• Miss Lonelyhearts and the money mules
    Feb 13 2026

    We return to a special Valentine’s Day episode, and look at the evolution of romance scams. They aren’t just about bilking lonely people out of their life savings anymore – scammers have diversified, and they’re making victims accomplices in a roster of cyber crimes from email scams and check fraud to money laundering.

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    22 mins
  • Defying Gravity
    Feb 10 2026

    Former astronaut Ed Lu once worried about asteroids. Now he’s turning his attention to space debris —and a new question it raises: could adversaries turn it into a weapon? Some officials are beginning to worry the answer may be yes.

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    28 mins
  • Coded music
    Feb 6 2026

    A Cold War story about musicians, dissidents, and the quiet ways people push back when a system decides who gets to exist — and who doesn’t.

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    23 mins
  • The people vs. the cloud
    Feb 3 2026

    When Big Tech brought plans for a giant data center to St. Charles, Missouri, one college student decided to fight back. And it raises a question that small towns all over the US are asking: What happens when the cloud touches ground?

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    23 mins
  • Gone in 60 hacks
    Jan 30 2026

    Car theft has gone digital. We talk to a white-hat hacker about how cars became computers on wheels—and why, in the race for smarter tech, safety is still trying to catch up.

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    15 mins
  • Move fast and brake things
    Jan 27 2026

    Volvo built its reputation on safety. Then a software update nearly sent one driver off a cliff. We look at what happens when car companies start acting like tech companies — and discover the danger of “move fast and break things” on the open road.

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    27 mins
  • The neighborhood patrol
    Jan 23 2026

    As the Trump administration pressures Apple and Google to remove apps that track ICE activity from their stores, locals are going old-school. Francisco Chavo Romero, an LA-based activist, explains how it works.

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    12 mins
  • Watching the watchers
    Jan 20 2026

    When the Trump administration began rounding up immigrants, a new kind of resistance took shape — digital, crowdsourced, and built for the smartphone era. Activists used apps and social media to keep watch on the government. But before long, the government started watching back.

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    28 mins