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Deepfakes Fool You With the Uniform, Not the Face
Apr 22, 2026•Episode 120•News

Deepfakes Fool You With the Uniform, Not the Face

A deepfake video surfaced showing a silver-haired bishop in an amaranth skullcap and cassock, standing on church steps, confronting immigration agents. The bishop didn't exist. But the outfit was so

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Your Face Is the New Password — and Sony Just Pulled the Trigger
Apr 21, 2026•Episode 119•News

Your Face Is the New Password — and Sony Just Pulled the Trigger

Starting in June, every PlayStation account in the U.K. and Ireland will require an age check to use voice chat, messaging, or any communication feature. Sony's giving players three options. A facial

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Deepfakes Just Won. Here's the Only Move Left.
Apr 21, 2026•Episode 118•News

Deepfakes Just Won. Here's the Only Move Left.

In March, a political action committee ran a deepfake ad against a Democratic Senate candidate in Texas. The A.I.-generated version of that candidate spoke convincingly for over a minute. Not a few s

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Prove You're 18 Without Showing Who You Are: The Cryptography Big Tech Won't Use
Apr 21, 2026•Episode 117•News

Prove You're 18 Without Showing Who You Are: The Cryptography Big Tech Won't Use

Three out of four people now say they're more worried about their personal data than they were five years ago. And only seventeen percent fully trust the companies holding that data. So every time a

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Meta's $2B Bet: The 'Child Safety' Bill That Builds a National ID Layer
Apr 20, 2026•Episode 116•News

Meta's $2B Bet: The 'Child Safety' Bill That Builds a National ID Layer

A bill moving through Congress right now would require you to prove your age before you can fully use your phone. Not just to download an app. To activate the operating system itself. <break time="0.

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India Tried 6 Times to Force a Biometric App on Your Phone. Apple and Samsung Just Killed It Again.
Apr 20, 2026•Episode 115•News

India Tried 6 Times to Force a Biometric App on Your Phone. Apple and Samsung Just Killed It Again.

Six times in two years. India's government tried to force smartphone makers to pre-install its national biometric I.D. app on every phone sold in the country. Six times, Apple and Samsung said no. <

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Only 1 in 1,000 People Can Spot a Deepfake — Here's the Microsecond Gap Your Brain Misses
Apr 20, 2026•Episode 114•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 113•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 over walls. Staff released them by mist

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$12 Telegram Kits Are Gutting Your Bank's Biometric Defenses
Apr 19, 2026•Episode 112•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 than a movie ticket.

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Your Selfie Passes 4 Secret Tests Before Anyone Checks Your Face
Apr 19, 2026•Episode 111•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 photo. It wasn't. Before that match ev

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EU's Age Check App Declared "Ready." Researchers Cracked It in 2 Minutes.
Apr 18, 2026•Episode 110•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 about two minutes. Not two hours. Not tw

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Meta's Smart Glasses Can ID Strangers in Seconds. 75 Groups Say Kill It Now.
Apr 18, 2026•Episode 109•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 — paired with a commercial facial recognition system — identified

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Discord Leaked 70,000 IDs Answering One Simple Question: Are You 18?
Apr 18, 2026•Episode 108•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 to prove they were eighteen. <break tim

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'Call to Confirm' Is Dead. Carrier-Level Voice Cloning Killed It.
Apr 17, 2026•Episode 107•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 <phoneme alphabet

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Deepfakes Are Criminal Cases Now. Most Investigators Still Can't Prove a Photo Is Fake.
Apr 17, 2026•Episode 106•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 images of adults and children in his own neighborhood. <break

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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 105•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 104•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 103•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 video call, saw the C.F.O.'s face, saw othe

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A Deepfake Fooled a Notary on a Live Call. The Ears Gave It Away.
Apr 16, 2026•Episode 102•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 actually can. That means the people who feel m

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A Fake CFO Stole $25.6M. The Real Victim Is Your Evidence Process.
Apr 15, 2026•Episode 101•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. Over the course of th

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Guilty Until Proven Real: How Deepfakes Broke the Rules of Evidence
Apr 15, 2026•Episode 100•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 fake you'd catch on a second watch. A sy

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Facial Comparison's DNA Moment Is Here. Most Investigators Aren't Ready.
Apr 15, 2026•Episode 99•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 they don't have a nu

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Courts Won't Ask If You Spotted the Deepfake. They'll Ask If You Even Looked.
Apr 14, 2026•Episode 98•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 out of five of those laws landed in just the last two years

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'Prove It's Not a Deepfake': The Evidence Challenge Most Investigators Will Lose
Apr 14, 2026•Episode 97•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 returned nonconsensual deepfake pornography right at the top of the

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The Deepfake You Should Fear Doesn't Have a Face
Apr 14, 2026•Episode 96•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 of that call, the worker has wired twen

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