Geekshow Helpdesk: Tut tut, looks like an apocalypse

Geekshow Podcast

-Weaponized Pagers: https://www.engadget.com/mobile/pagers-explode-simultaneously-in-hundreds-of-hezbollah-members-pockets-190304565.html

-Starlink for Spying: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/chinese-scientists-use-starlink-signals-to-detect-stealth-aircraft-and-drones

-Starlink for planes: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/13/24243594/united-airlines-free-starlink-wi-fi-connectivity

-Trump Gets into Crypto: https://www.engadget.com/general/trump-jumps-into-cryptocurrency-appears-to-know-nothing-about-it-130022525.html

-What the heck is this: https://www.engadget.com/social-media/snaps-fifth-generation-spectacles-bring-your-hands-into-into-augmented-reality-180026541.html

-OpenAI’s new model can lie to you differently now:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/17/24243884/openai-o1-model-research-safety-alignment

https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-o1-preview/

-Do NOT ask OpenAI o1 to show you how the sausage is made, or we’ll ban you. -OpenAI

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/openai-threatens-bans-for-probing-new-ai-models-reasoning-process/

-OpenAi: SVU

Sam Altman abandoning Non-profit. Corporate Greed always wins.

https://fortune.com/2024/09/13/sam-altman-openai-non-profit-structure-change-next-year/

• Elon Musk isn’t having it!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2024/03/01/elon-musk-sues-openai-and-ceo-sam-altman-over-abandoned-non-profit-promise/

-AI and Fires!

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/16/1103962/google-is-funding-an-ai-powered-satellite-constellation-that-will-spot-wildfires-faster/

(don’t open this link too many times, it will time you out.)

-Impulse buy you DJI Drone now!

https://www.techradar.com/cameras/drones/your-dji-drone-might-soon-be-banned-in-the-us-and-yes-this-news-is-just-as-bad-as-it-sounds