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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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Europe Built the Age Check That Doesn't Steal Your ID. Nobody Has to Use It.
Aug 24, 2026•Episode 625•News

Europe Built the Age Check That Doesn't Steal Your ID. Nobody Has to Use It.

Imagine proving you're old enough to visit a website, without handing over your name, your birthday, or a photo of your driver's license. The European Union jus

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10 Seconds of Your Voice Is All They Need to Call Your Mom for Money
Aug 24, 2026•Episode 624•News

10 Seconds of Your Voice Is All They Need to Call Your Mom for Money

Someone you love calls you, panicked, asking for money. The voice is exactly right. And according to a study of a hundred and two participants, when people were

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A 99.7% Accurate Face Search Can Still Finger 3,000 Innocent People — Including
Aug 23, 2026•Episode 623•News

A 99.7% Accurate Face Search Can Still Finger 3,000 Innocent People, Including You

A face search system can be ninety-nine point seven percent accurate and still point at three thousand innocent people. Not because it's broken. Because that's

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Google Will Now Erase Your Leaked ID From Search. Your Face Is Already Gone.
Aug 23, 2026•Episode 622•News

Google Will Now Erase Your Leaked ID From Search. Your Face Is Already Gone.

A convincing scam video doesn't work because the fake is good. It works because the name is real. The photo is real. Sometimes the home address is real too. T

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PlayStation Now Wants Your Kid's Face Before It Sells Them a Game
Aug 23, 2026•Episode 621•News

PlayStation Now Wants Your Kid's Face Before It Sells Them a Game

In Australia, before your teenager can buy a mature-rated video game, PlayStation now wants to scan their face. Not their name. Not a password. Their actual fac

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You Can Change Your Password. You Can't Change Your Face — And 376 Million Peopl
Aug 23, 2026•Episode 620•News

You Can Change Your Password. You Can't Change Your Face: And 376 Million People Just Handed Theirs Over.

Right now, in Brazil, three hundred and seventy-six million faces sit inside a single database. That's more faces than there are people in the entire United Sta

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The Machine Flagged You. Now Ask Who Signed Off.
Aug 23, 2026•Episode 619•News

The Machine Flagged You. Now Ask Who Signed Off.

A machine can flag your face, your loan application, or your job interview, and under Europe's new A.I. rules, somebody has to be able to prove a human could ha

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"A Human Reviewed It" — 3 Words That Protect Nobody When AI Decides Your Money
Aug 22, 2026•Episode 618•News

"A Human Reviewed It": 3 Words That Protect Nobody When AI Decides Your Money

Somewhere right now, a bank is denying someone a loan, and a person is signing off on it. That signature feels like protection. Under Europe's new A.I. rules, i

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That Green "Verified" Checkmark? Some Accounts Opened With Just One Letter
Aug 22, 2026•Episode 617•News

That Green "Verified" Checkmark? Some Accounts Opened With Just One Letter

Some people opened a gambling account using just one letter of their name. Not their full first name. A single initial. And the platform took their money anyway

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You Can Change Your Password. You Can't Change Your Fingerprints.
Aug 22, 2026•Episode 616•News

You Can Change Your Password. You Can't Change Your Fingerprints.

Back in twenty-fifteen, hackers broke into a U.S. government office and walked away with the fingerprints of more than five million people. Those people can't c

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That Doctor Selling You a Miracle Pill Online? He Never Said a Word
Aug 22, 2026•Episode 615•News

That Doctor Selling You a Miracle Pill Online? He Never Said a Word

A doctor in Belgium found out his own brother-in-law had been fooled. There was a video online. The doctor appeared to be recommending a medicine. He looked rea

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