The lead story for Monday, January excuse me.
Monday, June 2.
Gen z is increasingly relying on ChatGPT
for personal decisions drawn
to its twenty four seven
judgment free support.
While this trend reflects a shift in how
we seek advice, especially in a disconnected
uncertain world,
it raises concerns about emotional depth, bias, and
overreliance
on AI.
The article explores the tools benefits for reflections
and accessibility
that warns of missed opportunities
for real human
connection. I wanna welcome you to episode
1,823.
And, of course, I'm your host, Todd Cochran.
And this lead article today is
concerning to an extent, but also understanding
at the same time.
Sam Altman says Gen z uses Chat b
GBT for life decisions,
and here's why it's both smart and risky.
Now
I read through this article,
and I don't think I find any of
this at all shocking.
And it's really interesting to see how people
are using it by age group age group.
Now
appears
that Gen z
is using,
is as an operating system. They're treating it,
kinda like software,
While people in their twenties and thirties use
it more as a a life advisor.
While people that are older tend to treat
it like a smarter
search engine and a replacement
for Google's.
Sam says, I'm in my late thirties, and
I see plenty of people in my millennial
cohort doing exactly this asking it to vibe
check
an email, one minute,
offer career advice, and next, or decode a
cryptic text for a date.
So the big question is being asked, should
we be using Chatt GBT in this way
as a sign of democratized support and or
important self reflection.
Now there's some positives
is they don't judge,
they don't interrupt,
and they don't charge a hundred and a
hundred and $50 an hour.
For people without access to mentors, therapists, or
career coaches,
these are some interesting,
you know, interesting tools,
especially if you think about it as a
mentor or a career coach.
When they looked into the rise of people
using ChatGPT
for therapy,
accessibility
was a
consistent theme.
Again, cheap and available twenty four seven and
crucially private.
And the value isn't just replacing a therapist
or coach. Sometimes it's about having a space
to think out loud.
You wanna explore a big move, test out
an idea of quitting your job,
wonder how others handled long distant relationships or
an ADHD
diagnosis,
you prompt, explore, and revise.
But logarithms aren't always wise.
ChatGvD cannot mimic empathy.
It doesn't feel. It doesn't it it can't
measure
even though it has no intuition or gut
instinct,
which is important.
It also can't tell when you're lying to
yourself. It doesn't know when the things you
say is what is the most important
and bias.
So if a therapist gives you bad advice,
they're responsible. If a friend leads you astray,
at least they care.
But if chat g p t nudges you
towards a major life decision that doesn't work
out,
you have no one to blame. And again,
we know AI can hallucinate.
And psychologists have raised concerns about replacing real
relationships with AI driven feedback loops.
A chatbot might feel
seen without truly understanding you,
and we can't ignore the bigger picture.
Open Eye has a interest for people to
use ChatGPT
for everything, including life advice and emotional support.
Now Gen z isn't turning to AI because
they don't realize ChatGPT
lacks lived experiences. They know this.
Again, most of them are doing it because
they feel
the world feels unstable, overwhelming, and hard to
navigate.
Now we're living through a time when guidance
is fragmented, authority is suspect, people don't trust.
People are not in the office. They can't
have conversations.
You know, I get a little bit of,
Zoom burnout,
but a lot of people,
you know, that's their that's their only connection
to someone else during a day.
If you're going to the office and have
those interpersonal
relationships and and having those discussions,
you learn
people's strengths and weaknesses, and you have the
ability
to pull from that.
So it's an interesting time
that saying Gen z is using JetChat GBT
for life decisions. I have some things I'll
talk about at the end of the show
about what people say the value
they're getting out of these
platforms.
We'll talk a little bit about it again
at the end of the podcast, but,
yeah, it's what say you.
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appreciated here. So I just wanna back up
a little bit. The new hardware is in,
the new UPS,
heavy bugger,
$747.
And,
essentially,
it backs up everything that's over here.
Everything that's in the rack. The TriCaster,
the mixer,
the all the tools, all the stuff, all
the stuff for the, the Wi Fi, the
wired, all that. And you say, oh my
god. But if you saw what it takes
care of,
you you you would understand.
And,
I'm gonna reach out to
the manufacturer because I don't believe the battery
should have died
in five years. Because I went back and
looked at my park because, of course, I
I I will say I bought it in
02/2019,
just about the time I built the new
studio. That's when I put a new battery
in the other unit.
