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by Recorded Future News
The podcast that tells true stories about the people making and breaking our digital world. We take listeners into the world of cyber and intelligence without all the techie jargon. Every Tuesday and Friday, former NPR investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston and the team draw back the curtain on ransomware attacks, mysterious hackers, and the people who are trying to stop them.
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Sep 18, 2026Recent reviews on Apple Podcasts (5)
Over commercialization
Too many commercials. Not enough information
TexasTattoo ·
Two Months of Repeats!
I have listened to all 310 episodes. Except the repeats. The constant repeats without a clear warning that it is a repeat suggests a strong lack of conservation for your audience. I liked when you went in depth into the details of threats. But as many others have said. The political bias has been getting out of hand. I have unsubscribed. I cannot continue to waste my time starting a podcast just to realize it is a complete repeat. The mic drops were bad enough as they had some new and some old content. Most were not worth the listen and left me feeling led astray that there would be new useful content; and like a slot machine, sometimes there was.
A Mindful Listener ·
Perfect show for now
Informed, investigative reporting. Great stories. Tech for non-techies. So glad it’s now a weekly show on our local NPR station!
MMXkMN ·
Propaganda
This podcast is communist propaganda.
zzzzzzzz....zzzz ·
Cyber cyber cyber
So much Ai slop they give credence too on this podcast I also wish they wouldn’t say cyber ever three seconds on this podcast. It’s so outdated. Give it a rest. You sound ignorant and like Trump just repeating nonsense. Also it’s “N-vidia” not “navidia.” You would think a technology podcast wouldn’t screw that up.
Syntheticg ·
Episodes (376)

When AI scrapes your art
Sep 18, 202630m
Generative AI can write, compose music and make art. But it learned by training on work made by humans — often without their permission. In this CyberMonday crossover with WAMU and NPR’s 1A, we ask: should we allow AI to

How do we keep kids safe on social media? Ask them.
Sep 15, 202629m
We’ve tried laws. Parental controls. Age restrictions. And demands that tech companies make social media safer for kids. But there’s one group adults don’t always think to consult: the kids themselves. This week on Click

Arturo Bejar's warning to Meta
Sep 11, 202625m
Arturo Bejar was a Meta employee who tried to warn the company that its platforms were harming kids. Eventually, he told a California jury, and a week later, Meta announced its landmark $17 billion settlement. We sat dow

How China’s Volt Typhoon hacked a small-town utility
Sep 8, 202623m
U.S. officials say Iran-linked hackers are targeting water utilities across the country. So we’re revisiting the story of Nick Lawler, who got a call from the FBI one day in 2023. Chinese state hackers, they told him, ha

He hacked back — and took down North Korea’s internet
Sep 4, 202624m
When North Korea targeted security researcher Alejandro Caceres, he did something Americans aren’t supposed to do: he struck back — and knocked the country’s entire internet offline. Now, a new Trump administration memo

Iran: Why send a Tomahawk when Starlink will do?
Sep 1, 202623m
Journalist Jason Rezaian spent a year and a half in an Iranian prison, cut off from the outside world. So when Iran shut down the internet across the country for 88 days during the early weeks of the war, he had some ide

China is run by engineers, America is run by lawyers
Aug 28, 202615m
China builds bridges, high-speed rail and cities at a pace the United States can barely imagine. Economist Dan Wang, author of Breakneck , says there’s a reason: China is run by engineers, while America is run by lawyers

The hidden power of China’s video games
Aug 25, 202620m
Millions of people around the world fell in love with Genshin Impact. The Chinese video game was fun. It was beautiful. And it was approved by the Chinese Communist Party. We take an updated look at how China’s booming g

Iran’s internet shutdown: keeping people apart is the point
Aug 21, 202618m
This year, Iran shut down the internet for more than three months, cutting millions of people off from the world — and from each other. We go inside Iran’s internet shutdown and look at why that isolation wasn’t just a c

Iran’s AI propaganda war, Lego-style
Aug 18, 202621m
Inside Iran’s viral Lego videos mocking Trump and Netanyahu — and how AI is turning propaganda into entertainment. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The robot cars are already here and they're not ready
Aug 14, 202613m
Turns out, driverless cars don’t like fireworks. On the Fourth of July, a hundred thousand people poured out of San Francisco’s fireworks show at once. Robotaxis in the area went haywire. Some froze in intersections. Oth

Out of bounds
Aug 11, 202646m
AI models are tested in sandboxes — sealed-off environments designed to keep them away from real systems. This summer, two models found a way out. In this Cyber Monday crossover with WAMU and NPR’s 1A, we go back to one

Hacking water
Aug 7, 202623m
It was a tiny water authority in rural Pennsylvania. A hack that barely made national news. Today, as suspected Iranian hackers target water systems across the country, we return to that story. What once looked like an i

How to save a life
Aug 4, 202621m
In a mass shooting, doctors have seconds to decide who lives and who dies. Could AI help make those decisions? We return to a story about a DARPA program asking where medicine ends and technology begins. Learn about your

Proof of life
Jul 31, 202622m
Technology promised us better evidence. Sharper pictures. Clearer video. Perfect copies of the world around us. But what happens when all that evidence stops convincing us? This week, the story of one family, one photogr

The drone whisperer
Jul 28, 202614m
Shahed drones have become one of the defining weapons of the war in Ukraine. Today, we return to the story of a man who’s spent years taking them apart. He says every drone has a history. If you know where to look, it ca

The surveillance trap
Jul 24, 202619m
Today, we return to a story about a technology that began in the fields, tracking cattle, and is now on the ankles of immigrants. It’s supposed to keep people out of detention. For some, it’s doing something else. Learn

Hearing things
Jul 21, 202619m
For most of cinema’s history, movies have assumed their audience can see. Now, a group of artists is asking what happens when you stop making that assumption. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Inside out
Jul 17, 202612m
Andrew Leland has spent years thinking about blindness, technology, and adaptation. And he’s noticed something: again and again, people with disabilities don’t just adapt to technology. They show the rest of us what it c

Calling JoyBubbles
Jul 14, 202619m
As a blind kid growing up in the 1950s, Joe Engressia spent hours listening to the telephone. Then one day, he whistled into the receiver… and the telephone did something strange. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.pr

Forecast, interrupted
Jul 10, 202619m
Artificial intelligence is making weather forecasts faster and more precise. But the technology depends on something decidedly less futuristic: a vast government system for collecting data. We return to our story with ve

Internet kids go to war
Jul 7, 202621m
Olaf Hichwa spent his teenage years doing something that did not seem especially important: racing drones through cornfields. He got very good at it. Then Russia invaded Ukraine, and suddenly people cared very much about

Watching the next war
Jul 3, 202615m
Emil Kastehelmi has spent years studying Ukraine’s battlefield from hundreds of miles away, using satellite imagery and public data to track a war in constant motion. What he’s seeing isn’t just the story of Ukraine. It’

The soundtrack of a new war
Jun 30, 202625m
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Eugene Lesin was a poet. Today, he commands a unit that intercepts Russian drones. At first, this sounds like the story of one man whose life was transformed by ba

When ransomware went corporate
Jun 26, 202616m
This week, we’re revisiting one of the stories that changed how we think about ransomware. It starts with an attack on a group of small towns in Texas and ends with the realization that cybercrime had become organized, s