Podcast Episodes

The Company Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into Podcasts

This week we start with Emanuel’s crazy story about WebinarTV, a company that is secretly recording Zoom meetings and turning them into AI-powered po…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

The Marketing Tricks of "Artificial Intelligence"

This week, Sam talks to Emily Bender and Alex Hanna about the marketing ploys of “artificial intelligence,” why ridicule works to keep big tech’s cla…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

The Disappearing DOGE Depositions

This week we start with Joseph’s series of articles about the DOGE depositions. He watched hours and hours of them, then a judge ordered them removed…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Google Street View's Unmappable City

There's only one city in America that isn't on Google's Street View. Documentary filmmaker Chris Parr set out to map it, using North Oak, Minnesota's…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

How to Talk to Your Friend Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'

This week we start with Sam’s story discussing something that has come up a lot but no one has really answered: how do you speak to your friend or fa…

4 months ago

Understanding Roblox’s Grooming Problem

Cecilia D’Anstasio on Roblox efforts to protect children from pedophiles. 

Roblox is one of those games that is more popular than you can imagine, …

4 months ago

The Depravity Economy

This week we discuss our coverage of the U.S.-Israel strikes against Iran, specifically how Polymarket and Kalshi are letting people profit from deat…

4 months, 1 week ago

How to Detect Phone Spying Tech (with Cooper Quintin)

Joseph speaks to Cooper Quintin, a security researcher and senior public interest technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Quintin…

4 months, 1 week ago

Ring Is Just Getting Started

This week we start with Jason’s follow up to Ring launching its ‘Search Party’ feature. It turns out, according to a leaked email he got, the feature…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Privacy Under Pressure (With Harlo Holmes)

In this week’s interview, Sam is joined by Harlo Holmes. Harlo is the Chief Security Programs Officer at Freedom of the Press Foundation. She’s a med…

4 months, 2 weeks ago