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Your Face at Work Is Now a File You've Never Seen
Jul 10, 2026•Episode 291•News

Your Face at Work Is Now a File You've Never Seen

Your boss might have a file on your face. Your fingerprint. Your voice. Maybe even a scan of your eyes. And most workers who clock in with their thumb every morning can't tell you where that data goes

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The Blurry Photo From 2015 That Could Lock You Out of Your Own Life
Jul 10, 2026•Episode 290•News

The Blurry Photo From 2015 That Could Lock You Out of Your Own Life

Picture this. You walk in to get your national I.D. photo taken. And because your skin is darker, the camera struggles to see you clearly. Meanwhile, someone with lighter skin standing right behind you gets told the light

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The Coworker With Full Access to Your Data May Not Be a Real Person
Jul 9, 2026•Episode 289•News

The Coworker With Full Access to Your Data May Not Be a Real Person

There might be someone at a company right now with access to the payroll system, the source code, the customer database — and that someone was never a real person to begin with. Not a hacker who stole a login. An entire em

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You Only Have One Face. A Court Just Ruled You Get to Control It.
Jul 9, 2026•Episode 288•News

You Only Have One Face. A Court Just Ruled You Get to Control It.

You have exactly one face. No spare. No backup. And if someone copies the pattern of it — the distance between your eyes, the shape of your jaw — you can't reset it like a password. A court just said

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Your Face Just Approved 611 Million Payments — And Fraudsters Are Practicing
Jul 9, 2026•Episode 287•News

Your Face Just Approved 611 Million Payments — And Fraudsters Are Practicing

Last month, six hundred and eleven million payments in India got approved by someone's face or fingerprint. No PIN. No password. Just a glance or a touch. And here's the part that should make you sit

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That "Insurance Rep" on Video Might Be a Deepfake — and Your Medical File Is the Prize
Jul 9, 2026•Episode 286•News

That "Insurance Rep" on Video Might Be a Deepfake — and Your Medical File Is the Prize

Only about a third of people can spot a deepfake — even after someone warns them one's coming. When nobody warns them at all, most still get fooled. Those aren't numbers from some distant lab. Researc

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That "Urgent" Call From Your Boss? The Voice Is Fake — And It Cost $1.33 to Make
Jul 9, 2026•Episode 285•News

That "Urgent" Call From Your Boss? The Voice Is Fake — And It Cost $1.33 to Make

A convincing fake of your boss's voice — the exact tone, the exact urgency — now costs about a dollar and thirty-three cents to make. Not thousands. Not a Hollywood studio. Roughly the price of a candy bar. <break time="0

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Only 1 in 1,000 People Can Spot a Deepfake — Here's the 30-Second Habit That Actually Protects You
Jul 8, 2026•Episode 284•News

Only 1 in 1,000 People Can Spot a Deepfake — Here's the 30-Second Habit That Actually Protects You

In a test where two thousand people were told — flat out — to look for fakes, only one in a thousand could tell them all apart. One. In. A. Thousand. And these weren't people caught off guard — they kne

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That Hot Stranger Sliding Into Your DMs? Probably 40,000 Lines of Code.
Jul 8, 2026•Episode 283•News

That Hot Stranger Sliding Into Your DMs? Probably 40,000 Lines of Code.

Some of these accounts have tens of thousands of followers. Thirty-one thousand. Eighty-eight thousand. And the person in the videos? He doesn't exist. Not a single frame of him is real. If you've ever gotten a flirty m

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Before Your Kid Downloads Another App, 28 States Want Your ID — And Your Data
Jul 8, 2026•Episode 282•News

Before Your Kid Downloads Another App, 28 States Want Your ID — And Your Data

Twenty-eight states now want proof of your kid's age before they download a single app. And to prove that age, someone has to hand over an I.D. — or personal data — to the app store itself. Texas star

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Your Kid's Birthday Photo Is All a Stranger Needs — And It Takes 15 Minutes
Jul 8, 2026•Episode 281•News

Your Kid's Birthday Photo Is All a Stranger Needs — And It Takes 15 Minutes

Twenty photos. Fifteen minutes. That's all a stranger needs to turn your child's birthday picture into something you can't unsee. According to Britain's Internet Watch Foundation, A.I.-generated child abuse videos jumped

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That "Grandson" Begging You for Money Tonight? Hang Up and Call Him Back.
Jul 8, 2026•Episode 280•News

That "Grandson" Begging You for Money Tonight? Hang Up and Call Him Back.

