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133. Mic Drop: A surprising thing about war games and cyber attacks and why the military can’t trust AI May 24, 2024

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When the Hoover Institution’s director of war gaming, Jackie Schneider, started organizing war simulations more than a decade ago, she assumed that participants would respond to cyber attacks the same way they responded to traditional weapons of war – but it turns out that couldn’t be farther from the truth.

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132. Meet the guy who single-handedly took down North Korea’s Internet. May 21, 2024

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When North Korea hacked Alejandro Caceres, he expected the U.S. government to rush to his defense. When they just shrugged, he took matters into his own hands.

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131. Mic Drop: Could spoofing satellites become Russia’s new jam? May 17, 2024

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On the battlefields of Ukraine, Russia has become very adapt at electronic warfare — both jamming GPS satellites and spoofing satellite signals. We explain how it works and its ripple effects beyond the front lines.

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130. A wrinkle in time: GPS jamming in Ukraine and its ripple effects May 14, 2024

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A story about satellites, electronic warfare, and a team of American techies who MacGyver-ed a way to keep the power flowing in Ukraine.

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129. Mic Drop: LockbitSupp tells us: UK and US have got the wrong guy May 10, 2024

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In an interview, LockbitSupp, head of the Lockbit cybercrime operation, told us that the U.S., U.K. and Australia have the wrong guy — he’s not Dmitry Khoroshev, the 31-year-old Russian national they’ve charged with hacking. What’s more, he says more attacks are coming.

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128. Taking aim at Democracy: Russia’s Doppelgänger gang isn’t just targeting elections anymore May 07, 2024

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In a year that could bring a perfect storm of disinformation, meet Doppelgänger, a Russian-backed group seeking not just to shake up the world’s elections, but its institutions too.

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127. Mic Drop: NSC’s Neuberger on mitigating cyber attacks: ‘We should be using an operational approach’ May 03, 2024

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The White House’s top cyber official is keen to set minimum cybersecurity standards for industry, put contingencies in place in case cyberattacks are successful, and start looping ordinary people into an effort to make products secure by design.

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126. The future of robotics from MIT’s "Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs Alliances" podcast Apr 30, 2024

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An episode from the ‘CSAIL Alliances Podcast’ from MIT CSAIL Alliances. Host Kara Miller talks with MIT robotics researcher and professor Daniela Rus about how we can use a new generation of robots to help humankind. Rus is the co-author of the new book, "The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots."

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125. Mic Drop: The problem with the Nigerian economy has nothing to do with crypto Apr 26, 2024

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Before Nigerian authorities detained two mid-level Binance executives back in February, they were telling anyone who would listen that the cryptocurrency platform was manipulating the value of its currency, the naira. It turns out the more likely culprit is more than a decade of economic mismanagement. We explain.

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124. The company man: US response to Nigeria’s detention of former IRS crypto investigator rankles federal agents Apr 23, 2024

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A former American IRS investigator responsible for some of the earliest dark market takedowns has been in Nigerian custody since February. Neither Nigerian nor the US authorities seem to be distinguishing Tigran Gambaryan from Binance, the company where he works.

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