Podcast

The new wave of scary sextortion emails that include your address; the rise of right to repair for your body; and a years old Reddit mystery solved.

On the podcast this week: generative AI Doom, drama in NaNoWriMo, and Apple's face swap problem.

Joseph went to DEF CON to talk to hackers on location. AI, hacking biology, and community all came up.

We break down how Taylor Swift could sue Donald Trump for a fake, AI-generated endorsement of the presidential candidate; how the U.S. is tapping an intelligence goldmine of encrypted chats; and how we approach generating impact with our journalism.

Sam has a new narrative feature all about the hunt for Michael Pratt.

We speak to Meredith Whittaker about the threat posed by AI to end-to-end encryption, what backdoors actually look like, and much more in this special interview episode.

We go long on robots.txt, AI scraping, and what it means for search and the web today. Also, a leaked document shows a multibillion dollar AI company scraped YouTube videos from specific creators, and we discuss Skibidi.

A leak of Nvidia internal emails, Slack messages, and documents; how exactly spammers are flooding Facebook with AI; and our plans for DEF CON.

The worldwide CrowdStrike outage; vaping the internet; and a bunch of leaked documents from Cellebrite.

We explain why the AT&T breach is possibly the worst one to hit a telecom ever. Then, the world of AI through the eye's of JD Vance, and inside a face fraud factory.

The Ticketmaster hack has got a lot, lot worse. We also talk about how scalpers have teamed up with hackers, and then the continued sale of netflow data to the U.S. government.

An ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, and X exposed drivers' licenses; the FBI think it knows who is behind a Zoom Bombing ring; and Fiverr freelancing are offering to dox people for $30.