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Should cybersecurity be nationalised?

Up front: the honest answer is, I don’t think anybody is proposing that. Yet. I don’t know of any plan to put cybersecurity under state ownership, and I am misleading you if I suggest otherwise. But at a recent industry discussion, an argument surfaced that gets you surprisingly close to that territory.

Why podcasts are the next big data revolution

Podcast production has exploded. The number of episodes published annually grew from roughly 3.9 million in 2015 to around 29 million in 2023. Hours of valuable information are shared every day through this long-form audio.

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