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Geekshow Podcast

-The Cloud Pendulum Swings: https://www.techradar.com/pro/aws-says-customers-are-turning-back-to-on-prem

-The news here isn’t the news: https://wccftech.com/snapdragon-8-gen-5-cpu-cluster-and-clock-speeds-revealed-by-sketchy-rumor/

-Twitter Block gets nerfed: https://www.engadget.com/social-media/x-is-nerfing-the-block-button-blocked-users-will-be-able-to-see-your-posts-214928396.html

-Blue Zones are bunk:

https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/09/21/065251/researcher-wins-award-for-debunking-longer-life-expectancies-in-blue-zones?utm_source=rss0.9mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

-iPhone 16/iPhone 16 Pro Max reviews

-Scraping as a service? ScraaS?

CloudFlare plans to sell an option (AI Audit) to allow it’s customers to sell scraping access to their websites.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/09/23/2038215/cloudflares-new-marketplace-will-let-websites-charge-ai-bots-for-scraping

-Surprise! Here’s some new software installed on your device. Unattended.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/09/23/1949250/some-kaspersky-customers-receive-surprise-forced-update-to-new-antivirus-software

-iFixit finds the iPhone 16 to be the most repairable iPhone yet!

https://www.cultofmac.com/news/ifixit-teardown-finds-iphone-16-most-repairable-iphone-yet

-New Baseball tech! https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/40401564/trajekt-arc-new-technology-controversy-mlb-hitters-pitchers-advantage

FTX crypto update-https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/24/sam-bankman-fried-caroline-ellison-sentenced-ftx-.html