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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 industry's most famous hackers and researchers about the biggest news in cybersecurity.

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El Salvador's Bitcoin City | Vice Culture Club Preview

May 06, 2026 7m

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…

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Mar 30, 2026 33m

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…

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

Feb 16, 2024 1h

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…

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

Feb 09, 2024 50m

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…

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

Feb 02, 2024 1h 7m

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…

How to Read Leaked Datasets Like a Journalist

Jan 26, 2024 55m

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…

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

Jan 19, 2024 53m

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…

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

Jan 12, 2024 1h 2m

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…

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

Jan 05, 2024 58m

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…

The Great American Train Wreck Isn’t Going Away

Dec 20, 2023 57m

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.…

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

Dec 13, 2023 1h 8m

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…

How Online Fights Affect Real World Battlefields

Dec 01, 2023 51m

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…

You Can’t Automate the Difficult Decisions

Nov 27, 2023 19m

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 part of making it possible. But automation alone…

Despite OpenAI Chaos, Wall Street Is Still Betting Big on AI

Nov 22, 2023 54m

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 something like what happened to OpenAI over the past…

What Happens When an Anti-Sex Trafficking Operation Goes Wrong

Nov 20, 2023 1h 34m

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 social worker who’d seen the devastating effects…

Crypto One Year After the Collapse: All My Apes Blinded

Nov 10, 2023 1h 3m

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 convicted on seven counts of wire fraud, securities…

The Landlord Tech Company That Turned Security Deposits Into a Monthly Fee

Oct 31, 2023 52m

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 landlord. For people who can’t pay, Rhino offers to…

The Viral ‘Kia Boys’ Car Theft Trend That’s Going Viral on Instagram

Oct 20, 2023 1h 11m

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 Hyundai blame social media, but the problem is so…

Space Junk, Nuclear Waste, AI Nukes and the Reason We’re All Still Here

Oct 10, 2023 56m

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 and long-term. But, every day, people are trying…

Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Broke and How to Fix It

Oct 04, 2023 1h 7m

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 google search give you page after page of obvious…

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