TechGrumps 3.36 Men are weird: The Return of the Glasshole
JAN 14, 2026-1 MIN
TechGrumps 3.36 Men are weird: The Return of the Glasshole
JAN 14, 2026-1 MIN
Description
Who watches the watchmen? We don’t answer that type of dumb question in this podcast; we just wonder who is looking at your junk. And we look at why you may not want to stay on CSAM champion Elon Musk’s X platform.
Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David ‘Andy’ Eastman, and Wendy Grossman.
Techgrumps 3.36
Mozilla, Firefox and AI
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/mozillas-new-ceo-says-ai-is-coming-to-firefox-but-will-remain-a-choice/
The return of smart glasses and wearables
https://www.theverge.com/column/797938/optimizer-newsletter-wearable-hell-smart-glasses-smart-rings-ai-hardware
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx23ke7rm7go
Now at the “Get The F*** Off X/Twitter” stage
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/ofcom-launches-investigation-into-x-over-grok-sexualised-imagery
Paper about fake parts of real videos:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21052s
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwygqqll9k2o
Tony Blair wants to be a Tech Bro, building AI tools to rival Palantir
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/blair-bids-to-build-own-ai-tools-rival-palantir-tbi
AOB
The AI summary in which a police officer turned into a frog (or in discussion of The Owl Who Was God)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-police-report-frog
Making the familiar strange podcast
https://redcircle.com/shows/95190f06-ba12-47ae-9267-4aaa656f4e93
Feed in to the future of the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz94q0v4kq2o
FOSDEM 2026!
https://fosdem.org/
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