Ron Deibert: ‘We’re living in a Philip K. Dick novel.’
As his new book “Chasing Shadows” hits bookstores this month, Ron Deibert tells us about how he and his team of digital sleuths at The Citizen Lab have been holding purveyors of high-tech surveillance...
25 Feb 202524min
Mic Drop: Mark Zaid’s ‘red badge of courage’
Earlier this month, Mark Zaid heard that the Trump administration had revoked his security clearances. Mark, best known for being the go-to lawyer for whistleblowers in the intelligence community, now...
21 Feb 202511min
Could AI help ER doctors and medics make better decisions?
A mass shooting in Las Vegas a few years ago helped pave the way for a new DARPA program that is asking a very thorny question: Could doctors and medics make better life-and-death decisions with a lit...
18 Feb 202527min
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
