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This AI security flaw might be impossible to fix
Episode 470
A website called "UK visa portal" has been quietly collecting passport scans, selfies, and personal data from thousands of travellers who thought the…
13 hours ago
What your Oura ring won't tell you
Episode 469
CISA, the US government agency whose entire job is keeping America's critical infrastructure safe from hackers, has had a contractor publish dozens o…
1 week ago
High-speed train hacks and homicidal lawnmowers
Episode 468
A 23-year-old radio enthusiast spent £300 on a piece of kit from the internet, and used it to bring four packed high-speed trains to a screeching hal…
2 weeks ago
How ShinyHunters hacked the world's biggest universities
Episode 467
Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history - affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students…
3 weeks ago
Meta sees everything, Copy Fail, and a deepfake gets hired
Episode 466
Meta's smart glasses promise privacy "designed for you" - but everything they record was being beamed off to workers in Nairobi to label by hand. Whe…
4 weeks ago
This developer wanted to cheat at Roblox. It cost millions
Episode 465
A developer at an AI startup wanted to cheat at Roblox. They downloaded a dodgy script on their work laptop. That one decision triggered a cascade of…
1 month ago
Rockstar got hacked. The data was junk. The secrets it revealed were not
Episode 464
A company that ran anonymous tip lines for 35,000 American schools - handling reports of bullying, weapons, and self-harm - boasted on its website th…
1 month, 1 week ago
This AI company leaked its own code. It's also built something terrifying
Episode 463
A hacking group claims to have broken into the flood defence system protecting Venice's Piazza San Marco - and is offering to sell access to whoever …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
LinkedIn is spying on you, and you agreed to nothing
Episode 462
LinkedIn has been secretly scanning your browser for over 6,000 installed extensions — on every single click you make. It can tell if you're job hunt…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
This man hid $400 million in a fishing rod. Then it vanished
Episode 461
A cannabis-growing, beekeeping, gyrocopter-flying Irishman invested his drug money in Bitcoin back in 2011 - and now sits on a fortune worth $400 mil…
2 months ago