Podcast Episodes

How A.I. Lost (and Won) the Big Beautiful Debate

As the One Big Beautiful Bill bounced around Congress, one provision—the 10-year moratorium on states making laws to regulate artificial intelligence—fell out. But AI-fans don’t need to worry, there’…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Rerun: Death of the Weather Forecast?

This episode was originally published on April 27, 2025. 

The Trump administration has already begun cutting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which includes the U.S. National Weat…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

The FTC’s Merger Shakedown

Under a normal administration, a merger between two large advertising firms might attract the government’s interest for anti-monopoly reasons. Under this one, the Federal Trade Commission is creating…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

The Other Iran-Israel War

In addition to the three-dimensional war of bombs and missiles, Iran and Israel—and the US—are squaring off in a cyber battle. With everything from water infrastructure to banking connected to the in…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Airlines Are Selling Your Data to the Government

ARC, the data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, has been selling domestic flight data in the US to Customs and Border Protection. But in the contract, they told CBP not to reveal where th…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

We Deport. You Laugh?

The Trump administration's anti-immigration campaign has become defined by distasteful memes that gleefully portray the mass deportations being carried out across the country. It’s impossible to igno…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Summer Travel Tips To Not Get Detained

A guide to keeping your phone, and your digital life, safe when you’re crossing the border.

Guest: Lily Hay Newman, senior writer for WIRED covering information security.

Podcast production by Evan …

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

New DOGE, New Tricks

Elon Musk has ridden off into the sunset acrimoniously (maybe), but the Department of Government Efficiency is just getting started. Will DOGE continue wildly cutting or is something even more chaoti…

Published on 3 months ago

The Future of the Internet Hinges on Gail Slater

Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater inherited the government’s antitrust case against Google and is eager to follow it through—but likely not for the same reasons as her predecessors. 

Guest:  Nan…

Published on 3 months ago

Is Palantir Building a Data Big Brother?

One of the goals of DOGE was to get rid of the “silos” that keep government agencies from sharing freely amongst themselves efficiently and instead organize data using tools offered by companies like…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago