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 risks and rewards of open sourcing the tech that makes ChatGPT talk.

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 Ghost.

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.

Jordan Hobbs, a cattle farmer in the Australian Outback, discovers an unexpected offering from low-earth orbit.

Former NASA astronaut Ed Lu used to worry about asteroids crashing into earth. Now, he’s turned his attention to an even more pressing problem – the weaponization of space debris — and officials say it may have already happened.

Russia’s military spending has propped up the economy, made some military families rich and set off a housing boom. But some worry the center will not hold.

We look at the strange and complicated journeys of Russian tech workers who left their country by the thousands when the war in Ukraine first began and now, begrudgingly, are returning home.

In a recent conversation on WAMU’s nationally syndicated 1A news show, Click Here’s Dina Temple-Raston speaks with 1A’s host Jenn White about China and Russia’s increasingly aggressive cyberattacks, and in the second half of the show, White speaks with human rights advocate Bill Browder about what the world needs to do for Ukraine.

Just a stone's throw from the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, the National Cryptologic Museum displays dozens of rarely seen codebreaking machines that, quite literally, changed the course of history. We revisit our tour and chat with the museum's director, Vince Houghton.

We return to a conversation we had over the summer with Unit 221B’s Allison Nixon about young cybercriminals, radicalization, and the search for self in the virtual world.

An episode of ‘SHIFT’ from PRX:

AI is being integrated into our technologies at warp speed, but we are only starting to consider how it could be weaponized in the future. The SHIFT podcast talks to Lee Klarich, the chief product officer at Palo Alto Networks, about how AI is both helping and hurting cybersecurity. 

TikTok took down Esma Memtimin’s posts for allegedly violating the platform’s community rules, even though her videos were about little more than stickers and some current events. Just days after TikTok’s Chinese parent company asked a federal court to put a temporary hold on a law that would require ByteDance to sell the app or face a ban in this country, we go back to an episode we did this fall about a mysterious dearth of TikTok posts about subjects Beijing doesn’t like.