But,
so I'm gonna try to find may and,
again, I don't have a need,
and the new batteries were just crazy money.
So everything has went up because of everything
going on. But,
I also, over the weekend, updated the TriCaster.
So I'm running on a brand new version
today. They changed everything.
Not everything. The main control piece is the
same.
But,
a lot of the startup stuff has changed.
I and so it took me a little
while to kinda figure it out. All my
stream stuff was wiped out when I did
this update.
So I hope I'm recording in the right
resolution and everything else. Everything came up. Wasn't
too bad,
but it really,
made me you know, I've been thinking.
You guys know that when I was in
the Philippines studio,
I had everything dialed in, but there was
two major problems. Number one,
the RodeCaster
Duo
continued to disconnect
from the USB port on the Mac mini
as well as the USB camera
that I had. And I kinda thought maybe
it's, you know, Mac bus issues,
none of power.
And I, you know, I bought it. I
I paid,
quite a little bit of money, couple hundred
bucks for
a, basic base unit, a powered base unit
so that we'd have more power to the
USB ports.
And it just really
still was an issue.
And I'm really just kind of, like, scratching
my head a little bit, and
I really don't want the thing is I
just want things to work.
I
I want
because when stuff doesn't work, I waste time.
Time how much time did I waste
in editing
video,
fixing audio, all the things that were happening,
and it was just stressing me out.
Got a good back screen. Had a good
everything's working. OBS is working fine.
It was just this disconnection of hardware on
USB ports.
And I'm talking to a friend of mine,
actually talking to Don Bain, the gadget professor,
and his son, and, you know, and I'm
like, what do I do?
And,
they said it's the Mac.
You you got you know, everyone that's live
streaming, majority of people are live streaming with
this kind of a setup,
all are all on Windows laptops. And then,
oh my god. Do I have to buy
a Windows laptop?
And, we went all through all the things
that was causing an issue, and they said,
yeah. It's gotta be, you know, bus instability
when the computer needs you know, it doesn't
happen when you're not streaming. As soon as
you start streaming, you start using more CPUs.
The computer needs more juice other places,
and then it it basically
disconnects.
And I'm
really not
I really did not want to buy another
laptop.
So
I'm gonna reach out to you guys. Are
any of you doing any streaming with a
Windows machine using OBS,
using a USB three
camera? That's important.
From a call I'm using a Facecam Pro.
What are you seeing
in your
USB connections on your Windows machines?
Are you seeing drop offs? Are you seeing
issues? Or just does it work?
It's there's a related Windows article later today
in the show that I'm gonna talk about.
But
should I just buy a gaming computer, bite
the bullet, and when I go back next
time, take it with me
and use that for
for the for the podcast
because I'm recording more stuff.
We're I'm doing,
podcast news and myths. That's a new one.
We're doing it at Blueberry. I'm doing podcast
insider special edition.
That's for Blueberry.
I'm doing
this show,
and I'm doing the new media show, which
we're trying to determine if we're going to
continue the new media show or not.
What should
should I should I pick up this Windows
machine?
And then just for work, just use my
laptop like I was or, you know, use
the Mac with two monitors. Get a little
HDMI switcher when I get ready to go
do
the stuff for
recording. I just switched to another machine.
It's kinda dumb. Alright? Have two computers and
one just for live. And maybe I just
revert to Windows while I'm over there. But,
you know, that comes with a whole another
whole another situation.
So,
yeah. It's just and, again, I've got a
powered,
what do you wanna call it? Extender bus
or,
you know, port or whatever it's called.
And, you know, still have the issue.
So
I I don't know. I'm I'm torn.
I I know of another solution I could
go to, but
I it's just complete overkill.
Absolute
overkill.
And because TriCaster is this new they got
a software version. It'll be the same issue.
It's called mini mini dash s. Not cheap.
And,
you know, maybe when this machine dies someday
that's down here,
then I will
buy a a rack mounted computer,
spend the money, and buy a machine that
will do everything we're doing here. But I
don't wanna take so stupid rack that can
you know, not for one camera and
what I'm doing. It's just I mean,
again, a % overkill. It's just the USB
buses that aren't staying up.
So,
if you have any thoughts,
let me know.
But,
yeah. And if you're using a Windows laptop,
it's main thing I need is it's important,
Intel processor,
NVIDIA
graphics card.
