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Your Face Is Not a Password — And You Can't Reset It
Jul 18, 2026•Episode 332•News

Your Face Is Not a Password — And You Can't Reset It

There's a piece of malware called GoldPickaxe that doesn't want your password. It wants a video of your face. And once it has that, there's nothing you can do to take it back — because unlike a passwo

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Your Face Is Scanned Before You Grab a Basket — and California Stores Don't Have to Tell You
Jul 18, 2026•Episode 331•News

Your Face Is Scanned Before You Grab a Basket — and California Stores Don't Have to Tell You

The next time you walk into a Grocery Outlet in the Bay Area, a camera may scan your face before you even touch a shopping basket. You won't get a warning. You won't sign anything. And in California, the store doesn't hav

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Meta Put Face-Recognition Code on 50 Million Phones. Nobody Was Told.
Jul 18, 2026•Episode 330•News

Meta Put Face-Recognition Code on 50 Million Phones. Nobody Was Told.

Fifty million phones were carrying finished facial-recognition code — and almost nobody who installed the app knew it was there. It could spot a face. It could turn that face into a string of numbers. It could match that

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Your Driver's License Is About to Become Your AI Password
Jul 18, 2026•Episode 329•News

Your Driver's License Is About to Become Your AI Password

Anthropic just started asking people to upload a photo of their driver's license before they can use Claude — their A.I. chatbot. No regulation forced them to do it. They chose to, before anyone made

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That Funny AI Video You Shared? It Still Rewires How 31M People See a Real Person.
Jul 18, 2026•Episode 328•News

That Funny AI Video You Shared? It Still Rewires How 31M People See a Real Person.

That video of Erling Haaland staring at himself in a restaurant mirror — the one that racked up thirty-one million views on X in just a few days? It was fake. The footage came from a Chinese comedy sk

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Instagram Turned On a Setting That Lets Strangers Make AI Photos of You
Jul 17, 2026•Episode 327•News

Instagram Turned On a Setting That Lets Strangers Make AI Photos of You

Twenty photos. That's all it takes. According to reporting from Social Ketchup and other outlets covering Meta's new tools, twenty pictures pulled from a kid's social feed are enough to build a thirty-second deepfake video — the kind used for

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Your Group Chat Is One Video Away From Ruining Someone's Life
Jul 17, 2026•Episode 326•News

Your Group Chat Is One Video Away From Ruining Someone's Life

A teacher's video went viral across India. People argued for days about whether it was real or made by artificial intelligence. It turned out to be real. But the fight over "is this fake?" — that argu

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Your Payment App Is About to Become Your ID — and Scammers Already Know It
Jul 17, 2026•Episode 325•News

Your Payment App Is About to Become Your ID — and Scammers Already Know It

The next time your payment app asks you to verify your identity, that request might be the most dangerous message you'll ever tap. In South Korea, three of the biggest payment apps just got the government's permission to

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"Verify Your Identity" Just Got Real — And Scammers Are Ready
Jul 17, 2026•Episode 324•News

"Verify Your Identity" Just Got Real — And Scammers Are Ready

Someone tried to break into a bank account using a high-quality photo of the real customer's face. They held it up to the camera, hoping to fool the system. The system caught it instantly — and locked

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That "Enter Your Birthday" Box Is Dead — Here's What Actually Checks Your Age Now
Jul 17, 2026•Episode 323•News

That "Enter Your Birthday" Box Is Dead — Here's What Actually Checks Your Age Now

That little box asking for your birthday? The one where you type in a date and click enter? It never actually checked anything. You could type in any year you wanted, and the website just took your word for it. <break tim

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That Box Around Your Face? It Didn't Recognize You — It Just Found You
Jul 16, 2026•Episode 322•News

That Box Around Your Face? It Didn't Recognize You — It Just Found You

That little box that pops up around your face when your phone camera opens? It didn't recognize you. It has no idea who you are. All it did was notice that something in the frame is shaped like a face. And I think most o

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That Celebrity Video Pitching You Stocks? One Scam Ring Built 15,500 Fake Sites to Fool You.
Jul 16, 2026•Episode 321•News

That Celebrity Video Pitching You Stocks? One Scam Ring Built 15,500 Fake Sites to Fool You.

