Ukraine’s Volunteer ‘IT Army’ Is Hacking in Uncharted Territory
03/11/22 • 35 min
Coming up today: Matt Burgess goes to the battlefront of Ukraine’s cyber war, and Grace explores the whitewashing problem within genetic research.
The stories we talked about this week:
Ukraine’s Volunteer ‘IT Army’ Is Hacking in Uncharted Territory
https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-it-army-russia-war-cyberattacks-ddos/
Genetic Databases Are Too White. Here’s What It’ll Take to Fix It
https://www.wired.com/story/genetic-research-is-too-white/
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Coming up today: Matt Burgess goes to the battlefront of Ukraine’s cyber war, and Grace explores the whitewashing problem within genetic research.
The stories we talked about this week:
Ukraine’s Volunteer ‘IT Army’ Is Hacking in Uncharted Territory
https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-it-army-russia-war-cyberattacks-ddos/
Genetic Databases Are Too White. Here’s What It’ll Take to Fix It
https://www.wired.com/story/genetic-research-is-too-white/
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