An episode from the ‘ CSAIL Alliances Podcast ’ from MIT CSAIL Alliances . Host Kara Miller talks with MIT robotics researcher and professor Daniela Rus about how we can use a new generation of robots to help humankind. Rus is the co-author of the new book, "The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots." Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Apr 30, 2024•25 min
Before Nigerian authorities detained two mid-level Binance executives back in February, they were telling anyone who would listen that the cryptocurrency platform was manipulating the value of its currency, the naira. It turns out the more likely culprit is more than a decade of economic mismanagement. We explain. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 26, 2024•10 min
A former American IRS investigator responsible for some of the earliest dark market takedowns has been in Nigerian custody since February. Neither Nigerian nor the US authorities seem to be distinguishing Tigran Gambaryan from Binance, the company where he works. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 23, 2024•30 min
Chinese hackers are stepping up their game, according to Nigel Inkster, the former director of operations for Britain’s MI6. He says they are taking on a new swagger in cyberspace and borrowing things from a familiar playbook: a Russian one. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 19, 2024•10 min
The US and UK made a splashy coordinated announcement last month about a years-long cyber espionage campaign by Chinese state-backed hackers. The US indicted seven, the UK leveled sanctions. They just neglected to do one thing --- let some of the victims know. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 16, 2024•25 min
North Korea has a unique way of testing malware — they are less concerned about getting it right than getting it out… a kind of “smash-and-grab” approach to cyber attacks. Sentinel One’s Tom Hegel explains. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 12, 2024•7 min
North Korea may be best known for the Lazarus group’s epic cryptocurrency heists. But there’s another special unit of state-backed hackers who have a different specialty: spying on journalists, dissidents, and cybersecurity experts. We look at the ScarCruft gang and their very crafty phishing campaigns. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 09, 2024•24 min
Everyone is talking about the power of AI in conservation, but a professor at Arizona State University has found an even simpler, more elegant solution – and all you have to do is listen. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 05, 2024•12 min
Cornell University’s Elephant Listening Project has been trying to get real-time monitoring of the Central African Republic’s forest elephants for years. FruitPunch AI and a roster of other AI researchers are closer than ever to making that a reality. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 02, 2024•28 min
Matthew Page from the London-based think tank Chatham House pulls back to look at the potential economic fallout between Nigerian government and Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 29, 2024•8 min
This week, Nigeria charged Binance and two of its executives with tax evasion in the latest twist in a month-long dispute between the cryptocurrency giant and the Nigerian government. Nigeria detained Binance’s regional manager and a former US federal agent for nearly a month after they flew to Abuja at the end of February to meet with officials there. Now, one executive has slipped away and the other has become a pawn. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Mar 26, 2024•26 min
We talk to Analyst1 senior researcher Jon DiMaggio about how hackers settle their disputes – think People’s Court without all the robes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 22, 2024•10 min
We speak with the leader of one of the most prolific ransomware-as-a-service gangs the world has ever known — LockBit. Just weeks after Operation Cronos, a global police action against the group, LockBitSupp tells us about the takedown, his attempt to rebuild, and his plans for the future. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 19, 2024•24 min
Our interview of the week: LockBitSupp says his ransomware platform isn’t dead yet. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 15, 2024•8 min
Newly leaked files from a private Chinese hackers-for-hire company provide a fresh look into China’s “cyber industrial complex” – and it appears to be bigger and more mature than observers had previously imagined. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 12, 2024•24 min
Our interview of the week — a one-on-one with arms control policy expert, Jeffrey Lewis. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 08, 2024•12 min
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 Jung-un is feeling he’s got his groove back. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 05, 2024•24 min
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
Mar 01, 2024•11 min
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Feb 27, 2024•23 min
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 we need to trust them, but figuring out just how, when and why remains a massive challenge. Jennifer Strong reports on how AI is being used to teach human pilots to perform some of the most dangerous and difficult maneuvers in aerial combat. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Feb 20, 2024•25 min
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 why hasn’t it? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Feb 13, 2024•29 min
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. The documentation of the widespread use of NSO’s Pegasus spyware in the Kingdom isn’t just rattling civil society, but raising new questions about how to stop its proliferation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Feb 06, 2024•27 min
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. Now independent artists and giant media companies are fighting back and -- if they prevail -- it could fundamentally change the human-AI relationship. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 30, 2024•27 min
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: humpback whales. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 23, 2024•24 min
We take a look at the part of the Israel-Hamas war that is harder to see – the battle raging in cyberspace. Hacktivists are joining forces with Iran-backed operators to target victims with gossamer connections to Israel. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 16, 2024•24 min
Vulnerabilities and exploits are the building blocks of hacking. We look at how China is flipping the script on how the world thinks about both. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 09, 2024•24 min
In a recent conversation on WAMU’s nationally syndicated news show 1A, Click Here’s Dina Temple-Raston looks back on cyber in 2023 and discusses what we might expect in the year ahead. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 02, 2024•21 min
Hackers and cybercriminals may not be so different from the rest of us after all. We talk to three real life hackers from an early dark market entrepreneur to an accidental recruit to the latest addition to the FBI’s most wanted list. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 26, 2023•52 min
Ukraine is the world’s first truly hybrid war, and the battle is raging on two fronts --- on the ground and in cyberspace. What does the conflict mean for the future of war? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 19, 2023•51 min
We look at the use of digital tools that have imposed an authoritarian version of morality on the masses, and the creative, inspiring way ordinary people have learned to respond. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 12, 2023•50 min
