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A convincing fake of your boss's voice — the exact tone, the exact urgency — now costs about a dollar and thirty-three cents to make. Not thousands. Not a Hollywood studio. Roughly the price of a candy bar. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-urgent-call-from-your-boss-the-voice-is-fake-and-it-cost-1-33-to-make

In a test where two thousand people were told — flat out — to look for fakes, only one in a thousand could tell them all apart. One. In. A. Thousand. And these weren't people caught off guard — they kne Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/only-1-in-1-000-people-can-spot-a-deepfake-heres-the-30-second-habit-that-actual

Some of these accounts have tens of thousands of followers. Thirty-one thousand. Eighty-eight thousand. And the person in the videos? He doesn't exist. Not a single frame of him is real. If you've ever gotten a flirty m Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-hot-stranger-sliding-into-your-dms-probably-40-000-lines-of-code

Twenty-eight states now want proof of your kid's age before they download a single app. And to prove that age, someone has to hand over an I.D. — or personal data — to the app store itself. Texas star Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/before-your-kid-downloads-another-app-28-states-want-your-id-and-your-data

Twenty photos. Fifteen minutes. That's all a stranger needs to turn your child's birthday picture into something you can't unsee. According to Britain's Internet Watch Foundation, A.I.-generated child abuse videos jumped Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-kids-birthday-photo-is-all-a-stranger-needs-and-it-takes-15-minutes

Nearly nine in ten older adults say they're worried about A.I. scams — voice cloning, fake videos, a stranger wearing a loved one's face. But almost all of them are bracing for the wrong threat. They're learning to spot the fake. And that's e Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-grandson-begging-you-for-money-tonight-hang-up-and-call-him-back

That little spinner you stare at while an app says "verifying your identity"? In the few seconds it spins, it's not just comparing your selfie to your photo I.D. It's quietly running about seven separate checks — and most of them, you'll neve Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-verifying-your-identity-spinner-is-doing-7-things-you-never-see

An employee at a global company sat in a video meeting with his chief financial officer and several colleagues. Everyone on the call looked normal. Everyone sounded right. Every single face was fake — and by the end of that meeting, the compa Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-urgent-call-from-your-boss-the-face-and-voice-are-fake-and-it-just-stole-1-

Back in 2/3/2021 , ESPN brought two dead men back to life on your television. Al Davis, the late founder of the Raiders. Pete Rozelle, the former N.F.L. commissioner. Both gone for years — and Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-real-face-on-your-tv-espn-just-proved-you-cant-tell-anymore

Your kid clears the age check. They tap "I'm eighteen." And in that instant, the app stops asking who they are — and starts deciding what they see. The gate was never the point. The feed was. If you're Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-kid-got-past-the-age-check-now-watch-what-the-app-does-to-their-brain

Picture this. It's two in the morning, and your A.I. assistant just logged into your bank. It has your password. It's acting as you. And the bank has no easy way to tell if it's really allowed to be there. If you've ever Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-ai-assistant-has-your-password-heres-what-nobody-told-you-about-the-2am-ban

Every time you upload your driver's license to a new website, you're making yourself less safe — not more. The safest way to prove who you are might be a system where your actual documents never travel anywhere at all. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/stop-uploading-your-id-everywhere-the-hidden-handoff-that-already-protects-you

In New South Wales, Australia, the government is about to require your face be scanned before you can play a poker machine. Not at an airport. Not at a police station. At the pub down the road. And cl Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-is-about-to-be-your-cover-charge

Right now, today, someone could make a realistic video of your face saying something you never said. And in most of the United States, that's perfectly legal. The tools to build that fake are already better than the tools Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/google-insiders-quiet-warning-the-deepfake-of-your-face-is-already-legal-to-make

There's a school in the U.A.E. where a vending machine turned away more than two hundred snack purchases. Not because the kids didn't have money. Because the machine looked at each child's face, check Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-kids-face-unlocks-the-vending-machine-a-strangers-rules-decide-what-they-ea

When a company says their face recognition is ninety-nine percent accurate, most of us just nod and trust it. But that number can hide something dangerous. The same technology that reliably unlocks your phone has, in the real world, helped pu Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-99-accurate-face-match-heres-the-question-that-blows-it-apart

Three seconds. That's all it takes. Three seconds of someone's voice — pulled from a podcast, a video, a voicemail — and an attacker can make them say anything. Not a rough imitation. A clone good enough to fool the people Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-panicked-call-from-your-daughter-3-seconds-of-audio-is-all-it-took-to-fake-

That video of a political leader asking you to like, comment, and share your vote? It was never real. And it was never meant to fool you. It was built to make you tap the share button before your brain caught up. If you' Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-rage-bait-modi-video-it-was-built-to-make-you-share-before-you-think

Every time you download a new app and it asks you to snap a photo of your face — again — you might blame the technology. A study out of the University of Warwick and the Alan Turing Institute says you're blaming the wrong Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/why-you-keep-photographing-your-face-for-every-app-and-whos-really-to-blame

In a single day of trading, one little pop-up asking kids to prove their age erased six-point-seven billion dollars from Roblox's value. That's not a typo. One verification screen. Six-point-seven billion dollars, gone. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-prove-youre-18-pop-up-just-cost-roblox-6-7-billion-heres-what-its-doing-to-

Your child's face can't be reset like a password. If someone steals it, you can't just pick a new one — there's no "forgot my face" button. And yet, most of us hand it over in about two seconds without a second thought. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-kids-face-just-became-128-numbers-forever

Picture this. You're on the phone with someone who says they're from your bank. They sound calm. They sound official. And they're walking you through a payment — step by step — that's about to hand your savings to a criminal. Your password is Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-bank-is-about-to-start-watching-how-your-thumb-moves

Your fingerprint just approved a three-hundred-and-forty-dollar vitamin order. The thing is — you didn't buy the vitamins. Your A.I. shopping assistant did. Your thumb only unlocked the phone. If yo Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-ai-just-bought-340-of-vitamins-your-fingerprint-said-yes

You walk into a grocery store to grab milk and bread. A camera catches your face, turns it into a mathematical fingerprint, and checks it against a list of known shoplifters. You didn't sign anything. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-is-being-scanned-at-the-grocery-store-and-a-tiny-sign-is-all-they-owe-

A teenager with a laptop can now trick a bank's face scanner into thinking a fake video is a real, live person. Not a hacker in a hoodie in some far-off country. A curious kid who watched a few tutorials. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-99-face-match-unlocking-your-bank-fraudsters-just-found-the-skip-button