Podcast Episodes

Can AI fix its own energy problem?

The A.I. boom is reshaping our world—and quietly guzzling power. This week, sustainable code advocate Stuart Clark explains how the race to build smarter machines is heating up our planet—and how we …

Published on 5 hours ago

The price tag of you

For years, companies have been collecting our data—tracking what we search, where we go, what we buy. But now, empowered by AI and fewer government protections, that data is being used to do somethin…

Published on 3 days, 5 hours ago

Erased: Saving the Uyghur Internet

What happens when a government erases a people’s digital past? This week on Click Here’s Mic Drop, the story of China’s quiet purge of the Uyghur web—and the lone coder determined to bring it back to…

Published on 1 week ago

Erased: The disappearance of Ekpar Asat

Ekpar Asat dreamed of building a digital home for his people—a place where Uyghurs could share music, stories, and a sense of belonging. Beijing saw that dream as a threat. They erased the network, a…

Published on 1 week, 3 days ago

Erased: The curious case of UyghurEdit++

China’s surveillance of Uyghurs has leapt from the physical world to the digital one. No longer just QR codes on doorways, it’s now hidden in cloud services and software updates. This week on Click H…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Erased: Silencing a kindergarten

In a small classroom in western China, children once learned to sing and count in the language of their ancestors — Uyghur. Then the doors were locked, and founder Abduweli Ayup went from teacher to …

Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Who let the Feds out?

DEF CON began as a rogue hacker meetup. Then came the prosecutors, the NSA, and the policy panels. This week on Click Here’s Mic Drop, how a game of "Spot the Fed" turned into an uneasy alliance—and …

Published on 3 weeks ago

DEF CON’s accidental godfather

It started as a going-away party… and became the most legendary hacker conference in the world. This week, Jeff Moss—aka The Dark Tangent—tells us how DEF CON began, what it became, and why it still …

Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago

Mic Drop: Age of Consent

Australia wants to keep kids off social media. But to do that, it may have to crack open everyone’s digital ID. Privacy advocates say this isn’t just about protecting children– it is about rewriting …

Published on 4 weeks ago

Introducing "Arachnid: Hunting the web’s darkest secrets"

An episode from "Arachnid: Hunting the web’s darkest secrets" from TVO Podcasts, the Investigative Journalism Bureau, The Toronto Star, and Piz Gloria Productions:

The images are out there—millions of…

Published on 1 month ago