Those are the two real super requirements. Just
because of all the streaming stuff, NVIDIA works
the best,
in that regard. So
okay. Enough chatting with me. We'll talk about
our insiders here in a in a little
bit. But,
big news really coming out this weekend and,
president Trump pulling the, nomination
of Isaacman.
And,
it's an interesting move. And
why why did he pull it? No one's
saying anything.
But was it because and it basically,
the the post
said there was too many factors.
And was the factors because Isaac also
contributed to,
Democrats?
So after thorough review of prior associations
of prior associations,
I'm hereby withdrawing the nomination
of Jared Isaacman to head NASA. I will
soon announce a new nominee who will be
mission aligned,
which means that apparently
mission or politically aligned.
Eisenman described the previous six months as enlightening
and noted that both Republican and Democrat lawmakers
cared deeply about the NASA mission.
And it's unclear again what
is the full reason, but some reports suggest
that his contributions to campaigns
of democrat law mac lawmakers
were a factor
and also maybe,
Musk leaving Doge. So,
interesting.
But, you know, he would my opinion, he'd
have been one of the best picks for
the job, but
that is not gonna happen. Hey. Very interesting.
A counter antivirus service called AVCheck
has been shut down by law enforcement. Now
if you didn't know what this is,
AVCheck allowed cybercriminals
to test whether their malware
again, whether their malware is detected by antivirus
products.
So a Dutch court,
or I think in in The Netherlands, yes,
sees of course, it's there's a big, FBI
thing on on the website,
but Dutch authorities announced a takedown of AVCHECK
and,
and and pulled the plug on this thing.
So this is, this is pretty it's pretty
big news.
And malware that can evade detection can then
be deployed without being noticed to steal information.
And cybercriminals
were using this service in combination with crypting
services,
which are meant to make the malware more
difficult to detect.
And it went down on the twenty seventh,
but they they were using this
to, make sure that, the malware that they
were gonna distribute was not being found with
software applications like Malwarebytes
and so forth.
So, very very interesting,
take down and something I was not at
all,
familiar with.
There's a new magnetic
three d
magnetic three d printed pen
that can detect,
people with Parkinson's.
And,
the pen basically,
detects slight tremors
and uses electric signals to measure tremors in
tandem with AI machine learning.
So Parkinson's
detected earlier, you know, is better
in more than ten million people
worldwide are thought to be living with Parkinson's.
And, of course, it's a neurodegenerative
disorder with symptoms including
a tremors, rigidity, slowness of movement, and mobility
difficult. So Michael j Fox,
of course, has,
Parkinson's.
And while there's no cure, early diagnosis can
help those affected access support and treatments earlier.
The team behind the,
the diagnostic method based on observations of motor
symptoms
are often inefficient last lack objectivity.
While those based on biomarkers such as level
of substance in the cere
oh my god.
Cerebral spinal fluid often involves specialist equipment, high
trained health care professionals,
but this pen can capture telltale motion signs
to determine if a person has Parkinson's or
not.
So,
interesting where we're happening here. What's happening here
with these types of tools and, combine it
with AI.
Now this is what I was referring to
earlier.
Microsoft is fighting USB
c k, chaos
on Windows 11 laptops,
with a new label.
USB c incompatibility
leads to many frustrating issues for users, and
that's what I'm facing with the Mac mini.
Mac soft is fighting back with a new
certification that guarantees features and speeds.
So, yeah, the the manufacturer says USB c
is fully compatible,
but Microsoft's gonna be enforcing uniform USB c
standards for Windows 11 laptops going forward.
So I guess I'm gonna have to do
research when I'm thinking about buying another laptop
to see how it supports USB c. Up
until now,
PC manufacturers
have been able to customize the performance of
USB c ports and didn't have to fully
utilize the technical,
possibilities of the hardware. In other words, a
little less power,
a little less,
compatibility.
And this happens sometimes when you take a
USB c cable and plug it in and
nothing happens, and you change it out, and
all of a sudden it works. I was
seeing that.
So one of the things I'm gonna be
doing when I go back
to The Philippines, I'm gonna be taking four
or five highly certified USB c cables
that are
rated for
the power and the
and I sure I have them, but I'm
just using this as an additional
make sure that I have the correct,
supported cables
because
DisplayPort and Thunderbolt
are also fully supported through USB c.
But, again, many manufacturers haven't had to fully
implement these specifications.
For example, when you connect a monitor to
your computer via USB C, you might use
a random cable,
but the monitor remains dark and, again,
lacks USB c standards. It's hard to troubleshoot
the problem when this occurs.
