Technology

Examining 2 recent cyberattacks against NATO members

5:07am September 13, 2022

The war in Ukraine has put a spotlight on NATO. For alliance members, an attack on one is considered an attack on all. But those obligations are less clear in the cyber sphere.

A campaign made it harder to access an anti-trans website linked to multiple suicides

5:25pm September 12, 2022

by Odette Yousef

A recent campaign succeeded in diminishing the reach of a website that is notorious for harassing autistic and transgender people, and which has been linked to at least three suicides.

Voters cast their ballots at a polling station set up in a fire station on Aug. 23 in Miami Beach, Fla.

Politics & Government

Social media firms are prepping for the midterms. Experts say it may not be enough

12:18pm September 12, 2022

by Shannon Bond

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok are bringing back familiar strategies from 2020 to fight the spread of disinformation in the 2022 midterm elections.

World News

Ukraine is fighting both a physical and cyber war against Russia

5:04pm September 10, 2022

by Michel Martin

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Dina Temple-Raston, host of the podcast Click Here, about Ukraine's volunteer IT Army.

Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury return a shot against Neal Skupski and Wesley Koolhof during their Men's Doubles Final match on Friday at the U.S. Open.

Sports

At the U.S. Open, line judges are out. Automated calls are in

9:09am September 10, 2022

by Melissa Block

Electronic line judging has replaced humans at the U.S. Open. But the voices making calls are real people, recorded with varying levels of urgency to sell the call, depending on how close the shot is.

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The YouTube algorithm has been criticized for pushing content that radicalizes users rather than keeping them informed.

Books
Arts

How the polarizing effect of social media is speeding up

5:01am September 09, 2022

In his new book, journalist Max Fisher unpacks how social media companies have engineered our feeds to keep us angry, and keep us online.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks onstage during Vox Media's 2022 Code Conference in Beverly Hills, Calif.

National

Apple CEO Tim Cook's fix for those pesky green text bubbles? 'Buy your mom an iPhone'

3:22pm September 08, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

Google has called on Apple to adopt RCS, a new messaging service that is increasingly used on Android devices. The iPhone maker, which uses its own iMessage service, hasn't budged.

Harri Hursti told NPR he's been instructed not to open the box containing the Dominion ImageCast X machine that he bought on eBay for $1,200.

A hacker bought a voting machine on eBay. Michigan officials are now investigating

3:11pm September 08, 2022

by Vanessa Romo

Harri Hursti bought the Dominion machine to uncover its vulnerabilities, something he often does for state election officials. But authorities are trying to find out how the machine ended up online.

A protester outside of the Maxwell trial wearing a hat claiming that Epstein's death was not a suicide.

Here's why conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein keep flourishing

2:51pm September 08, 2022

by Lisa Hagen

Wealthy and powerful sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been dead for three years, but members of the far-right keep invoking him in conspiracy theories to smear their opponents.

Books
Arts

How YouTube became one of the planet's most influential media businesses

1:32pm September 08, 2022

by Dave Davies

Like, Comment, Subscribe author Mark Bergen says YouTube has ushered in a world of abundant content and creativity, of influencers and hustlers, of information overload and endless culture wars.

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