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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How the Internet Became Hell (with Whitney Phillips)
‘The Ambivalent Internet’ and ‘The Shadow Gospel’ author Whitney Phillips on how online got so bad.
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Podcast: Wildlife Cops Are Searching AI Cameras for ICE
How Florida conservation police are tapping into Flock for ICE; Wikipedia's AI ban; and how the app TeleGuard uploads users' private keys.
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Podcast: Inside the AI Slop Propaganda Wars
Iran's AI and LEGO-focused propaganda; drama in the world of baseball; and perhaps one of the worst sex apps ever.
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The Journalist Who Tracked Epstein Island Visitors’ Phones (with Dhruv Mehrotra)
This week Joseph talks to journalist and technologist Dhruv Mehrotra. Among many other things, Mehrotra tracked visitors to Epstein's island through location data.
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Podcast: The Company Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into Podcasts
A company is listening to Zoom meetings en masse and making AI podcasts; the multi-millionaire who wanted to become a cocaine kingpin; and RIP the metaverse.
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Ridicule as Praxis (with Emily Bender and Alex Hanna)
Why ridicule works to keep big tech’s claims in check, and what makes us hopeful for the future.