And they wanna put an end to it,
and they're coming up with a
a a symbol
that it's either five, ten, or 20 gigabits
per second compliant.
It either can support greater than 4.5 watts
or 7.5
watts,
can support PC charging,
can support a display port.
So and then there'll be stuff for USB
four when that comes, talking about PCI Express
and Thunderbolt three capability.
And I I think this is a great
idea,
especially considering everything I've been dealing with.
So
how much trouble have you had with USB
c?
USB
three,
USB c, however you wanna replay to it.
Keep an eye out. Gmail's new material three
expressive design is secretly hitting some inboxes, so
it's basically a new way to cause
text to kinda, like, stick out a little
bit more sharper
and more colors.
So be aware of that. That's that's coming.
You see that update coming into your computers.
Also, the Nothing Phone three has been leaked,
reveals price and hints at headphone one launch.
So the Nothing Phone three expected in July
with 12 gigs to two, 12 gigs of
RAM, 256
megs of storage,
starting at about €850.
Nothing is reportedly launching headphone one, its first
over the ear headphones priced around €300.
So, just be aware that that is forthcoming.
Apple, non surprisingly,
has chosen
to appeal.
They they filed appeal with European Union,
challenged the bloc's order requiring, greater iOS interoperability
with rival companies.
The EU executive in March directed Apple to
make its mobile operation more compatible with competitor
apps,
threatens its seamless user experience while creating security
risk. Of course, always that.
Noting the companies have already requested access to
sensitive user data, including notification
content, complete Wi Fi network histories.
The company faces potential fine of its 10%
worldwide annual revenue found in violation
of DME interoperability
rules
to curb big tech market share. You know,
you just have to trust the manufacturer of
the stuff that you are
buying.
You need to make sure that you are,
putting in effect
the,
for better words, the,
oh, what's the word I'm looking here for?
You know, maybe Apple needs an Apple certified
program.
Maybe that's what they need.
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Moving back into tech, the GIGO Pixel 10
phones reportedly launched on August 13.
So that's the, that's the expected
arrival time thereabouts with the phones
showing up in and around the twentieth.
So, if you are due for a new,
Google Pixel 10,
coming to a store near you in a
very, very short order. I can't believe it's
already June.
I I really can't.
I'm gonna celebrate a birthday here in a
few days and, my goodness.
It's just like,
really?
Already that,
that time of time of year? And another
click up on the, on the on the
counter here.
The macOS Tahoe is rumored to follow Sequoia
and includes a whole new look for macOS
16 or maybe what's gonna be called macOS
26.
And,
we will see what comes. We're gonna see
more during, you know, the Apple event and
so
forth. But,
yeah, the rumor is macOS
Tahoe
will be the name. I hope it doesn't
drive like a Chevy.
For those of you that Chevy owners out
there, you know, I'm I'm a bit of
a Ford fan.
Elon Musk is saying that, X Chat is
rolling out to all, but questions remain about
its alleged security. Of course, I wouldn't say
I I'm sure that TechCrunch,
you know, they they obviously have to throw
a jab in here. Right? Because they they
hate Elon
now. So they, you know, they have to
have a headline here that is,
disparaging.
So Elon announced the new version of extract
messaging feature, X chat rolling out with support
for,
for features like vanishing messages, encryption, ability to
share files alongside its audio and video calling
support.
Of course, this is not yet broadly available.
Beta test just began a few days ago.
Said the x team expects to bring X
chat to all users sometimes this week unless
they encounter scaling issues during the rollout.
He noted the updated
version of X chat has been built on
Rust
with Bitcoin style encryption. Well, Bitcoin's really not
encrypted,
which was brought up to many folks, but
maybe he's talking about blockchain.
In addition, he shared that X Chat can
now X Chat users can now make audio
and video calls without a phone
number across all platforms
kinda similar
to, to WhatsApp. So, no surprise there.
Did you know you're just one molecule away
from
going to sleep or staying awake?
Well,
there is a study out from the neuroscience
news saying that one molecule is used to
cause us to go to sleep and also
to wake up. It's a brain switch. It's
a single molecule dural FLP 11, Both induces
and end sleep and c
elegans by acting on different neurons.
The receptor DMS
r dash one is essentially
interpreting FLP dash 11 sleep command. Did you
know we were,
defined by a bunch of numbers of the
human body?
