Introducing "Understood: Who Broke Internet"
An episode from "Understood: Who Broke the Internet" from CBC podcasts:We were promised a digital utopia. What we got was a pay-to-play hellscape of pop-ups, bots, and algorithmic sludge. Writer and i...
15 Jul 202537min
Mic Drop: Russia’s unexpected wartime real estate boom
In Russia, military families are cashing in on a wartime housing surge. Defense budgets are ballooning, property values are rising… and beneath it all, a troubling question: what happens when the war ...
11 Jul 202512min
Return to Ukraine’s Radio ROKS: Heavy metal (and hackers) for brothers in arms
Before the war, Serhii Zenin played Metallica and joked with listeners on Ukraine’s Radio ROKS. Now he wears fatigues. And the station? It's still playing heavy metal—but now it’s also broadcasting ne...
8 Jul 202522min
Mic Drop: Guardians of the Galaxy are sitting in Colorado Springs
While most of us were staring at the auroras lighting up our Instagram feeds last year, a small group of analysts at the Space ISAC were focused on something a little less… pretty. Think solar flares....
4 Jul 202511min
The space debris strikes back
In this week’s CyberMonday crossover with WAMU’s 1A, we revisit a Click Here episode and take your calls—this time, about the cluttered chaos orbiting above us. Space debris isn’t just a cleanup probl...
1 Jul 202540min
Mic Drop: Predator mode
Drones promised progress — as lifesavers in floods, storytellers in newsrooms, even assistants to archaeologists. But somewhere along the way, they took a darker turn. Now they hover over protests, sh...
27 Jun 202513min
ICE leans on high tech monitoring to make quotas
Today: A story about a technology that began in the fields — tracking cattle — and is now on the ankles of immigrants. It’s part of a program called “alternatives to detention.” And these ankle monito...
24 Jun 202524min
Mic Drop: Catching a tempest in a honeypot
A Chinese hacking group walked right into a trap. Not a firewall. Not a filter. A honeypot. This week, Amazon CSO Steve Schmidt explains how a digital decoy called MadPot helped expose Volt Typhoon—an...
20 Jun 202515min
