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 Whittake...
2 Aug 202450min
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 se...
31 Juli 202446min
The CrowdStrike Outage
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 th...
24 Juli 202440min
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 ...
17 Juli 202442min
The Ticketmaster Hack
So, the Ticketmaster hack got a lot, lot worse. Jason breaks down why in the first half of the show. After the break, we talk more Ticketmaster, and how scalpers have teamed up with hackers to liberat...
10 Juli 202442min
Your Identity Hacked, Yet Verified
We start this episode talking about some exciting updates for the podcast! For the first story, Joseph explains how an ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, and X exposed driver licenses, in a sig...
3 Juli 202443min
Replacing 404 Media with AI
Here's a fun one: Emanuel made his own ChatGPT-powered news site that ripped off our work and that of WIRED, The Verge, and others to show just how easy spinning up one of these AI click farms really ...
26 Juni 202446min
AI Celebs Take Over Google Image Search
Joseph is out this week, so the leftover crew considers what it means for Google image search to be taken over by AI images, talks about #finance, and discusses how an already sensationalist NY Times ...
19 Juni 202446min