Now these those studied in worms,
yes, in worms,
this mechanism may reveal conserved
sleep pathways across species including
humans.
So they studied this on in worms, and
they say that this is going to help
us
have a switch to make us go to
sleep.
Okay.
It's a pretty deep article
for you bio
in bioscience folks out there.
Check it out. I'm sure it's not gonna
help us any any of us in the
near future.
The iPhone 17 could see Apple repeat one
of its most controversial
hardware decisions.
This year's upgrade could be smaller
than expected.
May not get a processor upgrade,
instead launching with the same chipset. No one
knows exactly what's gonna happen.
Our our phones are pretty doggone amazing the
way they are, so I'm I'm not too
worried.
This next article, I have
incredible concerns about.
US banks don't want to have to reveal
when they've been hacked. Why not?
They should have to reveal this.
So what happens
when a bank doesn't reveal it?
They pay the ransom.
And then a few months later, they do
it again,
and it's noticed by the public.
Was the bank able to be held accountable
and fix things the first time?
I think banks should have to reveal this
stuff. We're protected by FDIC.
The bank says it adds complexity and strain
to their systems. No. They just don't wanna
report it.
So they're pushing back against the recent USC
SEC Commission
ruling, which requires public companies, including banks, to
disclose cyberattacks.
The group members including American Bankers Association and
Bank Policy Institute, Secur and the Serenity Financial
Market Association
all say we don't want this.
This cybersecurity
risk management
strategy governments and incident disclosure role was introduced
in 2023,
but they don't wanna do this anymore.
They don't wanna review.
So I I say tough.
You're holding our money.
You have to reveal this. You can't reveal
it because this, we will know. If you're
hacked twice in a row, I'm gonna take
my money out of your bank.
WhatsApp has just dropped support for older iPhones
and Android phones. So pre iOS 15 devices,
you're not getting a WhatsApp update.
WhatsApp will only work on devices running iOS
15 and Android five point o and above.
So if you are on a older Android
or older
iPhone or older,
tablet,
you're not gonna get an upgrade. I don't
know if your service is gonna continue to
work or if it just won't work.
And this is I mean, WhatsApp is
you know, in Asia, WhatsApp is the deal.
No one does a calls you on your
phone.
They don't call you. They WhatsApp you,
Or they ring you on Messenger.
And they never call your phone.
What's your WhatsApp? Which is your number, of
course. And then they they digital contact you
on
that that's that's how it works.
No no one dials a number overseas. It
doesn't happen.
Every bit actually, when you find a business
that doesn't have a WhatsApp, you say, how
come you don't have a WhatsApp?
There's a company there I'm trying to do
a little business with right now. I'm trying
to set something up, something interesting.
And I wanna spend a little money with
this company. They don't have WhatsApp.
And
a lot of companies are trying to mimic
what they're doing.
And I complained to the company. I said,
I'm gonna have to come to your business
to make sure I'm talking to you,
and I don't wanna do that.
I wanna talk to you over I wanna
talk to you over WhatsApp
This public's on your website,
so I know I'm talking to who I'm
talking to.
Especially if I'm gonna have to put, like,
a thousand dollars down on something I wanna
buy.
I'm not gonna send anybody any money unless
I'm a %,
one thousand, ten thousand % guaranteed.
You are who you say you are.
Because you've admitted in your own YouTube channel
that people are spoofing you. And how do
I know you're not the one spoofing?
It's crazy.
Anyway, turning the red planet green, it's time
to take terraforming
Mars seriously.
We haven't even got to Mars.
How how do you how how can you
even consider this?
Living plants are better than dead ones, of
course.
Terraforming
will take centuries,
if not a millennia.
You know, this is right out of this
is right out of space
odyssey
or space space stories
of terraforming.
And terraforming is usually requires an incredible amount
of energy
and
a whole bunch of stuff.
So
I I think we gotta get Earth cleaned
up first. If we're gonna terraform Mars, let's
just let's work on the things here
and get that right first,
and then
and then we can think about Mars.
Because none of us are gonna live long
enough
to see any outcome of it.
You know? Thousand years from now, maybe.
But what has anyone ever made that works
for a thousand years here? Right?
So this is kind of interesting. And, you
know, I I I watched
on Netflix
yesterday,
a three part series. I don't know how
it relates to this article I'm gonna talk
about, but,
it was about
the hunt for Osama bin Laden. The
great three point there was stuff there I
learned that I didn't know.
Some really eye opening stuff. It was great
series.
