595: Tree Or Not?

Dad tech jokes; influencer grift & bamboozle brokers; ChatGPT oversight; returning to the office, hybrid models; Twitter source code leaked; poor William Shatner; Microsoft baking AI into next Windows, slips ads into Bing Chat; Google's Tree or Not AI; science creates new paint; that AI open letter; Disney ditches the Metaverse; Binance charged; Google violates order to save chats; the Menu; Bert Kreischer; Picard; the Bad Batch; Shrinking; Ted Lasso; new Star Trek shows; new music from the kids; Apple Music Classical; Analogue Pocket; Delphi Forums; Apple Pay Later; USA spyware ban; AI-enhanced scams; food poisoning; going down memory lane in old school arcades.

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