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Hacking. Hackers. Disinformation campaigns. Encryption. The Cyber. This stuff gets complicated really fast, but Motherboard spends its time embedded in the infosec world so you don't have to. Host Matthew Gault talks every week to Motherboard reporters about the stories they're breaking and to the i...
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319 EpisodenWhy Congress's Fears of Russian Space Nukes Is Political Theatre
Cyber is a show covering a diverse range of topics. We’ve covered everything from crypto to AI to online cults. If it touches technology or online cul...
AI Deepfakes Are Everywhere and Congress is Completely Out of Their Depth
An AI-generated Biden called voters in New Hampshire ahead of the primary and told them to stay home. X locked down the search term “Taylor Swift” aft...
Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding
Ten years ago, Big Tech reached a peak. Facebook had wormed its way into the lives of billions of people. The mainstream news covered iPhones releases...
How to Read Leaked Datasets Like a Journalist
We live in a golden age of data. Every day, hacktivists release terabytes of data on sites like DDoSecrets, but sorting through it all requires some t...
What a Novel About an AI Documenting the Last Human Says About Our Real Dystopia
The unreliable narrator of After World, the new novel from author Debbie Urbanski, is an AI tasked with writing a book about Sen, the last human on Ea...
The Future of Nukes Involves AI and Nobody Knows What Happens Next
According to the hype, artificial intelligence is changing everything. The truth is more complicated, but that doesn’t mean that companies and governm...
OpenAI’s Make or Break Lawsuit and the Golden Idol of AGI
The New York Times kicked off the holiday season by suing OpenAI and Microsoft. The paper of record believes that ChatGPT is violating various copyrig...
The Great American Train Wreck Isn’t Going Away
On February 3, a train crashed in East Palestine, Ohio releasing toxic chemicals into the air. Almost a month later, another train owned by the same c...
The Old Internet Is Dying, and Something Worse Is Being Born
As we slide into the winter holidays, Cyber is taking some time to relax with old friends and discuss the things that truly matter: the decline of the...
How Online Fights Affect Real World Battlefields
Your posts matter more than you think. Social media has changed the way wars are fought and the internet has become a new battlefield.
Twitter...
You Can’t Automate the Difficult Decisions
The tensions between security and operations and developer teams are the stuff of legend. DevSecOps is trying to change that, and automation is a big...
Despite OpenAI Chaos, Wall Street Is Still Betting Big on AI
What happens when a for profit company is run by a non-profit board of directors who are ideologically opposed to the company’s product? You get somet...
What Happens When an Anti-Sex Trafficking Operation Goes Wrong
When “Alison” started working for Operation Underground Railroad, she wanted to make a difference in the lives of kids. She was a former Marine and so...
Crypto One Year After the Collapse: All My Apes Blinded
It’s a bad time to be a crypto-person. Some of crypto’s biggest evangelists are facing serious federal jail time. FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was co...
The Landlord Tech Company That Turned Security Deposits Into a Monthly Fee
Rhino sounds like a good deal at first. When people move into a new apartment, they often have to pay a large lump sum security deposit to their landl...
The Viral ‘Kia Boys’ Car Theft Trend That’s Going Viral on Instagram
Kias and Hyundais are being stolen in America at an alarming rate. Using a screwdriver and a USB cable, it’s trivially easy to steal one. Kia and Hyun...
Space Junk, Nuclear Waste, AI Nukes and the Reason We’re All Still Here
There’s a lot of reasons to be worried about the future. Climate change, nuclear weapons, space junk, and World War III are all threats both present a...
Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Broke and How to Fix It
Have you noticed your internet is …. kinda shitty? Does Spotfiy’s smart shuffle keep playing the same Cure song over and over again? Does a quick goog...
The Real History of the Luddites
Luddites! It’s a dirty word, right? One that’s become synonymous with anti-technology crusaders that want to return us to an idyllic past where everyo...
