Plus: IBM nears an acquisition of cloud software provider HashiCorp. And Ericsson lays off more than 200 employees in China. Alex Ossola hosts. Listening on Google Podcasts? Here's our guide for switching to a different podcast player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, or NCMEC, wasn’t created to serve as the nation’s central system for detecting child exploitation online, but for the past 25 years, that’s what it’s done. A WSJ analysis and a Stanford report found that the nonprofit is contending with outdated technology and legal constraints as the number of...

Plus: Sam Altman invests in a startup intended to provide clean energy to data centers. And Disney’s chief technology officer departs. Alex Ossola hosts. Listening on Google Podcasts? Here's our guide for switching to a different podcast player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Early in Ukraine’s war with Russia, American startups were eager to have their drones battle-tested. But things haven’t gone well. Despite years of work, and billions of dollars in investment, the American-made drones have been riddled with problems . WSJ reporter Heather Somerville tells host Alex Ossola about the alternatives Ukrainian soldiers are...

Plus: Congress is fast-tracking an effort to crack down on TikTok. And China ordered Apple to remove four popular messaging apps from its Chinese app store. Alex Ossola hosts. Listening on Google Podcasts? Here's our guide for switching to a different podcast player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For years, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust was one of the few ways to invest in bitcoin without buying the cryptocurrency itself. But in recent months, more than a dozen competing funds have popped up. Now the trust, which is still the world’s largest bitcoin fund, is bleeding. WSJ reporter Vicky Ge Huang tells host Alex Ossola how Grayscale is fighting...