Transatlantic Cable Podcast

Episode 364 kicks off with a chat around the recent furore around Telegram’s problem with unsavoury content. Following that, the conversation moves to a story that might concern people who rely on TOR (The Onion Router), as it’s been disclosed that German police managed to de-anonymise data coming out of an exit node, in order to track and arrest owners of an illegal site. 

To wrap up, the team discuss news that delivery robots have been acting erratic, with some cases of them running over pedestrians, seemingly on purpose.  Finally, to close conversation turns to Tamagotchi’s and their seeming imminent return.

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• Telegram will now provide some user data to authorities
• Police Broke Tor Anonymity to Arrest Dark Web Users in Major CSAM Bust
• Delivery Robot Knocked Over Pedestrian, Company Offered ‘Promo Codes’ to Apologize
• A Tamagotchi comeback? Toy gets first UK store as global sales double

Episode 363 kicks off with a discussion around moderation on the popular messaging service, Telegram. From there the team move to discuss how one person managed to siphon off over $10 million from the likes of Spotify and Apple using bots to stream music. 

To wrap up the team discuss two stories, the first looking at how the Democrats in America are using “brain rot” videos, and the second looks at the seedy underworld of stolen mobile phones.

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• Telegram reportedly ‘inundated’ with illegal and extremist activity
• Musician charged with $10M streaming royalties fraud using AI and bots
• Kamala Harris Campaign Experiments With Ads for an Audience With “Brain Rot”
• Thieves snatched his phone in London - it was in China a month later

Episode 362 of the Kaspersky podcast kicks off with discussion around Brazil’s controversial decision to ban Elon Musk’s X platform. From there the team discuss a story from the BBC around the theft of a voice actors voice, which was used on an A.I platform.

To wrap up the team discuss how scammers are looking to use sextortion tactics in order for you to cough up bitcoin and Apple’s big problem around ‘face swap’ apps and pornography.

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• Top Brazil court upholds ban of Musk's X
• A tech firm stole our voices - then cloned and sold them
• Sextortion Scammers Try to Scare People by Sending Photos of Their Homes
• Apple’s Huge “Dual Use” Face Swap App Problem Is Not Going Away

Episode 361 of the Transatlantic Cable podcast kicks off with news around the right to switch off in Australia. From there the team talk about privacy – specifically if you should have to pay to have online privacy.

To wrap up, the team discuss how and why a popular game has attracted so much online attention.

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• Australians get 'right to disconnect' after hours
• Should you have to pay for online privacy?
• Blockbuster Chinese video game tried to police players - and divided the internet

Episode 360 of the transatlantic cable podcast kicks off with news that Nvidia are on the receiving end of a class-action law-suit, alleging that they scraped YouTube videos without creators’ consent.  From there, the team discuss news around Taylor Swift AI images being shared by Donald Trump and an additional story around how photography is quickly being swamped by generative A.I.

To close, the team discuss a story around how your humble television is being invaded by advertisers. 

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• Nvidia Sued for Scraping YouTube After 404 Media Investigation
• Swift Could Sue Trump Under State Law for Fake AI Endorsement
• The AI photo editing era is here, and it’s every person for themselves
• Your TV set has become a digital billboard

Episode 359 kicks off with discussion around the recent riots in the U.K. and how the UK government is looking to leverage facial recognition to combat trouble makers. From there, the team discuss a strange story concerning how police forces in the U.S were able to locate a criminal via a lock-screen picture left at the scene of a crime. 

To wrap up the team discuss news that artificial intelligence is being leveraged to help find the ‘next Olympians’ – however, results may vary.

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• Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots
• Cops Used Facial Recognition on Lost iPhone Lock Screen to Find Post Office Robbers
• The AI tech aiming to identify future Olympians

Episode 358 of the Transatlantic Cable Podcast kicks off with news of American Cybersecurity firm KnowBe4 getting duped by a North Korean hacker who successfully when through their HR checks and secured employment!  Deepfake bullying being used by children on Snapchat.  X/Twitter’s AI bot Grok is now reading your tweets, however there is a fix and we show you how to protect yourself.  We close out the episode with news of a data breach at HealthEquity affecting 4.3 million people.

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·      North Korean hacker gets employed at US Cybersecurity firm

·      Deepfake bullying

·      Grok AI reading public tweets

·      HealthEquity data breach

Episode 357 of the Transatlantic Cable Podcast kicks off with news of the Telegram zero-day vulnerability that went unnoticed for 5 weeks, as well as further CrowdStrike woes with threat actors targeting companies with fake fixes.  From there Ahmed & Jag go on to discuss a potential hacktivism hit on Disney in response to Disney’s embrace of AI, and finally wrap up with Elon unveiling human-like robots. 

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·      Telegram zero-day allowed sending malicious Android APKs as videos  

·      Fake CrowdStrike fixes target companies with malware, data wipers

·      Disney investigating massive leak of internal messages

·      Musk says Tesla to use humanoid robots next year

Episode 356 of the Transatlantic Cable Podcast kicks off with news around the AT&T ‘mega-breach’. From there the team discuss two stories related to AI – the first looks at how AI is being used to help doctors detect early-onset Alzheimer’s; the team then talk about how K-Pop are looking to use artificial intelligence to write songs and create artwork.  

The final story discusses how legendary artist Bob Dylan has banned smart-phones in his upcoming gigs – just how that will pan out is anybody’s guess.

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• AT&T says hackers stole records of nearly all cellular customers' calls and texts
• New AI tool could be game-changer in battle against Alzheimer's
• Will K-pop's AI experiment pay off?
• Bob Dylan to bring 'phone-free' tour to Edinburgh

Episode 355 of the Transatlantic Cable podcast begins with news that Ticketmaster’s recent data breach is creating more trouble for them than previously thought. Moving from Ticketmaster to TikTok, the next story covers a disturbing new trend on the social media platform, where a “mob attack led by middle schoolers” tormented teachers.  

To wrap up the team discuss news that Japan has finally “won the war on floppy discs” – surprisingly, Japan is one of the very few countries to be slower than most with the move to digital work.

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• Ticketmaster Hackers Leak 30K Ticket Barcodes, Share Counterfeit Tutorial
• Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets
• First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers
• Japan declares victory in 'war' on floppy disks