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Only 1 in 1,000 People Can Spot a Deepfake — Here's the Microsecond Gap Your Bra
Apr 20, 2026•Episode 113•News

Only 1 in 1,000 People Can Spot a Deepfake, Here's the Microsecond Gap Your Brain Misses

Only one in a thousand people can reliably tell a deepfake from the real thing. Not one in ten. Not one in a hundred. One in a thousand. And the reason isn't

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179 Prisoners Walked Free. The Fix Is Watching Your Face.
Apr 19, 2026•Episode 112•News

179 Prisoners Walked Free. The Fix Is Watching Your Face.

One hundred and seventy-nine prisoners walked out of jails across England and Wales between April of last year and March of this year. Not through tunnels. Not

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$12 Telegram Kits Are Gutting Your Bank's Biometric Defenses
Apr 19, 2026•Episode 111•News

$12 Telegram Kits Are Gutting Your Bank's Biometric Defenses

A kit that costs about twelve dollars on Telegram can now fool the identity checks most banks use to verify you're a real person. Twelve dollars. That's less th

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Your Selfie Passes 4 Secret Tests Before Anyone Checks Your Face
Apr 19, 2026•Episode 110•News

Your Selfie Passes 4 Secret Tests Before Anyone Checks Your Face

The last time you took a selfie to verify your identity on an app, you probably thought the system was doing one thing, checking whether your face matched your

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EU's Age Check App Declared "Ready." Researchers Cracked It in 2 Minutes.
Apr 18, 2026•Episode 109•News

EU's Age Check App Declared "Ready." Researchers Cracked It in 2 Minutes.

The European Commission declared its age verification app ready to roll out across the entire bloc. Security researchers broke through its core protections in a

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Meta's Smart Glasses Can ID Strangers in Seconds. 75 Groups Say Kill It Now.
Apr 18, 2026•Episode 108•News

Meta's Smart Glasses Can ID Strangers in Seconds. 75 Groups Say Kill It Now.

A security researcher walked into the R.S.A.C. conference in twenty twenty-six wearing a pair of Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. Within seconds, those glasses, pair

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Discord Leaked 70,000 IDs Answering One Simple Question: Are You 18?
Apr 18, 2026•Episode 107•News

Discord Leaked 70,000 IDs Answering One Simple Question: Are You 18?

Seventy thousand people uploaded photos of their government I.D.s to Discord. They weren't applying for a job or opening a bank account. They were just trying t

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'Call to Confirm' Is Dead. Carrier-Level Voice Cloning Killed It.
Apr 17, 2026•Episode 106•News

'Call to Confirm' Is Dead. Carrier-Level Voice Cloning Killed It.

A wireless carrier just launched a service that clones your voice and places calls from your real phone number. Not a research demo. Not a startup pitch deck. A

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Deepfakes Are Criminal Cases Now. Most Investigators Still Can't Prove a Photo I
Apr 17, 2026•Episode 105•News

Deepfakes Are Criminal Cases Now. Most Investigators Still Can't Prove a Photo Is Fake.

In April of this year, a man in Ohio became the first person convicted under the federal TAKE IT DOWN Act. He'd used A.I. to generate non-consensual intimate im

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One Boolean Flag Broke the EU's Age Check. The $10.4B Industry Has the Same Flaw
Apr 17, 2026•Episode 104•News

One Boolean Flag Broke the EU's Age Check. The $10.4B Industry Has the Same Flaw.

The European Union launched a brand-new age verification app on 04-14-2026. Someone bypassed it in under two minutes. Not with a sophisticated hack. N

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The Face Matched. The Voice Matched. The Person Never Existed.
Apr 16, 2026•Episode 103•News

The Face Matched. The Voice Matched. The Person Never Existed.

In 2024, a finance employee at Arup, a major U.K. engineering firm, joined a video call with several senior leaders. Every face on screen looked right.

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The Faces Were Fake. The $25 Million Was Real.
Apr 16, 2026•Episode 102•News

The Faces Were Fake. The $25 Million Was Real.

A finance worker in Hong Kong got a phishing email claiming to be from his company's chief financial officer in the U.K. He didn't buy it. Then he joined a vide

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A Deepfake Fooled a Notary on a Live Call. The Ears Gave It Away.
Apr 16, 2026•Episode 101•News

A Deepfake Fooled a Notary on a Live Call. The Ears Gave It Away.

