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That "Quick Selfie to Verify" Could Be Handing Scammers Your Face
Jul 20, 2026•Episode 341•News

That "Quick Selfie to Verify" Could Be Handing Scammers Your Face

That "quick selfie to verify it's really you"? Scammers can now fake that too. According to LexisNexis Risk Solutions, one in every hundred identity checks that fails now involves a deepfake — a fake document, a fake phot

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That "Virtual Try-On" for Glasses? A Court Just Ruled It's Scanning Your Face — Not Your Health
Jul 20, 2026•Episode 340•News

That "Virtual Try-On" for Glasses? A Court Just Ruled It's Scanning Your Face — Not Your Health

You tried on a pair of glasses online. You clicked the little button that says "see how these look on you." Your webcam turned on, mapped your face, and showed you the frames. A federal court just ruled that scan wasn't healthcare — it was a

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Your Boss's AI Can Reject You Until 2027 — and Nobody Has to Prove It's Fair
Jul 20, 2026•Episode 339•News

Your Boss's AI Can Reject You Until 2027 — and Nobody Has to Prove It's Fair

A hiring algorithm can filter out more than a quarter of Black applicants — and starting next August, an A.I. system doing exactly that can enter the European market with no record of where its training data came from, and no proof it was eve

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Your Selfie Isn't What's Protecting You: The 4 Hidden Checks Running Behind Every ID Scan
Jul 20, 2026•Episode 338•News

Your Selfie Isn't What's Protecting You: The 4 Hidden Checks Running Behind Every ID Scan

When you take a selfie to prove who you are — to open a bank account, or unlock a service — you probably think the app is just checking whether your face matches your ID. But that selfie is only one of at least four separ

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That Urgent Video From Your Boss? Watch How the Face Moves — Not How It Looks
Jul 19, 2026•Episode 337•News

That Urgent Video From Your Boss? Watch How the Face Moves — Not How It Looks

The best deepfake detector doesn't look at the face at all. It watches how the face moves. And it turns out the most convincing fake video in the world gives itself away — not in the skin, not in the eyes, but in the motion between one frame

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Your Kid's Photo Is All These Apps Need to Make a Fake Nude
Jul 19, 2026•Episode 336•News

Your Kid's Photo Is All These Apps Need to Make a Fake Nude

More than a third of American teenagers say someone made a fake nude of them — without their consent. That's not a headline about celebrities. That's kids in ordinary schools, and the tools used to do it were sitting on the App Store. <break

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Your Face Got Scanned 2,600 Times. A Court Just Said That's One Violation.
Jul 19, 2026•Episode 335•News

Your Face Got Scanned 2,600 Times. A Court Just Said That's One Violation.

Picture this. You clock in at work every morning by scanning your fingerprint. You do it twice a day for five years. That's about twenty-six hundred scans of your body. And a federal court just decided that all of those scans count as one sin

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Your Face Got Scanned at Wegmans. Nobody Had to Tell You.
Jul 19, 2026•Episode 334•News

Your Face Got Scanned at Wegmans. Nobody Had to Tell You.

You walked into a Wegmans this year, picked up your groceries, and a camera turned your face into a string of numbers. You were never told. Wegmans admitted it — a handful of its stores were using facial recognition, quie

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Your Face Was Scanned Saturday. Nobody Asked If That Was Legal.
Jul 19, 2026•Episode 333•News

Your Face Was Scanned Saturday. Nobody Asked If That Was Legal.

Last month in Perth, Australia, a police van drove down public streets and scanned the faces of everyone who walked past. In one week, it captured more than a hundred and thirty thousand faces. And th

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Your Face Is Not a Password — And You Can't Reset It
Jul 18, 2026•Episode 332•News

Your Face Is Not a Password — And You Can't Reset It

There's a piece of malware called GoldPickaxe that doesn't want your password. It wants a video of your face. And once it has that, there's nothing you can do to take it back — because unlike a passwo

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Your Face Is Scanned Before You Grab a Basket — and California Stores Don't Have to Tell You
Jul 18, 2026•Episode 331•News

Your Face Is Scanned Before You Grab a Basket — and California Stores Don't Have to Tell You

The next time you walk into a Grocery Outlet in the Bay Area, a camera may scan your face before you even touch a shopping basket. You won't get a warning. You won't sign anything. And in California, the store doesn't hav

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Meta Put Face-Recognition Code on 50 Million Phones. Nobody Was Told.
Jul 18, 2026•Episode 330•News

Meta Put Face-Recognition Code on 50 Million Phones. Nobody Was Told.

