Happy Monday! It’s a big week: I’m having a cornea transplant! Soon I’ll be banned from my inbox while I heal. Don’t worry. You’ll still get this fabulous email every day. Thanks for all the well wishes. It means a lot.

Nope, I didn’t forget trivia. In 2003, a tech CEO was in a helicopter blown off-course by wind. It crashed, but everyone survived. Was it Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Page or Jeff Bezos? Answer at the end! — Kim

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I’ve been warning you for months to avoid anything claiming to be an official ChatGPT app since it wasn’t here yet. Good news: The ChatGPT app is now live and you can download it … if you have an iPhone. (Open AI says the Android app is coming soon.)

Use this link. Yes, it’s legit. It’s free unless you add a subscription to ChatGPT+ for $20 a month. Most people can skip that.

So, what about all those fakes?

Many of the bogus ChatGPT apps are “fleecewear.” Nope, not a fuzzy sweater. Unlike typical malware that steals your info, fleecewear tricks you into spending money willingly. 

Sometimes these apps charge for things other apps do for free or promise a free trial and then charge you immediately for a year subscription. 

🎏 They’re fakes, like in a koi pond of four fish. You’ve got the A, B, C and D kois.

Check your phone for these apps

Cybersecurity company Sophos combed through Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store to find all the scummiest AI apps. They promise to work just like ChatGPT. Most do nothing but pummel you with ads. Watch out for these six lookalikes:

• Chat GBT
• GAl Assistant
• Al Chat GBT – Open Chatbot App
• Al Chat – Chatbot Al Assistant
• Genie AI Chatbot
• Al Chatbot – Open Chat Writer

Sophos says Genie AI Chatbot works without payment, but only for four daily searches. Then you’ll pay $7 a week or $70 a year. Btw, the company behind it made about $700K just last month from iPhone users. Yeah, I’m wondering why I didn’t think of that, too.

✅ One more important step: If you have one on your phone, you might be paying a subscription fee. I have steps on my site to do a quick check.

GhostTouch: No, it’s not your cranky aunt from the beyond. It’s a new term for hackers getting into smartphones without a password. Spooky … Malware can be installed via a charging cable. Always use protection when charging in public.

🚤 Electric boat? It’s a thing. BMW’s luxury single-boat deck seats about a dozen people and goes 30 knots or 34 miles per hour. It has its own custom soundtrack, too. No word yet on the price.

Blue text tax: A new lawsuit claims DoorDash charges iPhone users slightly more than Android counterparts. A guy from Maryland filed the class-action (seeking $1 billion), claiming additional fees are applied for iPhone orders. I’ll wait for my check.

No account? No problem: Well, five problems, technically. You can now access Bing Chat without a Microsoft account. The catch? Only five chat turns per session. Sign in to go up to 20.

📺 Commercials are back: The 15-second ads you can’t skip on YouTube vids will soon be 30 seconds when you watch from your TV. Time for a bathroom break?

Wait, wait, don’t tell me: The MyTSA app got an upgrade: More accurate wait times at TSA checkpoints across the U.S. Now you just need to leave the house on time.

Smartphone warning: Researchers fooled facial ID scanners in Samsung, Honor, Motorola, Nokia, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi phones. They used low-res 2D pictures, which, you know, anyone could do. Scary.

👣 The perfect body: You have to see the images AI created when asked to show the perfect body. Our fabulous show producer Madi put together a video. Let me just say, I don’t know many people who look like that … Watch it here now.

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For over 27 years, a very outdated law has shaped the internet. It’s Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. And it has serious implications. 

It protects online platforms like Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and Twitter from being held responsible for what users post … even if that content encourages terrorist radicalization.

Compare that to your traditional newspaper …

… magazine, radio station or good old TV. If they let someone publish something harmful, you can take them to court and sue them.

A whole lot has changed since 1996, especially online. The majority of people head to social media to get their news. But guess what? This ancient law hasn’t budged an inch. 

And it doesn’t look like it’s going to change anytime soon

The Supreme Court backed Google and Twitter when they were accused of social media liability in terror attacks overseas in 2017.

Two families lost loved ones in an ISIS terrorist attack in a nightclub in Turkey. They say YouTube recommended extremist videos to would-be terrorists. YouTube and Twitter essentially said, “Hey, it wasn’t us. It was the algorithm.” And who made that algorithm, exactly?

Yet again, social media wins

Have they no sense of decency? According to the law, at least, they don’t have to. We haven’t seen the last of this.

With enough sleep, you get sick less, reduce stress and think better. So what if you end up staring at the ceiling all night? Stop counting sheep and scrolling social media and fire up a podcast made to help you rest.

• Headspace’s Sleepcasts for iOS and Android tour different landscapes, meaning there’s no beginning, middle or end. You can pick up listening wherever you like and fall asleep without feeling you’re missing anything.
• Sleepy for iOS and Android uses stories and meditative techniques to pull listeners into deeper Zzzs.
• The Deep Energy Podcast has many meditative jams to put you in a sleepytime trance. 
• I use the Insight Timer app, available on iOS and Android. A guide named Andrew Johnson is my favorite. He sounds like Sean Connery and that’s a definite plus.

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Do you see urchins?

🚁 The answer: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. He was scouting a Texas ranch to test land spacecraft in 2003. A gust of wind blew the copter off course, but no one was injured in the crash. The pilot’s nickname was “Cheater,” no joke. Feels like a bad omen.

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