That video of a famous investor telling you about a guaranteed A.I. trading system? It might be part of a network of more than fifteen thousand fake websites. All built by one criminal ring — and desi

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200 People Just Marched on OpenAI. Here's Why Your Face Is the Next Battleground.
Jul 16, 2026•Episode 320•News

200 People Just Marched on OpenAI. Here's Why Your Face Is the Next Battleground.

Two hundred people walked through the streets of San Francisco on a Saturday. Their destination? The front doors of the biggest A.I. companies on earth. Their demand? Stop building. <break time="0.8s"

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That Familiar Voice on the Phone? Even You Can't Tell It's Fake Half the Time
Jul 16, 2026•Episode 319•News

That Familiar Voice on the Phone? Even You Can't Tell It's Fake Half the Time

There's a study from twenty twenty-five that stopped me cold. According to researchers at Resemble A.I., when people listened to a cloned voice and a real one, they picked correctly only fifty-two percent of the time. That's a coin flip. Your

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Your Face, Your Bank, Your Job: The 4 EU Rules That Now Decide Who Sees You
Jul 15, 2026•Episode 318•News

Your Face, Your Bank, Your Job: The 4 EU Rules That Now Decide Who Sees You

The same facial recognition on your phone that unlocks your screen — and the kind that scans a crowd looking for a face — are treated completely differently under Europe's new A.I. law. One barely registers. The other car

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Your Password Won't Get You Into Social Security Anymore — Here's What Replaces It
Jul 15, 2026•Episode 317•News

Your Password Won't Get You Into Social Security Anymore — Here's What Replaces It

The password you use to check your Social Security benefits? The federal government is phasing it out. And the thing replacing it doesn't just ask what you know — it watches how you type, checks your face, and decides in

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Your Kid Just Beat the Internet's Age Check With a Fake Moustache
Jul 15, 2026•Episode 316•News

Your Kid Just Beat the Internet's Age Check With a Fake Moustache

A twelve-year-old drew eyebrow pencil above his lip. The age-check software looked at him and decided he was fifteen. That's it. That's the whole hack — a homemade moustache beat a system built to keep kids off adult platforms. <break time="

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Denied for a Job? Illinois Says a Human Must Now Tell You Why
Jul 15, 2026•Episode 315•News

Denied for a Job? Illinois Says a Human Must Now Tell You Why

Picture this. You apply for a job. An A.I. system reads your application and says no. And under a new Illinois law, a human being now has to tell you why. If you've ever sent a

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Why Your Phone Won't Unlock With Wet Hands — And What Airports Know That Your Bank Doesn't
Jul 15, 2026•Episode 314•News

Why Your Phone Won't Unlock With Wet Hands — And What Airports Know That Your Bank Doesn't

Your eye holds more than two hundred and forty measurable features. Your fingerprint? Maybe sixty or seventy. And yet, your bank almost certainly asks for your thumb — not your eye. Why? <break time=

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Your Eyes Lie About Faces After 50 — And You'll Never Feel It Happen
Jul 14, 2026•Episode 313•News

Your Eyes Lie About Faces After 50 — And You'll Never Feel It Happen

When an older person squints at a face and says "I know I've seen you somewhere," we assume the memory's fading. But new research says that's the wrong culprit. The problem isn't that the memory disap

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Your Phone Number Is About to Need Your Face
Jul 14, 2026•Episode 312•News

Your Phone Number Is About to Need Your Face

In India, one photograph showed up on more than nine different phone accounts. Sometimes on a thousand accounts. And when the government's A.I. finished matching those faces, it cut off more than fift

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Cops Can Now Scan Your Fingerprints From Across the Room — And You'll Never Know
Jul 14, 2026•Episode 311•News

Cops Can Now Scan Your Fingerprints From Across the Room — And You'll Never Know

Austrian police can now capture all ten of your fingerprints using nothing more than a smartphone camera — from a few feet away, in under thirty seconds. No ink. No pad. No pressing your hand against a scanner. <break tim

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That "Verified" Selfie Isn't Proving What You Think It Is
Jul 14, 2026•Episode 310•News

That "Verified" Selfie Isn't Proving What You Think It Is

That little selfie you take to prove it's really you? A fraudster can beat it without ever pointing a camera at a face. They feed a fake video straight into the app — bypassing the camera completely. And the system happil

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Started a New Job Online? Here's What's Really Happening to Your ID
Jul 13, 2026•Episode 309•News

Started a New Job Online? Here's What's Really Happening to Your ID

Picture your first day at a new job — but you never walk into an office. Instead, you hold your driver's license up to your laptop camera. And in that thirty-second moment, more legal weight lands on

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Fake You Can Ruin Your Life in an Hour. Courts Take Days.
Jul 13, 2026•Episode 308•News

Fake You Can Ruin Your Life in an Hour. Courts Take Days.

An actress found fake images of herself on nearly three hundred different websites. Not one. Not a dozen. About two hundred and seventy-five sites — all at once. By the time a court could order them t

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