137. Mic Drop: Inside a secret drone school in Ukraine
As Russian forces zero in on Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, drones are among the weapons that are coming to the rescue. We went to a secret drone academy where Ukraine is training its drone o...
7 Kesä 202410min
136. Money and fame — not just social change — are creating a new kind of hacktivist.
A hacktivist group called the Belarusian Cyber Partisans rocked Belarus when it hacked into government servers and released secret police files and government wiretaps – the kinds of hacks we’re used ...
4 Kesä 202427min
135. Mic Drop: Oren Etzioni has a way to help us sort fact from AI fiction
Oren Etzioni used to be one of those AI optimists. Now, not so much. In fact, he’s so worried about AI-manipulated content, he created a non-profit, TrueMedia.org, to help ordinary people sort AI fact...
31 Touko 20248min
134. Are autocrats winning the disinformation war?
US adversaries are on a propaganda offensive around the world. Earlier this month, the Council on Foreign Relations in DC convened a discussion about the changing landscape of disinformation campaigns...
28 Touko 202426min
133. Mic Drop: A surprising thing about war games and cyber attacks and why the military can’t trust AI
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...
24 Touko 202414min
132. Meet the guy who single-handedly took down North Korea’s Internet.
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.p...
21 Touko 202427min
131. Mic Drop: Could spoofing satellites become Russia’s new jam?
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 t...
17 Touko 20247min
130. A wrinkle in time: GPS jamming in Ukraine and its ripple effects
A story about satellites, electronic warfare, and a team of American techies who MacGyver-ed a way to keep the power flowing in Ukraine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
14 Touko 202423min
