Update on the impeachment inquiry… House Democrats have announced that public hearings will begin next week with testimony from three State Dept. officials that have already testified behind closed doors. In other impeachment news, Donald Trump Jr. has tweeted out the name of the alleged whistleblower. Hayes Brown, host of the Impeachment Today Podcast, joins us to break it all down.




Next, the next front in the streaming wars will be a piracy crackdown. With more streaming platforms coming online very soon, companies are preparing to combat open source software that is sharing content and also what many people may guilty of… password sharing. The streamers need paying subscribers and password sharing has become an increasing problem. Eriq Gardner, senior editor at the Hollywood Reporter, joins us for more.




Finally, with little fanfare or reward, Michael Gillespie has become one of the top people fighting a growing element of cybercrime: ransomware. There are almost 800 known types of ransomware, and Gillespie, has cracked more than 100 of them. Hundreds of thousands of victims have downloaded his decryption tools for free. Renee Dudley, tech reporter at Pro Publica, joins us for the ransomware hero of Normal, Illinois.

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