A Bad Hack and a Great Guest

Why is the US banning more Chinese technology? Reed Albergotti (Semafor) fills us in on the robot ban and what it means for American innovation. Then, new research on why Chinese open-source AI models may not be as big a threat as Washington makes it seem. Taylor Lorenz (User Mag ...  Show more

What does it take to power the AI boom? Steve Vassallo, a roboticist turned General Partner at Foundation Capital, helped semiconductor company Cerebras figure it out. Steve and Oz discuss why AI workloads demanded an entirely new kind of chip, what "wafer scale" actually means, ...  Show more

Please enjoy this encore episode of Hacking Humans. This week we are joined by Maria Varmazis, host of the N2K daily space show, T-Minus. She discusses how AI is being used as a possible solution to one of the oldest scams in the book in Japan. Dave and Joe share some listener fo ...  Show more

Chester Wisniewski, Director, Global Field CTO at Sophos, discusses the use of artificial intelligence to spread misinformation. Hosts: Tim Stenovec and Jennifer Ryan. Producer: Paul Brennan.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

The curious history of the delusion that COVID-19 has something to do with 5G. Malvertising spoofs a security company’s website. Data breach hits Pakistani mobile users. xHelper is still in circulation. Data privacy versus data utility. COVID-19-driven patterns of cybercrime. And ...  Show more