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OpenAI's weekend coup, plus our thoughts on Microsoft's gambit and their looming risk.Sponsored By:Alderon Games: Alderon Games is looking to hire talented remote workers. They believe in the power of play and the magic of immersive worlds and are looking for passionate individuals.Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links:⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. 🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.Apple pulls its ads from X after Musk’s antisemitic posts — Big-spending advertisers like Apple, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and IBM have pulled back from the platform after Elon Musk expressed support for antisemitic posts.TikTok ads: Apple still a top spender, despite growing controversy — Apple remains one of the top-spending companies when it comes to TikTok ads, despite growing controversy about whether the app is a threat to US national security.Viral PANIC As Bin Laden Letter Spreads on TikTok - YouTube — Krystal and Emily discuss Osama Bin Ladens Letter To America going viral on TikTok. Peak AI Hype? — Is this Peak AI hype? Boost in your worst AI marketing.Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI — In a sudden move, Altman is leaving after the company’s board determined that he ‘was not consistently candid in his communications.’ President and co-founder Greg Brockman has also quit.Microsoft is a key investor in OpenAI. It was blindsided by Sam Altman's exit. — Microsoft, which has invested billions in OpenAI, learned that OpenAI was ousting CEO Sam Altman just a minute before the news was shared with the world, according to a person familiar with the situation.3 OpenAI Researchers Resign Following Sam Altman's Dismissal: Report — The Information reported that following his departure, three senior researchers at the company quit.OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO - The Verge — A source close to Altman says the board had agreed in principle to resign and to allow Altman and Greg Brockman to return but has since waffledOpenAI Board Urged by Microsoft, Investors to Restore Altman — Altman has been weighing new venture, but open to returningOpenAI Investors Pushing to Reinstate Sam Altman As CEO: ReportsOpenAI has received just a fraction of Microsoft’s $10 billion investment — That gives the software giant significant leverage as it sorts through the fallout from the ouster of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The firm’s board said on Friday that it had lost confidence in his ability to lead, without giving additional details.OpenAI Corp Structure is Bonkers — When ownership innovation is…Altman Sought Billions For Chip Venture Before OpenAI Ouster — The project, code-named Tigris, is intended to rival NvidiaMicrosoft hires ex-OpenAI leaders Altman and Brockman to lead new AI group — Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” the software conglomerate’s chief Satya Nadella said MondayBreaking with @reckless: Sam Altman and Greg Brockman’s move to Microsoft isn’t a done deal. — Pressure is on the board to still resign gracefully after the flipping of Ilya Sutskever last nightOpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns — More than 700 employees of OpenAI have signed a letter saying they may quit and join Sam Altman at Microsoft unless the startup’s board resigns and reappoints the ousted CEO.Emmett Shear’s time at Twitch gives clues to future of OpenAI — “But Shear has expressed strong concerns over the supposed existential risks posed by AI, a concern that I suspect resonated with the board, even though Shear says this CEO shakeup wasn’t about AI safety.”Stephanie Palazzolo on X: — He's agreed to an internal investigation into alleged conduct that prompted the board to oust him in the first place.Gary Marcus on X: "‼️ 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚 scoop 👉 — Sam and Greg gave up their board seats Sam agreed to an internal investigation This is inconsistent with all narratives about “cloddish” or self-interested boards, and suggests that something real happened.

Microsoft's missed opportunities and future of coding with AI, challenges of developing games for Apple platforms, the potential impact of AI on coding, evolution of software development, building custom GPTs, and exploring the potential of Noster.

New AI "regulation" from on high this week, a few signs you might be pissing in your own pond, and the game dev team that's been together for 40 years.Sponsored By:Alderon Games: Alderon Games is looking to hire talented remote workers. They believe in the power of play and the magic of immersive worlds and are looking for passionate individuals.Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links:⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. 🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.Hopping instead of hustling: Survey tells us how developers are taking care of business — More developers are looking for or are open to a new job now compared to the last two years—that’s according to the results of our latest survey on the state of developer employment. More than 1,000 developers responded to this year’s survey about jobs and 79% are at least considering new opportunities if not actively looking. Watch Silo - Apple TV+Watch For All Mankind - Apple TV+Biden AI executive order directs agencies to develop safety guidelines — The executive order builds on non-binding agreements the White House made with AI companies.Eric Geller on X — Developers of any LLMs with the potential to pose serious risks will have to red-team them for safety and security issues—based on standards developed by NIST—and share the results with the government. Biden is using the Defense Production Act for this.This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI — The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. Hector Martin — This is a lie, and this excuse needs to die. Linux kernel code quality and review is about as bad as you'd expect for a project of that size with a low reviewer:contributor ratio. It is in no way helped by reviewers and maintainers who are "picky" (=assholes).Ask the Developer Vol. 11, Super Mario Bros. Wonder — This year marks the 39th year that I've been involved in the development of Mario games.Nintendo executives take pay cuts after profits tumble — Nintendo's top executives are taking temporary pay-cuts to atone for a dive in profits following disappointing sales of its Wii U games console.Nintendo Is Raising Its Employee Pay By 10% In Japan — Despite a downturn in sales and profits for Nintendo in its third quarter, it's reportedly raising the base salaries of its employees by 10% in its homeland.

