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The podcast that tells true stories about the people making and breaking our digital world. We take listeners into the world of cyber and intelligence without all the techie jargon. Every Tuesday and Friday, former NPR investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston and the team draw back the curtain on ransomware attacks, mysterious hackers, and the people who are trying to stop them.

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113. Mic Drop: Exclusive: Embattled LockBit leader: ‘Now I want to create even more noise’ Mar 15, 2024

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Our interview of the week: LockBitSupp says his ransomware platform isn’t dead yet.

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112. Inside the i-Soon papers and China’s secret world of hackers-for-hire Mar 12, 2024

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Newly leaked files from a private Chinese hackers-for-hire company provide a fresh look into China’s “cyber industrial complex” – and it appears to be bigger and more mature than observers had previously imagined.

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111. Mic Drop: Arms control expert Jeffrey Lewis on North Korea’s new BFF in Moscow Mar 08, 2024

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Our interview of the week — a one-on-one with arms control policy expert, Jeffrey Lewis.

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110. North Korean Missiles in Ukraine and Kim Jong-un’s new swagger Mar 05, 2024

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We talk to a team of open source analysts and weapons inspectors who have pieced together how Pyongyang avoided sanctions to get Russia missiles it needs for the battle in Ukraine and look at why Kim Jung-un is feeling he’s got his groove back.

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109. Mic Drop: FBI Director Wray on the latest wave of nation-state cyber threats Mar 01, 2024

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Our interview of the week — a rare one-on-one with FBI Director Christopher Wray.

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108. Exclusive: FBI Director Wray talks takedown operations, nation-state hackers, and growing threats in cyberspace Feb 27, 2024

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FBI Director Chris Wray sat down for a rare interview with Click Here to talk about Operation Dying Ember, the uptick in nation-state hacking, and how just about everyone is now in hackers’ crosshairs.

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107. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘In the cockpit with AI’ from In Machines We Trust Feb 20, 2024

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An episode from ‘In Machines We Trust’ from MIT Technology Review.

How we train fighter pilots—both real and artificial—is undergoing a series of rapid changes. In order for these systems to be useful we need to trust them, but figuring out just how, when and why remains a massive challenge. Jennifer Strong reports on how AI is being used to teach human pilots to perform some of the most dangerous and difficult maneuvers in aerial combat.

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106. Facial recognition software could help solve America’s missing person problem. Why hasn’t it? Feb 13, 2024

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Some 600,000 people are reported missing in the U.S. every year. Thousands of bodies lie unclaimed and unidentified in American morgues. Facial recognition software could put a name to these faces, so why hasn’t it?

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105. Jordan’s wave of spyware infections Feb 06, 2024

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A report published last week by Access Now revealed that since 2019 nearly three dozen journalists, human rights officials and political activists in Jordan have had their phones infected with spyware. The documentation of the widespread use of NSO’s Pegasus spyware in the Kingdom isn’t just rattling civil society, but raising new questions about how to stop its proliferation.

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104. Generative AI: Is it creative or just copying the rest of us? Jan 30, 2024

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Today’s generative AI knows how to write, compose music, and even create works of art. But it learned to do all these things by training on data made by human creators, without asking their permission. Now independent artists and giant media companies are fighting back and -- if they prevail -- it could fundamentally change the human-AI relationship.

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