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Biometric Login: AI Rebuilds Fingerprints From One Photo
Aug 29, 2026•Episode 650•News

Biometric Login: AI Rebuilds Fingerprints From One Photo

The next time you throw up a peace sign in a group photo, look at where the camera is standing. According to Germany's federal cybersecurity agency, if your fin

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California Deepfake Law: 47 Million Views Before Deletion
Aug 29, 2026•Episode 649•News

California Deepfake Law: 47 Million Views Before Deletion

A single fake image of a public figure was seen more than forty seven million times before anyone took it down. Not forty seven thousand. Forty seven million. B

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How to Detect Deepfakes: People Miss 75% of Fake Videos
Aug 29, 2026•Episode 648•News

How to Detect Deepfakes: People Miss 75% of Fake Videos

The governor of Malaysia's central bank had to sit in front of a camera and prove he was a real person. Because scammers had made a fake video of him, one where

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Biometric ID: A Stolen Card Still Passes the First Check
Aug 29, 2026•Episode 647•News

Biometric ID: A Stolen Card Still Passes the First Check

Someone can steal your wallet, walk up to a border kiosk with your perfectly genuine identity card, and that card will pass its first security check without a s

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Behavioral Biometrics: Kansas County Stops 2 Home Thefts
Aug 28, 2026•Episode 646•News

Behavioral Biometrics: Kansas County Stops 2 Home Thefts

Somebody can steal your house without ever setting foot on your street. They don't need a crowbar or a key. They just need a piece of paper, a signature that lo

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What Are Deepfakes: Fake Shriver Ads Cost Victims $500
Aug 28, 2026•Episode 645•News

What Are Deepfakes: Fake Shriver Ads Cost Victims $500

A woman in her sixties saw Maria Shriver on her screen, recommending a honey-based cure for Alzheimer's. She clicked. Within ten days, her credit card had been

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Deepfake Legislation: No Law Stops AI From Training on You
Aug 28, 2026•Episode 644•News

Deepfake Legislation: No Law Stops AI From Training on You

A woman learned that the abuse she survived as a child, abuse the F.B.I. has tracked since she was in preschool, was fed into an artificial intelligence system

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Liveness Detection: 6 Seconds to a Stolen Google Account
Aug 28, 2026•Episode 643•News

Liveness Detection: 6 Seconds to a Stolen Google Account

Six seconds. That's how long it took, in a demonstrated attack, for someone to log into a Google account and register their own device as a trusted key. The pas

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Anti Facial Recognition Case: 168 Flagged, 1 Jailed 11 Hours
Aug 27, 2026•Episode 642•News

Anti Facial Recognition Case: 168 Flagged, 1 Jailed 11 Hours

A truck driver walked into a Reno casino with a wallet full of I.D., his Nevada license, his player card, his union card, even a pay stub. None of it mattered.

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Deepfake Scams: One Fake Video Call Cost Her $287,000
Aug 27, 2026•Episode 641•News

Deepfake Scams: One Fake Video Call Cost Her $287,000

A California widow lost at least two hundred eighty-seven thousand dollars to a man she never met. He appeared on video calls. He had a face, a voice, a job, he

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CCTV Facial Recognition: Why a 98% Match Proves Nothing
Aug 27, 2026•Episode 640•News

CCTV Facial Recognition: Why a 98% Match Proves Nothing

A ninety-eight percent facial recognition match sounds like certainty. But run that same ninety-eight percent threshold against a database of ten million faces,

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How to Spot a Deepfake: 1 School Photo Is All It Takes
Aug 27, 2026•Episode 639•News

How to Spot a Deepfake: 1 School Photo Is All It Takes

One in every seventeen American teenagers has already had a fake nude image made of them. Not a real photo, an image built by a computer that looks like their b

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Biometric Verification: Why India Killed Its Face Database
Aug 27, 2026•Episode 638•News

Biometric Verification: Why India Killed Its Face Database

India just walked away from a plan to link the faces of over a billion mobile phone customers into one shared database. They didn't cancel the face scans. Those

