Join tech veterans Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley as they dive headfirst into the hilarious, bizarre, and downright mind-boggling world of artificial intelligence, looking into deepfakes, machine learning, and whether it’s too late to make peace with our robot overlords. It’s not your typical AI podcast… https://theaifix.show This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
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A helpful and hilarious take on the week's tech SNAFUs. Computer security industry veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault chat with guests about cybercrime, hacking, and online privacy. It's not your typical cybersecurity podcast... Winner of the "Best Cybersecurity Podcast" in 2018, 2019, and 2023, and the "Most Entertaining" in 2022 and 2023, Smashing Security has had over nine million downloads. Past guests include Garry Kasparov, Mikko Hyppönen, and Rory Cellan-Jones. Follow the pod ...
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I invite my guest to imagine sending their worst enemy to a desert island, accompanied only by the worst records ever made and a totally useless item.
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An AI cookery dumpster fire, the ARC prize, and a creepy new AI friend
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In episode ten of The AI Fix, Graham attempts to say "quinoa", Mark draws a line in the amper-sand, ChatGPT becomes an expert in solar panels and bomb disposal, and our hosts watch a terrifying tailer for a creepy new AI friend. Graham discovers that the world of AI cookery is a soggy, limey mess, and learns an unusual trick for making a great moji…
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In episode nine of "The AI Fix", our hosts learn about the world's most dangerous vending machine, a cartoonist who hypnotises himself with AI, and OpenAI's plans to eat Google's lunch. Graham tells Mark about a pig-farming professor, and Mark tests Graham's tolerance with OpenAI's terrifying roadmap to Artificial General Intelligence. Episode link…
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When AI detectors fail (spectacularly), and OpenAI’s five steps to Skynet
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In episode nine of "The AI Fix", our hosts learn about the world's most dangerous vending machine, a cartoonist who hypnotises himself with AI, and OpenAI's plans to eat Google's lunch... Graham tells Mark about a pig-farming professor, and Mark tests Graham's tolerance with OpenAI's terrifying roadmap to Artificial General Intelligence. Episode li…
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CrowdStrike, Dark Wire, and the Paris Olympics
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Computers blue-screen-of-death around the world! The Paris Olympics is at risk of attack! And the FBI pull off the biggest sting operation in history by running a secret end-to-end encrypted messaging app! All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by industry veterans Graham Cluley and Carole …
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Emergence, a rancid donkey, and the world's funniest joke
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In episode eight of "The AI Fix", our hosts tackle the latest news from the world of artificial intelligence and learn about two important medical breakthroughs, Mark coughs, Graham ruins "Killing me softly", and neither shows their junk to an AI. Graham explains humour to Mark and shares a donkey story he learned from a Bulgarian, ChatGPT reveals …
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Trump assassination conspiracies, Squarespace account hijacks, and the butt stops here
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Social media fuels conspiracies galore after Donald Trump is shot at a rally, cryptocurrency websites are hijacked after a screw-up at Squarespace, and our guest takes a close look at bottoms on Instagram. All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Ca…
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Can AI speak dolphin and do robots lick toads?
