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Byte Into It
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How human error is cybersecurity's weakest link and what happened at auIGF & SXSW 2024

You’re due for an update, luckily Lily, Vanessa and Eric are here to upgrade your tech knowledge software!

Jongkil Jay Jeong knows human error is the weakest link in the cyber security chain…

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Indie Games at the PAX Convention and AI tools used to improve train travel for Deaf People

This week Rowena Murrey, Dan Salmon and Eric Jong chat with games composer and freelance reviewer Meghann O’Neill about all the indie games and they saw at PAX during Melbourne International Games Week.

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Digital Poverty, and can AI tools help clean toxic online spaces?

Vanessa and Eric are joined by CEO of WorkVentures, Caroline McDaid, to discuss 'digital poverty' during Anti-Poverty Week. They are also joined by Eduardo Araujo Oliveira, Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing…

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Impacts of AI on the Australian Audio Production and Music Industry

Vanessa Toholka and Dan Salmon are joined by Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow at RMIT, Dr Sam Whiting, to discuss his four-year project on crisis in the Australian music industries, with a focus…

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Categorizing Live Music Data with 'Live Music Locator'

Lilly Ryan chats with Nick Thorpe and Karen Stewart on 'Live Music Locator', the platform that compiles the where, when, and what for all the live gigs in City of Yarra.

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Melbourne International Games Week 2024

This week, Vanessa Toholka and guest co-host Jack Knight take us through their Games Week ep!

First up is Amy McNickle, one of High Score's co-curators, on High Score and Melbourne International Games…

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Can your smartwatch get hacked? Dr Bharanidharan Shanmugan answers the question we wish we didn't have to ask.

Vanessa and Rowena invite Charles Darwin University professor Dr Bharanidharan Shanmugan onto the show to discuss their concerns about smartwatches and whether they're just as vulnerable to hackers as our other devices.

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Game-changing Cognitive Screen on Dementia Risk and Tech Supporting Cognitive Health

Dan Morganti, Dan Salmon and Eric Jong have Hamid Sohrabi on the phone revealing a new self-reporting tool that detects early onset of dementia.

Susan Rossell from Swinburne also dials in to chat…

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Bhautik Joshi brings perspective to the state of generative AI in the future

PhD graduate and engineer, Bautik Joshi, sits down with the Byte team to discuss what could really be in store with the world of AI. Following their experience at Adobe, CSIRO and Canva…

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Why the school curriculum needs a reboot in teaching technology skills

Dr Cath Latham provides some insight on the Australian National University's latest report regarding schooling and digital literacy. The team later investigate what Instagram's recent AI update may mean for the consumer and…

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Verity Harding: AI Needs You

Lilly Ryan speaks with technology, politics and public policy expert Verity Harding on her book: AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own.

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Computer news, reviews and clues. Tech talk and opinionated chat with feature interviews and regular guests covering games, Linux and Open Source, legal, new and social media, gadgets, Apple and more.

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The podcast intro and outro theme is Soft Illusion and was generously provided by Andras.

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