Operation Underground Railroad, Psychic Intelligence, and ‘The Sound of Freedom’
This summer, a movie called The Sound of Freedom took America by storm. The hero was Tim Ballard, the founder of an organization called Operation Unde...
‘Extremely Online’ With Taylor Lorenz
It’s time for a new history of the internet, one that focuses on the recent revolutions that define the world we all live in. Social media has changed...
Hot Labor Summer
The heat is still here, but the summer will soon be over. Here at the precipice of fall I wanted to take a moment to reflect on one of the big stories...
The Jason Koebler Exit Interview, Part Two
It’s part two of our bittersweet episode of Cyber where we bid farewell to Motherboard editor-in-chief Jason Koebler. This week we do a deep dive into...
Rare Motherboard Lore and a Goodbye to Jason Koebler
It’s a bittersweet episode of Cyber as we bid farewell to Motherboard editor-in-chief Jason Koebler. It’s a long episode so we’ve split it into two pa...
The Viral Science Video That Will Save the World or Do Nothing At All
Room-temperature superconductors are here! Maybe! Look, science is a liar sometimes, especially in the internet age. Motherboard science reporter Beck...
The Barbenheimer Special
We’ve got a super sized Cyber for you today that’s all about the two hottest movies in theaters. One is a mythological take on the creation of the mod...
Adam Conover On the Hollywood Strike
It’s a brutally hot summer, a great time to cool off in an air conditioned movie theater or to catch up on some of those TV shows you’ve had on your l...
The False Claims Behind an Anti-Trafficking Group’s Hollywood Moment
A movie about a Mormon anti-trafficking activist made headlines when it beat Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny at the box office. But Sound of Fre...
Celebrating the End of the Usable Internet
It feels like the old internet is breaking apart and no one is sure where to go. The first three pages of search results on Google are dreck. Reddit i...
The Increasingly Violent Discord Servers Where Kids Flaunt Their Crimes
Discord and Minecraft servers are part of an ecosystem where young people brag about crimes. SIM swapping, cryptocurrency, extortion, and violence-for...
Big Tech Wants You to Think AI Will Kill Us All
Did you know that AI is set to automate as many as a third of your tasks? In the future we’re all going to be saving a lot of time. That’s as long as...
The DHS Is Reading Travelers' Posts at the Border
Customs and Border Protection is scanning people’s social media, the feds have arrested some swatters, and the FTC has ordered Ring to cough up a fine...
AI Can Read Your Dreams and Collect Your Debts. What’s Next?
Is there anything artificial intelligence can’t do?Debt collectors want AI to push people into coughing up what’s owed. An AI created photo of an atta...
CYBER: Crime and Crypto with Cory Doctorow
Crypto and crime, crime and crypto. They go together like spreadsheets and tax evasion. When cryptocurrency hit the scene it was, according to its eva...
CYBER: Inside the Italian Mafia’s Encrypted Phone of Choice
We talk a lot about encrypted phones on Cyber. Everyone loves a secure communication channel that no one can peer into. But some companies, well, if t...
Apple II and How the Computer Became Personal
If you’re watching or listening to this show you’re probably doing it on a device that owes its very existence to the Apple II. But these days we reme...
Wondery Presents - Flipping The Bird: Elon vs Twitter
When Elon Musk posted a video of himself arriving at Twitter HQ carrying a white sink along with the message “let that sink in!” it marked the end of...
Thieves are Stealing Cars Using Old Nokia Phones
It looks like a bluetooth speaker or an old Nokia cellphone. But that’s a disguise. Inside these small devices is everything car thieves need to break...
Someone Is Selling Computer Generated Swatting Services
Automation is making everyone’s lives easier, including people who call in fake bomb threats on crowded public locations. We live in a world where pra...
What We Know about the Pentagon Leaks
Top Secret classified Pentagon documents leaked on a Minecraft Discord server. The pages of documents contain sensitive information about troop placem...