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106. Facial recognition software could help solve America’s missing person problem. Why hasn’t it?
Some 600,000 people are reported missing in the U.S. every year. Thousands of bodies lie unclaimed and unidentified in American morgues. Facial recog…
2 years, 7 months ago
105. Jordan’s wave of spyware infections
A report published last week by Access Now revealed that since 2019 nearly three dozen journalists, human rights officials and political activists in…
2 years, 7 months ago
104. Generative AI: Is it creative or just copying the rest of us?
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…
2 years, 7 months ago
103. Dr. Dolittle never spoke whale, AI just might
Some data scientists and acoustic biologists have joined forces to see if artificial intelligence can ferret meaning out of non-human language. And o…
2 years, 8 months ago
102. Cyber Av3ngers and their unlikely targets
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-…
2 years, 8 months ago
101. Bug bounties with Chinese characteristics
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.
Lear…2 years, 8 months ago
100. The 2023 cyber year in review
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…
2 years, 8 months ago
99. Meet the hackers
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 entrep…
2 years, 8 months ago
98. Lessons from the world's first hybrid war
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 mea…
2 years, 9 months ago
97. Policing Morality? There’s an app for that.
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 pe…
2 years, 9 months ago