Best Cyber Threat Analysis Podcasts (2025)

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Building the Internet of Agents with Vijoy Pandey - #737 56:13

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Today, we're joined by Vijoy Pandey, SVP and general manager at Outshift by Cisco to discuss a foundational challenge for the enterprise: how do we make specialized agents from different vendors collaborate effectively? As companies like Salesforce, Workday, and Microsoft all develop their own agentic systems, integrating them creates a complex, pr…

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Mossad Hits Iran. MI6 Breaks Barriers. 32:25

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Send us a text 🕵️ Mossad Hits Iran, MI6 Breaks Barriers | Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up (June 20, 2025) 🎙 Hosted by Neil Bisson, former CSIS Intelligence Officer & Director of the Global Intelligence Knowledge Network Welcome to this week’s Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up — your trusted source for expert analysis on the latest intelligence,…

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LLMs for Equities Feature Forecasting at Two Sigma with Ben Wellington - #736 59:31

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Today, we're joined by Ben Wellington, deputy head of feature forecasting at Two Sigma. We dig into the team’s end-to-end approach to leveraging AI in equities feature forecasting, covering how they identify and create features, collect and quantify historical data, and build predictive models to forecast market behavior and asset prices for tradin…

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Zero-Shot Auto-Labeling: The End of Annotation for Computer Vision with Jason Corso - #735 56:45

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Today, we're joined by Jason Corso, co-founder of Voxel51 and professor at the University of Michigan, to explore automated labeling in computer vision. Jason introduces FiftyOne, an open-source platform for visualizing datasets, analyzing models, and improving data quality. We focus on Voxel51’s recent research report, “Zero-shot auto-labeling riv…

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CSIS foreign Operations Under Fire 34:59

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Send us a text 🎙️ Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up — June 6, 2025 Hosted by Neil Bisson, Director of the Global Intelligence Knowledge Network and retired CSIS Intelligence Officer This week, the Canadian intelligence world is rocked by a stunning revelation: a CSIS operation was halted mid-mission—without proper authority—putting Canadian office…

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Grokking, Generalization Collapse, and the Dynamics of Training Deep Neural Networks with Charles Martin - #734 1:25:21

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Today, we're joined by Charles Martin, founder of Calculation Consulting, to discuss Weight Watcher, an open-source tool for analyzing and improving Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) based on principles from theoretical physics. We explore the foundations of the Heavy-Tailed Self-Regularization (HTSR) theory that underpins it, which combines random matri…

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Transnational Repression: Is Canada Doing Enough? 29:38

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Send us a text 🔍 Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up | May 30, 2025 Title: Sabotage in Cannes, NSC Purge in Washington, and China’s Transnational Repression in Canada This week’s Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up delivers the sharpest analysis on the biggest national security, espionage, and foreign interference stories from around the world. Hoste…

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Google I/O 2025 Special Edition - #733 26:21

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Today, I’m excited to share a special crossover edition of the podcast recorded live from Google I/O 2025! In this episode, I join Shawn Wang aka Swyx from the Latent Space Podcast, to interview Logan Kilpatrick and Shrestha Basu Mallick, PMs at Google DeepMind working on AI Studio and the Gemini API, along with Kwindla Kramer, CEO of Daily and cre…

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Russian Illegals in Brazil. UK Kneecaps Terrorist. 28:23

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Send us a text 🔍 Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up | May 23, 2025 🎧 Espionage | Sabotage | Radicalization | Counterintelligence | National Security | Spies | Geopolitics This week’s Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up is an explosive deep dive into how modern espionage, youth radicalization, and political activism are reshaping global security. Hos…

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RAG Risks: Why Retrieval-Augmented LLMs are Not Safer with Sebastian Gehrmann - #732 57:09

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Today, we're joined by Sebastian Gehrmann, head of responsible AI in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg, to discuss AI safety in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems and generative AI in high-stakes domains like financial services. We explore how RAG, contrary to some expectations, can inadvertently degrade model safety. We cover examples o…

