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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 ...

5 Mars 202424min

Our interview of the week — a rare one-on-one with FBI Director Christopher Wray.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

1 Mars 202410min

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...

27 Feb 202423min

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...

20 Feb 202424min

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...

13 Feb 202428min

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...

6 Feb 202427min

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...

30 Jan 202426min

Some data scientists and acoustic biologists have joined forces to see if artificial intelligence can ferret meaning out of non-human language. And one of their early subjects is a perennial favorite:...

23 Jan 202424min