Off The Hook

AI redesign of government websites, judge orders $5 million Trump judgment be released to E. Jean Carroll, NY's archaic requirements get an AI overhaul, embracing old technology, origins of the term "ham radio", discovering new technology.

Belgium is playing Senegal in the World Cup today, listener phone calls, Wayve AI driving system, Hasbro wants to replace Peppa Pig child voice actors with AI, listener email, NYC cooling centers, couple climbs Empire State Building, eavesdropping phones.

The evasiveness of AI companies, calls for a nationwide datacenter moratorium, Amazon backs out of Sam Altman biopic, Pentagon used Grok AI to fire missiles at Iran, MSG made dossier on activists who opposed facial recognition.

There were a lot of sports this week, LinkNYC kiosks used to stream Knicks game, UK bans social media for children, leak exposes members of Peter Thiel's secretive 'Dialog' society.

Alex is in a karaoke bar in Seville, Knicks drama in NYC, whitehouse.gov propaganda, new head of 60 Minutes Nick Bilton was one of the founders of NYC Resistor, Seattle enacts moratorium on datacenters.

Scott Pelley fired from 60 Minutes after standing up to management, listener phone calls.

World Cup problems, open source OSes will be exempt from age verification, social media problems.

Eric Schmidt commencement speech booed, experts condemn payment of ransom by Canvas, concern about ASU's AI course builder, AI announcer mispronounced and skipped names during a graduation at Arizona community college, listener email.

Smart glasses being used to covertly film people, datacenter guzzles 30M gallons of water without being billed, fallout from the Canvas hack.

Utah bans VPN used to circumvent age verification, North Carolina found 34k deceased voters on rolls, musician sues Google over AI overview that falsely claimed he was a sex offender, new Christian phone network blocks porn and LGBT content, listener phone calls.