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Russia's Sabotage Squads. Trump's Jet Dramas. 25:24

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Send us a text 🔍 Russia’s Sabotage Squads. Trump’s Jet Dramas 📅 Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up – May 17, 2025 🎧 Hosted by Neil Bisson – Director, Global Intelligence Knowledge Network Russia’s sabotage squads are stepping up operations across Europe — and the implications for Canada are real. In this week’s episode, Neil Bisson dives deep into …

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From Prompts to Policies: How RL Builds Better AI Agents with Mahesh Sathiamoorthy - #731 1:01:25

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Today, we're joined by Mahesh Sathiamoorthy, co-founder and CEO of Bespoke Labs, to discuss how reinforcement learning (RL) is reshaping the way we build custom agents on top of foundation models. Mahesh highlights the crucial role of data curation, evaluation, and error analysis in model performance, and explains why RL offers a more robust altern…

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Terror Plot in London. Bulgarian Spy Ring Exposed. 27:26

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How OpenAI Builds AI Agents That Think and Act with Josh Tobin - #730 1:07:27

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Today, we're joined by Josh Tobin, member of technical staff at OpenAI, to discuss the company’s approach to building AI agents. We cover OpenAI's three agentic offerings—Deep Research for comprehensive web research, Operator for website navigation, and Codex CLI for local code execution. We explore OpenAI’s shift from simple LLM workflows to reaso…

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Chris Pogue: Digital Forensics in the Modern Threat Landscape 48:33

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This Kitecast episode features Chris Pogue, Director of Digital Forensics at CyberCX, a cybersecurity veteran with 25 years of experience. Chris brings unique insights from his extensive background spanning penetration testing, executive leadership, and military instruction. As an adjunct professor at Oklahoma State University, he teaches both inte…

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US NSA Steps Down. Chinese Spy in German Parliament. 28:12

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CTIBench: Evaluating LLMs in Cyber Threat Intelligence with Nidhi Rastogi - #729 56:18

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Today, we're joined by Nidhi Rastogi, assistant professor at Rochester Institute of Technology to discuss Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), focusing on her recent project CTIBench—a benchmark for evaluating LLMs on real-world CTI tasks. Nidhi explains the evolution of AI in cybersecurity, from rule-based systems to LLMs that accelerate analysis by p…

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Cyber Espionage Targets Diplomats. Mossad's Illegal Operations. 29:28

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Send us a text 🔥 Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up | April 25, 2025 Mossad vs. Netanyahu 🇮🇱 | ISIS in Australia 🇦🇺 | Parcel Bomb in the UK 🇬🇧 | Kashmir Attack 🇮🇳 | Cyber Espionage 🔐 | Signal Leak in U.S. 🇺🇸 | Canada Election Interference 🇨🇦 In this week’s Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up, Neil Bisson—Director of the Global Intelligence Knowledge…

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Generative Benchmarking with Kelly Hong - #728 54:17

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In this episode, Kelly Hong, a researcher at Chroma, joins us to discuss "Generative Benchmarking," a novel approach to evaluating retrieval systems, like RAG applications, using synthetic data. Kelly explains how traditional benchmarks like MTEB fail to represent real-world query patterns and how embedding models that perform well on public benchm…

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Analysis and Lessons from Kiteworks Top 11 Data Breaches in 2024 Report 51:45

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In this insightful episode, cybersecurity experts Mike Crandall and Arun DeSouza join host Patrick Spencer to analyze Kiteworks' Top 11 Data Breaches in 2024 Report. Rather than just focusing on the number of records breached, the report introduces a sophisticated algorithm with seven key factors to score breaches on a scale of 1-10. This method pr…

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Exploring the Biology of LLMs with Circuit Tracing with Emmanuel Ameisen - #727 1:34:06

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In this episode, Emmanuel Ameisen, a research engineer at Anthropic, returns to discuss two recent papers: "Circuit Tracing: Revealing Language Model Computational Graphs" and "On the Biology of a Large Language Model." Emmanuel explains how his team developed mechanistic interpretability methods to understand the internal workings of Claude by rep…

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META Compromises US National Security? Canadian Campaign Plagued with Foreign Interference. 25:18

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Send us a text 🎙️ META Compromises U.S. National Security? Canadian Election Infiltrated? Russia Sabotages Europe? Welcome to this week’s Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up—where espionage, sabotage, cyber-attacks, and foreign interference collide in a whirlwind of global intrigue. 💥 Join Neil Bisson, Director of the Global Intelligence Knowledge N…

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Teaching LLMs to Self-Reflect with Reinforcement Learning with Maohao Shen - #726 51:45

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Today, we're joined by Maohao Shen, PhD student at MIT to discuss his paper, “Satori: Reinforcement Learning with Chain-of-Action-Thought Enhances LLM Reasoning via Autoregressive Search.” We dig into how Satori leverages reinforcement learning to improve language model reasoning—enabling model self-reflection, self-correction, and exploration of a…

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Dominic Bowen: Geopolitical Risk Planning & Management 37:24

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This insightful Kitecast episode features Dominic Bowen, Partner and Head of Strategic Advisory at 2Secure in Stockholm, Sweden. With over 20 years of experience supporting business leaders, boards, and executives, Dominic brings valuable perspective from his work across cybersecurity, generative AI, risk management, and crisis response. His backgr…

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Canadian Neo-Nazi Convicted. Trump Tells NSC Officials "You're Fired!" 23:05

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Send us a text 🌍 Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up (April 4, 2025) | Espionage, Diplomatic Tensions & Security Shake-Ups Welcome to Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up, where we analyze the most pressing intelligence and national security stories shaping the world. With over 25 years of experience in intelligence and law enforcement, Neil Bisson—Di…

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Waymo's Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving with Drago Anguelov - #725 1:09:07

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Today, we're joined by Drago Anguelov, head of AI foundations at Waymo, for a deep dive into the role of foundation models in autonomous driving. Drago shares how Waymo is leveraging large-scale machine learning, including vision-language models and generative AI techniques to improve perception, planning, and simulation for its self-driving vehicl…

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Dynamic Token Merging for Efficient Byte-level Language Models with Julie Kallini - #724 50:32

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Today, we're joined by Julie Kallini, PhD student at Stanford University to discuss her recent papers, “MrT5: Dynamic Token Merging for Efficient Byte-level Language Models” and “Mission: Impossible Language Models.” For the MrT5 paper, we explore the importance and failings of tokenization in large language models—including inefficient compression…

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OPP Using Phone Spyware. Tesla Terrorists? 26:30

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Send us a text 🔍 Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up | March 21, 2025 🌐💣 Espionage, sabotage, and surveillance... oh my. In this week’s Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up, Neil Bisson—retired CSIS intelligence officer and Director of the Global Intelligence Knowledge Network—dives deep into the most pressing national security and intelligence headli…

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Scaling Up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning with Jonas Geiping - #723 58:38

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Today, we're joined by Jonas Geiping, research group leader at Ellis Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems to discuss his recent paper, “Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach.” This paper proposes a novel language model architecture which uses recurrent depth to enable “thinking in l…

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Moscow Spy Ring Planned Assassination. Canada Braces for AI Powered Foreign Interference. 30:29

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Send us a text 🌍 Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up | March 14, 2025 Get facts, intelligence, and insights—not spin and opinion. In this week’s Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up, Neil Bisson unpacks the most critical intelligence and national security stories shaping the world today. 🔍 This Episode Covers: 🕵️‍♂️ Russian Spy Ring & Assassination Pl…

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S6E16 - Grass Roots Work in the Legislative Process 1:00:38

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Grass Roots Work in the Legislative Process; Working with Congress to Form Federal Legislation to Help the Health Benefits of Employers, Individuals and Medicare Recipients In this week’s podcast, which is our last episode of Season 6, Host Dorothy Cociu discusses how the National Association of Benefits & Insurance Professionals (NABIP) works with…

