We are back for 2024! We hit the ground running this week with a story about charges against a man for allegedly orchestrating a massive, nationwide Airbnb scam. Then Sam speaks about how Pornhub is blocking access to visitors in North Carolina and Montana, who are now (predictably) using VPNs as a workaround. Then in the subscribers-only section we talk about the life and death of the encrypted app Wickr. RIP Wickr.
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The 'Com World War'
The Wild World of Fake AI Influencers
The Xz Backdoor and the AI Peer-Review Crisis
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Byron Tau on the New U.S. Surveillance State
A Deepfake Nightmare + Vibrator Malware
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Inside a Fraud Factory
This Is It. The Deepfake Reckoning
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