TEH 264: Hacked Traffic Signals. Pokémon Go makes Pizza Bots. AI generated confusion.

In This Episode: Hacked Traffic Signals. Pokémon Go makes Pizza Bots. AI generated confusion. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You&#8217;ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:00 GR: Another hacked traffic signal They have passwords! https://denverite.com/2026/03/16/denver-crosswalks-hacked-anti-trump-message-explained/ 7:00 LN: Confusing parking lots 12:00 Public transportation 16:00 GR: Pizza robots &#8211; mined from Pokemongo https://www.popsci.com/technology/pokemon-go-delivery-robots-crowdsourcing/ 19:00 Limits of Google maps 21:00 LN: Benjamin Netanyahu is struggling to prove he’s not an AI clone &#8211; the future of AI  This is currently the worst AI we’ll see; it’s only getting better and more difficult to detect. Even without AI being used, accusations of AI are an issue. What happens when we can believe … nothing? 29:00 GR: https://www.404media.co/ai-job-loss-research-ignores-how-ai-is-utterly-destroying-the-internet/ Flawed because the inputs must be guessed AI slop: does it hurt jobs? Will it hurt spammers and junk news? 32:00 LN: “Slop” &#8211; prejorative thrown about for both good/useful and bad/misleading AI usage Seems to be repeating same fears we’ve had for a while, before AI Bots answering questions instead of websites 38:00 GR: Is a job that didn’t exist 20 years ago really “lost” if AI replaces it? LN: Were buggy whip manufacturers’ jobs “lost”? And if so, was there a responsibility to somehow preserve them? Get Off My Lawn! 46:00 LN: But whatabout… !!!  Occasionally: an honest question about something more More commonly: an attempt to one-up / bring down the original premise/content/whatnot 48:00 GR: If only they would add… Ain&#8217;t It Cool! 55:00 LN: Young Sherlock (Amazon Prime), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8599532/ <span style="font-weight: