Results for 'attribution'
Removing the human: When should AI be used in emotional crisis? Lock and Code S03E09
April 24, 2023 - In January, a mental health nonprofit admitted that it had used Artificial Intelligence to help talk to people in distress. Prompted first...
How the cops buy a “God view” of your location data, with Bennett Cyphers: Lock and Code S04E09
April 10, 2023 - The list of people and organizations that are hungry for your location data—collected so routinely and packaged so conveniently that it...
Solving the password’s hardest problem with passkeys, featuring Anna Pobletts
March 27, 2023 - How many passwords do you have? If you’re at all like our Lock and Code host David Ruiz, that number hovers...
“Brad Pitt,” a still body, ketchup, and a knife, or the best trick ever played on a romance scammer, with Becky Holmes: Lock and Code S04E06
March 13, 2023 - Becky Holmes knows how to throw a romance scammer off script—simply bring up cannibalism. In January, Holmes shared on Twitter that...
Fighting online censorship, or, encryption’s latest surprise use-case, with Mallory Knodel: Lock and Code S04E05
February 27, 2023 - Government threats to end-to-end encryption—the technology that secures your messages and shared photos and videos—have been around for decades, but the...
What is AI good at (and what the heck is it, actually), with Josh Saxe: Lock and Code S04E04
February 13, 2023 - In November of last year, the AI research and development lab OpenAI revealed its latest, most advanced language project: A tool...
A private moment, caught by a Roomba, ended up on Facebook. Eileen Guo explains how: Lock and Code S04E03
January 30, 2023 - In 2020, a photo of a woman sitting on a toilet—her shorts pulled half-way down her thighs—was shared on Facebook, and...
New data wipers deployed against Ukraine
January 30, 2023 - As war in Ukraine rages, new destructive malware continues to be discovered. In a recent tweet, the Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team...
Fighting technology’s gender gap with TracketPacer: Lock and Code S04E02
January 16, 2023 - Last month, the TikTok user TracketPacer posted a video online called “Network Engineering Facts to Impress No One at Zero Parties.” TracketPacer...
Why does technology no longer excite us? Lock and Code S04E01
January 2, 2023 - When did technology last excite you? If Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, is to be believed, your own...
