Techgrumps 3.36 - Men are weird: The Return of the Glasshole

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/
  • Scanners can tell you that you used a QR code not the barcode