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, but unless you are of a certain age group and li...
9 Mars 48min
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 death, and that Amazon data centers were on fire after ...
4 Mars 57min
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 is one of the people behind Rayhunter, an easy to ...
2 Mars 54min
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 is only starting with finding lost dogs. After the...
25 Feb 53min
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 media scholar, software programmer, and activist. Har...
23 Feb 44min
Inside an AI-Powered School
This week we start with Emanuel’s wild story about Alpha School, a very hyped AI-powered school. Emanuel got leaked documents and spoke to former employees. After the break, Sam tells us what happens ...
18 Feb 1h
What It’s Like to Be a Data Labeler Training AI
I recently traveled to Kenya for a journalism and AI conference. While I was there, I really wanted to meet with Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association. Data Lab...
16 Feb 49min
Ring Is Back and Scarier Than Ever
We start this week with exciting news: we bought a Super Bowl ad! For… $2,550. We explain how. After the break, Jason tells us about Ring’s recently launched Search Party feature, and gives us a very ...
11 Feb 50min
