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Crashed

Alex Hudson

In the Crashed podcast, the tech podcast about everything else, hosts Alex Hudson (@alexhuds) and Chris Stokel-Walker (@stokel) delve into the complexities of technology and its implications on politics, business and wider society. It’s smart, it’s nerdy and it’s two journalists trying to make sense of a complex tech landscape in the UK.

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  1. Exclusive: Ofcom explains p*** ban and Online Safety Act 54:18
  2. Could an early General Election be coming? 59:17
  3. Green energy is cheaper so why drill for gas? 58:21
  4. Should we let AI kill people? 58:33
  5. The farlands of TikTok 'where predators meet' 47:27
  6. Everyone should own their own chatbot agent 51:46
  7. 50 things you should know about AI 56:49
  8. Q&A special: AI's relation to the nuclear bomb, the solution to spam email and one impossible question 58:38
  9. The weaponised selfie and image-based abuse 1:01:15
  10. The influencers won. Now what? (a Taylor Lorenz's Power User v Crashed collab) 50:40
  11. Getting paid to train AI to replace you 56:04
  12. The death of the computer keyboard 58:00
  13. Quantum technology will change everything 50:18
  14. Is Andy Burnham really the TikTok prime minister? 54:15
  15. Lampposts could be spying on you... really! 59:17
  16. The death of British science, innovation and technology (department) 1:02:21
  17. The Meta narrative: Instagram, shadowbanning, Meta Glasses, and AI redundancies 1:08:27
  18. What does Burnhamism mean in practice? And is the answer just AI everything? 1:02:25
  19. Does AI need a “kill switch”? 59:23
  20. The week the world asked the Internet for ID 55:57
  21. Social media ban could mean more state surveillance 1:05:34
  22. Royal Mail can't even deliver parcels to the Post Office 58:01
  23. Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar gamble and the extended reality (XR) of it all 55:23
  24. Shadow banning on social is real (and so is the AI Pope) 59:26
  25. HS2: How difficult is it to build a £100bn railway? 49:41
  26. Shein takes on Temu in fast fashion showdown 54:40
  27. Surveillance state expands as police roll out AI facial recognition 59:20
  28. Who wins in a fight between Elon Musk and Sam Altman? 51:02
  29. Pollsters recording AI respondents rather than humans 59:14
  30. Has Spotify killed the musical star? 57:59
  31. Bitcoin's secrets unveiled, space junk discarded, and the world's oldest tortoise duped 50:12
  32. Will journalists survive AI? (featuring Sophia Smith Galer) 59:10
  33. Instagram and YouTube do damage teenagers' mental health 58:56
  34. The AI 'jobpocalypse' is coming... as is the AI apocalypse between the US and China 58:56
  35. Taylor Lorenz makes the positive case for social media 58:59
  36. "Tierification" means things are getting worse, more expensive, or both... and it starts with airport lounges 59:11
  37. How did the right wing win the internet? 57:41
  38. What's wrong with the internet? Can somebody fix it? 47:18
  39. The end of doomscrolling? the end of Airbnb? And the end of free WiFi? 53:37
  40. The UK’s first AI "Tech Town", Germany's 24 years of censorship, and one million satellites in space? 1:06:08
  41. Is AI Kool-Aid and FOMO driving UK tech policy? 57:43
  42. AI could mean "the eyes of the state... on you at all times" according to the home secretary 52:53
  43. AI girlfriends to fix loneliness, AI content to fix journalism, and AI influencers to fix politics 59:57
  44. Elon Musk plays with fire, politicians play in sandboxes, and nobody's playing at CES 50:40
  45. What happens in 2026? From LinkedIn's death to quantum meh and flying cars, we have it all 1:05:13
  46. It's Christmas! A sincere thank you and the best bits 34:15
  47. Is every politician being paid by an AI firm now? 47:43
  48. Will social media kill democracy or will democracy kill social media? 40:59
  49. Pop music gets AI treatment, crypto bros gets comeuppance, and who pays for ransomware attacks 55:55
  50. A quantum Budget problem , the “digital erasure of queer communities”, and who wins the AI chip race? 57:46