648: Some Superheroes Ride Motorized Scooters

Inappropriate portal behavior; RTO drives away top talent; Apple may add OpenAI to iOS; garbage in, garbage out; AI continues to promise more than it can deliver; Twitter redirecting to X; entire Supercharger staff fired; enshittification of the Web speeds up; Google AI search will kill what's left of the old internet; Uber announces new, worse bus; Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare; the Rings of Power returns; Dune: Prophecy; MoviePass, Ashley Madison docs; bundling & a return to cable; no MTV Movie Awards this year; ToDoIst; Sonos app; PPSSPP; META Quest on a plane; the Far Reaches & Forward Collections; Erik Larson; Neal Stephenson; Star Wars Oreos; Chuck E. Cheese Band, Jasper T. Jowls in the wild; Fabio and the Goose; Thelma.

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FOLLOW UP

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The OnlyFans Model Who Ruined the Portal Previously Went Viral for Licking a Toilet

Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away | Ars Technica

Is the Internet bad for you? Huge study reveals surprise effect on well-being

IN THE NEWS

Apple Reportedly Close To Deal With OpenAI To Add AI Features To iPhone

OpenAI inks deal to train AI on Reddit data

Google Project Astra hands-on: Full of potential, but it’s going to be a while

For self-driving cars, the free ride is over - The Verge

Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says

Here's the inside story of why Elon Musk fired the entire Tesla Supercharger staff - Autoblog

Enshittification

As Google AI search rolls out to more people, websites brace for carnage - The Washington Post

Google is overhauling its search results page with AI overviews and Gemini organization - The Verge

Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results

Google I/O 2024: Here's everything Google just announced | TechCrunch

Learn how to use ChatGPT for SEO

ChatGPT likes to fight. For military AI researchers, that’s a problem

Uber announces its new, worse version of a bus

MEDIA CANDY

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power - Official Teaser Trailer

The Stars of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Promise Things Will Actually Happen This Season

Max Releases First Dune: Prophecy Teaser: Watch

Dune: Prophecy | Official Teaser | Max - YouTube

HBO’s upcoming MoviePass documentary is a must-watch for fans of tech trainwrecks

Ashley Madison - Sex, Lies & Scandal

'The Boys' Renewed for Season 5

Jimmy Kimmel Unleashed at Disney Upfronts: See His Best Jokes

A ‘vastly reduced’ Netflix, Peacock and Apple TV+ bundle is coming this month

The MTV Movie & TV Awards Scrapped for 2024, Returning Next Year

Sony Music Warns Companies to Stop Training AI on Its Artists’ Content

APPS & DOODADS

ToDoIst

URL Cleaner

Is Sonos' New App a Podcast Killer? : r/sonos

Apple brings eye-tracking to recent iPhones and iPads

PPSSPP game emulator now available on the iOS App Store

Wipeout Pure

Meta encourages you to disregard your seat mates and use VR headsets on a plane

AT THE LIBRARY

The Far Reaches collection

The Forward Collection, curated by Blake Crouch

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

Polostan: Volume One of Bomb Light by Neal Stephenson

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Oreo's Special Edition Star Wars Cookies Are Here to Feed Your Inner Wookiee

The Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Band Is Breaking Up

Fabio and the Goose

Thelma - Official Trailer | June Squibb, Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey, Fred Hechinger

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