Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Tea Breach Just Keeps Getting Worse
We start this week with Emanuel’s and Joseph’s coverage of Tea, a women’s dating safety app that was breached multiple times. After the break, Sam and Emanuel talk about how a new UK law about age ve…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Spotify Is Publishing AI Tracks of Dead Artists
We start this week with Emanuel's wild story about Spotify publishing AI generated tracks that look like they come from artists' official accounts. One problem: those artists died a long time ago. Af…
Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago
The AI Exodus Begins
We start this week with a series of articles from Emanuel about a crackdown in the AI industry. After the break, Sam tells us about the ‘Save Our Signs’ campaign which hopes to preserve the history o…
Published on 5 months ago
How to Fight Back Against AI Bot Scrapers
We’re back! We start this week with Emanuel’s article about Anubis, an open source piece of software that is saving the internet from AI bot scrapers. After the break, Joseph tells us about the new f…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
The Life Changing Power of Lifting (feat. Casey Johnston)
For this week’s podcast, I’m talking to our friend Casey Johnston, a tech journalist turned fitness journalist turned independent journalist. Casey studied physics, which led her to tech journalism; …
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
This Site Unmasks Cops With Facial Recognition
We start this week with Emanuel and Joseph’s coverage of ‘FuckLAPD.com’, a website that uses facial recognition to instantly reveal a LAPD officer’s name and salary. The creator has relaunched their …
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Airlines Sold Your Flight Data to DHS—And Covered It Up
This week we start with Joseph’s article about the U.S’s major airlines selling customers’ flight information to Customs and Border Protection and then telling the agency to not reveal where the data…
Published on 6 months ago
Feds Flew Predator Drones Over The LA Protests
Much of this episode is about the ongoing anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. We start with Joseph explaining how he monitored surveillance aircraft flying over the protests, including what turned out …
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
Anti-Porn Laws' Real Target Is Free Speech
We start this week with Sam's dive into a looming piece of anti-porn legislation, prudish algorithms, and eggs. After the break, Matthew tells us about the open source software that powered Ukraine's…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
ICE's Backdoor Into a Nationwide AI Surveillance Network
This week is a bumper episode all about Flock, the automatic license plate reading (ALPR) cameras across the U.S. First, Jason explains how we found that ICE essentially has backdoor access to the ne…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago