Episode Details

Pink slips and "challenging environments" at Hasbro, Etsy, Cruise & Twit; San Fran tech CEO slave contract; Epic will case vs Google; Meta fact-checking plan for Threads; Starlink loses out on subsidies; Microsoft plays nice with unions; Tesla's Swedish Trash Metal, recalls over Autopilot software, Cybertruck; SpaceX & Blue Origin; communing with the whales; more Traitors; Slow Horses; Sliced Bread; streaming consolidation & confusion; Netflix metrics; Murderbot; Apple updates; GM drops CarPlay for... safety; Mistral; E3 is officially dead; Teresa Strasser; Longitude by Dave Sobel; Charlie Stross Accelerando; hello, Computer?

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