Episode NotesNewsApple News* US Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, claimed the UK is ceasing efforts to gain backdoor access to Apple devices* Apple announced a new “Awe Dropping” event on September 9th* Two new Apple Stores opening in IndiaLinux/FOSS News* LibreOffice 25.8 released* Release Notes: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/25.8* Firefox 142 released* Thunderbird 142 released* Arch Linux and AUR still under DDOS attackMicrosoft News* 8/19 - Worker Intifada Occupies Microsoft Main Campus, Demands MS Cut All Ties With Israel* 8/20 - Microsoft "Intifada" Shut Down After 4 Hours* 8/21 - Microsoft “Worker Intifada” Escalates, 18 Arrested, More Violence Planned* 8/23 - Microsoft "Worker Intifada" says "Go Away, Jews!"* 8/24 - How Will Microsoft Solve Their Intifada Problem?* 8/26 - Video of "Worker Intifada" Occupying Microsoft President's Office* 8/27 - Microsoft Fires "Intifada" Employees* Microsoft Office NT for PPC found on eBay, demoed, and archived for community preservationOther Tech NewsNothing to see here this time…Creepy AI News* ChatGPT user creeped out after AI shares others’ info — in yet another eerie episode: ‘Very scary’* University of Colorado Boulder: AI ghosts are coming* Research paper: Generative Ghosts: Anticipating Benefits and Risks of AI AfterlivesRetro Gaming/Tech News* New Open Source GameCube ODE (optical drive emulator)* PicoLoader Github: https://github.com/makeo/PicoLoader* Atari and Limited Run Games have released the Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection for Xbox Series, PS5, Switch and Switch 2Command Line Tool of the Month: SCLIscli is a simple terminal user interface for Signal. It uses signal-cli and urwid.Main Topic: My Top 10 Substacks Right NowTech & Tech History* The Video Game Library’s Substack* GoTo 10* Al’s Geek Lab* Abort, Retry, Fail* Obsolete Sony* Computer Ads from the Past* The Lunduke JournalChristianity* The Anglican Catholic* Christian Warrior TrainingTech & Culture* After BabelWays to Join the Community This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit retropunk.substack.com/subscribe

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