We've all made mistakes and tried to play dumb, but this week history is being made.Sponsored By:Alderon Games: Alderon Games is looking to hire talented remote workers. They believe in the power of play and the magic of immersive worlds and are looking for passionate individuals.Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links:⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. 🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.Sam Bankman-Fried repeatedly told to “stop talking” during rambling testimony — FTX co-founder scolded for making up his own definition of market manipulation.Sam Bankman-Fried is going to talk himself right into jail — Somehow, the least suspicious parts of his defense are the 288 auto-deleting Signal conversations.In the end, the FTX trial was about the friends screwed along the way — The prosecution’s case against Sam Bankman-Fried had a lot of collateral damage.Android 14 breaks storage on some devices — The storage problem takes effect if the user, before installing Android 14, had multiple profiles on the device. Google readies Pixel update to fix Android 14 storage access issue — Depending on the device, this issue can result in the primary user being unable to access media storage. Alternatively, the issue can reboot the device with a “Factory data reset” message. If this message is accepted, data that is not backed up can be lost, and if it is declined, the device repeatedly reboots with the “Pixel is starting” message.Android 14 review: There’s always next year European Parliament adopts final position on EU Commission's CSAM (ChatControl) Proposal : privacy — There will be no mass surveillance of digital communications. The EU Parliament instead propose that surveillance will be limited to targeted surveillance of individuals and groups reasonably suspected of dissemination of CSAM and will only be permitted with a judicial warrant.The UK’s controversial Online Safety Bill finally becomes law "Fuck you, we're not paying": inside Unity’s Runtime Fee fiasco — One Unity insider told us that a major mobile game publisher – and one of Unity’s biggest clients – met with John Riccitiello himself days after the first Runtime Fee policy was announced. They told him, in the words of our source: “Fuck you, we’re not paying.”

Rumors of internal panic at Apple, and concerns about the future of RISC-V. Plus, the software update of the century.Sponsored By:Alderon Games: Alderon Games is looking to hire talented remote workers. They believe in the power of play and the magic of immersive worlds and are looking for passionate individuals.Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links:⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. 🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.The Risk of RISC-V: What's Going on at SiFive? — I have received reports, now from multiple sources, that the major torch bearer of the RISC-V platform, a company known as SiFive and formed from the original architects of the RISC-V instruction set, has gone through some major changes.Apple Announces October Event for Macs: 'Scary Fast' — Apple today announced its second fall event of 2023, with the online event set to be held on Monday, October 30 at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time. Apple to invest more than $1 billion annually in lucrative new area — A July report, however, found that, behind closed doors, Apple was working frantically to develop its own ChatGPT competitor dubbed Ajax. Apple Preps Ajax Generative AI, ‘Apple GPT’ to Rival OpenAI and GoogleWhat Is Apple Doing in AI? Revamping Siri, Search, Apple Music and other Apps Daring Fireball: Apple and AI — But I think Gurman’s summary does get at an essential truth. If I asked you “Which companies are at the forefront of AI-powered products?”, I doubt you’d put Apple on the list. And AI is proving so useful — and yet is a nascent field — that Apple needs to soon be on that list, lest their products begin to fall behind competitively. “Which companies are best at integrating AI into products?” is going to be like “Which companies are best at creating hardware at scale?” and “Which companies are best at human interface design?”Apple Cancelled Jon Stewart Because Feckless Tech Executives Were Afraid Of The Pesky Truth — Last week, the New York Times reported that Apple had cancelled “The Problem With Jon Stewart.” How Can We Fix Inflation? With Economist Steve Hanke | The Problem With Jon Stewart Podcast - YouTubeExclusive: Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel — Nvidia has quietly begun designing central processing units (CPUs) that would run Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) Windows operating system and use technology from Arm Holdings(O9Ty.F), , two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12 billion miles away — The update, which took almost 18 hours to complete, was transmitted to help Voyager 2 avoid the same problem that its sibling, Voyager 1, experienced last year.The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA’s Voyager Probes Across the Universe

