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Episode Synopsis
Episode 215
On U.S. election day, this is the update that will tear you away from the endless all night results shows.Schneider Electric gets hacked, and the cyber thief is demanding $125,000 in something peculiar – a data breach with a French twist!Scientists have discovered that plants “see” light by bending it through tiny air gaps – proving they don’t need eyes to point to something bright.Opting out of Facial recognition site PimEyes means giving them more photos... and left us feeling conflicted.Google’s AI Big Sleep found a bug in SQLite, so now we have AI debugging AI – what could possibly go wrong?Meta’s AI models just got the green light for military use, because nothing says “peace” like open-source warfare tech.The 26-year-old founder of Gotbit just got indicted for market manipulation – because apparently fake crypto trading volume isn’t cool with the feds.A new report reveals that millions of American phones might be susceptible to Chinese surveillance could it be time to switch to encrypted apps or start using carrier pigeons?Sit back, relax, and join in for the best update yet!
Find the full transcript to this podcast here.
On U.S. election day, this is the update that will tear you away from the endless all night results shows.Schneider Electric gets hacked, and the cyber thief is demanding $125,000 in something peculiar – a data breach with a French twist!Scientists have discovered that plants “see” light by bending it through tiny air gaps – proving they don’t need eyes to point to something bright.Opting out of Facial recognition site PimEyes means giving them more photos... and left us feeling conflicted.Google’s AI Big Sleep found a bug in SQLite, so now we have AI debugging AI – what could possibly go wrong?Meta’s AI models just got the green light for military use, because nothing says “peace” like open-source warfare tech.The 26-year-old founder of Gotbit just got indicted for market manipulation – because apparently fake crypto trading volume isn’t cool with the feds.A new report reveals that millions of American phones might be susceptible to Chinese surveillance could it be time to switch to encrypted apps or start using carrier pigeons?Sit back, relax, and join in for the best update yet!
Find the full transcript to this podcast here.
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