Two and a Half Bens

30 - Now With More AI Slop

2026-08-22

The Bens discuss AI shenangians, Microsoft ditching Manifest v2, unsustainable patching, Waymo, Ubuntu in Windows, AI destroying physical books, losing a PBS station's history, and more!

• Young US adults are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs
• Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and other US tech giants are hiding $1.65 trillion in AI debt
• Hey, Your AI Is Showing
• DraculaGPT to destroy entry-level medical jobs
• Prior authorization consumes more clinician full-time-equivalents than the entire projected US physician shortage
• A GITHUB MISCONFIGURATION LET KIMI K3 CHEAT A CYBERSECURITY BENCHMARK.
• Hackers want your nudes. Here’s how to keep your privates, private
• Edge to end Manifest v2 support. Firefox gloats
• Patchmageddon: The race to patch software vulnerabilities before zero-day cyber-exploitations proliferate
• A San Francisco ‘tech prankster’ got 50 Waymos ordered onto the same street, exposing robotaxis’ cyber/airbag problem
• Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux is outpacing Ubuntu on physical hardware
• Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books
• AI hallucinated case law in insurance company’s filings in L.A. County house fire dispute
• Shield Font
• ShieldFont uses ligatures to poison AI scrapers
• Over 70 Years of PBS Video History Has Been Lost as a Denver Cloud Storage Vendor Shuts Down Without Warning

Executive Producer: Sir bigl0af

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