Mic Drop: The man behind a Binance exec’s Nigerian detention
Nigerian authorities detained a mid-level Binance executive named Tigran Gambaryan for eight months last year. Some observers say officials hoped to extract millions of dollars in fines from the compa...
14 Feb 202513min
The Company Man: Binance exec detained in Nigeria breaks his silence
Former IRS investigator Tigran Gambaryan went to Nigeria on a quick trip to sell Nigerian officials on the utility of cryptocurrencies. He ended up detained there for eight months. On today’s show, an...
11 Feb 202527min
Mic Drop: The algorithm will see you now - AI and psychiatry
Dr. Stephen Xenakis, a psychiatrist and retired Army brigadier general, has always had an open mind when it came to cutting-edge technology. Now he’s looking at AI to see if it can help doctors treat ...
7 Feb 202514min
SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘With AIs Wide Open’ from IRL: Online Life is Real Life
An episode from IRL: Online Life is Real Life from Mozilla and PRX: Are today’s large language models too hot to handle? Bridget Todd, host of the IRL: Online Life is Real Life podcast, digs into the...
4 Feb 202523min
Mic Drop: Tracking a Ghost
Law enforcement agencies have been disrupting criminal gangs by intercepting their encrypted communications. Jamie O’Reilly of the cybersecurity company Dvuln talks about an Aussie effort to track Gho...
31 Jan 202512min
Knights of Old and a ransomware joust
For 150 years Knights of Old, a U.K. logistics company, survived everything from two world wars to Brexit. Then a ransomware group called Akira stormed the company's networks. In just a blink of an ey...
28 Jan 202524min
Mic Drop: Australia’s attempt to keep kids off social media
Australia is trying to use age-gating to keep kids under 16 off social media. John Pane, at Electronic Frontiers Australia, is worried that kids won’t be the only people losing something. He says priv...
24 Jan 202514min
Australia takes aim at encrypted apps
Session, a little known encrypted messaging app out of Australia, thought it would help the world keep its communication private—and then a new law threatened their plans. Learn about your ad choices...
21 Jan 202529min
