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That "Urgent" Video From Your Boss? Your Eyes Can't Catch the Fake — Here's What
Jun 7, 2026•Episode 252•News

That "Urgent" Video From Your Boss? Your Eyes Can't Catch the Fake, Here's What Can

The best deepfakes don't get caught on the face. A fake video can look absolutely perfect on a single frame, flawless skin, natural expression, eyes that move j

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Your Face Is Your New Boarding Pass — And Nobody Told You That You Can Say No
Jun 7, 2026•Episode 251•News

Your Face Is Your New Boarding Pass: And Nobody Told You That You Can Say No

The next time you walk up to airport security, the camera might already know your face. At more than half the world's airports right now, a scan can replace you

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Iowa Wants Your Driver's License. Nobody Will Say Where It Goes.
Jun 7, 2026•Episode 250•News

Iowa Wants Your Driver's License. Nobody Will Say Where It Goes.

Starting July first, an adult website in Iowa is supposed to check your ID before letting you in. But the law that requires it never says where your driver's li

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Your Face at Work Is Now AI Training Data — And You Probably Already Said Yes
Jun 6, 2026•Episode 249•News

Your Face at Work Is Now AI Training Data: And You Probably Already Said Yes

At a staff meeting this past April, a lawyer for Elon Musk's A.I. company stood up and told employees the firm needed their faces and voices. Not for a badge. T

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Mom, Don't Wire That Money: The 6-Word Rule That Stops a $1M Deepfake Cold
Jun 6, 2026•Episode 248•News

Mom, Don't Wire That Money: The 6-Word Rule That Stops a $1M Deepfake Cold

Judy Skene was an elderly widow with no children. She saw a video on Facebook. In it, Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney was promoting a crypto investment. The

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Your Face Is Now Your Boarding Pass. Good Luck Getting It Back.
Jun 6, 2026•Episode 247•News

Your Face Is Now Your Boarding Pass. Good Luck Getting It Back.

A hundred million times, someone has walked through an Indian airport and let a camera be their boarding pass. No paper. No ID held up to a gate agent. Just a f

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Your 94% Face Match Just Became a €35M Problem
Jun 6, 2026•Episode 246•News

Your 94% Face Match Just Became a €35M Problem

A facial match can read ninety-four percent, and still cost a company thirty-five million euros. Not because the match was wrong. Because nobody wrote down why

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Your Face, Your Kid's Passport, Their Database: The Age-Check Question Nobody An
Jun 6, 2026•Episode 245•News

Your Face, Your Kid's Passport, Their Database: The Age-Check Question Nobody Answers

When your kid registers for a fencing tournament, they now have to open a camera and hold up a birth certificate. A computer reads the date, confirms their age,

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He Wired $25M After a Video Call With His Boss. His Boss Wasn't There.
Jun 5, 2026•Episode 244•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 work

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Your Daughter's Voice Just Called Begging for Money. It Wasn't Her.
Jun 5, 2026•Episode 243•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

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Your Face Can't Be Reset: The Hidden Cost of Proving You're Over 18 Online
Jun 5, 2026•Episode 242•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 governmen

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That Frantic Call From Your Kid? It Might Be a Scammer With 3 Seconds of Their V
Jun 4, 2026•Episode 241•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

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Your Kid's Face, Their Data: The Age-Check Trap Nobody Warned You About
Jun 4, 2026•Episode 240•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 ph

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Fake Photo, Real Jail: 45 Days for the Lie That Fooled a Judge
Jun 3, 2026•Episode 239•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.

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Mom's Voice Just Called Begging for Money. It Wasn't Her.
Jun 3, 2026•Episode 238•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 fro

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That 95% Face Match Could Be a Total Lie — Here's the Trick Fooling the Camera
Jun 3, 2026•Episode 237•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

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Your Kid's Yearbook Photo Is All a Stranger Needs Now
Jun 2, 2026•Episode 236•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 spo

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That Panicked Call From Your Kid? It Might Be a Scammer Wearing Their Voice.
Jun 2, 2026•Episode 235•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 so

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That Panicked Call From Your Kid? The Voice Is Fake — One Dinner Question Stops
Jun 2, 2026•Episode 234•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

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Your Outrage Is the Weapon: Inside the Deepfake Built for Your Family Group Chat
Jun 1, 2026•Episode 233•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

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Your Face Is Next: Inside the Deepfake Crisis Hitting 1 in 8 Women
Jun 1, 2026•Episode 232•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 ev

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Your Face Is Now 128 Numbers — Here's What Your Boss's AI Actually Sees
Jun 1, 2026•Episode 231•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 hun

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Your Fingerprint Just Got Stolen From a Selfie. You Have 9 Left.
Jun 1, 2026•Episode 230•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

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The Spreadsheet That Decides Whether AI Regulation Can Actually Protect You
May 31, 2026•Episode 229•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. softwa

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Your WiFi Router Knows It's You — And No Law Says It Can't
May 31, 2026•Episode 228•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

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