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AI is distorting the Holocaust (feat. Clara Mansfeld)
Season 7 Episode 10
In May of last year, a warning about AI came from somewhere unexpected: The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
Posting publicly on social media, the mus…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Cyberattacks are raising your prices (feat. Eva Velasquez)
Season 7 Episode 9
Your prices could be going up because of a little something that one group has started calling the “cyber tax.”
Not a “tax” in any regulatory sense of…
5 months ago
Big Tech can stop scams. They just don’t (feat. Marti DeLiema)
Season 7 Episode 8
A dreadful thing happens far too often whenever an older adult falls for a scam: They get blamed for it. Not the scammers who lied and cheated their …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Killer robots are here. Now what? (feat. Peter Asaro)
Season 7 Episode 7
Big news: Lock and Code is nominated for a Webby Award! You can help us win the People’s Voice Award by voting here.
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5 months, 4 weeks ago
This is all it takes to stop a train (feat. Rachel Swan)
Season 7 Episode 6
Forget the runaway train thrillingly shot in Buster Keaton’s 1926 film “The General,” and never mind the charging locomotive rescued by actors Denzel…
6 months, 1 week ago
Won't you see my neighbor? (feat. Matt Guariglia)
Season 7 Episode 5
On February 8, during the Super Bowl in the United States, countless owners of one of the most popular smart products today got a bit of a wakeup cal…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
What can't you say on TikTok?
Season 7 Episode 4
A funny thing happened on TikTok last month, and its brought allegations of censorship, manipulation, and control.
It was the week of January 22, and …
7 months, 1 week ago
Is your phone listening to you? (feat. Lena Cohen) (re-air)
Season 7 Episode 3
In January, Google settled a lawsuit that pricked up a few ears: It agreed to pay $68 million to a wide array of people who sued the company together…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
One privacy change for 2026
Season 7 Episode 2
When you hear the words “data privacy,” what do you first imagine?
Maybe you picture going into your social media apps and setting your profile and po…
8 months, 1 week ago
Enshittification is ruining everything online (feat. Cory Doctorow)
Season 7 Episode 1
There’s a bizarre thing happening online right now where everything is getting worse.
Your Google results have become so bad that you’ve likely typed …
8 months, 3 weeks ago