start replacing call centers in 2025
• Microsoft investing Billions in AI Infrastructure where most call centers are now
• Catholic group created an “AI Priest” bot, who gave strange answers and is no longer a Priest

Net Neutrality Returns, TikTok Updates, NHTSA Investigating Tesla, Tesla Layoffs

News and Updates:

• FCC bringing back Net Neutrality
• TikTok says it will shut down US presence before selling
• ByteDance, TikTok and Douyin and why this is complicated
• NHTSA is investigating Tesla’s Autopilot claims and capabilities, and fatal crashes the cause
• Tesla laying off 14K employees, still more to come

Tik-Tok Update, Datacenters- Growth & Resource Consumptions Out of Control

The Question of the Week: What’s next for Tik-Tok?

The Big Stories:

• Datacenters growth explosive growth in numbers and consumption  
• Trends why datacenters are growing
• AI and Cloud Computing are culprit for datacenter power and resources consumption

Space Force Exercise, Starlink On Black Market, NASA Wants Samples From Mars, NASA’s New Time Standard On Moon, Battery Powered Appliances, Too Much Solar Power

News and Updates:

• Space Force to practice “On -Orbit Aggression” exercises in space
• Starlink is forced to crackdown on unauthorized users in Sudan, Zimbabwe, South Africa and more
• NASA looking for better ways to get samples back from Mars rover projects
• NASA needs to create a time standard for the Moon
• Will battery power large home appliances
• Roof top solar panels creating too much power in Southern California

How Much Internet Bandwidth?, EU Passes Comprehensive AI Act, Congress Files An AI Bill, , UK Criminalize Sexual Deepfakes, Netflix AI Generated Usage Dilemma

The Question of the Week: How Much Internet Bandwidth Do I Really Need?

The Big Stories:

• EU law passes first comprehensive laws on AI, including new restrictions on how it can be used
• Congress files a bill forcing AI to reveal copyrighted art
• K. criminalizes the creation of sexually explicit deepfake images and videos against women
• Netflix may have used AI Generated images of a real person in a true crime documentary

YouTube Is #1 And Still Cracking Down On Ad-Blockers, Win 11 Upgrade, Microsoft Breach Affecting US Gov’t, Disney HoloTiles, Humane AI Pin Review

News and Updates:

• YouTube is the #1 source for music and video entertainment and education
• YouTube is still cracking down on Ad-Blockers, despite Ad-blockers being available in Chrome Store
• New patch removes “Blue Screen of Death” problem for upgrading to Win11
• Russian security breach into Microsoft still causing problems throughout the US Government
• Disney shows off their new HoloTile
• Humane AP Pin is horrible, way too expensive, way under performing

Cyber Security And The Elderly, AI And Fast-food

The Question of the Week: How do I talk about Cyber Security to my elderly parents?

• How Older Adults Can Improve Their Personal Cyber Security And Avoid Scams

The Big Stories:

• Taco Bell & Pizza Hut launching AI App to help run the restaurants
• The truth about AI Drive Thru’s- Its humans in the Philippines
• AI Voice Recognition is still a problem for drive thru’s

Tesla Autopilot Lawsuit, AI Engineer Pay, Apple Home Robot, AT&T Class-Action, Smartphone Damages, Apple Adds To Obsolete List

News and Updates:

• Tesla tries to involve Apple in Autopilot crash lawsuit, finally settles
• AI Engineers are getting paid Big Dollar$$
• After ending the Apple Car, could there be an Apple Home Robot?
• AT&T admits leak of 73 million customer’s data after Class-Action lawsuit filled
• The most common damage to smartphones
• Apple has added the iPhone 6 Plus and the iPad 5^th Gen

Backing Up A PC, AI Has Trouble With Bad Input, AI & Cybersecurity, Will AI Replace You?, Will AI Replace Hollywood?

The Question of the Week: Can you recommend a good back solution for my PC?

The Big Stories:

• ChatGPT flooded with celebrity impersonators and given bad info through their ChatGPT Store
• AI is changing the threat of cybersecurity
• Will Generative AI replace me and/or take my job?
• Will Generative AI replace Hollywood and/start creating block buster movies and TV shows?

Gmail Turns 20, Google Podcast App ends, FCC Broadband Rate, Facebook Poke Is Back, Amazon ends “Just Walk Out”, CISA Hacked, NYC Chatbot Gets It Wrong

News and Updates:

• Gmail turn 20 on 1Apr2024 and changed Google
• Google Podcast Apps is ended, moving everything to YouTube
• FCC says Broadband minimum is now 100Mbps down and 20Mbps up
• Facebook is bringing back the Poke, but should they?
• Amazon ends “Just Walk Out” at Amazon Fresh Stores
• U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA, gets hacked by China
• NYC created a chatbot to give answers about NYC laws and gets them wrong!

Google Search Generative Experience, Fla. Bans Social Media For Kids Under 14, How Big Is TikTok, Who Owns TikTok

The Question of the Week:  What’s going on with Google Search?

