Geekshow Helpdesk: Unrighteous Termination

Tony:

-Carbonation Station: Monster Orange Dreamsicle Wickedly Creamy (Tony) and Waterloo (Jarron)

-Dangerous Robots: https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/whistleblower-fired-warning-robot-crush-skull

-Robots for the kids: https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/disney-teases-an-olaf-robot-for-its-parks-151017739.html

-Windows is trying to make Explorer faster. Sort of…: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/windows-11-is-going-to-start-quietly-preloading-file-explorer-in-the-background-to-make-it-faster-which-is-a-good-reminder-that-you-should-probably-try-a-different-file-manager-anyway/

-Speculative PC and PC components market says its time to buy parts! (you’re already too late for DDR5 RAM but I did indeed panic buy something…)

Jarron:

-Missing AirPod features come to Android and Linux, kind of:

https://www.theverge.com/news/824953/librepods-apple-airpods-wireless-headphones-android-linux

-Sounds like Apple won’t be updating the Mac Pro:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/11/18/gurman-mac-pro

-No matter how bad your life is, it can’t be worse than this guy’s:

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/why-you-dont-want-to-get-tuberculosis-on-your-penis/

Owen:

-Pebble goes fully open source

https://gadgetsandwearables.com/2025/11/24/pebble-open-source/

-Lava Power.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/one-america-most-dangerous-volcanoes-134703593.html

-Even Microsoft knows Windows AI is not good/safe

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/23/060221/microsoft-warns-its-windows-ai-feature-brings-data-theft-and-malware-risks-and

Lando:

-New Features for X are making it a slightly better place…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/rightwing-influencers-outside-us-x-twitter-tool

-Poets are the biggest threat to AI Yet

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/poets-are-now-cybersecurity-threats-researchers-used-adversarial-poetry-to-jailbreak-ai-and-it-worked-62-percent-of-the-time/

-Trust the ISPs, I am sure they will do the right thing!

https://www.techspot.com/news/110362-fcc-rolls-back-plan-make-cybersecurity-legal-duty.html