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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

When an AI tool tells you it's ninety-four percent accurate, that number might mean absolutely nothing. Because ninety-four percent could be true only for certain faces, in certain lighting, under certain conditions — and Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/94-accurate-means-nothing-and-europe-just-made-it-illegal-to-pretend-otherwise

Roblox told its investors the new age check went smoothly. Then the stock lost nearly seven billion dollars in value. And now the company's facing a lawsuit from investors who say they were misled. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/roblox-just-lost-6-7b-asking-kids-one-question-yours-is-next

A man in Phoenix sat in a jail cell for eleven months. His crime? A computer decided his face looked a little like a photo from a murder scene. From nineteen ninety-eight. There w Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/he-sat-in-jail-11-months-because-a-computer-thought-his-face-looked-familiar

It doesn't take a deepfake to ruin someone's life anymore. In Bengaluru, a college student found that out the hard way. Someone leaked one real, private photo of her — then threatened to turn it into Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/one-photo-one-grudge-one-app-the-10-minute-nightmare-every-parent-should-fear

When you see a photo online that says "made by A.I.," you probably picture a little label in the corner. But the real marker might be hidden inside the pixels themselves — invisible to you, readable only by a machine. And right now, most A.I. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-made-by-ai-label-its-hiding-something-you-cant-see

Picture this. You call your bank to reset a password. You're a little rushed, maybe a little nervous. And on the other end, an artificial intelligence is quietly listening — not to what you're saying, but to how you're saying it. It just deci Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/nervous-on-a-bank-call-an-ai-just-judged-you-and-its-probably-wrong

A Texas court just did something to a website that most people didn't think was possible. It froze the domain. Locked the company out of its own site — unless it pays a bond worth more than nine million dollars and starts checking the age of Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/texas-just-froze-a-website-yours-could-be-next-to-ask-for-your-id

A password takes about twenty-four seconds to type and check. A passkey does the same job in about eight. And in Singapore, that difference is now costing scammers around forty million dollars a year Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/singapore-just-killed-the-password-and-its-costing-scammers-40-million-a-year

Picture this. You want to download a recipe app. A free one. Nothing racy, nothing restricted — just chicken dinners and grocery lists. Under a new Texas law, you might have to prove your age first, with a government I.D. or a face scan, befo Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/texas-wants-your-id-before-you-download-a-recipe-app