We're about to see a wave of big tech AI features "inspired" by third-party developers at a scale that makes the Sherlocking on Apple's platform seem like chump change. Plus, how Dropbox turned around their dev retention rates, and more.Sponsored By:Alderon Games: Alderon Games is looking to hire talented remote workers. They believe in the power of play and the magic of immersive worlds and are looking for passionate individuals.Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links:⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. 🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.Analogue is making a 4K Nintendo 64 — The company behind the Analogue Pocket turns its attention to the N64. We don’t know what the console will look like yet, but it’s launching in 2024.AnalogueA montage of snippets from Jupiter Broadcasting’s Coder Radio ShowGoogle to defend generative AI users from copyright claims — "To our knowledge, Google is the first in the industry to offer a comprehensive, two-pronged approach to indemnity" that specifically covers both types of claims, a company spokesperson said.AI Could Cause a Financial Crash Within a Decade, SEC Head Says — Banking has embraced AI, with Morgan Stanley rolling out a chatbot advisor based on OpeanAI's GPT4. The AI Profitability Problem - dominickm.com — In the rapidly evolving world of AI technology, challenges abound, from hardware dependencies to business model uncertainties and emerging regulatory concerns. The CEO of Dropbox Has a 90/10 Rule for Remote Work — "If you trust people and treat them like adults, they'll behave like adults. Trust over surveillance," said Houston.Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption — By making a minor concession EU governments hope to find a majority next week to approve the controversial „chat control“ bill. According to the proposed child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR), providers of messengers, e-mail and chat services would be forced to automatically search all private messages and photos for suspicious content and report it to the EU.EUR-Lex - 52022PC0209 - EN - EUR-LexU.S. Tightens Curbs on AI Chip Exports to China, Widening Rift With Nvidia and Intel — New rules make it tougher for the U.S. businesses to sell advanced semiconductors to the Chinese marketTop FTX Executive Says Sam Bankman-Fried Used Customer Money for ‘Excess’ Spending — Nishad Singh, testifying at Mr. Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial, said FTX customer deposits were used to buy luxury real estate and to pay athletes like Tom Brady and Steph Curry for endorsement deals.

Mike checks in from the grind and shares some challenges in recent cross-platform testing; then, we get into the avalanche of negative AI press coverage this week and the one massive story they're not touching.Sponsored By:Alderon Games: Alderon Games is looking to hire talented remote workers. They believe in the power of play and the magic of immersive worlds and are looking for passionate individuals.Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links:⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. 🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.Why Hybrid Workers Are 'Coffee Badging' to Avoid Going Back to the Office — The workplace trend involves showing up at the office for a few hours before leaving.Report Claims LOTR: Gollum Publisher Used AI To Write Apology — An investigation by German outlet Game Two into what went wrong during the development of Lord of the Rings: Gollum has made claims that the publisher’s apology for the terrible state of the released game was written by AI ChatGPT. Disney’s Loki remains silent over reported use of generative AI — Loki season 2 poster has been linked to a stock image on Shutterstock that seemingly breaks the platform’s licensing rules regarding AI-generated content.Artists are upset that ‘Secret Invasion’ used AI art for opening credits — Marvel’s latest series, “Secret Invasion,” made its debut on Disney+ today, sparking tons of backlash after it was confirmed the intro sequence was AI-generated.AI doesn’t sound particularly profitable. — Despite charging $10 a month for GitHub Copilot, The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is losing an average of over $20 per user, per month. Who Is OpenAI’s Sam Altman? Meet the Oppenheimer of Our Age — Altman grew up the oldest of four siblings in suburban St. Louis: three boys, Sam, Max, and Jack, each two years apart, then a girl, Annie, nine years younger than Sam.Annie Altman on X — I’m not four years old with a 13 year old “brother” climbing into my bed non-consensually anymore. Annie Altman on X — Annie's video message to Sam Altman.Émile P. Torres, PhD on X — This is Sam Altman's sister. Her tweets about sexual, physical, emotional, etc. abuse are incredibly hard to read. Seems that no one in the media is that interested in covering this story because they're afraid of losing access to OpenAI if they write something critical of Sam.Pledditor on X — Sam Altman's sister is making some eyepopping allegations against him 👀LinuxFest Northwest | Meetup

