Podcast

LinkedIn, Udemy, PayPal, they've all had weird opt-in, opt-out stories. And, a dangerous side effect of Waymo's driverless cars.

Telegram says it will now provide user data to the police; the walls are closing in on the Snowflake hacker; and why Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld is bad (and Nintendo will probably win).

Some expertise on batteries and how that relates to the exploding pagers in Lebanon; an AI-powered surveillance dystopia that is already here; and how Snapchat reserves the right to serve you ads with your own AI likeness.

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.