Pegasus spyware hacked Bezos
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hi, Kim Commando here. Well, first up, we have your digital life hack. And after that, I'm going to play a call from my weekend national radio show. Jeff Bezos is worth over $200 billion. He's surrounded by security teams. And Pegasus spyware still hacked his phone. What chance do you have? I'm Kim Commando for Webroot.
What is the significance of the Pegasus spyware incident involving Jeff Bezos?
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How does Pegasus spyware infiltrate devices?
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What signs indicate that Pegasus spyware might be on your phone?
Go to WebRoot.com slash Kim. Live a better digital life with WebRoot. Mark in Cincinnati, you're a journalist. How do you feel about your job in artificial intelligence?
That's why I'm calling, Kim. I've read your I read your current every day and I love your jokes and puns in it.
Well, thank you.
I'm just trying to figure out I'm a longtime journalist and I'm just I don't know any much about AI. I've read a lot about it. Don't know much about it. I just know I need to get involved in it. I just want to know how and where should I go and what should I do?
Have you dabbled in it? I mean, do you want to become proficient at behind the scenes? Do you want to know how it works? What exactly are you looking to learn?
Well, I'd like to know how it works and how I can adapt it to what I'm doing in my journalism.
As far as becoming a better writer or not becoming displaced?
Not becoming displaced would be nice. Yeah.
That's the hard part, especially when we start talking about writers. I was talking to a gentleman yesterday. Magazine company decided we're getting rid of all the writers. We're just going to use AI. But the problem is when you go and ask AI to write something, it doesn't have that soul yet. It doesn't have the cleverness that, for example, you'll see in my newsletter, in my humble opinion, every word in there is put there for is a deliberate word that's there. I don't use AI. I may use AI to structure the story, but I will actually write that story. And that's where you have to think about how you can use AI in your life and things that you are tasked to do. But as far as learning about AI, there's a free course on Coursera by Andrew Neek, and that's NG, and AI for Everyone.
It's actually free.
What antivirus protection is recommended for digital safety?
And so you can see how AI works and the impact on life and in business. IBM has a free course, Introduction to AI. And have you ever attended Harvard, Mark?
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:19
2
What is the significance of the Pegasus spyware incident involving Jeff Bezos?
0:19–1:24
3
How does Pegasus spyware infiltrate devices?
1:24–2:08
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What signs indicate that Pegasus spyware might be on your phone?
2:08–4:07
5
What antivirus protection is recommended for digital safety?
4:07–7:24
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How can AI impact the future of journalism?
7:24–7:45