What do you get when you cross a marine biologist with a machine learning engineer? Someone who is convinced that humpback whales may have something to say—and that artificial intelligence might be the tool to decode it. This week, we return to a story about interspecies communication, where tech meets tails and signals meet song.
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Mic Drop: Frank McCourt wants TikTok to help him reinvent the Internet
Billionaire Frank McCourt wants to buy TikTok. Not to go viral—but to rewire the web. He says 170 million users could help him turn the Internet into something less addictive… and more democratic. Is that idealism, delusion… or both? As President Trump extends the deadline on the sale of the app, we return to our discussion with Frank McCourt.
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Introducing "Understood: Who Broke Internet"
An episode from "Understood: Who Broke the Internet" from CBC podcasts:We were promised a digital utopia. What we got was a pay-to-play hellscape of pop-ups, bots, and algorithmic sludge. Writer and internet contrarian Cory Doctorow charts the internet’s slow descent—from open commons to corporate enclosure—and lays out a path to take it back.Listen to the full series:https://link.mgln.ai/ClickHere
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Mic Drop: Russia’s unexpected wartime real estate boom
In Russia, military families are cashing in on a wartime housing surge. Defense budgets are ballooning, property values are rising… and beneath it all, a troubling question: what happens when the war economy becomes just… the economy?
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Return to Ukraine’s Radio ROKS: Heavy metal (and hackers) for brothers in arms
Before the war, Serhii Zenin played Metallica and joked with listeners on Ukraine’s Radio ROKS. Now he wears fatigues. And the station? It's still playing heavy metal—but now it’s also broadcasting news, coordinating aid, and holding the line in its own way. We return to a story where the frontlines and the airwaves meet.
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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.