YouTube Profiting from a Drug Market, and SIM Swappers Working with Ransomware Gangs
We're shaking things up with a new format! As well as the two stories available to all listeners, we have a third discussion at the end which is only for paying subscribers. We explain why at the top ...
1 Nov 202345min
OSINT, Twitter, and a $30 Million Bitcoin Ring
For the first half of the show, we talk about a couple of stories around the Israel-Palestine conflict. First, Instagram "sincerely apologizes" to Sam for its auto-translations which added the word "t...
25 Okt 202340min
AI is Muddying the Horrors of War, and a Film Community Implodes
Content warning for the first half of the episode because it touches on violent themes. Emanuel takes us through how so-called AI detectors are, instead of clearing up the fog of misinformation around...
18 Okt 202343min
SpongeBob, AI, and a Crisis Among Ticket Sellers
This episode is a fun one. First, Sam takes us through her story about generating images of SpongeBob and 9/11 with Bing's AI. Why? Because a bunch of people found a way to create similar images even ...
11 Okt 202341min
A Glitch Is Hiding Porn on YouTube, and Food Delivery Robots Feed Footage to the LAPD
This week we start with a super interesting set of stories about how a small community has found a glitch in YouTube. It lets the group upload basically anything it wants to the platform with little f...
4 Okt 202340min
Ticket Scalpers, The New Frontier of AI Chat Bots, and Mass Doxing on TikTok
Holy moly that's a big ol' episode. Jason is back and tells us how ticket scalping actually works on a technical level, and how Ticketmaster benefits from scalping. Sam then explains how AI chatbots w...
27 Sep 202355min
The Tool That ICE Can Use to Track Pregnancy Websites and Fortnite
On this week's episode you won't hear Jason because he is out on location reporting from a right to repair conference in New Orleans! Before that, he was in Las Vegas reporting on the ongoing ransomwa...
20 Sep 202338min
We Reveal One of the FBI's Most Closely Guarded Secrets
On this week's episode Joseph, Jason, Emanuel and Sam first talk about something that sounds like a Harry Styles story, but it's actually an artificial intelligence one. We also play a few rounds of “...
14 Sep 202340min