And,
and I think about
09/11,
and I think about where we are 20,
what, twenty four years later,
almost twenty four years later.
And then you think about
02/2001, A Space Odyssey. You know, how long
ago did that come out?
And the amount of time here that has
has,
has, you know, the amount of time that
has walked through.
So the Vienna Symphony Orchestra spent some time
playing a waltz
that the European Space Agency
transmitted in the general
direction of the Voyager x probe.
The aim of this project, named Waltz into
Space, was to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
ESA's founding
and the two hundredth birthday of Austrian
composer,
Johann Strauss.
Readers may recall that Strass' signature work, The
Blue Danubeau,
which I never knew what the name was,
featured in the seminal sci fi flick 2,001,
A Space Odyssey during the famous sequence in
which a Pan Am spacecraft
docks his space station.
If you don't remember
that
that,
orchestra work, the Blue Danaboo,
they've got a video
on the website, and I took some time
and definitely listened to it. It's pretty good.
And,
so
very, very cool that they did this. So,
just a little, you know you know, thinking
back as because, again, I watched the 09/11
thing. 02/2001, I guess, is the reason that
it kicked the memory here.
But,
very, very interesting.
I might have to watch, A Space Odyssey
again,
02/2001.
Definitely, it's one of those you have to
repeat
every now and again.
Samsung Wallet gets tapped to transfer in The
United States,
So they make sending money easier than ever
in The US region
back and forth
from one another.
So,
SpaceX scrubbed a a launch today of 23
Starlinks. They're gonna try again tomorrow morning. No
reason on the scrub.
So
Kirk found a, in in the prep today.
My by the way, Kirk thanked me for
reminding all of you. He is looking for
a job.
And if you have a job for Kirk,
please consider emailing me or,
emailing him directpa@geeknacentral.com.
But he found this
I should also mention,
if any of you are looking for IPTV,
email me geeknews@gmail.com.
Alright?
And if you're looking for IPTV service, let
me know. I I have a connection.
Gothamist
look at look at this website. Now watch
what happens
when I when I scroll.
Do you see what's happening? For those of
you that are are listening,
at the very header,
there's a bar that's going across the top
of the website that shows you how far
you've gotten into the article.
I saw this. I thought, that's pretty cool.
That's cooler than the article.
Definitely
a very interesting
a very interesting,
function on the website. I've never seen that
on a website before.
So Lartico's
NYC summer stargazing season kicks off with a
triangle
meteor
shower. So it just talks about,
you know, what we're gonna be seeing in
the sky.
And,
so summer solids is coming.
And, but, anyway, Gothamist, an a nonprofit newsroom
powered by WNYC.
Interesting.
A nonprofit
newsroom powered by
WNYC.
Isn't that public?
Is it WNYC a public radio station?
So, anyway, I just thought the website was
cool. The article is less less,
less enhanced or less
important.
Make A Wish helps Tacoma Cancer patients fulfill
dream of giving back to fellow children. This
is interesting.
So make a wish to obviously, kids wanna
go to Disneyland
or wherever they may wanna go. And, you
know, this is their last you know, this
is the it's a dream come true to
get something the family likely cannot afford to
do.
But a young man
wants to make a lot of wishes come
true for kids fighting health battles.
And,
his wish is that
they give back
gaming consoles,
nothing to him, but give back,
different types of,
gaming device. Tucker Schuld has been fighting cancer
at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital in Tacoma.
He said video games have been video games
have been key in his treatment process.
He says there's a lot of periods where
I felt really sick and everything, but just
a lot of waiting involved. So playing games
just really helped take my mind off it.
So So when asked what his wish was,
he asked for more special game system designed
for hospital setting to be given to other
kids getting treatment.
Previously,
I believe they only had only two or
three game systems. Now they have 11, which
means there's one for every single oncology room
so all kids could play at the same
time if they wanted to and no one
has to wait.
Tucker says he wants to give other pediatric
cancer patients the same experience he had he
had.
So he said occupying
myself by playing video games, all the distraction
just really made it really nice, made me
feel
like home, take my mind, all the stuff
that was going on during my treatment. I
think that,
ladies and gentlemen, is awesome.
And,
if you have a local Make A Wish
Foundation, and I don't know if it's national
or chapters or how it works, I honestly
don't,
that sounds like something that is really,
really something that,
would be a great donation,
a new gaming system, handheld unit.