How does your first major programming language/technology still shape your work and career? Then grab some popcorn and let's watch the next epic tech titan battle unfold.Sponsored By:Alderon Games: Alderon Games is looking to hire talented remote workers. They believe in the power of play and the magic of immersive worlds and are looking for passionate individuals.Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links:⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. 🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.Barista Express — Create third wave specialty coffee at home from bean to espresso in less than a minute.Bones Coffee Company - Say Goodbye to Boring.How To Brew Espresso Like a Pro — Learn how to brew espresso at home, using an automatic or a manual espresso maker. Tips on pulling the perfect espresso shot and a troubleshooting guide.AeroPress Coffee Maker Official StoreAmerican Economic Liberties Project on X — Apple and Google have a “fantastic oligopolistic arrangement” says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on day 14 of the #USvGoogle trial. Apple Deal Responsible for Google's Dominance in Search, Says Microsoft CEOMicrosoft’s Nadella Takes Stand at Google Antitrust Trial - BloombergMicrosoft has spent $100 billion on Bing — Satya Nadella is one of several executives the US Department of Justice will have testify in its antitrust trial about Google search.An hour-long history lesson about Microsoft’s many failures in mobile. — Nadella is mostly just responding “that sounds right” and “correct.” He’s not arguing that Bing is better than Google — he’s arguing that it’s impossible to be better than Google. And Schmidtlein says no, it’s just that Bing sucks. And that’s your fault, not ours.Amazon Used Secret ‘Project Nessie’ Algorithm to Raise Prices — The strategy, as described in redacted parts of FTC lawsuit, is part of agency’s case that Amazon has outsize influence on consumer pricesApple enforces new check on apps in China as Beijing tightens oversight — Apple began last Friday requiring app developers to submit the "internet content provider (ICP) filing" when they publish new apps on its App Store, it said on its website for developers.After USB-C win, EU tells Tim Cook that Apple must 'open up its gates to competitors' — In new comments today, EU industry chief Thierry Breton reiterated that Apple must “open up its gates to competitors.” CRTC takes major step forward to modernize Canada’s broadcasting framework — We are developing a modern broadcasting framework that can adapt to changing circumstances.

The podcast discusses the Unity outrage, RustRover IDE, annoying mistakes, Adobe launching Photoshop for the web, Epic Games layoffs, Unity's pricing changes, carbon vs methane emissions, Jar Jar compared to a Rakdos goblin, ODB dash pie, .NET popularity in the UK, gaming on Linux, podcast streaming improvements, mic side hustle success, podcast hosting costs, Google's identity system service, and motives behind Chrome web browser development.

The painful side of making video games, Grinder's big problems, and Google's sneakiest trojan horse.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links:⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. 🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.Why isn’t dotnet core popular among startups? — Is there any specific reason why startups, at least here in India, don’t tend to use dotnet for backend especially now dotnet is also open source and cross-platform. Almost Half of Grindr’s Employees Quit — Grindr seems to have played itself by giving its employees a return-to-office ultimatum — and nearly half of those employees responded by quitting.Santiago on X: "I fired somebody cheating" — Around that time, I stumbled upon the idea of overemployment. A whole movement dedicated to helping people work several full-time jobs at once.Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly — Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targetingThe Privacy Sandbox — Billions of people around the world rely on access to information on sites and apps. To provide this free resource without relying on intrusive tracking, publishers and developers need privacy-preserving alternatives for their key business needs, including serving relevant content and ads. Major programming faults discovered in Starfield's code by VKD3D dev - performance issues are *not* the result of non-upgraded hardware — What really grinds my gears is the fact that the open source community has figured out and came up with workarounds to try to make this game run better.Starfield Is Great—Unless You're on Nvidia or IntelVenn on X — While it may not be optimized for PC, it will be optimized for #Linux.Todd Howard Tells Starfield Players To Upgrade Their PCsArtificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water — In a paper due to be published later this year, Ren’s team estimates ChatGPT gulps up 500 milliliters of water (close to what’s in a 16-ounce water bottle) every time you ask it a series of between 5 to 50 prompts or questions. The range varies depending on where its servers are located and the season. The estimate includes indirect water usage that the companies don’t measure — such as to cool power plants that supply the data centers with electricity.Nissan, Kia 'collect data about drivers' sexual activity' — The foundation said most car companies can comb through a variety of sources to glean personal information about drivers after they pair their smartphones with a vehicle’s connected services.