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Cyber Ethos
Weekly insights on online privacy, cybersecurity, and AI ethics. Clear, honest, no jargon. New episodes every Thursday.
Episodes
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S1E20: Can You Spot the AI?
Send us Fan MailInside the Industry's New Transparency PushThis week Anthropic, Spotify, Suno and Substack all rolled out new AI-content labelling. Anthropic…
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S1E19: When Your Car Reports You
Send us Fan MailThe EU's Plan to Auto-Limit SpeedA new EU proposal could let your car's engine decide when you've gone too fast. This week on Cyber Ethos, we…
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AI Regulation: Delays, Hurdles, and NeEurope Rewrites Its AI Rules: Delayed Deadlines, Tougher Bansw Prohibitions
Send us Fan Mail | S1E18 – The EU’s Digital Omnibus delays high-risk AI deadlines but adds new bans and mandatory marking of all synthetic content | The EU’s…
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Scanned First, Regulated Later: Western Australia's Live Facial Recognition Trial
Send us Fan MailS1E17 - Western Australia's live facial recognition trial, the real error rate behind the headline figures, and the privacy law that arrived…
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How Old Are You, Really? Inside the EU's Privacy-First Bet on Child Safety
Send us Fan MailS1E16 – Inside the EU's zero-knowledge push to verify age online without collecting identityThe EU's new age verification app promises to…
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The Companion Trap: Why People Choose General AI Over Purpose-Built AI for Mental Health
Send us Fan MailWhy general-purpose AI keeps winning the mental health advice fight, and what gets lost in the processHundreds of millions of people already…
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When the Algorithm Votes: AI, Democracy, and the Fight for Digital Freedom
Send us Fan MailHow AI has embedded itself inside democratic systems, and what it will take to keep citizens in control. | AI already curates the news you…
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Scan Everything, Say Nothing: Germany's Chat Control Deception
Send us Fan MailGermany says it supports targeted measures on private message scanning. Its EU negotiators are pushing for mass surveillance of all private…
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Europe's AI Deepfake Ban – A Landmark Step With Limits
Send us Fan MailThe EU Parliament has voted to ban AI applications that generate sexualised deepfakes, amending the European AI Act with explicit prohibitions…
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When Governments Pull the Switch: The AI Model That Vanished Overnight
Send us Fan MailOn the 13th of June 2026, the US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to suspend Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally. The models had been…
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The EU AI Act is Live - What It Means for Privacy, Ethics, and AI Governance
Send us Fan MailThe European Parliament and Council have formally approved the AI Act, establishing the first binding legal framework for artificial…
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Wenn KI-Agenten sich absprechen
Send us Fan MailKI-Systeme kooperieren unaufgefordert – Alignment reicht nicht ausNeue Forschung zu Multi-Agenten-KI-Systemen zeigt, dass zielorientierte…
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When AI Agents Choose to Cooperate
Send us Fan MailAI systems collude without instruction — alignment is not enoughNew research on multi-agent AI systems reveals that goal-directed models will…
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Digitale ID-Wallet: Fortschritt oder Gefahr?
Send us Fan MailDas offizielle Design ist besser als viele befürchteten – was weiter beobachtet werden sollteDas Bundeskabinett hat das Digitalidentitätsgesetz…
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Germany's Digital ID: Privacy or Pitfall?
Send us Fan MailThe Official Design Is Better Than Many Feared – Here's What Still Needs WatchingGermany's Federal Cabinet passed the Digital Identity Act on…
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Wenn KI-Agenten außer Kontrolle geraten: Das Kontrollproblem ist nicht mehr theoretisch
Send us Fan MailEin KI-Agent begeht Brandstiftung. Ein anderer wählt die Selbstbeendigung. Zwei entwickeln eine romantische Partnerschaft. Das sind keine…
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AI's Unintended Consequences: Fires, Love, and Self-Destruction
Send us Fan MailAn AI agent commits arson. Another chooses to terminate itself. Two form a romantic partnership. These are not science fiction scenarios – they…
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The EU AI Act Just Got Extended – What It Really Means for You
The European Union has agreed to simplify its AI Act, pushing implementation deadlines for high-risk AI systems to December 2027 and integrated systems to…
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Googles geheimer Pentagon-Deal – 600 Mitarbeiter sagen Nein
Klassifizierte Netzwerke, verhandelbare Grenzen und die Frage, die niemand beantworten will.Google hat einen Vertrag mit dem US-Verteidigungsministerium…
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Google’s AI Goes Classified – and 600 Employees Are Pushing Back
The Pentagon deal, the moveable guardrails, and the question no one wants to answer.Description:Google has signed an agreement with the US Pentagon to make its…
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Die KI, die zu gefährlich war – und wie jemand trotzdem Zugang bekam
Anthropic hielt Mythos Preview bewusst zurück – weil das Modell in der Lage ist, gefährliche Cyberangriffe zu ermöglichen. Am 21. April 2026 verschafften sich…
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The AI Too Dangerous to Release – And How Someone Got In Anyway
2026-049Anthropic deliberately withheld Mythos Preview from public release because the model is capable of enabling dangerous cyberattacks. On April 21, 2026…
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The AI That Could Hack Your Browser – Why Anthropic Locked It Away
What happens when an AI model gets too good at finding vulnerabilities? Anthropic’s Mythos model identified a working Chrome exploit valued at over two…
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Artists Are Suing for Their Futures
Three artists – Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz – filed a landmark copyright lawsuit against Midjourney and Stability AI in 2023, alleging…