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Imagine while Reasoning in Space: Multimodal Visualization-of-Thought with Chengzu Li - #722 42:11

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Today, we're joined by Chengzu Li, PhD student at the University of Cambridge to discuss his recent paper, “Imagine while Reasoning in Space: Multimodal Visualization-of-Thought.” We explore the motivations behind MVoT, its connection to prior work like TopViewRS, and its relation to cognitive science principles such as dual coding theory. We dig i…

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Can Western Democracies Still Rely on US Intelligence? 23:11

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Send us a text 🌎 Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up – March 7, 2025 🕵️‍♂️ 🚨 This week’s episode is packed with intelligence and national security developments you NEED to know! From Russian cyber threats to Arctic security vulnerabilities, espionage scandals, and the latest geopolitical tensions—Neil Bisson breaks it all down with expert analysis. …

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S6E15 - Health Insurance Trends From a Media and Publishing Perspective 53:32

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In this week’s episode, Host Dorothy Cociu has a discussion with Phil Calhoun, owner and publisher of California Broker Magazine, as well as President/CEO of Integrity Advisors, about what’s going on around the health insurance industry and what Phil is seeing as the primary trends regarding the aging population of agents and Baby Boomers in genera…

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Inside s1: An o1-Style Reasoning Model That Cost Under $50 to Train with Niklas Muennighoff - #721 49:29

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Today, we're joined by Niklas Muennighoff, a PhD student at Stanford University, to discuss his paper, “S1: Simple Test-Time Scaling.” We explore the motivations behind S1, as well as how it compares to OpenAI's O1 and DeepSeek's R1 models. We dig into the different approaches to test-time scaling, including parallel and sequential scaling, as well…

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Putin's Warning to "Western Elites". iPhone Zero-Click Vulnerability. 25:23

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Send us a text 🌍 Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up | February 28, 2025 🔎 This week, we dive into the most pressing intelligence and national security stories shaping the world. From China’s transnational repression to India’s alleged foreign interference in Canada, Taiwan’s undersea cable sabotage, and North Korean troops in Ukraine—these stories …

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Arun DeSouza: Becoming a Transformation CISO 44:48

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Arun DeSouza, the Managing Director at Profortis Solutions, brings over two decades of experience as a CISO, having developed and implemented award-winning programs in identity lifecycle management and IoT security. His impressive career includes induction into the CISO Hall of Fame by the Global Cyber Startup Observatory and recognition as a top C…

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S6E14 - California Legislative Updates 35:21

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In this week’s podcast, Host Dorothy Cociu discusses California Legislative Updates with Faith Borges, Legislative Advocate for the California Agents & Health Insurance Professionals (CAHIP). We discuss the relationship between the Trump Administration 2.0 with California and what impact the federal elections will have on California, California’s s…

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Accelerating AI Training and Inference with AWS Trainium2 with Ron Diamant - #720 1:07:05

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Today, we're joined by Ron Diamant, chief architect for Trainium at Amazon Web Services, to discuss hardware acceleration for generative AI and the design and role of the recently released Trainium2 chip. We explore the architectural differences between Trainium and GPUs, highlighting its systolic array-based compute design, and how it balances per…

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Iran Detains UK Couple. Mexican Cartels Listed as Terrorists. 29:13

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Send us a text 🌍 Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up – February 21, 2025 Welcome to another episode of Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up! This week, we’re diving into the intelligence and national security stories shaping our world. 🔍 U.S. intelligence agencies are shifting focus away from preventing large-scale terrorist attacks like 9/11—are they…

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Chad Lorenc: Security as a Practice in the Cloud 37:08

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With over two decades of experience in the cybersecurity domain, Chad Lorenc stands as a prominent voice in cloud security and enterprise security strategy. Currently serving as a security leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Chad has contributed significantly to advancing cloud architecture best practices and building robust security frameworks fo…