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Deepfake Voice Scams: One Callback Stops a $25M Theft
Aug 27, 2026•Episode 637•News

Deepfake Voice Scams: One Callback Stops a $25M Theft

In twenty twenty-four, a finance worker in Hong Kong joined a video call with his chief financial officer and several colleagues he recognized. Every single per

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3 Seconds of Your Voice Is All a Scammer Needs — Here's the 90-Second Habit That
Aug 26, 2026•Episode 636•News

3 Seconds of Your Voice Is All a Scammer Needs: Here's the 90-Second Habit That Stops Them

Three seconds. That's all the audio a scammer needs to clone your voice well enough to fool the people who love you. According to researchers at Adaptive Securi

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She Read People for a Living. A Face That Never Existed Took $180,000.
Aug 26, 2026•Episode 635•News

She Read People for a Living. A Face That Never Existed Took $180,000.

She spent her whole career reading people. Sitting across from strangers, spotting the lie behind the smile. Then a face that never existed talked her out of on

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His Face Sold Them a Sure Thing. It Cost Them R1 Billion — and He Never Said a W
Aug 26, 2026•Episode 634•News

His Face Sold Them a Sure Thing. It Cost Them R1 Billion: and He Never Said a Word.

Two billionaires appeared in ads promising a sure thing. Neither one of them ever said a word. Their faces were fake, and by the time regulators caught up, abou

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That HR Form Question About Your Mom's Health? It's Legally a DNA Test.
Aug 26, 2026•Episode 633•News

That HR Form Question About Your Mom's Health? It's Legally a DNA Test.

The last time you filled out a form for a new job, there was probably a line asking whether anyone in your family has had cancer, or diabetes, or heart disease.

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If Software Screened You for a Job, Loan, or Apartment, 42 States Now Have Quest
Aug 25, 2026•Episode 632•News

If Software Screened You for a Job, Loan, or Apartment, 42 States Now Have Questions

Forty-two state attorneys general have formed a coalition to go after companies that use artificial intelligence to make decisions about people. Not the compani

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That Familiar Face Promising You Money? Only 0.1% of Us Can Tell It's Fake
Aug 25, 2026•Episode 631•News

That Familiar Face Promising You Money? Only 0.1% of Us Can Tell It's Fake

Only one in a thousand people can look at a fake video and know it's fake. That's not a typo. When researchers showed people A.I.-generated footage next to real

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Your Kid's Next Instagram Login Could Ask for a Driver's License
Aug 25, 2026•Episode 630•News

Your Kid's Next Instagram Login Could Ask for a Driver's License

In October twenty twenty-five, a company that verifies people's ages lost seventy thousand ID photos in a single breach. That same season, a dating app leaked s

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Your Kid's Fake Birthday Just Died. A Face Scan Is Taking Its Place.
Aug 25, 2026•Episode 629•News

Your Kid's Fake Birthday Just Died. A Face Scan Is Taking Its Place.

For years, kids got past age checks the same way, they just typed in a fake birthday. That trick is dying. The next time your child signs up for an app, it migh

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3 Seconds of Your Kid's Voice Is All a Scammer Needs
Aug 25, 2026•Episode 628•News

3 Seconds of Your Kid's Voice Is All a Scammer Needs

Three seconds. That's how much of your voice a scammer needs to build a working copy of you. And according to research compiled by security firm Vectra A.I., th

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The Fake Call Sounds Exactly Like Mom. Listen for the Pauses Instead.
Aug 24, 2026•Episode 627•News

The Fake Call Sounds Exactly Like Mom. Listen for the Pauses Instead.

Five seconds. That's all the audio a text-to-speech program needs to build a usable copy of your voice. Five seconds of a voicemail, a video you posted, a phone

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Your Kid's Face, Stored 14 Years — To Save 5 Minutes at Roll Call
Aug 24, 2026•Episode 626•News

Your Kid's Face, Stored 14 Years, To Save 5 Minutes at Roll Call

A million children in Brazil had their faces scanned every single day, just to take attendance. The system stored those faces for as long as a kid stayed enroll

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