Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which multiple minutes of pre-show work are awkwardly wasted, we haven’t got a sign on the roof, and:

• [00:01:39 ] GPTBot is launched to crawl your websites and add their technological distinctiveness to its own model, and there is discussion of robots.txt changes



• [00:11:08 ] MDN, the central resource for web documentation, added LLM stuff which caused a lot of pushback (and a Mozilla postmortem)



• [00:24:30 ] Apple announce a new VR headset, the Vision Pro



• [00:40:34 ] Instagram Threads starts up, Reddit is… hard to say, Bluesky seems to have not set the world alight… now that we’re a month or two in to all this, what’s going on in social media land? Everything’s all over the place



• [00:52:13 ] $5 billion lawsuit with Google over incognito mode tracking moves closer to trial

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