Sixty percent of people say they're confident they can spot a deepfake. According to a 2024 study cited by Florida Realtors, only zero point one percent actuall

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A Fake CFO Stole $25.6M. The Real Victim Is Your Evidence Process.
Apr 15, 2026•Episode 100•News

A Fake CFO Stole $25.6M. The Real Victim Is Your Evidence Process.

A finance worker in Hong Kong joined a video call with his chief financial officer and several colleagues. He recognized their faces. He heard their voices. Ove

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Guilty Until Proven Real: How Deepfakes Broke the Rules of Evidence
Apr 15, 2026•Episode 99•News

Guilty Until Proven Real: How Deepfakes Broke the Rules of Evidence

A judge in Alameda County, California threw out an entire civil case after discovering that videotaped witness testimony was a deepfake. Not a blurry, glitchy f

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Facial Comparison's DNA Moment Is Here. Most Investigators Aren't Ready.
Apr 15, 2026•Episode 98•News

Facial Comparison's DNA Moment Is Here. Most Investigators Aren't Ready.

A judge looks at an investigator and asks one question. "What's your false match rate?" The investigator has fifteen years of experience comparing faces. But th

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Courts Won't Ask If You Spotted the Deepfake. They'll Ask If You Even Looked.
Apr 14, 2026•Episode 97•News

Courts Won't Ask If You Spotted the Deepfake. They'll Ask If You Even Looked.

Nearly all U.S. states, forty-seven out of fifty, have now passed some form of deepfake legislation. And according to compliance tracking data, more than four o

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'Prove It's Not a Deepfake': The Evidence Challenge Most Investigators Will Lose
Apr 14, 2026•Episode 96•News

'Prove It's Not a Deepfake': The Evidence Challenge Most Investigators Will Lose

An N.B.C. News investigation searched the names of thirty-six well-known female celebrities on Google and Bing. On Google, thirty-four of those searches returne

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The Deepfake You Should Fear Doesn't Have a Face
Apr 14, 2026•Episode 95•News

The Deepfake You Should Fear Doesn't Have a Face

A finance worker in Hong Kong joins a video call with colleagues. The C.F.O. is there. Other team members are there. Faces visible, voices familiar. By the end

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A Cop Made 3,000 Deepfake Porn Images. A Bandwidth Spike Caught Him — No Investi
Apr 13, 2026•Episode 94•News

A Cop Made 3,000 Deepfake Porn Images. A Bandwidth Spike Caught Him, No Investigator Did.

A Pennsylvania state police corporal just pleaded guilty to creating three thousand deepfake pornography images. Three thousand. And the thing that caught him w

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The Cop Who Made 3,000 Deepfakes Exposed a Bigger Problem Than Deepfakes
Apr 13, 2026•Episode 93•News

The Cop Who Made 3,000 Deepfakes Exposed a Bigger Problem Than Deepfakes

A Pennsylvania state trooper just pleaded guilty to creating three thousand deepfake images. He built them using driver's license photos and law enforcement dat

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That Facial Match Score Is Lying to Your Face
Apr 13, 2026•Episode 92•News

That Facial Match Score Is Lying to Your Face

Every time your phone unlocks with a glance, it isn't recognizing your face. It's measuring the distance between two points in a space with a hundred and twenty

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Every Image Is Guilty Until Proven Authentic
Apr 12, 2026•Episode 91•News

Every Image Is Guilty Until Proven Authentic

A retiree in Saskatchewan handed over three thousand dollars to someone she believed was Prime Minister Mark Carney. She watched a video of him endorsing a cryp

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Deepfake Fraud Tripled to $1.1B. Your Evidence Workflow Didn't.
Apr 12, 2026•Episode 90•News

Deepfake Fraud Tripled to $1.1B. Your Evidence Workflow Didn't.

A billion dollars. That's how much Americans lost to deepfake fraud this year alone. Triple what it was just twelve months ago. And the people behind it? M

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A Facial Recognition 'Match' Isn't Evidence Until It Survives These 4 Hidden Ste
Apr 12, 2026•Episode 89•News

A Facial Recognition 'Match' Isn't Evidence Until It Survives These 4 Hidden Steps

A confidence score of ninety-five percent sounds rock solid. But according to research published by CaraComp, that same algorithm's accuracy can plummet by fift

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