Riley and Casey explore technology and society in rural communities. Today's focus: Indigenous Lands & Innovation.

NEWS ROUNDUP: We break down [TechRadar] Only 9% of global firms are ready to handle AI-driven threats, and many are dangerously overconfident and [TechCrunch] Patreon CEO calls AI companies’ fair use argument ‘bogus,’ says creators should be paid, plus 1 more stories, and explore what these developments mean for communities like ours.

RURAL CONNECTIONS: Deep dive on Indigenous Lands & Innovation Topics include: broadband, fiber, connectivity, telemedicine, renewable energy.

Hosts: Riley (Tech optimist with an engineering background) and Casey (Community-first skeptic of tech promises).

Sources discussed:

• TechRadar: [TechRadar] Only 9% of global firms are ready to handle AI-d...
• TechCrunch: [TechCrunch] Patreon CEO calls AI companies’ fair use argume...
• Neowin: [Neowin] Report: AI Overviews are crushing small publishers,...
• ScienceAlert: [ScienceAlert] Cannabis Compounds May Reverse Fatty Liver Di...
• Yellowhead Institute: [Yellowhead Institute] The New Impact Assessment Regime: Coo...

Additional sources provided:

• The Guardian Global Development: [The Guardian Global Development] The Myanmar nurses dodging...
• Nautilus: [Nautilus] Did Music Give Rise to Language?
• TechCrunch: [TechCrunch] FBI is buying location data to track US citizen...
• ZDNet: [ZDNet] The hidden metric that makes these portable power st...
• NYT Top Stories: [NYT Top Stories] NASA’s Hubble Telescope Spots Comet K1 Exp...
• Boing Boing: [Boing Boing] Earleaf: an offline audiobook app built out of...
• Kottke.org: [Kottke.org] “Birds in the United States are not only ...
• Quartz: [Quartz] Farmer Mac CEO Brad Nordholm discusses state of U.S...
• Business Insider: [Business Insider] Google developers find that with AI, judg...
• Toms Guide: [Toms Guide] More than 220 million iPhones under attack from...
• How-To Geek: [How-To Geek] Visual Studio Code's latest update is a big de...
• Engadget: [Engadget] Hubble catches rare view of a comet crumbling
• IndigiNews: [IndigiNews] Tla’amin set to reclaim forest stewardship with...
• Williams Lake Tribune: [Williams Lake Tribune] Central Cariboo Islamic Center eyes ...

Credits
Theme Song: Cariboo Signals by Suno
Content Curation & Script: Claude (Anthropic)
TTS Voices: OpenAI TTS API
Cover Art: ChatGPT (OpenAI)
Podcast Coordination: Erich Zirnhelt
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