This episode covers physical warfare colliding with cloud infrastructure as Iranian missiles knock out Amazon data centers in the UAE, forcing customers to scramble for backup regions. We also dig into Samsung's settlement with Texas over secretly tracking what viewers watch on their smart TVs, burying consent forms under two hundred clicks of dark patterns.

This episode covers disinformation flooding X during military strikes on Iran, a county health department using ChatGPT to solve a Salmonella outbreak at a beer tent, and the return of Mobile World Congress where experimental phones get wonderfully weird. Adrian North walks through how information moves — and breaks — when things happen fast.

This episode covers U.S. and Israeli military strikes against Iran, the political fallout in Congress, and what it means as tensions continue to escalate in the Middle East. Adrian also digs into the guilty plea of a Ukrainian man who ran OnlyFake, an AI-powered website that generated over ten thousand fake IDs used to bypass banking security checks.

This episode digs into the DOJ's $61 million Tether seizure linked to "pig butchering" scams, where victims are groomed for weeks before being drained of their crypto. Adrian also unpacks the irony of Meta suing advertisers for deceptive celeb-bait schemes and touches on emerging weapons in space.

This episode digs into the Pentagon's unprecedented move to label Anthropic a supply chain risk after the AI company refused military contracts, explores how ransomware payments are hitting record lows even as attacks surge, and questions what happens when our hunger for viral content crashes into shared reality—like running a 5K inside an airplane bathroom. Adrian North breaks down the messy collision of AI ethics, cybercrime economics, and the absurdity of chasing clout at 30,000 feet.

This episode digs into the reality check behind Claude Code's overhyped launch, explores the eerie timing of HBO's ransomware episode airing alongside a real Mississippi hospital attack, and profiles Polish computer scientist Maciej Besta who climbs the world's coldest peaks solo. Adrian breaks down why AI tools rarely live up to initial hype and how fictional portrayals might actually help everyday people understand cyber threats.