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After dozens of classified documents were uploaded to an online gaming chat group, the FBI has arrested a suspect in connection with the leak. We’ll get into some of the digital breadcrumbs the suspect left behind and why there may be no such thing as anonymity on the internet. Then, the plot thickens in the Clarence Thomas scandal. Plus, what do Queen Latifah, Daddy Yankee and Super Mario have in common?

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• • Here’s what we know about the leader of the online group where secret documents were leaked from The New York Times

• • “US arrests suspect behind leak of Pentagon documents” from The Guardian

• • “Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Property From Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal.” from ProPublica

• • “In a Growing Share of U.S. Marriages, Husbands and Wives Earn About the Same” from Pew Research Center

• • “You Should’ve Asked” comic

• • “That Famous Black Hole Just Got Bigger and Darker” from The New York Times

• • “Inside Rupert Murdoch’s Succession Drama” from Vanity Fair

• • “Rupert Murdoch’s divorce settlement had a whole ‘Don’t talk to the Succession writers’ clause” from AV Club

• • “Queen Latifah and the Super Mario Bros just made history together” from AV Club

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Keoki Jackson is the CTO of Lockheed Martin, a company that through its long history has created some of the most incredible engineering marvels that human beings have ever built, including planes that fly fast and undetected, defense systems that intersect threats that could take the lives of millions in the case of nuclear weapons, and spacecraft systems that venture out into space, the moon, Mars, and beyond with and without humans on-board. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on iTunes or support it on Patreon.

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