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1. Proof of life from Click Here

   Jul 31, 202622 min

   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 photograph, and the fragile thing AI may be changing most: trust. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

2. The drone whisperer from Click Here

   Jul 28, 202614 min

   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 can tell you where it came from, how it was built, and how the war itself is evolving. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

3. The surveillance trap from Click Here

   Jul 24, 202619 min

   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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

4. Hearing things from Click Here

   Jul 21, 202619 min

   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

5. Inside out from Click Here

   Jul 17, 202612 min

   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 can do. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

6. Calling JoyBubbles from Click Here

   Jul 14, 202619 min

   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.prx.org/ad-choices

7. Forecast, interrupted from Click Here

   Jul 10, 202619 min

   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 veteran meteorologist John Morales, and he takes us inside the green screens and satellite feeds to show what happens when an old system starts to fray. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

8. Internet kids go to war from Click Here

   Jul 7, 202621 min

   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 what Olaf knew how to do. This week, a story of the internet kids who are changing the way wars are fought. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

9. Watching the next war from Click Here

   Jul 3, 202615 min

   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’s a glimpse of how warfare itself is changing. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

10. The soundtrack of a new war from Click Here

    Jun 30, 202625 min

    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 battle. But it turns into something else: a story about how conflict itself is changing. And about who notices those changes first. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

11. When ransomware went corporate from Click Here

    Jun 26, 202616 min

    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, scalable, and startlingly corporate. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

12. The leak from Click Here

    Jun 23, 202621 min

    Most ransomware gangs are known only by what they leave behind. Conti was different. Thanks to one extraordinary leak, we can see the conversations that usually stay hidden: arguments, anxieties, plans, and mistakes. This week, we return to a story we did about a cybercriminal empire—and what happened when someone turned on the lights. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

13. Alternate realities from Click Here

    Jun 19, 202617 min

    For decades, we've treated the open internet as a fact of life. But what if it was just a phase? As governments, platforms, and algorithms carve the web into smaller and smaller realities, we ask internet activist Ethan Zuckerman whether the internet can still be saved—or whether we're already living through its replacement. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

14. The other internet from Click Here

    Jun 16, 202625 min

    What if the most interesting thing about China’s internet isn’t what it keeps out... but what grew within it? This week, how a parallel online world took shape—and how AI may be changing it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

15. The ego exploit from Click Here

    Jun 12, 202614 min

    The people most vulnerable to a scam aren’t always the least informed. Sometimes they’re the most confident. We revisit a conversation with cybersecurity researcher Dan Guido about Zoom, social engineering, and the dangerous assumption that cyberattacks only happen to other people. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

16. The magic trick from Click Here

    Jun 9, 202639 min

    When people get hacked, security researcher Nick Bax says, it’s a lot like watching a magic trick. Your attention goes one way while something important happens somewhere else. In this CyberMonday crossover with WAMU and NPR’s 1A, we talk about the latest online scams and meet Jake Gallen. He didn’t click a suspicious link. He didn’t download malware. He just agreed to an interview. And then he watched some of his most valuable crypto assets just… disappear. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

17. Under new management from Click Here

    Jun 5, 202615 min

    For years, Hansa was one of Europe’s biggest dark web drug markets. Then Dutch investigators pulled off an audacious undercover operation—and instead of shutting it down, they ran it. This week, we revisit the story of one of the most successful cybercrime stings ever. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

18. The job that wasn't from Click Here

    Jun 2, 202619 min

    The ad seemed straightforward. The recruiter seemed legitimate. The opportunity seemed real. A story about what happens when all three turn out to be something else. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

19. No face to hide from Click Here

    May 29, 202618 min

    A missing daughter. An unidentified body. A single photograph uploaded into a machine. Facial recognition is helping authorities solve cases that once seemed impossible. But the technology doesn’t stop working after the missing are found. And that’s where the story gets complicated. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

20. Shaping the record from Click Here

    May 26, 202632 min

    Police reports often become the first official account of what happened during an encounter. Now AI is helping write them. In this CyberMonday crossover with WAMU and NPR’s 1A news magazine, we look at what changes when that account starts with a machine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices