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

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 over

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

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 to

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

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 adve

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138: The Mimics of Punjab

This episode is about scammers in the Punjab region. Tarun comes on the show to tell us a story of what happened to him. Naomi Brockwell makes an ap

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You Can't Automate Buy-In

Putting new technology to use is an exciting prospect. But going from purchase to production isn’t always smooth—even when it’s something everyone is looking forward to. Code Comments covers the bumps

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The Real History of the Luddites

Luddites! It’s a dirty word, right? One that’s become synonymous with crusaders that want to return us to an idyllic past where everyone is free from their phones. But who were the Lud

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Operation Underground Railroad, Psychic Intelligence, and The Sound of Freedom’

This summer, a movie called The Sound of Freedom took America by storm. The hero was Tim Ballard, the founder of an organization called Operation Underground Railroad. The movie depicted Ballard as an

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Extremely Online’ With Taylor Lorenz

It’s time for a new history of the internet, one that focuses on the recent revolutions that define the world we all live in. Social media has changed the way many of us live and work. It’s a world de

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Hot Labor Summer

The heat is still here, but the summer will soon be over. Here at the precipice of fall I wanted to take a moment to reflect on one of the big stories that Motherboard covered this season: labor, stri

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137: Predator

A new type of mercenary spyware came on the radar called Predator. It’ll infect a mobile phone, and then suck up all the data from it. Contacts, text messages, location, and more. This malware is bein

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The Jason Koebler Exit Interview, Part Two

It’s part two of our bittersweet episode of Cyber where we bid farewell to Motherboard Jason Koebler. This week we do a deep dive into the Motherboard lore. The stories that broke us,

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Rare Motherboard Lore and a Goodbye to Jason Koebler

It’s a bittersweet episode of Cyber as we bid farewell to Motherboard Jason Koebler. It’s a long episode so we’ve split it into two parts. This week you get some discussions about the

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The Viral Science Video That Will Save the World or Do Nothing At All

are here! Maybe! Look, science is a liar sometimes, especially in the internet age. Motherboard science reporter Becky Ferreira is here to help us parse the truth from

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136: Team Xecuter

Team Xecuter was a group involved with making and selling modchips for video game systems. They often made mods that allowed the video game system to rip games or play pirated games. It was a crowd fa

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136: Team Xecutor

Team Xecutor was a group involved with making and selling modchips for video game systems. They often made mods that allowed the video game system to rip games or play pirated games. It was a crowd fa

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The Barbenheimer Special

We’ve got a super sized Cyber for you today that’s all about the two hottest movies in theaters. One is a mythological take on the creation of the modern world and the devastating weapons that ushered

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Adam Conover On the Hollywood Strike

It’s a brutally hot summer, a great time to cool off in an air conditioned movie theater or to catch up on some of those TV shows you’ve had on your list forever. But did you know the people who make

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The False Claims Behind an Group’s Hollywood Moment

A movie about a Mormon activist made headlines when it beat Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny at the box office. But Sound of Freedom’s box office numbers aren’t all they’re crack

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Celebrating the End of the Usable Internet

It feels like the old internet is breaking apart and no one is sure where to go. The first three pages of search results on Google are dreck. Reddit is shutting down the third party apps that make it

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135: The D.R. Incident

Omar Avilez worked in the CSIRT of the Dominican Republic when a major cyber security incident erupted. Omar walks us through what happened and the incident response procedures that he went through.Br

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The Increasingly Violent Discord Servers Where Kids Flaunt Their Crimes

Discord and Minecraft servers are part of an ecosystem where young people brag about crimes. SIM swapping, extortion, and are all part of an disparate online communit

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Big Tech Wants You to Think AI Will Kill Us All

Did you know that AI is set to automate as many as a third of your tasks? In the future we’re all going to be saving a lot of time. That’s as long as no one invents artificial general intelligence tha

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134: Deviant

Deviant Ollam is a physical penetration specialist. That means he’s paid to break into buildings to see if the building is secure or not. He has done this for a long time and has a lot of tricks up hi

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The DHS Is Reading Travelers' Posts at the Border

Customs and Border Protection is scanning people’s social media, the feds have arrested some swatters, and the FTC has ordered Ring to cough up a fine. This week on Cyber, Motherboard’s premier cyber

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AI Can Read Your Dreams and Collect Your Debts. What’s Next?

Is there anything artificial intelligence can’t do?Debt collectors want AI to push people into coughing up what’s owed. An AI created photo of an attack on the Pentagon generated a minor panic. There’

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CYBER: Crime and Crypto with Cory Doctorow

Crypto and crime, crime and crypto. They go together like spreadsheets and tax evasion. When cryptocurrency hit the scene it was, according to its evangelists, going to usher in a world of decentraliz

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CYBER: Inside the Italian Mafia’s Encrypted Phone of Choice

We talk a lot about encrypted phones on Cyber. Everyone loves a secure communication channel that no one can peer into. But some companies, well, if there’s criminal activity going on they’re gonna se

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Apple II and How the Computer Became Personal

If you’re watching or listening to this show you’re probably doing it on a device that owes its very existence to the Apple II. But these days we remember the iPhone, 90s era Windows, and even the Mac

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Wondery Presents - Flipping The Bird: Elon vs Twitter

When Elon Musk posted a video of himself arriving at Twitter HQ carrying a white sink along with the message “let that sink in!” it marked the end of a dramatic takeover. Musk had gone from Twitter cr

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133: I'm the Real Connor

One day Connor Tumbleson got an email saying his identity has been stolen. And this was one of the strangest days he’s ever for this show comes from Quorum Cyber. Their mantra is:

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Thieves are Stealing Cars Using Old Nokia Phones

It looks like a bluetooth speaker or an old Nokia cellphone. But that’s a disguise. Inside these small devices is everything car thieves need to break into your vehicle. There are telegram channels no

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Someone Is Selling Computer Generated Swatting Services

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 adve3