Those of you that gamers know better than
I do, but,
yeah, it really seems like
that's that's something cool. So, good on him
for wanting to get back to other,
folks,
that were, you know, all the children, teenagers
getting treatment.
The US government is investigating message, impersonating Trump's
chief of staff, Susie Wiles. Now how does
this happen?
The government is investigating after elected official, business
executives, and other prominent figures in recent weeks
received messages from someone impersonating Susie Wiles.
They breached the phone. They tried to impersonate
her, Trump told reporters on Friday.
A White House official confirmed the investigation, and
Friday said the White House takes cyber security
of its staff seriously.
The Wall Street Journal reported that senators, governors,
business leaders, others begin receiving text and phone
calls from someone who seemed
to have gained access to the contacts in
Will's
personal cell phone.
The message and calls were not coming from
her number,
but it targeted people that were in her
contact list.
Well, you know, my contact list,
good luck.
I I have over 5,000
contacts in my contact list from all the
years doing business. I've never cleaned one of
them up. It's just it's just a task
that is
impossible.
But you think over twenty years of entering
people's numbers and names and in notes, 5,000
entries,
good luck
getting my contacts.
Is there a good tool out there to
help you clean up contacts? Does it know
how long since you've accessed one or been
messaged by one? Does anyone know of a
tool? Probably that I'm sure there is.
US led scientists
discover new evidence on origins of intermediate
mass black holes.
Intermediate
mass aren't they all the same? Don't they
operate the same?
Origins. The origins of these things. So let's
what what do they have to say? What
are the origins?
Black holes are generally grouped into three sizes,
stellar mass
black holes, which are about five to 50
times the mass of the sun,
super massive black holes with millions to billions
of times the sun mass, and intermediate mass
black holes which fall somewhere in between. Well,
they all will kill you.
So
the main study, properties of light, intermediate mass
black hole candidates, and Ligo Virgo's third observing
run.
Oh my god. They found that the detected
gravitation aways came from
mergers of black holes weighing in between 103
times the mass of the sun. Pretty big.
But according, you know, space is almost nothing.
But
so Earth based detections like LIGO can only
catch a brief moment of the final collision
of these lighter intermediate mass holes, make it
under hard to understand.
So, anyway, they're they're gonna look at more
of this. This.
We know so little.
We really do. We know so little what's
really going on out in space.
We're trying to do it.
Apple TV,
you know, privacy
you know, we're we're what what device should
we use?
And they're saying using Apple TV or an
Apple account means giving Apple more data.
Well, we forget.
Apple is very privacy focused. They really, really
are. So ours Technica team went and took
a look here.
And he says every time we ride in
our car about escalating advertising tracking on today's
TV, someone brings up the Apple TV.
Among smart TV streaming sticks and other streaming
device, Apple TVs are largely viewed as a
safe haven.
Just connect your TV just disconnect your TV
from the Internet and use an Apple TV
box.
That's the common guidance you'll hear from
folks for those seeking the joys of streaming
without giving up too much privacy. Based on
our research and expert, we've consulted the device
is pretty solid as Apple TVs offer significantly
more privacy than other streaming hardware providers.
But how private are Apple TV boxes really?
Apple TVs don't use automated content recognition,
ACR, a user track technology leveraged by nearly
all smart TVs and stream device, but could
that change?
So Apple TV does limit tracking out of
the box.
So there's a pretty good art this is
a pretty good write up. It's pretty long.
Essentially, the end of the article really is
is one thing.
Apple TVs are are are safer. They're safer
to use on almost any other
streaming stick. Meanwhile, in France,
France charged 25 suspects in crypto abduction case.
Of course, we had that happen here in
The United States.
Twenty Five people, including six minors, were charged
in Paris over a spat of kidnappings, attempted
deductions in France's cryptocurrency world.
18 people have been placed in pretrial detention,
three have requested deferred hearing, and four have
been placed under judicial
supervision
with suspects ranging
ranging between 16 and 23 years old.
You brag about your crypto.
Guess what?
They kidnap you, have you enter your information,
and steal your Bitcoin. That's what was going
on in New Jersey.
Someone's trying to steal someone's half million dollars
in crypto.
How much crypto do you have, Todd? None.
I have Satoshis,
but I don't get access to them. You
have to be inside my house to get
access to them,
and good luck with that.
Actually, even then, you have to know the
password of my computers. You have to know
a whole bunch of other stuff. Good luck.
