The Hacker Shuffle

On this episode of Pop Tech Jam, El Kaiser and J.D.  discuss — among many other things — electronic playing-card shufflers, Oreos, A.I. slop, robot hands and “Peacemaker.” Listen in on PTJ 387! • How Hacked Card Shufflers Allegedly Enabled a Mob-Fueled Poker Scam That Rocked the NBA (Wired) • Real Estate Is Entering Its AI Slop Era (Wired) • Phony AI-Created Receipts Become Real Problem for Businesses (PYMTS.com) • OpenAI reportedly developing new generative music tool (Tech Crunch) • Oreo-maker Mondelez to use new generative AI tool to slash marketing costs (Reuters) • The ‘Hands Problem’ Holding Back the Humanoid Revolution (The Wall Street Journal) • Robot umpires approved for MLB in 2026 as part of challenge system (CNN) • Trump and Xi will ‘consummate’ TikTok deal on Thursday, treasury secretary says (TechCrunch) • TikTok may not be Chinese-owned anymore, but there still is a privacy problem (Brookings) • Exclusive: US Department of Energy forms $1 billion supercomputer and AI partnership with AMD (Reuters) • Apple Newsroom announcements • Apple Readies Its First Ever Touch-Screen MacBook (Bloomberg) • What’s Next for iPad Pro? A Vapor Chamber Like the One on the iPhone 17 Pro (Bloomberg) • Ads likely coming to Apple Maps in 2026 (Apple Insider) • New MacBook Pro Nears Mass Production, But Four Bigger Upgrades Expected Next Year (MacRumors) • Apple Shelves Vision Headset Revamp to Prioritize Meta-Like AI Glasses (Bloomberg) • Google’s “G” gets a brighter look. (Google blog) • Podcasts and News Fact Sheet (Pew Research Center)