Tech News Weekly 284

• Have you heard of the new hit song by Drake & The Weeknd, Heart on My Sleeve? Well if you did, it wasn't actually sung by Drake & The Weeknd. Mia Soto from The Verge explains how that song was generated using AI and what happened after that song got sprung online to the world.
• AI is really taking the tech world by storm. But what happens when AI-generated content and misinformation start to seep into places like Wikipedia, where millions of people visit the site daily? Jason talks about that in his story of the week.
• Larry Magid from ConnectSafely.org stops by the show to talk about his experience with a virtual kidnapping scam and what he took away from that moment.
• Finally, Steve Gibson of grc.com and Security Now talks about Google launching its support for Passkeys and what this means for the future of passwords.

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• Drake’s AI clone is here — and Drake might not be able to stop him
• AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart
• How I Nearly Fell for a Frightening ‘Virtual Kidnapping’ Scam
• Voice Cloning Makes Virtual Kidnapping More Convincing
• So long passwords, thanks for all the phish