Salman Rusty. Do you know who Salman Rusty
is? I have Salman Rusty's book.
The book that was,
written that
had him on a
that they were drunk trying to kill him.
And, actually, he lost his eye because of
that book.
Salman Rushdie said that authors are safe from
the threat of AI
until the moment it can create a book
that makes people laugh.
Rusty said he had never tried AI and
liked to pretend it didn't exist.
But the problem AI had was that it
couldn't make up its own jokes.
There's no sense of humor.
You don't wanna hear a joke told by
Chet GBT. If there's a moment when there's
a funny book written by Chet GBT, I
think we're screwed.
So,
Rusty was making his most high profile in
person appearance in The UK since a stabbing
in The United States while he was on
stage left him blind in the right eye.
Of course, I I didn't realize that that
happened here in The United States.
They tried to hit they kill him because
of his book.
So,
again, I I have that book that he
wrote. I've never cracked the cover.
It's in its original format.
Google plans to appeal the antitrust ruling against
its search engine dominance here in United States.
The company
argued the federal court's decision was wrong and
would hurt consumers. Of course, they're going to
appeal.
Isn't it no no surprise that they're going
to appeal?
They they don't want to have to divest
themselves
of Chrome
or whatever else is imposed.
Now this next article over on Computer World,
I am going to unequivocally,
absolutely
just say this is this is not the
case.
Title is AI chatbots deliver minimal productivity
gains.
For most jobs, AI chatbots only save about
3% of work time with little impact on
wages and overall economic benefit according to a
new study. Well,
okay.
Believe me.
If you're a business owner and you believe
this,
then
you will not be here in ten years.
Just
the usage of a couple of times I've
used ChatGPT
for doing analysis on
stuff,
deep analysis
on real data,
Incredible.
If I had
as a small business owner,
if I had a data analysis
team, in other words, bunch of people that
have undergraduate
and graduate level data analysis skills,
they probably would be using this tool too
to get data analysis. I'm using I'm getting
incredible data,
making able to make great decisions
on product flow, what to do next, where
are we headed,
doing analysis of lots of stuff.
The analysis piece is where it's at.
Now we can write blog posts,
helping us write,
copy for our
manuals.
Take a screenshot
of a a UI.
Go into upload it in the chat g
p t. Explain
what the
the menu is, the purpose of the menu,
and say write the manual. If you have
any questions on any of the fields, ask
me.
Nine out of 10 times, doesn't ask me.
Write to amazing
product manual.
All I have to do is drop in
pictures,
point arrows,
incredible
productivity gain,
saving me hours and hours and hours. Whoever
wrote this
has not used AI very
much.
I
I just don't believe it.
Credit gains of three to 7%.
We have I I have I have emboldened
my team.
We are going to be an AI first
company.
In other words, we're gonna use the AI
tools to every possibility that we can.
Use human
subject matter experts to validate the data,
review, cross review,
and put information out.
It's been hugely effective.
Hugely.
And so effective
that one of my team members,
decided that they didn't wanna work forty hours
a week anymore. They wanted to cut hours
back,
spend more time with grandchildren. You do that
kind of stuff.
And I'm getting forty hours,
of
value of work in about twenty five hours.
That's how much value it's adding.
At least 25 or 30%.
So
I don't believe any of this.
It's they talk to people that were not
using AI, that weren't leaning into it.
That's that's the case
here. % the case.
So,
you know, I I I'll let you folks
review it. But, again,
I I don't,
I don't agree at all,
with this particular piece.
So
we're gonna wrap this up here in a
second, but I wanna thank all of you.
Make sure you get over geatoncentral.com.
We got great articles being put up by
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that will kick in again here in a
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space the articles out a little bit because
we do have a budget,
on how many articles that, we put up
on the website,
at a given time,
just because of the,
the fine financial piece of this.
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My podcast news and, podcast myth show
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And,
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it'll be fun. It's gonna be mostly myths
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And,
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Again, everything we're putting on YouTube is available
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It's at least in the content that I'm
creating. Some of the teams creating some other
stuff that's gonna be strictly YouTube. You really
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some of the content. Most of the stuff
I'm do hearing it is just as valuable
as as seeing it.
We're making a decision on the new media
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Rob is kind of trying to decide if
he's gonna pull back a little bit or
not.
So, time will tell. I'm creating enough content.
I'm busy one way or the other.
And, wrong with the regular JOB of everything
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making sure that,
I have a really good,
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