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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 11:00:00 +0000

David Carroll has been locked in a legal war to force the infamous company to turn over its files on him. He’s won a battle, but the struggle continues.

Credit to Author: Robert Wright| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 11:00:00 +0000

OK, so it was never great in the first place. But the rise of rank nationalists could finally—perversely—spark an era of progress and cooperation for all humanity.

Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Known as the Lockerbie bombing, in December 1988 a bomb downed a Pan Am jet, leaving 270 dead. It was the first mass killing of Americans by terrorists. As the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, Robert Mueller oversaw the case. And for him, it was personal.

Credit to Author: Zachary Fryer-Biggs| Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 12:26:14 +0000

The Defense Department wants to use AI in warfare. In the aftermath of Project Maven, it still needs Big Tech’s help.

Credit to Author: Brendan Koerner| Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:53:57 +0000

Prosecutors in California have filed 46 new counts against Tyler Barriss for bomb threats, fraud, and swatting incidents nationwide. He’s angling to get the case transferred to Kansas and intends to plead guilty.

Credit to Author: Brendan Koerner| Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000

A $1.50 wager on a “Call of Duty” match led to a fake 911 call reporting a violent hostage situation in Wichita. Here’s how it all went horribly awry.

Credit to Author: Brendan Koerner| Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Journalist Brendan Koerner strikes up a jail-cell correspondence with a man charged with instigating a fatal shooting. “Only by peering into the abyss of human malice can we divine how we can muster the strength to forgive the truly lost,” he writes.

Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000

For years, China has systematically looted American trade secrets. Here’s the messy inside story of how DC got Beijing to clean up its act for a while.

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world.

Credit to Author: Danny Gold| Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 10:00:00 +0000

A band of activist-entrepreneurs is building a sensor network to warn when and where air strikes will hit—a constant threat under Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Buried in media scholar Jonathan Albright’s research was proof of a massive political misinformation campaign. Now he’s taking on the the world’s biggest platforms before it’s too late.