(Or I drive a Snitch)
It’s hot in London and Manchester, but not as hot as the blazing heat of AI nonsense.
Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David Eastman, and Wendy Grossman.
Techgrumps 3.42
AI bin
- Munich court decision on AI Overviews/Google: https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/
- Youtube is cooked – People using AI to generate their own videos
- Code Reveals Meta Smart Glasses Can Use ‘Faceprint’ Tracking, Raising Privacy Alarms https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/meta-smart-glasses-code-face-recognition-biometric-tracking-privacy/
- Last stakeholder gives up on gigantic data center in northern Virginia after years of litigation over land rights.
- AI cheating scandal at Brown University: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/
- Waymos ran out of power in SF July 4 congestion
- AI is pushing up emissions at google, Amazon, Microsoft…the wrong kind of hockey stick growth (Guardian and Ketan Joshi)
- Protests against data center for high-freuqqency trading in Brick Lane (council and residents want affordable housing)
Rest of World – AI analytics at the World Cup
- Watch the world cup, and all the stats hand made by mechanical turks in Cambodia, India and the Philippines for endless betting possibilities
Ian’s been playing with local hosted AI systems, finds so much you can do without a GPU and massive rig.
- But what the hell with the RAM – https://techwontsave.us/episode/335_the_ram_crisis_is_coming_for_all_your_tech_w_chris_person/
Waymo holds robotaxi in a parking lot
- when two 15yos shoot water beads out of the window while drinking alcohol to await cops, who arrive guns drawn.
AOBs
- EMF camp, Ian talking:https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/151, Ian DJing:https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/15-in-a-trance-within-the-null-sector
- Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond (Tamara Kneese)
- Ryan’s New NAS
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