Behind the digital curtain
by Sergio Sanchez
Welcome to Behind the digital curtain, the podcast where we unravel digital deception and fight back against AI-generated misinformation. I'm Dr. Sergio Sánchez, but around here they call me Dr. Qubit, your guide through this world of technological shadows.Today, we dive into dangerous territory: the mind of the manipulator. Who are the hackers? How do they think? And how do they use AI to deceive you? Get ready—because this episode will open your eyes.
Episodes
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The Statistical Parrot
Let's run an experiment. I say the start of a saying and you, without thinking, finish it. "A stitch in time..." Saves nine? Perfect. "Don't count your chickens..." Before they hatch? Excellent. "A penny saved..." Is a penny earned? A hundred points. Congratulations: you just did exactly what...
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The Cristal ball with Wifi
Picture two customers walking up to a carnival fortune teller. The first asks: "Will it rain Thursday?" The fortune teller peers into the ball, makes a face, and says: "Yes, young man, there will be rain." The second customer asks: "Will my nine-year-old get good grades when he is fifteen?" And…
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The black box judge
In 2015, the president of a small Catholic university in Maryland, Mount St. Mary's, wanted to improve what schools call the "retention rate," meaning the share of incoming students who stay. He had freshmen fill out a survey to find the ones who were struggling. Sweet, right? Find them so you…
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Snake Oil AI
Every good episode needs a villain with a name and a face. Vague villains do not work. If I tell you "technology is bad," you shrug and go back to watching videos of cats falling off couches. So today's villain has a name: Sake Oil AI, the Digital Medicine Show. Who is it? It is any person,...
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Social Engineering
In nineteen twenty five, a man sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice. No laptop, no phone, not even a Wi-Fi password taped to a router. And here is the part that should keep you up tonight: his descendants have your phone number. Last year, Americans filed more than one million complaints with the FBI…
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How I Became an Apocaloptimist
Today we're breaking down a documentary called "The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist." It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2026, hit U.S. theaters on March 27, and landed on Netflix in the U.S. on September 15. Runtime: an hour and forty-four minutes. I'm gonna give...
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When the machine stops obeying
Today we are discussing artificial intelligence without using a single slide titled “Disruptive Synergy.” Every time someone says “disruptive synergy,” a printer somewhere decides it is offline. Our guide is chapter 4 of The Coming Wave, by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar. The chapter is...
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AI and the future of humanity
This episode is coming out in the week that we commemorate 9-11. Today, 25 years ago I was in Manhattan. A day I will remember forever. Please remember those people that lost their lives today. Today I dedicated this post to all those friends that we lost that day. The only silver lining from…
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AI, What is and what is not.
Last night I asked an AI to help me sleep. It designed a breathing routine, dimmed the lights, played gentle rain, and reminded me that eight hours of sleep improves memory. Everything went beautifully until it sent me seventeen notifications asking whether I was asleep yet. That is when I...
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MDs vs Chatbots
A real doctor. Licensed, white coat, eight years of school. Once told a patient who got bleach in his eye, and I am quoting this directly, "sounds like you will be fine, take 2 aspirins and call me tomorrow." Then handed him the number for Poison Control, hangs up like he is hanging up on his...
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We really don't know how we use AI
It's 2:47 in the morning. Amber has the phone screen ten inches from her face, blanket up to her chin, and she's typing her seventeenth message of the night. It's not to her ex. It's not to her mom. It's not even to her college roommate, the one who still texts memes at 3 AM. She's typing to...
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The no blinking eye
Iran, 2023. A woman is driving her car. Her headscarf slips, just for a second, while she's loading grocery bags into the back seat. There's no police officer nearby. No patrol car. But within seconds, a text message hits her phone. "Your vehicle has been placed under systematic confiscation for...
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Algorithms.. How dangerous can be?
March 2023. A team of researchers hands an artificial intelligence a CAPTCHA, one of those "click all the traffic lights" puzzles that prove you're not a robot. The AI can't solve it. So it hires an actual human being, through a gig app called TaskRabbit, to solve it for the AI instead. The…
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The Ransomware SuperBowl
Here’s the setup for tonight’s episode, explained so simply that even your uncle who still forwards chain emails about viruses will get it. Picture handing your teenager the keys to the house. At first you’re thinking, great, now they can grab groceries, help with chores, maybe even do the taxes....
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One year!
You know what I turned yesterday? One year of telling you the truth about technology without getting sued. Three hundred sixty five days. Twenty billion dollars lost to internet crime in this country alone, in a single year. And I'm still here, still online, and Mark Zuckerberg still hasn't sent...
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Your first AI agent
For Krypto To my beloved Krypto, You were more than a dog. You were family, comfort, loyalty, and love wrapped in fur. You filled my days with joy, my home with life, and my heart with a kind of love that words will never fully capture. Last Friday, I lost a piece of my heart. I am going to miss...
