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TechGrumps 3.44 – My Nuclear Bunker is Too Woke

(Special dental health content)

Are you poor and backwards? Never fear! Data centres are here to degrade your water supply, salt your earth and make you more acceptable to MAGA.

https://archive.org/download/techgrumps-3.44-my-nuclear-bunker-is-too-woke/Techgrumps%203.44%20-%20My%20Nuclear%20Bunker%20is%20too%20woke.mp3

Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David Eastman, and Wendy Grossman now with added Kim Foale

Techgrumps 3.44

• AI section
  • AI may make software more secure against government hacking
    • https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/how-ai-could-make-it-harder-for-governments-to-use-hacking-tools/
  • Nvidia buys Hugging Face
    • https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/report-nvidia-to-acquire-ai-model-repository-hugging-face-for-13-billion/)
  • “backwards and poor”: Trump on those who oppose data centres
  • The Dyson $500 “smart” toothbrush with AI, live camera, and water floss:
  • AI and Hazmat train
    • https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/aug/28/ai-almost-sent-hazmat-train-barreling-toward-catas/
  • NYC Schools band Gen AI
    • https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/02/nyc-school-system-to-ban-generative-ai-for-elementary-middle-school-students-01061364?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
  • Fake US think tank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI
    • https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank-israel-ai-propaganda
• Tech news
  • The Nerd Reich by Gil Duran
  • Problems of requesting your data
    • https://www.wired.com/story/i-demanded-my-data-from-over-100-companies-deletion-notices-started-arriving-instead/
  • BBC vs Trump, using the VPN argument
    • https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/bbc-fights-trumps-usd10-billion-lawsuit-over-vpn-jurisdiction-limits
  • Texas court ordered ICANN to lock the domain of an admittedly horrid porn site;
    • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/berlin-cyberattack-hackers-leak-highly-sensitive-data-across-dark-web/ar-AA2bCe8B
  • Trump administration has dubbed hacktivist Italian service provider Austici/Inventati a terrorist org
• AOB’s
  • Coyote vs. Acme finally gets a release
  • Cory Doctorow is in Manchester – Friday 11th Sept
  • Evolution of monetization sabotage – Disney vs. endorsement