Transatlantic Cable Podcast

Episode 365 kicks off with discussion around Donald Trump's recent courting of the crypto world. From there talk moves to Mozilla's recent decision to enable Privacy Preserving Attribution (PPA) by default – and that's got some in the EU worried.
To wrap up the team discuss two stories related to A.I – first around Microsoft suggesting that omnipresent AI companions will soon be a thing, and second how AI is now capable of completing CAPTCHA quicker, and more efficiently than any human.  How the tables have turned.
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Crypto world hoping for Trump election win
Mozilla Faces GDPR Complaint Over New Firefox Tracking Feature
Microsoft: 'ever present' AI assistants are coming
AI just made a mockery of CAPTCHA and that's bad news for real people

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