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ClickFix
Imagine a guy shows up at your door. You open it. He says, "Good afternoon. I'm from the IRS. I need you to open your safe, grab all your cash, walk it over to me, and hand it over. It's just to verify you're a real person and not a robot." What do you do? You slam the door. You call 911. You…
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The Token Culture
Today's topic is one I find genuinely urgent. Not 'red alert' urgent. More like 'the train already left the station and you're still buying your ticket' urgent. We're talking about: Token Culture. What a token is. How it became money. How it's about to become your performance review. And what you...
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Attacking your AI
Here's a fun fact that'll ruin your morning coffee. Last year, a job applicant hid fake skills in light gray text on their resume. Text you couldn't see with the naked eye. The AI screening system read it. Gave the person a higher score. Got them interviews they had no business getting. The AI...
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The Tech Prophets
Nikola Tesla. The man. The genius. The guy who invented alternating current. The electricity running through every outlet in your house, charging your phone, powering your Netflix binge. In 1926. ninety-nine years before the iPhone existed. Tesla told Collier's Magazine that in the future…
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Hacking the Hackers
Someone broke into your house. They went through your filing cabinet, found your car keys, drove your car to an ATM, and cleaned out your checking account. How long do you think that took? Roger Grimes, who has spent 30 years hunting down the people who do this for a living, digitally speaking,...
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Quantum Q Day
Quick question: how many passwords do you have right now? Don't answer, it's rhetorical. The right answer is: too many to remember, not enough to protect you, and at least two that still say 'Fluffy2018'. Now, more serious question: what would you do if I told you that within three to seven…
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Traps that make you spend money
You’ve tried to cancel a subscription and the cancel button was tiny, gray, almost invisible, hidden behind three different menus. You finally found it. You click it. And a devastating message appears: “Are you SURE you want to leave? Your data will be DELETED FOREVER.” It sounds like a…
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Moving Target
Before I get into the data and the stories, I need to tell you who and what this episode is about. David Dean Mauro is one of my closest friends. I don't say that as a marketing hook. I say it because it's true, and because it matters for understanding where this episode comes from. Dean is a...
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Sim Swapping
Your Phone Number Just Became Your Weakest Security Link A hacker calls your mobile carrier. In 20 minutes, they’ve transferred your phone number to their SIM card. By tonight, your email is compromised. Your bank account is drained. Your cryptocurrency wallet is empty. This isn’t science...
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AI Agents
You ever wish you had a personal assistant who never sleeps? Someone who doesn’t complain, doesn’t take vacation days, doesn’t need coffee breaks? Someone who just… does the work while you’re binge-watching Netflix or scrolling through your phone pretending to be productive? Well, that future is...
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Deepfakes... See it and not believe it.
Your mom calls you. She’s crying. Says someone just stole her entire paycheck. Is it real? Is that really your mom? Then your boss calls. Needs you to transfer fifty grand to an account. RIGHT NOW. It’s urgent. It’s official. Sounds exactly like him. Is that really your boss? Then you see a video...
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Data Brokers, The people who knows more about you than your own mother
What’s a “data broker”? A data broker is a company that buys, sells, and rents information about you. That’s it. They’re basically in the business of harvesting everything you do, then selling it to the highest bidder. Now, let me paint you a picture, because I’m gonna explain this in a way that...
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The Dead Internet Theory
Last year, the cybersecurity firm Imperva published their 2025 Bad Bot Report, and they found something that should keep you up at night. In 2024, for the very first time in internet history, more than half of all web traffic, 51% to be exact, was not generated by human beings. Machines. Talking…
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the God's Prompt
Today I'm not here to talk about tech news. Today I'm here to talk about a book. My book. It's called "The God's Prompt." And before you say "oh great, another tech guy writing fiction to feel important"... let me tell you that after it went out, several readers texted me at 1 in the morning to…
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The History of AI
Does anyone know who actually invented artificial intelligence? Anyone? No? Perfect. Same situation as ketchup. Everyone uses it. Nobody knows who invented it. And there are serious historians who think it was an accident. Today we're talking about something that recently everyone talks about,...
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How the USA-Israel vs Iran war affect your digital life
Saturday, February 28th, 2026. The United States and Israel launched a joint military operation. The Pentagon called it Operation Epic Fury. Israel called it Roaring Lion. People, the U.S. military is no longer naming operations. They're naming heavy metal albums. The result: Iran's Supreme…
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The bionic AI
Today we're talking about something that sounds like the 70’s tv show “The six million dollar man”, but is happening right now, while you listen to this, probably in your car on the 405, or on the elliptical pretending to work out. We're talking about robotic arms... controlled by the mind......
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Social Network Addiction: Meta vs the kids
There's a girl. We'll call her Kaley. She started using YouTube when she was 6 years old. Six. The same age kids are learning to read. By 9, she was on Instagram. And by her early teens, there were days she spent 16 straight hours on that app. Sixteen hours. More than she slept. More than school....
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Moltbook the Social Network Where Humans Aren't Invited
Today we're talking about Moltbook, the first social network created exclusively for artificial intelligences. Is it the future? Is it Skynet? Or is it the digital equivalent of putting a mirror in front of a parrot and watching it have a deep conversation with itself? Let's find out.
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AI and Digital love
Relationships with artificial intelligence aren't new, but they've exploded in the last two years thanks to applications like Replika, Character.AI, and Chai. These apps use advanced language models, cousins of ChatGPT, to create virtual companions that converse, provide emotional support and…
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Love and Digital Frauds
Today we’re going to talk about the largest criminal industry you’ve probably never heard of. An industry that in 2024 stole $10 billion dollars from Americans. An industry with training manuals more sophisticated than any 7-Eleven employee handbook. An industry where hundreds of thousands of...
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Quantum Computing
Today we're going to talk about something that sounds more mysterious than what's actually inside a gas station hot dog: quantum computing. Let me guess. When you hear "quantum computing," you think of some tech wizardry that only scientists who never left their basement understand, right? It's...
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The most dangerous gangs of the Internet
Imagine you’re walking through Central Park on a peaceful Sunday afternoon. Suddenly, you see a group of teenagers hanging out by a bench. They look normal enough, right? But instead of selling candy bars for their school fundraiser or washing cars, they’re recruiting for something far darker....
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Operation Absolute Resolve
In the very early the morning of January 2nd, the United States decided that Venezuela needed an “administration change.” And when I say “administration change,” I mean they sent 150 aircraft, a carrier, 3 Delta Force teams and captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, and basically said:...
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The cybersecurity myths
Today we have an EXPLOSIVE episode. Because it turns out that over 100 CISOs, the top cybersecurity chiefs from companies like Google, Microsoft, Netflix, LinkedIn, and even the US government, just published an open letter with one powerful message: “Stop scaring people with fake advice!” And…
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Digital kids
Today we’re talking about something that keeps all parents up at night: how do we protect our kids in the digital age without becoming the Tech Gestapo? Look, I’m going to be straight with you. According to a 2024 study by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, American kids spend an average of 7.5...
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End of year 2025 Report and predictions for 2026
It was January 1st, 2025. The world woke up with hangovers, regrets about midnight texts, and absolutely no idea that technology would surprise us more than the price of Bitcoin surprises anyone. They promised us flying cars. They gave us chatbots that write better than our college essays. They...
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Christmas Special, Christmas Hacking.
TODAY we'll learn: • How to tell if the "Santa" writing to you is real or a Russian scammer. • Why you should NEVER give your card to "verify Christmas deliveries." • And how to protect your Christmas bonus from digital Grinches. Today we’re talking about online shopping, scams, fake websites…
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Your Smart Home is spying You
My toaster, which used to be a noble and honest appliance that only burned bread, now has WiFi. WiFi! A toaster! Why does a toaster need internet? Is it going to check its email? "Dear Toaster: Your bread has been successfully processed. Sincerely, Wonder Bread." And the worst part, the absolute...
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Fake Trues
Today we're going to talk about something both fascinating and terrifying. Why do people believe things that are OBVIOUSLY false? And more importantly, how is Artificial Intelligence turning those beliefs into digital weapons? I'm Dr. Sergio Sánchez, a.k.a. Dr. Qubit, and I promise that after…
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Scary Smart: When Machines Learn to Think (And We Stop Doing It)
Today we're going to talk about something that sounds like it came from a cheap Hollywood movie: Artificial Intelligence. But don't worry, I won't use weird words like "deep neural quantum machine learning"... okay, I just used them, but I promise that was the last time. Picture this: you're at...
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If someone build it, Everyone dies!
Today we’re talking about something scarier than finding out your browser history was leaked: the very real, scientific, and not-at-all-exaggerated possibility that superintelligent AI could wipe us off the map faster than a politician deleting tweets. And before you say “oh, this guy watches too...
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Scams, What are they?
Today we're talking about the 13 faces of digital fraud. Yes, thirteen, like the original colonies, except these thirteen founding fathers only want to empty your bank account, not create democracy. Welcome to "Behind the digital curtain." Look, I'm gonna be straight with you. Online scams are…
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Hackers, how they hunt?
Today we’re talking about something that affects your wallet: How do 21st-century thieves choose their victims? Spoiler alert: it’s not because you look ‘gullible’… well, digitally speaking, maybe you do.”
About this show
Welcome to Behind the digital curtain, the podcast where we unravel digital deception and fight back against AI-generated misinformation. I'm Dr. Sergio Sánchez, but around here they call me Dr. Qubit, your guide through this world of technological shadows.Today, we dive into dangerous territory: the mind of the manipulator. Who are the hackers? How do they think? And how do they use AI to deceive you? Get ready—because this episode will open your eyes.
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