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Big Tech’s Most Valuable Product Isn’t AI. It’s the Belief that AI is Inevitable - The Story

Do you work with machines, or for machines? Cory Doctorow, who coined the term “enshittification,” has a new book that asks exactly that. In The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late, he challenges the belief tha ... Show More

36m 42s

Jul 5

Shell Game: The Future Isn't Real

Evan pushes the experiment one step further, sending his AI voice agent to talk to his closest friends and family — his buddies, his daughters, his dad. With their alternately joyful, skeptical, and painful reactions to meeting an AI version of him, he tries to come to terms with ... Show More

53m 34s

Jul 3

TechStuff Redux: How Google DeepMind Accidentally Started the AI Race

What drives a man to turn down half a million pounds at 18, test Mark Zuckerberg's sincerity over dinner, and wonder aloud if he can win a second Nobel Prize? For Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, the answer is a lifelong pursuit of artificial general intelli ... Show More

40m 39s

Apr 2017

Elections, influence operations, and hacking. How clever phishing succeeds. Chipotle's point-of-sale breach. Hacking in Fast and Furious 8.

In today's podcast, we follow the story of Fancy Bear (a.k.a. Pawn Storm, a.k.a. APT28) and France's elections. Why clever phishing continues to succeed, and what's up with 0Auth abuse. Information operations distinguished from simple "hacking." Another point-of-sale compromise s ... Show More

15m 33s

Oct 2017

Leviathan group exploits patched .NET flaw. North Korean cyber ops. Russian suspicions. Cutlet Maker ATM malware, Sockbot Minecraft malware. Ransomware and backups.

In today's podcast, we hear about how a cyber espionage campaign exploits a recently patched .NET vulnerability as Leviathan phishes with torpedo recovery programs. What does Pyongyang want in cyberspace? Apparently a lot of the same things it wants in physical space. Some observ ... Show More

16m 45s

May 2024

The illusion of influence.

Bogdan Botezatu from Bitdefender is discussing research on "Audio deepfakes: Celebrity-endorsed giveaway scams and fraudulent investment opportunities flood social media platforms." Dave and Joe shares some follow up from listener Lara, who writes in to discuss a few topics regar ... Show More

1h 1m

Mar 2019

My cousin got hacked

When your cousin gets hacked, and she says, "What can I do?" and you're the host of #Talking Tech, well, you better have some answers. Jefferson Graham runs them down on today's episode. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art1 ... Show More

2m 15s

Jul 2016

Secrets

This week on Vergecast, Nilay, Dieter, and Paul bring in resident cybersecurity expert Russell Brandom to explain the cryptocurrency Ethereum and how there was a recent attack on the Decentralized Autonomous Organization which stole $53 million. Then, later on in the show a surpr ... Show More

57m 35s

Dec 2021

The 3 M's: Minimize, monitor and manage.

Guest Adam Levin, security expert and podcast host of "What the Hack with Adam Levin," joins Dave to share advice and discuss some experiences shared on his podcast, Dave and Joe have some listener follow up from David with clarification on 2FA, Joe's story is about a job scam fo ... Show More

45m 52s

Apr 2018

DPRK plays offense and defense. PyRoMine and EternalRomance. Russian disinformation on Syrian massacre. Alt-coin heist may be misdirection. Nakasone confirmed at NSA. Webstresser takedown.

In today's podcast, we hear that North Korea has gone big with GhostSecret. Meanwhile, Pyongyang's elite tries to cover its online tracks. PyRoMine uses EternalRomance to disable security systems enroute to cryptomining. Russia enagages in video disinformation about Syrian nerve ... Show More

21m 42s

TechStuff Classic: The Sony Pictures Ent...