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🗓️ 30 April 2024
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The dengue-fever case counts now break regional records every year—and the structural reasons behind the spike suggest this sometimes-deadly virus will soon threaten more of the world. Breaches and security holes keep revealing how much of the internet’s innards are maintained by volunteers; we ask why (09:45). And the case for moving over, not up, at work (17:10).
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| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome'm Jason Palmer. |
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| 0:46.0 | I'm Ora Ogambi. |
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| 0:57.0 | An uncomfortably large share of the internet's infrastructure is run by volunteers. |
| 1:02.0 | It's a vulnerability that has existed since it was created. |
| 1:06.0 | Why won't the rich tech companies just do something about it? |
| 1:10.0 | And bankers and accountants think about careers on an up or out basis. |
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| 1:21.0 | But research suggests a more enlightened way to navigate, move across sometimes, not just up. First up though, though. |
| 1:35.0 | In Brazil, something's popping. |
| 1:40.0 | In Brazil, something's popping up in troubling numbers that hasn't been seen |
| 1:46.4 | since the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency field hospitals. |
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