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  • El Salvador's Bitcoin City | Vice Culture Club Preview

    May 6, 2026 · 7 min

    VICE is back with a new podcast exploring the subcultures and fringes that we are best known for. If you thought we were gone, looks like we have more to say. Each week we are sitting down with the internets most fascinating characters and…

  • VICE is back with a new podcast

    March 30, 2026 · 34 min

    VICE is back with a new podcast exploring the subcultures and fringes that we are best known for. If you thought we were gone, looks like we have more to say. Each week we are sitting down with the internets most fascinating characters and…

  • Why Congress's Fears of Russian Space Nukes Is Political Theatre

    February 16, 2024 · 1 hr 0 min

    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 culture, we’ll talk about it. That’s how you get an episode like today’s, which is both a…

  • AI Deepfakes Are Everywhere and Congress is Completely Out of Their Depth

    February 9, 2024 · 50 min

    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” after AI-generated nudes of the pop giant flooded the platform. In the wake of both…

  • Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding

    February 2, 2024 · 1 hr 8 min

    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 like they were Taylor Swift concerts. Elon Musk was promising to colonize Mars and fill…

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  • How to Read Leaked Datasets Like a Journalist

    January 26, 2024 · 56 min

    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 technical knowledge. What if you don’t know XML from SQL let alone how to write a simple…

  • What a Novel About an AI Documenting the Last Human Says About Our Real Dystopia

    January 19, 2024 · 53 min

    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 Earth. In this world, humanity is done. The world is moving on without us and Sen was born…

  • The Future of Nukes Involves AI and Nobody Knows What Happens Next

    January 12, 2024 · 1 hr 2 min

    According to the hype, artificial intelligence is changing everything. The truth is more complicated, but that doesn’t mean that companies and governments aren’t rushing to embrace the new technology. It’s even being used to update an old…

  • OpenAI’s Make or Break Lawsuit and the Golden Idol of AGI

    January 5, 2024 · 58 min

    The New York Times kicked off the holiday season by suing OpenAI and Microsoft. The paper of record believes that ChatGPT is violating various copyrights by using its articles as training data. It’s a landmark case that may end up before…

  • The Great American Train Wreck Isn’t Going Away

    December 20, 2023 · 58 min

    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 company also derailed in Ohio. That’s not all. Trains in Charlotte are running slower than…

  • The Old Internet Is Dying, and Something Worse Is Being Born

    December 13, 2023 · 1 hr 9 min

    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 internet, creator culture, and the transcendent power of movies.  This week on Cyber…

  • How Online Fights Affect Real World Battlefields

    December 1, 2023 · 51 min

    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 may be dying, but it still matters an awful lot to policy makers. TikTok is ascendent, but…

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About the show

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 industry's most famous hackers and researchers about the biggest news in cybersecurity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.