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In episode seven of "The AI Fix", Alexa goes wild, Mark learns how to hang a towel on a Peloton for only $39.90 a month, Graham puts the news items in the wrong order, and a strawberry uses the internet. Graham explains to Mark what bats argue about, our hosts ponder whether AI should always write in Comic Sans, and Mark tells Graham why AIs are li…
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Teachers TikTok targeted, and fraud in the doctors’ waiting room
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Execs at a health tech startup are sentenced to jail after a massive ad fraud, and a school is shaken after teachers are targeted via TikTok. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault. Plus don't miss our featured interview with Jason Meller o…
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In episode six of The AI Fix, our hosts discover an unusual place to put a traffic cone, Mark learns why Americans should pretend to be from Brazil, and Graham discovers a way to make any situation much, much worse. Graham inflicts his terrible Australian accent on Mark while explaining bot-on-bot crime, and Mark tells Graham how to lobotomise an A…
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Private nights, evil twins, and crypto home invasions
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Apps can let you spy on strangers in bars, a gang of cryptocurrency thieves turns to kidnap and assault, and have you joined the mile-high evil twin club? All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Mark Stockley o…
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An angry AI girlfriend, and artificial intelligence is stupid
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If you can answer this question, you're smarter than 99% of AIs: "Alice has 4 brothers, and she also has 1 sister. How many sisters do Alice’s brothers have?" Find out why AI is stupid, what Toys "R" Us has done that's even more annoying than putting that "R" in its name, why Graham Cluley has an angry AI girlfriend, and much much more in episode f…
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Julian Assange, inside a DDoS attack, and deepfake traumas
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Wikileaks's Julian Assange is a free man, deepfakes cause trouble in the playground, and we hear hot takes about ransomware and tales from inside a devastating denial-of-service attack. All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, join…
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Fantastic voyage, and the technological singularity
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In episode four of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark learn there's a 99.9% chance that AI will wipe out humans within 100 years, examine the even more chilling prospect of Barney the dinosaur reading Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to six-year-olds, and resurrect a tried-and-trusted software evaluation method to decide if Claude 3.5 Sonnet is better than ChatG…
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An unhealthy data dump, railway surveillance, and a cheater sues Apple
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There's a wee data breach with unhealthy implications in Scotland, privacy has gone off the rails in the UK, and a cheater blames Apple for his expensive divorce. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Lianne Potte…
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iOS 18 for cheaters, and a model cop extortionist?
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Apple announces a new privacy feature in iOS that will allow you to hide and lock away your apps - but will it be philanderers who benefit the most? And an ex-police officer is arrested for extortion. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.…
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Crashing robo-taxis, and name-dropping rappers
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Drones, some coloured cardboard, and a piece of tinfoil may be all the kit you need to crash a robot-driven taxi, and a rapper is accused of using Justin Bieber's name to defraud a TV company. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault. Warning…
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The AI Olympics, WTF is AGI, and ChatGPT is down
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In this week's episode of The AI Fix podcast, Graham and Mark tackle the latest news from the world of AI and discover an unusual way to stop Joe Biden deepfakes, ponder the implications of ChatGPT going down, and discuss the danger of Daleks armed with venti lattes. Graham tells Mark why he and superstar Tom Cruise are boycotting the Olympics, and…
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Microsoft’s Recall controversy, and the North Korean insider threat
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Microsoft gets itself into a pickle with a privacy-popping new feature on its CoPilot+ PCs, the FTC warns of impersonated companies, and is your company hiring North Korean IT workers? All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joine…
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iPhone undeleted photos, and stealing Scarlett Johansson’s voice
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iPhone photos come back from the dead! Scarlett Johansson sounds upset about GPT-4o, and there's a cockup involving celebrity fakes. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by special guest Anna Brading of Malwarebytes…
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Can AI learn sarcasm? And robot dogs with guns
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In the latest episode of The AI Fix podcast, Graham and Mark tackle the latest news from the world of AI, ponder the grisly demise of OpenAI's safety team, ask what the GPT-4o reveal will mean for Lionel Richie and Diana Ross, and question whether fitting guns to robots dogs is just wokeism gone mad. Graham explains to Mark why Mustard might help A…
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Remember when a US mother was accused of distributing explicit deepfake photos and videos to try to get her teenage daughter's cheerleading rivals kicked off the team? Well, there has been a surprising development. And learn how cybercriminals have been stealing boomers' one-time-passcodes via a secretive online service. All this and more is discus…
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Unmasking LockBitsupp, company extortion, and a Tinder fraudster
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The kingpin of the LockBit ransomware is named and sanctioned, a cybersecurity consultant is charged with a $1.5 million extortion, and a romance fraudster stole £80,000 from women he met on Tinder. All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Th…
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The closed loop conundrum, default passwords, and Baby Reindeer
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The UK Government takes aim at IoT devices shipping with weak or default passwords, a man spends two years incarcerated after being mistaken for the person who stole his identity, and are you au fait with the latest scams? All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham C…
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