Nearly nine in ten older adults say they're worried about A.I. scams — voice cloning, fake videos, a stranger wearing a loved one's face. But almost all of them are bracing for the wrong threat. They're learning to spot the fake. And that's e

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That "Verifying Your Identity" Spinner Is Doing 7 Things You Never See
Jul 7, 2026•Episode 279•News

That "Verifying Your Identity" Spinner Is Doing 7 Things You Never See

That little spinner you stare at while an app says "verifying your identity"? In the few seconds it spins, it's not just comparing your selfie to your photo I.D. It's quietly running about seven separate checks — and most of them, you'll neve

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That "Urgent" Call From Your Boss? The Face and Voice Are Fake — and It Just Stole $1.1 Billion
Jul 7, 2026•Episode 278•News

That "Urgent" Call From Your Boss? The Face and Voice Are Fake — and It Just Stole $1.1 Billion

An employee at a global company sat in a video meeting with his chief financial officer and several colleagues. Everyone on the call looked normal. Everyone sounded right. Every single face was fake — and by the end of that meeting, the compa

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That "Real" Face on Your TV? ESPN Just Proved You Can't Tell Anymore
Jul 7, 2026•Episode 277•News

That "Real" Face on Your TV? ESPN Just Proved You Can't Tell Anymore

Back in 2/3/2021, ESPN brought two dead men back to life on your television. Al Davis, the late founder of the Raiders. Pete Rozelle, the former N.F.L. commissioner. Both gone for years — and

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Your Kid Got Past the Age Check. Now Watch What the App Does to Their Brain.
Jul 7, 2026•Episode 276•News

Your Kid Got Past the Age Check. Now Watch What the App Does to Their Brain.

Your kid clears the age check. They tap "I'm eighteen." And in that instant, the app stops asking who they are — and starts deciding what they see. The gate was never the point. The feed was. If you're

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Your AI Assistant Has Your Password. Here's What Nobody Told You About the 2AM Bank Login.
Jul 7, 2026•Episode 275•News

Your AI Assistant Has Your Password. Here's What Nobody Told You About the 2AM Bank Login.

Picture this. It's two in the morning, and your A.I. assistant just logged into your bank. It has your password. It's acting as you. And the bank has no easy way to tell if it's really allowed to be there. If you've ever

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Stop Uploading Your ID Everywhere: The Hidden Handoff That Already Protects You
Jul 6, 2026•Episode 274•News

Stop Uploading Your ID Everywhere: The Hidden Handoff That Already Protects You

Every time you upload your driver's license to a new website, you're making yourself less safe — not more. The safest way to prove who you are might be a system where your actual documents never travel anywhere at all. <b

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Your Face Is About to Be Your Cover Charge
Jul 6, 2026•Episode 273•News

Your Face Is About to Be Your Cover Charge

In New South Wales, Australia, the government is about to require your face be scanned before you can play a poker machine. Not at an airport. Not at a police station. At the pub down the road. And cl

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Google Insider's Quiet Warning: The Deepfake of Your Face Is Already Legal to Make
Jul 6, 2026•Episode 272•News

Google Insider's Quiet Warning: The Deepfake of Your Face Is Already Legal to Make

Right now, today, someone could make a realistic video of your face saying something you never said. And in most of the United States, that's perfectly legal. The tools to build that fake are already better than the tools

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Your Kid's Face Unlocks the Vending Machine. A Stranger's Rules Decide What They Eat.
Jul 6, 2026•Episode 271•News

Your Kid's Face Unlocks the Vending Machine. A Stranger's Rules Decide What They Eat.

There's a school in the U.A.E. where a vending machine turned away more than two hundred snack purchases. Not because the kids didn't have money. Because the machine looked at each child's face, check

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That "99% Accurate" Face Match? Here's the Question That Blows It Apart
Jul 5, 2026•Episode 270•News

That "99% Accurate" Face Match? Here's the Question That Blows It Apart

When a company says their face recognition is ninety-nine percent accurate, most of us just nod and trust it. But that number can hide something dangerous. The same technology that reliably unlocks your phone has, in the real world, helped pu

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That Panicked Call From Your Daughter? 3 Seconds of Audio Is All It Took to Fake Her Voice
Jul 5, 2026•Episode 269•News

That Panicked Call From Your Daughter? 3 Seconds of Audio Is All It Took to Fake Her Voice

Three seconds. That's all it takes. Three seconds of someone's voice — pulled from a podcast, a video, a voicemail — and an attacker can make them say anything. Not a rough imitation. A clone good enough to fool the people

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That Rage-Bait Modi Video? It Was Built to Make You Share Before You Think
Jul 5, 2026•Episode 268•News

That Rage-Bait Modi Video? It Was Built to Make You Share Before You Think

That video of a political leader asking you to like, comment, and share your vote? It was never real. And it was never meant to fool you. It was built to make you tap the share button before your brain caught up. If you'

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Why You Keep Photographing Your Face for Every App — and Who's Really to Blame
Jul 5, 2026•Episode 267•News

Why You Keep Photographing Your Face for Every App — and Who's Really to Blame

Every time you download a new app and it asks you to snap a photo of your face — again — you might blame the technology. A study out of the University of Warwick and the Alan Turing Institute says you're blaming the wrong

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