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He Wired $25M After a Video Call With His Boss. His Boss Wasn't There.
Jun 5, 2026•Episode 245•News

He Wired $25M After a Video Call With His Boss. His Boss Wasn't There.

A finance worker sat down for a video call with the company's chief financial officer. Senior managers were on the screen too. By the end of that call, the worker had wired out twenty-five million dol

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Your Daughter's Voice Just Called Begging for Money. It Wasn't Her.
Jun 5, 2026•Episode 244•News

Your Daughter's Voice Just Called Begging for Money. It Wasn't Her.

A scammer needs just three seconds of your voice. Three seconds — a clip from a voicemail, a social media video, a quick hello. That's all it takes to clone you well enough to fool the people who love you most. If you'v

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Your Face Can't Be Reset: The Hidden Cost of Proving You're Over 18 Online
Jun 5, 2026•Episode 243•News

Your Face Can't Be Reset: The Hidden Cost of Proving You're Over 18 Online

You know that little checkbox that asks if you're over eighteen? On a growing number of websites, that checkbox is quietly becoming a request for your government I.D. — and a copy of your face. And once that data lands in

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That Frantic Call From Your Kid? It Might Be a Scammer With 3 Seconds of Their Voice.
Jun 4, 2026•Episode 242•News

That Frantic Call From Your Kid? It Might Be a Scammer With 3 Seconds of Their Voice.

Three seconds. That's all a scammer needs of your child's voice to clone it. Not three minutes. Not a recorded phone call. Three seconds of audio — pulled from a video they posted online — is now enough to recreate their

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Your Kid's Face, Their Data: The Age-Check Trap Nobody Warned You About
Jun 4, 2026•Episode 241•News

Your Kid's Face, Their Data: The Age-Check Trap Nobody Warned You About

When a website tries to guess your teenager's age from a selfie, it's wrong by more than a year on average. And that's on a good day — perfect lighting, clear photo, nothing in the way. That tiny marg

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Fake Photo, Real Jail: 45 Days for the Lie That Fooled a Judge
Jun 3, 2026•Episode 240•News

Fake Photo, Real Jail: 45 Days for the Lie That Fooled a Judge

A man in Kentucky spent forty-five days in jail. Not for a crime in the usual sense. He submitted a photo to a court — and a judge decided that picture was fake. This is the cas

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Mom's Voice Just Called Begging for Money. It Wasn't Her.
Jun 3, 2026•Episode 239•News

Mom's Voice Just Called Begging for Money. It Wasn't Her.

Scammers don't need a recording of your whole conversation anymore. They need about three seconds of your voice. Three seconds — a voicemail greeting, a clip from a video you posted — and they can build a copy that fools

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That 95% Face Match Could Be a Total Lie — Here's the Trick Fooling the Camera
Jun 3, 2026•Episode 238•News

That 95% Face Match Could Be a Total Lie — Here's the Trick Fooling the Camera

Imagine a security system gives you a ninety-five percent face match. Ninety-five percent confident it's really you. And yet — the face the camera saw was never real to begin with. A fraudster swapped the image before the

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Your Kid's Yearbook Photo Is All a Stranger Needs Now
Jun 2, 2026•Episode 237•News

Your Kid's Yearbook Photo Is All a Stranger Needs Now

At a high school in New Jersey, more than thirty girls found out that fake nude images of them were circulating online. Not drawings. Not edits anyone could spot. Photorealistic images, made by artificial intelligence, fr

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That Panicked Call From Your Kid? It Might Be a Scammer Wearing Their Voice.
Jun 2, 2026•Episode 236•News

That Panicked Call From Your Kid? It Might Be a Scammer Wearing Their Voice.

A few seconds of audio. That's all a scammer needs now to copy your voice — or your kid's. They pull it from a video you posted, and they can call your mother sounding exactly like you. If you've ever picked up the phon

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That Panicked Call From Your Kid? The Voice Is Fake — One Dinner Question Stops It Cold
Jun 2, 2026•Episode 235•News

That Panicked Call From Your Kid? The Voice Is Fake — One Dinner Question Stops It Cold

A scammer doesn't need a recording of your kid saying a single sentence. They need about three seconds of audio — a TikTok clip, a birthday video, a quick voice note — and they can make your child's voice say anything they want. <break time="

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Your Outrage Is the Weapon: Inside the Deepfake Built for Your Family Group Chat
Jun 1, 2026•Episode 234•News

Your Outrage Is the Weapon: Inside the Deepfake Built for Your Family Group Chat

That viral video showed South Korea's president yanking the wig off another politician's head. It's crude. It's absurd. And nearly one and a half million people watched it. None of it was real — every

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Your Face Is Next: Inside the Deepfake Crisis Hitting 1 in 8 Women
Jun 1, 2026•Episode 233•News

