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El Salvador's Bitcoin City | Vice Culture Club Preview
May 6, 2026
7m 15s
VICE is back with a new podcast
Mar 30, 2026
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Why Congress's Fears of Russian Space Nukes Is Political Theatre
Feb 16, 2024
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AI Deepfakes Are Everywhere and Congress is Completely Out of Their Depth
Feb 9, 2024
50m 29s
Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding
Feb 2, 2024
1h 07m 44s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/6/26 |  El Salvador's Bitcoin City | Vice Culture Club Preview✨ | BitcoinEl Salvador+3 | — | BitcoinVICE+1 | El Salvador | Bitcoin CityEl Salvador+5 | — | 7m 15s | |
| 3/30/26 |  VICE is back with a new podcast✨ | subculturesfringes+3 | — | VICEAcast | — | podcastsubcultures+4 | — | 33m 57s | |
| 2/16/24 | Why Congress's Fears of Russian Space Nukes Is Political Theatre✨ | nuclear weaponsCongress+4 | Timothy Marchman | WWEU.S.+1 | — | Congressnuclear weapons+5 | — | 1h 00m 00s | |
| 2/9/24 | AI Deepfakes Are Everywhere and Congress is Completely Out of Their Depth✨ | AIdeepfakes+5 | Janus RoseLia Holland | CongressFight for the Future+2 | — | AI deepfakesCongress+5 | — | 50m 29s | |
| 2/2/24 | Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding✨ | Big Techtechnology criticism+4 | Ed Zitron | $3,500 VR headsetFacebook+5 | — | Big TechElon Musk+6 | — | 1h 07m 44s | |
| 1/26/24 | How to Read Leaked Datasets Like a Journalist✨ | data analysishacked datasets+3 | Micah Lee | The InterceptDDoSecrets+1 | — | datahacked datasets+8 | — | 55m 40s | |
| 1/19/24 | What a Novel About an AI Documenting the Last Human Says About Our Real Dystopia✨ | artificial intelligenceclimate change+3 | Debbie Urbanski | After WorldAn Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried | — | AIclimate change+3 | — | 53m 05s | |
| 1/12/24 | The Future of Nukes Involves AI and Nobody Knows What Happens Next✨ | artificial intelligencenuclear weapons+4 | Edward Geist | RAND CorporationDeterrence Under Uncertainty: Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Warfare | AmericaRussia+1 | AInuclear warfare+5 | — | 1h 02m 23s | |
| 1/5/24 | OpenAI’s Make or Break Lawsuit and the Golden Idol of AGI✨ | copyright lawAI+3 | Sharon Goldman | The New York TimesOpenAI+2 | — | OpenAINew York Times+5 | — | 58m 00s | |
| 12/20/23 | The Great American Train Wreck Isn’t Going Away✨ | train derailmentsmass transit issues+4 | Aaron Gordon | Motherboard | East PalestineOhio+2 | train crashEast Palestine+5 | — | 57m 31s | |
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| 12/13/23 | The Old Internet Is Dying, and Something Worse Is Being Born✨ | internet declinecreator culture+3 | Gita Jackson | Cyber LiveAcast+2 | — | internetcreator culture+5 | — | 1h 08m 43s | |
| 12/1/23 | How Online Fights Affect Real World Battlefields | 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 policy makers. TikTok is ascendent, but often because its content can be repurposed on other platforms. Telegram can give you the news on the ground, but only if you trust the sources.With all this information flowing and everyone motivated by personal politics, who can you trust?This week, Emerson T. Brooking joins Matthew and Emily to explain how online discussion shapes the reality on the ground in conflict zones. Brooking is a resident senior fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council and the co-author of LikeWar, a book about the weaponization of social media. Cyber Live is coming to YouTube. Subscribe here to be notified.Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 11/27/23 |  You Can’t Automate the Difficult Decisions | 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 can’t overcome entrenched behavior. Joylynn Kirui shares how Microsoft is helping teams prioritize security without bogging down development.Follow and listen to Code Comments: https://link.chtbl.com/codecomments?sid=podcast.cyber Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 11/22/23 | Despite OpenAI Chaos, Wall Street Is Still Betting Big on AI | 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 week, which saw its board of directors sack CEO Sam Altman before eventually reinstating him and resigning. It’s a weird story that involves AI, predictions of the end of the world, strange pagan rites in Silicon Valley offices, and a Harry Potter fanfic.Join us this week on Cyber as Motherboard senior editor Maxwell Strachan walks us through what the hell just happened and what it means for the future of AI.Stories discussed in this episode:Sam Altman Out at OpenAI ‘Effective Immediately’Everything You Need to Know About the Ridiculously Chaotic 'Coup,' Implosion, and Counter-Revolution at OpenAIBinance CEO Changpeng Zhao, Who Crafted a Responsible Image, Is Pleading Guilty to Breaking Anti-Money Laundering LawsWall Street Embraces AI Despite Risks of Catastrophe Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 11/20/23 | What Happens When an Anti-Sex Trafficking Operation Goes Wrong | 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 that abuse could have on people. She wanted to stop it before it happened.She ended up with a broken orbital bone, bleeding and vomiting in a gym after a training exercise gone wrong. This week on Cyber, Anna Merlan and Tim Marchman walk us through their latest reporting on Tim Ballard and Operation Underground Railroad.Stories discussed in this episodeA Private Island, Downloads From God, and the 'Couples Ruse': Inside the Dangerous World of Tim Ballard's Operation Underground RailroadFive of Tim Ballard’s Alleged Victims Have Filed a Lawsuit Against HimWomen Accuse Tim Ballard of ‘Spiritual Manipulation, Grooming, and Sexual Misconduct’A Century-Old, Debunked Theory Is Fueling the TikTok Moral PanicCyber Live is coming to YouTube. Subscribe here to be notified.Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 11/10/23 | Crypto One Year After the Collapse: All My Apes Blinded | 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 fraud, and money laundering after a disastrous trial. Some owners of Bored Ape NFTs experienced vision injuries at a recent gathering. Prices are in the toilet and SEC regulators are circling.And yet, many crypto holders are holding out hope that the number will go up again soon. This week on Cyber, Jordan Pearson sits down with Matthew and Emily to talk about what the crypto landscape looks like one year after its collapse. The shocking news is that legitimate investment firms like BlackRock are still looking to get into the market, Paypal launched its own stablecoin, and crypto dreamers are still sure that the decentralized currencies will change everything.Stories discussed in this episode:NFT Owners Partying at ‘ApeFest’ Report Vision Injuries (Not From Looking at NFTs)Elon Musk’s ‘GrokAI’ Is Beating the Competition In Generating CringeCyber Live is coming to YouTube. Subscribe here to be notified.Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/31/23 | The Landlord Tech Company That Turned Security Deposits Into a Monthly Fee | 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 bill them a little bit every month in lieu of the deposit. But there’s a catch: unlike security deposits, money sent to Rhino is never returned. The company uses algorithms to make the wealthy pay less than poorer people, some renters are still paying for places where they no longer live and no one, including landlords, can get the service on the phone.This week on Cyber, Motherboard writer Roshan Abraham comes on to discuss his investigation into Rhino. Stories discussed in this episode:How Landlord Tech Is Squeezing Renters Who Can't Afford Security DepositsTenants Are Suing Landlords for Allegedly Price-Fixing Rents with Software and the Feds Could Get InvolvedWe’re recording CYBER live on Twitch. Watch live during the week. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show. Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/20/23 | 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 overwhelming that several cities are suing the car manufacturer for creating a crime epidemic by electing not to build a $100 anti-theft device into some models.This week on Cyber, Motherboard Reporter Aaron Gordon stops by to walk us through what’s really behind the viral crime wave.‘Kia Boys’ Trend Fueling Nationwide Crime Wave Is Running Rampant on InstagramWhat It’s Like To Own the Cars That Became a Viral Sensation To StealKia and Hyundai Blame TikTok and Instagram For Their Cars Getting StolenU.S. Cities Have a Staggering Problem of Kia and Hyundai Thefts. This Data Shows It.We’re recording CYBER live on Twitch. Watch live during the week. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show. Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/10/23 | 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 make the world a better place. It lands them in weird situations like skinny dripping with Soviet officers at the height of the Cold War or getting drunk with engineers in North Korea.This week on Cyber, Dr. Jeffrey Lewis stops by to tell us all about the brave men and women who took a chance, reached out, and helped prevent the world from falling into oblivion. Lewis is a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies on the Nonproliferation and Terrorism Faculty. His new podcast, The Reason We’re All Still Here, explores the apocalypse with an air of hope for the future.Go here to check out The Reason We’re All Still HereWe’re recording CYBER live on Twitch. Watch live during the week. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show. Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/4/23 | 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 advertisements? Want to leave Facebook behind but that one group chat keeps you checking in day after day?Well have I got the book for you. It’s The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation. It’s a little bit history, it’s a little bit manifesto, and it’s all about one simple concept that can help us get out of this mess: interoperability.Here with me today to discuss is the book's author, Cory Doctorow. Doctorow is a writer, activist, and journalist.We’re recording CYBER live on Twitch. Watch live during the week. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show. Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/29/23 | The Real History of the Luddites | Luddites! It’s a dirty word, right? One that’s become synonymous with anti-technology crusaders that want to return us to an idyllic past where everyone is free from their phones. But who were the Luddites? Where does the term come from? How has it been misused and do we, perhaps, need a little more King Ludd in all our lives?Brian Merchant is here to answer all our burning questions about Luddites and his new book Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech. He’s a technology columnist at the LA Times now. But Brian is as old school Motherboard as they come. We once made him eat Soylent for a month!Buy Blood in the Machine here.We’re recording CYBER live on Twitch. Watch live during the week. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show. Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/25/23 | 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 avenging hero who rescued trafficked children from a life of slavery. The truth, we’re all finding out, is something more complicated and a lot less heroic.Ballard left the organization around the time Sound of Freedom premiered, following an investigation into his sexual misconduct. It’s a wild story involving the The Church of Latter Day Saints, a psychic channeling the Prophet Nephi, and serious criminal investigations.Here to tell us about it are Vice’s own Anna Merlan and Tim Marchman.Stories discussed in this episode:Mormon Church Denounces Tim Ballard’s “Morally Unacceptable” ActivitiesTim Ballard’s Departure From Operation Underground Railroad Followed Sexual Misconduct Investigation‘Sound of Freedom’ Producer Felt the Naked Breasts of Apparently Underage Trafficking VictimOperation Underground Railroad Child-Rescue Missions Were Based on Psychic IntelligenceWe’re recording CYBER live on Twitch. Watch live during the week. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show. Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/15/23 | ‘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 defined by a new economy of creators and influencers. The new media is here and it’s Extremely Online.That’s the title of the new book from Taylor Lorenz, which is the untold story of fame, influence, and power on the internet. Lorenz is a columnist for The Washington Post and she joined us to answer all our questions about why Vine failed, Tumblr was the best social network, and what the future holds for everyone who lives and works in the era of social media-powered capitalism.In the back half of the episode, Motherboard science reporter Becky Ferreira stops by to talk about UFOs and radioactive boars.Pre-order Taylor's book here.Stories discussed in this episode:The Original 'Avocado Toast' Millionaire Is Back, And He Wants 'Pain In the Economy''Avocado Toast' Millionaire Very Sorry for Saying 'Arrogant' Workers Should Lose Jobs After OutrageHere Is NASA's 36-Page Report Investigating UFOs'The Truth Is Out There': The Emails NASA's UFO Investigators Got From Scientists and the PublicWTF Is Going On With 'Alien Corpses' Being Shown to Mexico's Congress?We’re recording CYBER live on Twitch. Watch live during the week. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show. Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/5/23 | 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, strikes, and unions.Here to tell us all about it is Motherboard labor reporter Jules Roscoe.Stories discussed in this episode:Instacart Tells Shoppers in Hurricane ‘Bad Weather = Good Tips’'It Feels Horrible': Amazon Workers Delivered Packages During Destructive Tropical StormAmazon Told Drivers Not to Worry About In-Van Surveillance Cameras. Now Footage Is Leaking OnlineOhio Man Charged for Shooting Amazon Driver Delivering to His HouseAmazon Says It Doesn't 'Employ' Drivers, But Records Show It Hired Firms to Prevent Them From UnionizingTeamsters UPS Union Wins Historic Contract, Likely Avoiding Gigantic StrikeWe’re recording CYBER live on Twitch. Watch live during the week. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show. Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 8/25/23 | The Jason Koebler Exit Interview, Part Two | It’s part two of our bittersweet episode of Cyber where we bid farewell to Motherboard editor-in-chief Jason Koebler. This week we do a deep dive into the Motherboard lore. The stories that broke us, the controversies that made us who we are. Come find out which popular web comic wrote a strip about us that’s aged like milk, how much horse shit you can buy for $10 in Bitcoin, why the director of Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story hates Motherboard, and why you should never bowl with someone who has ebola.Vox Something Or OtherThe Shitexpress videoBowling with EbolaThe Chinese Mystery Seed SagaNeil Blomkamp destroys his computersWe’re recording CYBER live on Twitch. Watch live during the week. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show. Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
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