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That Green "Verified" Checkmark Lies to You 76% of the Time
Jul 25, 2026•Episode 366•News

That Green "Verified" Checkmark Lies to You 76% of the Time

That little green checkmark that says "Verified"? Depending on which system put it there, it could be wrong more than seventy-six percent of the time. According to a twenty twenty-five U.S. Homeland S

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TikTok Is Now Selling Booze in Your Kid's Feed — And Even the Regulator Isn't Sure the Age Check Works
Jul 25, 2026•Episode 365•News

TikTok Is Now Selling Booze in Your Kid's Feed — And Even the Regulator Isn't Sure the Age Check Works

The regulator whose job is to police TikTok just opened an investigation into whether TikTok can actually tell how old you are. And in the middle of that investigation, TikTok started selling alcohol.

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Facebook Wants Your Face to Sell Your Couch
Jul 25, 2026•Episode 364•News

Facebook Wants Your Face to Sell Your Couch

To sell your old couch on Facebook Marketplace, you might soon have to take a selfie. Not a photo of the couch — a photo of your face. And Facebook wants to scan it to prove you're a real human being.

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That "Verify Your ID" Email From a Recruiter? Read This Before You Upload Anything
Jul 25, 2026•Episode 363•News

That "Verify Your ID" Email From a Recruiter? Read This Before You Upload Anything

A group of security officials made the same admission last year. They said they'd yet to meet a single Fortune Five Hundred company that hadn't accidentally hired a North Korean tech worker. Not one.

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Your Password Just Got Stolen. Here's What Actually Stops the Thief.
Jul 25, 2026•Episode 362•News

Your Password Just Got Stolen. Here's What Actually Stops the Thief.

Someone could have your exact password right now — the real one, letter for letter — and still get caught the second they start typing. Not because a system asks for more secrets. But because their fingers move wrong. <br

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Your Face Is Now Your Punch Card. Nobody Asked You.
Jul 24, 2026•Episode 361•News

Your Face Is Now Your Punch Card. Nobody Asked You.

Most workers who get watched on the job never got a say in it. Not a heads up. Not a conversation. According to surveys behind a new law in Australia, more than four out of five surveilled employees were left out of any discussion with their

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Google Now Wants Your Face to Unlock Your Account — Here's the Scam Coming Next
Jul 24, 2026•Episode 360•News

Google Now Wants Your Face to Unlock Your Account — Here's the Scam Coming Next

You can't reset your face. A password, you change in thirty seconds. But if someone steals a scan of your face — that's permanent. And starting this summer, Google wants your face to unlock your acco

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Your Face Is About to Live on Your Phone — 40 Million People Just Went First
Jul 24, 2026•Episode 359•News

Your Face Is About to Live on Your Phone — 40 Million People Just Went First

Nearly twenty million times, people in India have reached into an app and locked their own fingerprints and face away from the system. Not because the government told them to. Because they could. That

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"Facial Match: 98%" Might Mean Nothing. Here's the One Question That Reveals the Truth.
Jul 24, 2026•Episode 358•News

"Facial Match: 98%" Might Mean Nothing. Here's the One Question That Reveals the Truth.

That "ninety-eight percent facial match" you saw in a headline? On its own, it might mean almost nothing. The same number can describe three completely different things — and two of them are far shakier than most people a

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Your Watch Says 110 BPM. Should You Panic? Depends on One Thing.
Jul 23, 2026•Episode 357•News

Your Watch Says 110 BPM. Should You Panic? Depends on One Thing.

Your smartwatch flashes a warning. One hundred and ten beats per minute. Your stomach drops. But here's something that might surprise you — that exact same number could be a medical emergency for one person and completely boring for another.

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One Phone Call Away From Losing Everything You Own Online
Jul 23, 2026•Episode 356•News

One Phone Call Away From Losing Everything You Own Online

A phone rang. A support agent answered. And by the time that call ended, a stranger had the keys to someone's entire digital life — their email, their bank, their accounts. The victim never typed a password. They never cli

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Your Face Is Forever. Only 5% Trust Companies to Protect It.
Jul 23, 2026•Episode 355•News

Your Face Is Forever. Only 5% Trust Companies to Protect It.

