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Protecting yourself from voice scams
Voice cloning has left the lab. Soon enough, you might hear your voice and think, Wait, is that me or an AI?
AI isn’t just being used to revive dead rappers or prank your boss with Drake impressions. Scammers are generating voices to fake kidnappings, drain bank accounts and impersonate your kid in crisis.
You don’t need to have a national radio show like me to be at risk. If you’ve ever left a voicemail, been in a podcast or posted a TikTok, congrats, you’re cloneable, and it only takes three to five seconds.
🎭 Your voice is a liability
Your voiceprint is incredibly personal. Research shows it can be as unique as a fingerprint or iris scan, with over 100 distinct vocal traits like pitch, tone, cadence and accent used to identify you.
To the human ear, voices can sound similar. Around 15% of people can be mistaken for someone else in audio recordings. But to an AI? Those subtle vocal quirks are easy to clone, especially with just a few seconds of audio.
It’s weird, dystopian and very much happening.
🗣️ Protect yourself
Here’s how to make sure you don’t get duped by a fake version of yourself (or your loved ones):
🔒 Lock down your privacy settings: Set your videos and voice clips to “friends only” or private. Delete any old uploads you don’t need floating around.
🤫 Treat your voice like a password: Create a family-only “safe word.” Something weird like “don’t forget the goat cheese,” an inside joke or phrase no AI could guess. Agree that no one sends money or help unless that phrase is used.
📵 Limit voice exposure: If the cat’s already out of the bag (mine is), there’s still time to cut back. Use visual voicemail or call-to-text instead of recordings. Skip voice notes in group chats.
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Sora 2: The AI video tool that’s already out of control
I have to tell you about Sora 2. It’s OpenAI’s new video-generating app that’s both mind-blowing and terrifying.
It’s the first tool from any AI company that lets you give it a prompt, and in literally seconds, you get a full-blown, AI-generated video up to a minute long. The results aren’t perfect, but they’re close. Like Hollywood close.
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Space leak: Researchers from UC San Diego and Maryland snagged T-Mobile calls, texts and even military comms, all from unencrypted satellites. Literally anyone with $800 and a rooftop dish could’ve done it. Companies assumed “no one would look up.” Which, frankly, explains a lot about our cybersecurity situation. Somewhere, aliens are listening to your spam texts.
Erotica comes to ChatGPT
Here comes the dirty talk. This December, expect to have sexier convos with your favorite chatbot. Cool or not? Here’s my take in this short podcast.
ChatGPT caught the arsonist
He thought he got away with starting one of California’s worst fires, until investigators checked his ChatGPT history. Yep, AI turned him in. Plus, landlords are using algorithms to hike rent, and a listener finds out his chatbot is a surprisingly good therapist.
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Fix typos fast with this phone hack
Stop wrestling with your thumbs to move that tiny cursor. There’s a hidden trick on your phone that lets you glide right to the mistake and fix it in seconds.
🔫 Home invasion, Apple edition: This is scary. A Florida couple got ambushed in their garage at gunpoint after suspects taped an AirTag under their car to track them. Two men have been arrested, facing charges from armed burglary to kidnapping. So yeah, maybe check your car before your next Target run.
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Hours left for ‘Prime Big Deal Days’
⏰ Tick, tick, tick! Prime Big Deal Days wrap up tonight at midnight. Once they’re gone, that’s it. You’ve still got time to hit “Buy Now” before it’s all over. I saved some of the best for last and pulled together 20 more gems.
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🪟 Final Windows 10 update: Microsoft has ended support for Windows 10, but there’s one last update that patches 173 bugs. Go to Settings > Windows Update > Check for Updates to install it. After this, there are no more security fixes unless you’re on the ESU program. Folks, skip the headache and move to Windows 11.
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Help! I’m in Amazon jail
Caller Gee from Virginia Beach got hacked ($2,500 gone) and somehow he’s the one in trouble. Amazon’s calling him the culprit. Plus, ChatGPT goes to court, Waymo’s cars get pulled over, and Hollywood’s newest starlet is pure code. It’s a wild lineup.
Real fake videos
AI is blurring the line between real and fake faster than ever. From OpenAI’s Sora 2 video generator to a lost billion in Bitcoin and Taylor Swift’s AI-fueled backlash
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🏕️ From campfires to code fires: Scouting America (yep, the rebranded Boy Scouts) launched AI and cybersecurity badges. Scouts learn about deepfakes, algorithmic bias and how to train (not just talk to) chatbots. The cybersecurity badge teaches password safety, phishing defense and digital citizenship. Forget tying knots. “Be prepared” now means knowing how to spot fake news and fake faces.