Helen and I had the honour to talk to Dr. Luis Falcon, a Spanish computer scientist, physician (practising MD) and leader of the GNUHealth project. We spoke about health information ecosystems, medical management systems, wearable sensors, free software, privacy, community, and public health research. Dr. Falcon does a huge amount of very valuable and underappreciated work on systems that are extremely important in the world right now. (Music contributions from Cosmic Karine again and thanks to Guy for the Izotope reverb removal.)

Can systems security be measured and can custom language models working with constraints solving help automate security assurance? We talk to Dr Basel Katt and Ryan Marugah about how their company SeCore do automated system analysis. Will it make security better or worse?

In this first part of Cyberwar we meet the cast of Midnight In The War-Room, a Thomas LeDuc (Semperis) feature length documentary on the human side of cyber conflict. Lots of first-rate stories and commentary from the front lines of cyber.

We're talking about our mad times, mad leaders, culture and ever more insane technology

We talk to Dr. Megha Kumar about the history and politics of digital technology. How do we join the dots of ecology, sustainability, privacy and democratic control of tech? What are the forces shaping the Internet today? (additional music by DJ Cosmic Karine)

Helen and Andy review recent episodes and plans for 2026 (with potty-mouth warning). Side effects and backlash to Online Safety Act. Tech collapsing at scale. Funding and sposorhip for show.

Dr. Aaron Balick talks about the 'Algorithmic Self', digital harms and hope scrolling.

Discussion of our new guide for digital parenting and the new frontier in independent social media for young Europen people that doesn't use US Big Tech

Three track EP. Psycho-Girl - a song about icky-sticky tech. Better Already - a homage to Rick Roderick. Don't Find Me - poem about social media.

Air travel is increasingly a target for cyber-attacks because it is safety-critical. Rob Demain CEO of E2E Assure talks about continuity of operations at airports and why backing up technology with paper and pen processes saves the day.