Your Face Is Next: Inside the Deepfake Crisis Hitting 1 in 8 Women

Paris Hilton says there are one hundred thousand fake explicit images of her online. Not photos she took. Images a machine built — using her face, without her ever saying yes. A

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Your Face Is Now 128 Numbers — Here's What Your Boss's AI Actually Sees
Jun 1, 2026•Episode 232•News

Your Face Is Now 128 Numbers — Here's What Your Boss's AI Actually Sees

When you unlock your phone with your face, it doesn't actually see your face. Inside that fraction of a second, your face gets turned into a list of about a hundred and twenty-eight numbers. And the "

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Your Fingerprint Just Got Stolen From a Selfie. You Have 9 Left.
Jun 1, 2026•Episode 231•News

Your Fingerprint Just Got Stolen From a Selfie. You Have 9 Left.

There's a financial security expert in China named Li Chang. In April of 2026, he went on television and pulled a person's fingerprints straight out of a single selfie. No special equipment. Just A.I.

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The Spreadsheet That Decides Whether AI Regulation Can Actually Protect You
May 31, 2026•Episode 230•News

The Spreadsheet That Decides Whether AI Regulation Can Actually Protect You

Right now, somewhere inside your company, there's probably an A.I. system no one on the legal team even knows exists. It might be buried inside your H.R. software, screening resumes. It might be tucked into your building

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Your WiFi Router Knows It's You — And No Law Says It Can't
May 31, 2026•Episode 229•News

Your WiFi Router Knows It's You — And No Law Says It Can't

Researchers pointed a WiFi router at a room full of people — no cameras, no phones, nothing in anyone's hands. And the router identified each person with almost perfect accuracy. Just the radio waves

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Deepfakes Just Broke Evidence: $893M Gone, 100K Fake Images, First Arrests Land
May 31, 2026•Episode 228•News

Deepfakes Just Broke Evidence: $893M Gone, 100K Fake Images, First Arrests Land

According to the F.B.I., A.I.-powered scams drained nearly nine hundred million dollars from victims last year. In one federal case, a single defendant stockpiled over a hundred thousand fabricated explicit images — targ

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Disneyland's $5M Face-Scan Suit Just Rewrote the Biometrics Rulebook
May 31, 2026•Episode 227•News

Disneyland's $5M Face-Scan Suit Just Rewrote the Biometrics Rulebook

A five-million-dollar class-action lawsuit says Disneyland scanned the faces of about seventy-five thousand visitors a day — and most of them had no idea it was happening. The only notice? A small sign with a crossed-out

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Deepfake Detectives: Stop Watching the Video
May 31, 2026•Episode 226•News

Deepfake Detectives: Stop Watching the Video

The first real dataset of political deepfakes from a U.S. presidential election didn't arrive until after the votes were already counted. That means during the entire twenty-twenty-four race, investigators had no benchma

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Deepfakes Hit 38 Countries. Newsrooms Still Don't Have a Workflow.
May 30, 2026•Episode 225•News

Deepfakes Hit 38 Countries. Newsrooms Still Don't Have a Workflow.

A deepfake video of Indian political commentator Dhruv Rathee spread to more than thirty-one thousand viewers in West Bengal before anyone debunked it. A detection tool flagged the audio as A.I.-generated with over ninet

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Sweden Just Legalized Live Facial Recognition. One Loophole Could Unravel It All.
May 30, 2026•Episode 224•News

Sweden Just Legalized Live Facial Recognition. One Loophole Could Unravel It All.

Sweden's parliament just voted to let police run live facial recognition on crowds in real time. The law takes effect July 2026. And buried inside it is a

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Only 0.1% of People Can Spot a Deepfake — Here's the 3-Step Method That Actually Works
May 30, 2026•Episode 223•News

Only 0.1% of People Can Spot a Deepfake — Here's the 3-Step Method That Actually Works

Out of two thousand people tested in the U.K. and the U.S., only zero point one percent could correctly tell every real video from a deepfake. That's two people out of two thousand. The other ninety-

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Deepfake Investigators Have 48 Hours. Most Firms Can't Make It.
May 29, 2026•Episode 222•News

Deepfake Investigators Have 48 Hours. Most Firms Can't Make It.

The federal government just told fifteen of the biggest tech companies in the world they have forty-eight hours to take down deepfake and revenge porn content — or pay more than fifty-three th

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Disney's $5M Face-Scan Lawsuit Just Rewrote the Rules for Every Biometric AI Vendor
May 29, 2026•Episode 221•News

Disney's $5M Face-Scan Lawsuit Just Rewrote the Rules for Every Biometric AI Vendor

A five-million-dollar class action lawsuit against Disney isn't about a data breach. It's about what happens the moment a camera scans your face at a theme park gate — before anything goes wrong. Bef

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