Blinking Banking Blunders in a Catfish Paradise
In this episode, there's a tantrum in tech-land, at the billionaire's burger bar no less, while a new net nanny rampages into town, policing your pixels and vetting your videos!
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In The News
Musk vs. Apple: App Store Mayhem
- Musk threatens Apple with lawsuit over rankings
- xAI to take legal action against Apple
- Musk reignites OpenAI feud over antitrust claims
- Musk says he plans to sue Apple
Stock Drift: Tesla Up, Apple Down
Grok Gets Reprogrammed
- Grok reprogrammed -- no more Hitler jokes
- Pornographic Taylor Swift deepfakes generated by Musk's Grok AI
- Grok Imagine AI Allegedly Creates Explicit Taylor Swift Images Without Prompt: Report
- Grok's 'spicy' video mode instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes
- Elon Musk's AI Creates Deepfakes Of Scarlett Johansson, Taylor Swift
Tesla Diner Sparks Protests
ChatBites
YouTube's AI Powered Age Verification
- No matter how old you are YouTube's AI age verification system should concern you
- YouTube backlash begins: "Why is AI combing through every single video I watch?"
- Tea app hacked: Images stolen from women's dating safety app that vets men
- YouTube Age Verification Has Begun
- YouTube's AI-powered age line is now live. Will it work as intended?
- Extending our built-in protections to more teens on YouTube - YouTube Blog
Focus
Raycast on Windows
- Quicksilver - macOS at your Fingertips
- LaunchBar 6
- Alfred - Productivity App for macOS
- Raycast - Your shortcut to everything
- Monarch - Spotlight Search with Superpowers
- PowerToys Run utility for Windows
- Power Toys on MacBites After Hours
ChatBites
Apple Intelligence: AI Summaries Return
Dancing Queen
Events
Marooned at MacBites HQ
- Day 2000 - 6 September 2025
- MacBites.fm
What a lovely surprise as always 😁 and I think Elon is probably so overloaded on hormones in his failing mission to look like a poster boy (and meth) that he probably doesn’t even know what day it is. Still, his divorce from Trump was one of the highlights this year 😆
Thanks so much, great to hear your voices. Just wondering how old I am in youTube years with all my panda watching. hehe