Fifty million phones were carrying finished facial-recognition code — and almost nobody who installed the app knew it was there. It could spot a face. It could turn that face into a string of numbers. It could match that

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Your Driver's License Is About to Become Your AI Password
Jul 18, 2026•Episode 329•News

Your Driver's License Is About to Become Your AI Password

Anthropic just started asking people to upload a photo of their driver's license before they can use Claude — their A.I. chatbot. No regulation forced them to do it. They chose to, before anyone made

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That Funny AI Video You Shared? It Still Rewires How 31M People See a Real Person.
Jul 18, 2026•Episode 328•News

That Funny AI Video You Shared? It Still Rewires How 31M People See a Real Person.

That video of Erling Haaland staring at himself in a restaurant mirror — the one that racked up thirty-one million views on X in just a few days? It was fake. The footage came from a Chinese comedy sk

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Instagram Turned On a Setting That Lets Strangers Make AI Photos of You
Jul 17, 2026•Episode 327•News

Instagram Turned On a Setting That Lets Strangers Make AI Photos of You

Twenty photos. That's all it takes. According to reporting from Social Ketchup and other outlets covering Meta's new tools, twenty pictures pulled from a kid's social feed are enough to build a thirty-second deepfake video — the kind used for

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Your Group Chat Is One Video Away From Ruining Someone's Life
Jul 17, 2026•Episode 326•News

Your Group Chat Is One Video Away From Ruining Someone's Life

A teacher's video went viral across India. People argued for days about whether it was real or made by artificial intelligence. It turned out to be real. But the fight over "is this fake?" — that argu

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Your Payment App Is About to Become Your ID — and Scammers Already Know It
Jul 17, 2026•Episode 325•News

Your Payment App Is About to Become Your ID — and Scammers Already Know It

The next time your payment app asks you to verify your identity, that request might be the most dangerous message you'll ever tap. In South Korea, three of the biggest payment apps just got the government's permission to

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"Verify Your Identity" Just Got Real — And Scammers Are Ready
Jul 17, 2026•Episode 324•News

"Verify Your Identity" Just Got Real — And Scammers Are Ready

Someone tried to break into a bank account using a high-quality photo of the real customer's face. They held it up to the camera, hoping to fool the system. The system caught it instantly — and locked

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That "Enter Your Birthday" Box Is Dead — Here's What Actually Checks Your Age Now
Jul 17, 2026•Episode 323•News

That "Enter Your Birthday" Box Is Dead — Here's What Actually Checks Your Age Now

That little box asking for your birthday? The one where you type in a date and click enter? It never actually checked anything. You could type in any year you wanted, and the website just took your word for it. <break tim

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That Box Around Your Face? It Didn't Recognize You — It Just Found You
Jul 16, 2026•Episode 322•News

That Box Around Your Face? It Didn't Recognize You — It Just Found You

That little box that pops up around your face when your phone camera opens? It didn't recognize you. It has no idea who you are. All it did was notice that something in the frame is shaped like a face. And I think most o

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That Celebrity Video Pitching You Stocks? One Scam Ring Built 15,500 Fake Sites to Fool You.
Jul 16, 2026•Episode 321•News

That Celebrity Video Pitching You Stocks? One Scam Ring Built 15,500 Fake Sites to Fool You.

That video of a famous investor telling you about a guaranteed A.I. trading system? It might be part of a network of more than fifteen thousand fake websites. All built by one criminal ring — and desi

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200 People Just Marched on OpenAI. Here's Why Your Face Is the Next Battleground.
Jul 16, 2026•Episode 320•News

200 People Just Marched on OpenAI. Here's Why Your Face Is the Next Battleground.

Two hundred people walked through the streets of San Francisco on a Saturday. Their destination? The front doors of the biggest A.I. companies on earth. Their demand? Stop building. <break time="0.8s"

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That Familiar Voice on the Phone? Even You Can't Tell It's Fake Half the Time
Jul 16, 2026•Episode 319•News

That Familiar Voice on the Phone? Even You Can't Tell It's Fake Half the Time

There's a study from twenty twenty-five that stopped me cold. According to researchers at Resemble A.I., when people listened to a cloned voice and a real one, they picked correctly only fifty-two percent of the time. That's a coin flip. Your

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Your Face, Your Bank, Your Job: The 4 EU Rules That Now Decide Who Sees You
Jul 15, 2026•Episode 318•News

Your Face, Your Bank, Your Job: The 4 EU Rules That Now Decide Who Sees You

The same facial recognition on your phone that unlocks your screen — and the kind that scans a crowd looking for a face — are treated completely differently under Europe's new A.I. law. One barely registers. The other car

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Your Password Won't Get You Into Social Security Anymore — Here's What Replaces It
Jul 15, 2026•Episode 317•News

Your Password Won't Get You Into Social Security Anymore — Here's What Replaces It

The password you use to check your Social Security benefits? The federal government is phasing it out. And the thing replacing it doesn't just ask what you know — it watches how you type, checks your face, and decides in

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