Just five percent. Out of everyone surveyed, only five percent trust companies to protect their biometric data. Two years earlier, that number was nearly thirty percent. So in the

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Parents: That "Age Verified" Label Just Got Beaten by a Chrome Extension
Jul 23, 2026•Episode 354•News

Parents: That "Age Verified" Label Just Got Beaten by a Chrome Extension

A security researcher just beat a two-million-euro age verification app using a browser extension he built with A.I. And here's the part that stings — he did it twice. Once in April. Then again three

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That "Try On Glasses" Button Just Mapped Your Face 468 Ways
Jul 23, 2026•Episode 353•News

That "Try On Glasses" Button Just Mapped Your Face 468 Ways

That little "try on these glasses" button on the eyewear website? The moment you clicked it, software mapped your face at four hundred and sixty-eight separate points. Not a photo. A measurement. The distance between your

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"Try On" Sunglasses Online? A Court Just Said Your Face Is Worth $5,000
Jul 22, 2026•Episode 352•News

"Try On" Sunglasses Online? A Court Just Said Your Face Is Worth $5,000

The exact same scan of your face can be perfectly legal in one room and worth five thousand dollars in a lawsuit in another. Same measurements. Same technology. But move it from a doctor's office to a shopping website, an

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The Scariest Deepfake Isn't a Face — It's the "Approved" Stamp on Your Company's Software
Jul 22, 2026•Episode 351•News

The Scariest Deepfake Isn't a Face — It's the "Approved" Stamp on Your Company's Software

You already trust it. Every day, your phone downloads an update, checks a little digital signature, sees a green checkmark, and installs it. No questions asked. But security researchers say attackers have figured out how to fake that checkmar

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Your Face at the Border Doesn't Get Deleted. It Gets Filed for 75 Years.
Jul 22, 2026•Episode 350•News

Your Face at the Border Doesn't Get Deleted. It Gets Filed for 75 Years.

The next time you walk through a border checkpoint and a camera snaps your face, here's something the sign won't tell you. That photo can sit in a government database for up to seventy-five years. Not seventy-five days. Seventy-five years. <b

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Someone Is Building a Fake You — And Your Bank Has 30 Seconds to Stop It
Jul 22, 2026•Episode 349•News

Someone Is Building a Fake You — And Your Bank Has 30 Seconds to Stop It

There's a version of you being built right now. Not stolen — built. It has your kind of name, a real-looking Social Security number, and a credit history that's been growing quietly for months. And a bank already believes it's a person. <bre

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Your Face, Their Loophole: Court Just Killed the "It's Healthcare" Excuse
Jul 22, 2026•Episode 348•News

Your Face, Their Loophole: Court Just Killed the "It's Healthcare" Excuse

The exact same face scan can be perfectly legal in one room and against the law in the room next door. Not because the technology changed. Because of where you were standing when it happened. <break

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"It's Healthcare" Won't Save Your Face Scan Anymore
Jul 21, 2026•Episode 347•News

"It's Healthcare" Won't Save Your Face Scan Anymore

When you use one of those virtual try-on tools to see how a pair of glasses looks on your face — the app is scanning the exact geometry of your face. And a company just tried to argue that because those glasses can be prescription, they didn'

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Your Kid's App Says "Verified" — Here's Why That's a Lie
Jul 21, 2026•Episode 346•News

Your Kid's App Says "Verified" — Here's Why That's a Lie

When your kid takes a selfie video to prove they're old enough for a chat app, that app isn't confirming who they are. It's making a guess. A probability. And right now, two of the biggest platforms y

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That Attack Ad About Your Local Candidate? A Laptop Made It — and No One Has to Tell You.
Jul 21, 2026•Episode 345•News

That Attack Ad About Your Local Candidate? A Laptop Made It — and No One Has to Tell You.

A candidate for county executive in St. Charles, Missouri, paid for a political attack ad. The people in the video? They weren't filmed. They were generated by a computer. And under Missouri law, nobo

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Your Face Is Being Scanned at the Grocery Store — and Washington Doesn't Make Them Tell You
Jul 21, 2026•Episode 344•News

Your Face Is Being Scanned at the Grocery Store — and Washington Doesn't Make Them Tell You

The next time you walk into a grocery store, a camera might turn your face into a string of code before you reach the produce aisle. In downtown Spokane, one discount grocery is already doing exactly that — measuring the

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"Better-Appearing Glasses Are Not Medical Treatment": The 4 Words That Just Changed Your Face-Scan Rights
Jul 21, 2026•Episode 343•News

"Better-Appearing Glasses Are Not Medical Treatment": The 4 Words That Just Changed Your Face-Scan Rights

Try on a pair of glasses online — the kind where you point your camera at your face and watch the frames appear? A federal court just ruled that a company doing exactly that can be sued for scanning your face without permission. <break time="

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Your Selfie Isn't a Photo Anymore — It's a Math File That Never Forgets Your Face
Jul 20, 2026•Episode 342•News

Your Selfie Isn't a Photo Anymore — It's a Math File That Never Forgets Your Face

You uploaded a selfie to try on some glasses. Just to see how the frames would look. But that photo? It didn't stay a photo. In the split second between your upload and the preview, invisible software turned your face into a string of numbers

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