We're doing something a little different this episode. For the whole free section of the podcast, we're talking all about the degradation of Google. That includes AI-generated articles making their way onto Google News, and how researchers found that, yes, Google search really is getting worse. This is a long, rich, and fun discussion. Then in the subscribers-only section, Joseph breaks down his latest investigation into a phone spying capability that is monitoring billions. Google (to their credit) cut-off a linked company in response to our inquiries.
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A Massive Google Leak
Google Somehow Got Even More Shit
Your Phone's Location is Exposed
Why the Solar Storm Broke Tractors and GPS
Facebook is the 'Zombie Internet'
A Lost Media Mystery
The Humane Ai Pin Is a Disaster
The 'Com World War'
The Wild World of Fake AI Influencers
The Xz Backdoor and the AI Peer-Review Crisis
The Shaky Science of License Plate Readers
Shrimp Jesus
How Hackers Steal Mountains of Oxy and Adderall
The AI-Powered TikTok Hustlers
Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
Byron Tau on the New U.S. Surveillance State
A Deepfake Nightmare + Vibrator Malware
An Open Source Search Engine to Replace Google
Inside a Fraud Factory
This Is It. The Deepfake Reckoning
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