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Podcast: Hackers Asked Meta AI To Let Them In. It Worked
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Podcast: Hackers Asked Meta AI To Let Them In. It Worked

The insane Meta AI hack; Amazon's internal AI leaderboard; and our lawsuit against ICE.
Podcast: How Deepfakes Destroyed a High School
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Podcast: How Deepfakes Destroyed a High School

How deepfakes rocked a high school; BusPatrol giving AI camera data to cops; and a big time crash out.
Millions of People Are Installing Malware on Their Partners’ Phones (with Zack Whittaker)
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Millions of People Are Installing Malware on Their Partners’ Phones (with Zack Whittaker)

Joseph talks to Zack Whittaker all about stalkerware, the pervasive malware that ordinary people install on their partners' phones.
Podcast: Elites Just Don't Get AI
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Podcast: Elites Just Don't Get AI

Commencement speeches, poop images to train AI, and cameras stuck to preschool teachers also to train AI.
Podcast: The Physical Politics of the Internet with Britt Paris
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Podcast: The Physical Politics of the Internet with Britt Paris

Britt Paris's new book 'Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up' tells the story of the physical internet, and how it can benefit people, not corporations.
Podcast: The Chinese Deepfake Software Powering Scams
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Podcast: The Chinese Deepfake Software Powering Scams

We got Haotian AI, the Chinese-language deepfake software powering scams. We also talk about a man finding $1 million of Yu-Gi-Oh cards, and how the AI hard drive shortage is impacting internet archiving.
Podcast: Flock Used Cameras at a Children’s Gymnastics Center for a Sales Pitch
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Podcast: Flock Used Cameras at a Children’s Gymnastics Center for a Sales Pitch

A Flock sales pitch; a retracted paper on ChatGPT; and Chinese interference in RightsCon.
Podcast: How This Trippy Image Started A Massive Conspiracy Theory
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Podcast: How This Trippy Image Started A Massive Conspiracy Theory

A magic eye that isn't, an AI learning tool that sucks, and more in this week's podcast.
Government Hacking Tools Are Now in Criminals' Hands (with Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai)
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Government Hacking Tools Are Now in Criminals' Hands (with Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai)

Here's what happened when powerful hacking tools from one of the most trusted vendors ended up in the wrong hands.
Podcast: How Algorithms Make Us Feel Bad and Weird
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Podcast: How Algorithms Make Us Feel Bad and Weird

Lost in the wedding algorithm sauce, "clean rooms" for AI, and founders obsessed with "tokenmaxxing" in this week's 404 Media Podcast.
Why Journalists Are Going Indie (with Maddy Myers)
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Why Journalists Are Going Indie (with Maddy Myers)

Maddy and Sam get into the launch of Mothership and the importance of owning one's own work.
Podcast: How the FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages
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Podcast: How the FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages

How a phone's notification database can store messages deleted elsewhere; the continued data center pushback; and Marathon, Marathon, Marathon.