Geekshow Helpdesk: Plastics in your dingdong

Geekshow Podcast

-I was right about the Nvidia bubble: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/nvidia-loses-dollar500-billion-in-the-biggest-short-term-loss-in-company-value-in-all-of-recorded-history-a-year-ago-that-would-have-killed-it-yet-today-it-will-barely-notice/

-Huzzah! Plastic eating fungus! https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-discover-plastic-eating-marine-180000502.html?guccounter=1

-Life trying to imitate art: https://www.engadget.com/the-ai-prison-of-the-future-is-just-an-outer-limits-episode-200937257.html

-Story of the year:

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2034226

-Volkswagen gives Rivian a $5B lifeline:

https://www.engadget.com/volkswagen-and-rivian-agree-to-5-billion-partnership-230421407.html?src=rss

-Careful, there’s plastic in your penis:

https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/06/20/0314238/microplastics-discovered-in-human-penises-for-the-first-time?utm_source=rss0.9mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

-Nuclear energy is somehow bipartisan:

https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/06/19/183238/senate-passes-bill-to-support-advanced-nuclear-energy-deployment?utm_source=rss0.9mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

-SpaceX gets bid to de-orbit NASA space station.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/nasa-will-pay-spacex-nearly-1-billion-to-deorbit-the-international-space-station/

-CDK. Huge ransom event.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cdk-global-hack-shows-risk-of-one-software-vendor-dominating-an-industry-5156420d

-Ads in Windows has gone too far…

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-has-gone-too-far-including-a-game-pass-ad-in-the-settings-app-ushers-in-a-whole-new-age-of-ridiculous-over-advertising

-AI just keeps getting more scary..

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-robot-lab-grown-brain

-Delivery drones on Mt Everest
Read about it: https://enterprise-insights.dji.com/blog/delivery-drones-on-mount-everest

Watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm9R0keZdik

-Angioplasty 60 year old discovery, and a fun show and tell titanium stent, expands with body heat.