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S6E13 - Taking a Deep Dive into Chinese DeepSeek & Other Artificial Intelligence: Security Concerns in the Wrong Hands, Pro Tips & Expert Recommendations 1:09:09

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Recently, we all saw in the news that the stock price of Artificial Intelligence chipmaker giant NVIDA fell when the Chinese start-up DeepSeek, a new AI tool they claim can be made cheaper than its American competitor, was released. What does this really mean for the American consumers, healthcare systems and manufacturers using AI technology? The …

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February 18 2025 - Summary : Tech Titans Unveil : from Apple to AI Power 10:35

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In this episode of Prime Cyber Insights titled, "Tech Titans Unveil: From Apple to Ai Power," hosts Niko Pulse and Kyra Pixel delve into this week's major tech developments and innovations. They begin with insights on what to expect from Apple's much-anticipated product launch, setting the stage for upcoming advancements in tech appliances. Niko sh…

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February 18 2025 - Full : Tech Titans Unveil : from Apple to AI Power 15:48

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In this episode of Prime Cyber Insights titled, "Tech Titans Unveil: From Apple to Ai Power," hosts Niko Pulse and Kyra Pixel delve into this week's major tech developments and innovations. They begin with insights on what to expect from Apple's much-anticipated product launch, setting the stage for upcoming advancements in tech appliances. Niko sh…

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π0: A Foundation Model for Robotics with Sergey Levine - #719 52:30

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Today, we're joined by Sergey Levine, associate professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of Physical Intelligence, to discuss π0 (pi-zero), a general-purpose robotic foundation model. We dig into the model architecture, which pairs a vision language model (VLM) with a diffusion-based action expert, and the model training "recipe," emphasizing the ro…

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February 16 2025 - Summary : Guardians of Data : Navigating the Cyber Frontier 1:36

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In this episode of Prime Cyber Insights titled, "Guardians of Data: Navigating the Cyber Frontier," hosts Niko Pulse and Kyra Pixel delve into pressing cybersecurity issues. They explore the role of the Council of Europe in safeguarding digital rights and provide guidance on how LGBTQ+ individuals can protect their online presence by effectively de…

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February 16 2025 - Full : Guardians of Data : Navigating the Cyber Frontier 15:14

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In this episode of Prime Cyber Insights titled, "Guardians of Data: Navigating the Cyber Frontier," hosts Niko Pulse and Kyra Pixel delve into pressing cybersecurity issues. They explore the role of the Council of Europe in safeguarding digital rights and provide guidance on how LGBTQ+ individuals can protect their online presence by effectively de…

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February 15 2025 - Summary : Guardians of the Quantum Cyber Frontier 12:20

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In this episode of Prime Cyber Insights titled, "guardians of the Quantum Cyber Frontier," hosts Niko Pulse and Kyra Pixel delve into the launch of Quantum RootCA, a revolutionary cybersecurity measure engineered to combat emerging quantum threats. They emphasize its potential as a formidable shield in the evolving landscape of cybersecurity. The h…

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February 15 2025 - Full : Guardians of the Quantum Cyber Frontier 22:56

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In this episode of Prime Cyber Insights titled, "guardians of the Quantum Cyber Frontier," hosts Niko Pulse and Kyra Pixel delve into the launch of Quantum RootCA, a revolutionary cybersecurity measure engineered to combat emerging quantum threats. They emphasize its potential as a formidable shield in the evolving landscape of cybersecurity. The h…

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MI5 Lied in Court! Canada Names Fentanyl Czar. 27:31

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Send us a text 🚨 MI5’s Courtroom Deception & China’s Digital Influence 🚨 This week on Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up, we break down MI5’s shocking admission that it misled courtsabout a violent neo-Nazi informant. What happens when intelligence agencies go too far in protecting their sources? 🤔 Meanwhile, a Chinese-backed disinformation campaig…