The Big Stories:

• Passes a law restrict Social Media from kids under 14
• How Big is TikTok by the numbers
• TikTok’s US Investors
• Who actually owns TikTok

Apple Sued Again & Again, GM To Quit Sharing Driver Data, Uber Eats Fails With Facial Recognition, LinkedIn To Include Games

News and Updates:

• Apple sued by US for being a Monopoly
• Apple sued via Class-Action over AirTag safety
• Starlink testing Cellular connections
• GM stops sharing driver behavior data
• Uber Eats paying out because of Facial Recognition failure
• LinkedIn will start including games on the platform

Ibrahim (Abe) Baggili Ph.D. Interview on Cyber Security Research

The Interview: Ibrahim (Abe) Baggili Ph.D., discusses his research on:

• VR Deception
• Forensic analysis of the Roomba
• Using the Progressive App to detect hit & run

Royal Photo Manipulation, Microsoft Still Dealing With Breach, Cars Selling Data, Wordle Clone Crackdown, Roku Bricking TV’s

News and Updates:

• The Royal Photo scandal and the ethical dilemma of manipulating photos
• Microsoft still working through the Russian Cyber Breach
• Is your car collecting data and selling your info to insurance companies?
• The NY Times is cracking down on illegal clones of Wordle
• Roku is bricking TVs until “Dispute Resolution Terms” is accepted

Windows 12?, EV’s Pollute And Are A Security Risk, Apple Car Ended, Apple Hit With Fine And Class Action Lawsuit, iOS 17.4

The Question of the Week:  You’ve talked about Windows 12, what is the update?

The Big Stories:

• EV’s emit more pollution that gas cars
• Chinese cars are security threat and have little to no safety
• Apple ends it’s Autonomous car project
• Apple fined $2Bil in EU of Music Streaming apps
• Apple faces Class Action Suit over iCloud restrictions
• iOS 17.4 Released with lots of upgrades and patches

Starlink-HughesNet-Project Kuiper Updates, Apple-Oura-Samsung Rings, Max Password Crackdown

News and Updates:

• Starling getting better, faster, more reliable, new pricing plans
• HughesNet satellite Internet hemorrhaging customers
• Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite Internet trying to get off the ground
• Apple Ring-Oura Ring- Samsung Ring wearables instead of watches that do less?
• Max will join other streaming platforms to begin cracking down on password sharing

AT&T Outage, Cynomi Cyber Security

The Question of the Week:  What happened to AT&T Last Week?

Interview: We discuss cyber security with Laura Rodrigues from Cynomi

SCOTUS Hears Social Media Cases, Husband Listened In To Business Calls And Made Million$$, Vending Machine Using Facial Recognition, Airline’s Chatbot Cost Company Money, Spacecraft Lands On Moon

News and Updates:

• SCOTUS hears Texas & Florida laws about Social Media, very skeptically
• Husband eavesdrops on acquisitions manager wife, makes $1 Million, gets caught
• Vending machine on a college campus was discovered using facial recognition
• Air Canada’s chatbot gave incorrect info, the airline must now honor refund
• Spacecraft lands on the moon, then falls on its side

Non-Microsoft Verified Apps, OpenAI’s Sora

The Question of the Week:  

I get this message: "The app you're trying to install isn't a Microsoft-verified app. Get verified apps from Store" How can I get around this and install an app I want?

The Big Stories:

• OpenAI teases Sora, the generative AI that creates videos from text
• A deep dive into Videos created from generative AI

Starlink Deorbits 100 Satellites, Astronomers Upset with Starlink, Mars 1 Year Simulation, Cyber Crime Group Stopped, Cyber Rules for Cars, EV Updates, Electric Grid Demand to Double

News and Updates:

• Starlink will deorbit 100 satellites
• Astronomers will complain to the UN about too many satellites
• NASA will be doing a 1 Year Mars Simulation
• Lockbit Cybercriminals stopped from spreading more malware
• Carmakers dealing with U.N. Cyber Rules
• Hertz to sell 20K EV’s, including discounting Tesla’s
• US allowing automakers more time to move to creating EV’s
• People prefer Hybrids over full EV’s
• Demand on the Electric Grid will double because of datacenters and AI in the next 3 years

Tap To Pay, New Sports Streaming Venture, Microsoft Copilot & Google Gemini, Altman Looking To Raise $7Trillion

The Question of the Week:  

 How does “Tap to Pay” for my credit card and/or smart phone work?

 The Big Stories:

• ESPN, Fox Sports and Warner Bros. look to start a new sports streaming platform
• Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini are rolling out everywhere
• OpenAI CEO wants to recreate chip manufacturing for AI, needs $7 Billion

SHOW #300 – Samsung Trifold Phone, Xbox Everywhere, Americans Lost $10B To Scams, Apple Autonomous Vehicle, Google Maps AI Upgrade

News and Updates:

• This is Tech Gumbo’s #300 Radio Show
• Samsung maybe developing a trifold phone
• Microsoft wants Xbox Game Pass available on PS5 and Switch
• Americans lost $10 Billion to scams in 2023 according to the FTC
• Apple dramatically increased is research mileage for the Autonomous Vehicles
• Google Maps is getting a Generative AI upgrade

The Mac is 40, Apple Vision Pro Reviews, Dumb Ways People are Using Vision Pro

The Big Stories:

• The Apple Macintosh computer turned 40
• Multiple reviews of the Apple Vision Pro, the good and bad
• Dumb ways people are using Vision Pro