Podcast Episodes

Is Criticizing AI Ableist?

The organization that runs National Novel Writing Month, a November challenge to write 50,000 words, said "the categorical condemnation of Artificial Intelligence has classist and ableist undertones.…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

The Arrest of Telegram Founder Pavel Durov

Emanuel and Jason break down the arrest of Telegram cofounder Pavel Durov, a slide deck showing "active listening" advertising based on microphone data, and a concerning new study that shows AI-gener…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

A Whirlwind Tour of DEF CON

This month Joseph went to the annual DEF CON hacking conference and spoke to a bunch of interesting hackers, researchers, and technologists. We wanted to provide our paying subscribers with a snapsho…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

How Taylor Swift Could Sue Trump for AI Images

This week Sam starts with how Taylor Swift could sue Donald Trump for posting a series of fake, AI-generated images that claimed she wanted fans to vote for the presidential candidate. After the brea…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

The OSINT Hunt for a Sex Trafficking Ringleader

We're dedicating a whole episode to Sam's new narrative piece on how a ragtag group of friends hunted down a wanted sex trafficking ringleader. First we give you all the context for why this person, …

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

The Massive Nvidia Leak

This is a big one. Sam got hold of a massive leak of internal Nvidia emails, Slack messages, and documents which show how the tech giant is scraping YouTube and Netflix for its own purposes. In the s…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

Signal's Meredith Whittaker on Backdoors and AI

This is a special interview episode with Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation. I'm sure you all know, and maybe even use, the Signal messaging app. Here we sat down with Whittak…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Google, Reddit, and the Robots.txt Rebellion

We've got a bumper episode today. First off, a whole series of stories about robots.txt and its increased use against AI, as well as Reddit only being available in Google results now (and not other s…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

The CrowdStrike Outage

Episode 49

Some weeks are just crazy. On Friday, Windows machines around the world went down due to a faulty update to CrowdStrike's security software. We discuss what happened, and why, and the impact. After t…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

The Worst Telecom Breach Ever

Sometimes a hack just completely blows you away. Late last week we learned that hackers had taken the call and text records of "nearly all" AT&T customers. That's absolutely staggering! We break down…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago