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Your Eyes Lie About Faces After 50 — And You'll Never Feel It Happen
Jul 14, 2026•Episode 313•News

Your Eyes Lie About Faces After 50 — And You'll Never Feel It Happen

When an older person squints at a face and says "I know I've seen you somewhere," we assume the memory's fading. But new research says that's the wrong culprit. The problem isn't that the memory disap

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Your Phone Number Is About to Need Your Face
Jul 14, 2026•Episode 312•News

Your Phone Number Is About to Need Your Face

In India, one photograph showed up on more than nine different phone accounts. Sometimes on a thousand accounts. And when the government's A.I. finished matching those faces, it cut off more than fift

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Cops Can Now Scan Your Fingerprints From Across the Room — And You'll Never Know
Jul 14, 2026•Episode 311•News

Cops Can Now Scan Your Fingerprints From Across the Room — And You'll Never Know

Austrian police can now capture all ten of your fingerprints using nothing more than a smartphone camera — from a few feet away, in under thirty seconds. No ink. No pad. No pressing your hand against a scanner. <break tim

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That "Verified" Selfie Isn't Proving What You Think It Is
Jul 14, 2026•Episode 310•News

That "Verified" Selfie Isn't Proving What You Think It Is

That little selfie you take to prove it's really you? A fraudster can beat it without ever pointing a camera at a face. They feed a fake video straight into the app — bypassing the camera completely. And the system happil

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Started a New Job Online? Here's What's Really Happening to Your ID
Jul 13, 2026•Episode 309•News

Started a New Job Online? Here's What's Really Happening to Your ID

Picture your first day at a new job — but you never walk into an office. Instead, you hold your driver's license up to your laptop camera. And in that thirty-second moment, more legal weight lands on

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Fake You Can Ruin Your Life in an Hour. Courts Take Days.
Jul 13, 2026•Episode 308•News

Fake You Can Ruin Your Life in an Hour. Courts Take Days.

An actress found fake images of herself on nearly three hundred different websites. Not one. Not a dozen. About two hundred and seventy-five sites — all at once. By the time a court could order them t

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Your Phone Is About to Become Your ID — and Nobody Wrote the Rules Yet
Jul 13, 2026•Episode 307•News

Your Phone Is About to Become Your ID — and Nobody Wrote the Rules Yet

Your driver's license is about to move from your wallet into your phone. And the rules for who gets to peek at it — before you even tap approve — haven't been written yet. That's not a glitch. That's the current state of

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Your Selfie Now Unlocks Your Pension — And Scammers Have a $15 Workaround
Jul 13, 2026•Episode 306•News

Your Selfie Now Unlocks Your Pension — And Scammers Have a $15 Workaround

For fifteen dollars, someone can buy a fake identity good enough to fool a face scanner. Fifteen dollars. And right now, more than seventy thousand retired United Nations workers collect their pension

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Your Family's Faces Are 128 Numbers — And Someone Else Has Them
Jul 13, 2026•Episode 305•News

Your Family's Faces Are 128 Numbers — And Someone Else Has Them

Your face — the one your kids would recognize from across a crowded room — isn't stored anywhere as "you." When a photo app groups all your pictures together, it doesn't know your name. It knows exactly a hundred and twen

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That "Study" You Just Read? 66% of Its Sources Don't Exist
Jul 12, 2026•Episode 304•News

That "Study" You Just Read? 66% of Its Sources Don't Exist

Picture this. A research paper clears peer review — not one expert, but three or more sign off on it. And buried inside are more than a hundred citations that point to studies that simply never existed. Researchers analyz

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Your Friend's Doorbell Just Scanned Your Face — And You Can't Take It Back
Jul 12, 2026•Episode 303•News

Your Friend's Doorbell Just Scanned Your Face — And You Can't Take It Back

You walked up to a friend's front door last week. You rang the bell. And in that moment, a camera may have scanned your face — and turned it into something a company can keep forever. You never agreed to that. You may not have even known it h

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Your Face Is Now Your Train Ticket — and Nobody Asked You First
Jul 12, 2026•Episode 302•News

Your Face Is Now Your Train Ticket — and Nobody Asked You First

In Japan, thousands of train commuters are now walking through ticket gates without a ticket, a card, or a phone. They just walk. The gate reads their face and lets them through.

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Your Bank Thinks You're Safe. The Math Says 7 in 10 Aren't.
Jul 12, 2026•Episode 301•News

Your Bank Thinks You're Safe. The Math Says 7 in 10 Aren't.

A group of hackers spent all of last year targeting banks — and they never once stole a password. Instead, they called the help desk. They pretended to be an employee locked out of their account. And they talked I.T. supp

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Your Brain Sees Faces Differently Than Everyone Else's — And Your DNA Decides How
Jul 12, 2026•Episode 300•News

Your Brain Sees Faces Differently Than Everyone Else's — And Your DNA Decides How

Two trained investigators sit down to compare the same two photographs. Same lighting. Same screen. Same faces. One says, "That's definitely him." The other says, "I'm honestly not sure." And here's the part that stops yo

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Your Face Is Forever. Your Password Isn't. Ask These 3 Questions Before You Scan.
Jul 11, 2026•Episode 299•News

Your Face Is Forever. Your Password Isn't. Ask These 3 Questions Before You Scan.

You can change your password a thousand times. You will never change your fingerprint. And you'll only ever get one face. That single fact is the thing most of us never stop to consider before we pres

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Your Face Just Became the Password Criminals Can't Wait to Steal
Jul 11, 2026•Episode 298•News

Your Face Just Became the Password Criminals Can't Wait to Steal

A piece of malware can now copy your face — not your password, not your card number, your actual face — and use it to walk into your bank account. Security researchers at Zimperium found it running across five countries ri

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Your Car Is About to Watch Your Eyes — and Nobody's Saying Where That Video Goes
Jul 11, 2026•Episode 297•News

Your Car Is About to Watch Your Eyes — and Nobody's Saying Where That Video Goes

Your next car might watch your eyes the whole time you drive. It could track when your eyelids droop, where your gaze wanders, and how alert you are behind the wheel. And right now, nobody can tell yo

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Your Face Is About to Become Your Password — Whether You Like It or Not
Jul 11, 2026•Episode 296•News

Your Face Is About to Become Your Password — Whether You Like It or Not

Fake passports and driver's licenses made by artificial intelligence are the fastest-growing fraud in the world right now. Researchers say this kind of document forgery is set to jump nearly forty times over in a single y

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Your Fingerprint Never Touches Your Bank. Here's What Actually Approves That Payment.
Jul 11, 2026•Episode 295•News

Your Fingerprint Never Touches Your Bank. Here's What Actually Approves That Payment.

Your fingerprint never actually pays for anything. When you tap your finger to send money, that fingerprint doesn't reach your bank. It never leaves your phone. The thing you think is "the payment" is

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Why "Upload Your ID" Is the Wrong Answer to "Are You 18?"
Jul 10, 2026•Episode 294•News

Why "Upload Your ID" Is the Wrong Answer to "Are You 18?"

When a website asks if you're eighteen, it doesn't actually need your name. It doesn't need your address, your birthdate, or a scan of your driver's license. It just needs a yes or a no. But most site

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Your Phone Becomes Your Passport in 2026. Here's What Could Go Very Wrong.
Jul 10, 2026•Episode 293•News

Your Phone Becomes Your Passport in 2026. Here's What Could Go Very Wrong.

Only about one in three Europeans says they actually plan to use it. The digital I.D. wallet that could replace the plastic card in your pocket by late next year — most people don't want it yet. And f

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Meta's New Glasses Can Log Your Face at a Party — And You'll Never Know
Jul 10, 2026•Episode 292•News

Meta's New Glasses Can Log Your Face at a Party — And You'll Never Know

Imagine you're at a friend's birthday party. Someone across the room is wearing a normal-looking pair of glasses. And those glasses just logged your face — quietly, permanently — and you'll never know

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Your Face at Work Is Now a File You've Never Seen
Jul 10, 2026•Episode 291•News

Your Face at Work Is Now a File You've Never Seen

Your boss might have a file on your face. Your fingerprint. Your voice. Maybe even a scan of your eyes. And most workers who clock in with their thumb every morning can't tell you where that data goes

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The Blurry Photo From 2015 That Could Lock You Out of Your Own Life
Jul 10, 2026•Episode 290•News

The Blurry Photo From 2015 That Could Lock You Out of Your Own Life

Picture this. You walk in to get your national I.D. photo taken. And because your skin is darker, the camera struggles to see you clearly. Meanwhile, someone with lighter skin standing right behind you gets told the light

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The Coworker With Full Access to Your Data May Not Be a Real Person
Jul 9, 2026•Episode 289•News

The Coworker With Full Access to Your Data May Not Be a Real Person

There might be someone at a company right now with access to the payroll system, the source code, the customer database — and that someone was never a real person to begin with. Not a hacker who stole a login. An entire em

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