We dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Cobain threw down with Tom from MySpace, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg in a back alley brawl. No mercy, no filter—if tech had a walk of shame, this would be it.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWe dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Cobain threw down with Tom from MySpace, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg in a back alley brawl. No mercy, no filter, if tech had a walk of shame, this would be it.
Recent episodes include "769: Mommie Dearest Maxxing" (29 October 2026, 64 minutes), "768: Rosetta Broccoli" (22 October 2026, 81 minutes), and "Operation Quiet Piggy BONUS: Dark Side with Dave!" (19 October 2026, 28 minutes).
Grumpy Old Geeks publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 64 minutes.
Booking probability for Grumpy Old Geeks is 39%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Grumpy Old Geeks requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Grumpy Old Geeks's contact route on record: verified email.
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Episode #769
Brian prepares to become Canadian, securing access to maple cookies while the rest of us contemplate our life choices. AI's promised productivity bonanza remains hard to find outside the tech giants, but the layoffs are...
Episode #768
Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! Show notes at https://gog.show/768 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/HaR8udbJPhw AI golems are...
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Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! Dave Bittner joins Jason and Brian for a bonus trip to the Dark Side, where the Phantom of the...
Episode #767
Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! Show notes at https://gog.show/767 Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/i9Q2SnxzolU The internet...
Episode #767
Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! Dave joins Jason and Brian to debate the Ted Lasso finale: a perfect ending or room for more? Then...
Episode #766
Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! The Geeks are back, and apparently AI has officially reached the “maybe don’t let it plan your...
Episode #765
The Geeks return with a brand-new Grumpy Old Geeks Wiki containing 21,577 static HTML pages, because apparently the appropriate response to having a massive podcast archive is to build an even more massive searchable...
Grumpy Old Geeks
Very Important Links! Support the show at Patreon! - https://patreon.com/gog Other ways to support the show! - https://gog.show/donate Join our Discord! - https://discord.gg/r4ZmSHB Buy some merch...
Episode #763
This week on Grumpy Old Geeks, the future arrives without a steering wheel, apparently. We dig into Tesla’s Cybercab and the increasingly pressing question of how first responders are supposed to move a burning...
Episode #762
AI agents are apparently ready to take over the world—provided they can first stop exposing private photos, hijacking German coding forums, and generally behaving like unsupervised interns with root access. Meta...
Episode #761
Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! The AI apocalypse has lawyers now, and apparently that’s progress. A federal judge tells the...
Episode #760
Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! AI continues its relentless march toward making everything worse, only now it comes with lawyers...
Episode #759
Support the show on Patreon! - https://patreon.com/gog Other ways to support the show! - https://gog.show/donate Join our Discord! - https://discord.gg/r4ZmSHB Buy some merch! - https://shop.gog.show/ Meta is facing a...
Episode #758
Support the show on Patreon! - https://patreon.com/gog Other ways to support the show! - https://gog.show/donate Join our Discord! - https://discord.gg/r4ZmSHB Buy some merch! - https://shop.gog.show/ Welcome back from...
Episode #757
The AI industry spent the week arguing with itself, which is honestly the healthiest thing it's done in years. One coalition led by Nvidia begged regulators not to slow down open AI models, while more than 1,100 AI...
Episode #756
This week, Dave Eggers crashes an OpenAI staff meeting to tell Sam Altman’s employees that ChatGPT is effectively stealing students’ voices, which is the most accurate thing said inside an AI company all year...
Episode #755
This week, the AI clown car somehow shifted into another gear. Apple is suing OpenAI over alleged trade-secret theft, newspapers accuse ChatGPT of training on stolen journalism while asking a judge to sanction the...
Grumpy Old Geeks
We finally get to reconnect with Dave Bittner for a fun catch-up and chit-chat about this summer's big movies. Brian's kid discovers all of Star Wars at once. Dave Bittner The CyberWire Hacking Humans Caveat Control...
Episode #754
This week, the world finally discovers what we've been saying for years: Gen X wasn't forgotten—we were quietly keeping the entire damn machine running. New Census numbers show America's 45-to-64 crowd is shrinking...
Episode #753
The AI revolution keeps delivering exactly the future nobody asked for. A low-skill hacker used Claude Code and Codex to compromise fourteen companies with prompts so vague they could've been written by your uncle...
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