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Sep 8, 2023 • 10min

How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products

Some foreign companies may be complying—potentially offering China’s spies hints for hacking their customers.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Sep 7, 2023 • 7min

Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix

Chatbots like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection attacks. Security researchers say the holes can be plugged—sort of.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Sep 6, 2023 • 9min

The Strange Afterlife of Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin

Posts praising the Wagner Group boss following his death in a mysterious plane crash last month indicate he was still in control of his "troll farm," researchers claim.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Sep 5, 2023 • 5min

How to Use Proton Sentinel to Keep Your Accounts Safe

Learn about Proton Sentinel, a new feature by Proton that provides advanced protection for user accounts including strict challenges, detailed security logs, and escalated support for the highest possible level of protection.
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Sep 4, 2023 • 6min

Apple's Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy

Child safety group Heat Initiative plans to launch a campaign pressing Apple on child sexual abuse material scanning and user reporting. The company issued a rare, detailed response on Thursday.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Sep 1, 2023 • 10min

Nvidia Chip Shortages Leave AI Startups Scrambling for Computing Power

Trimming profits, delaying launches, begging friends. Companies are going to extreme lengths to make do with shortages of GPUs, the chips at the heart of generative AI programs.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Aug 31, 2023 • 9min

The Low-Stakes Race to Crack an Encrypted German U-Boat Message

A ramshackle team of American scientists scrambled to decode the Nazi cipher before the time ran out. Luckily, they had a secret weapon.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Aug 30, 2023 • 9min

The Weird, Big-Money World of Cybercrime Writing Contests

The competitions, which are held on Russian-language cybercrime forums, offer prize money of up to $80,000 for the winners.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Aug 29, 2023 • 6min

The Cheap Radio Hack That Disrupted Poland's Railway System

The sabotage of more than 20 trains in Poland by apparent supporters of Russia was carried out with a simple “radio-stop” command anyone could broadcast with $30 in equipment.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Aug 28, 2023 • 9min

The Last Hour of Prigozhin’s Plane

The podcast discusses the crash of Yevgeny Pragosen's plane and the speculation of it being shot down due to his attempted coup. It explores the challenges of obtaining reliable information in Russia where the government controls the narrative and discusses Russia's reputation for disinformation campaigns. The theories and reports surrounding the crash are also explored, highlighting the significance of context and motives in shaping the narrative and the strategic goals of the Russian state.

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