The newsletter service is a software company that, by mimicking some of the functions of newsrooms, has made itself difficult to categorize.

The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity.

When it comes to data from India’s 500 million daily internet users, everything is for sale.

A drone sighting caused the airport to close for two days in 2018, but despite a lengthy police investigation, no culprit was ever found. So what exactly did people see in the sky?

COBOL is a coding language older than Weird Al Yankovic. The people who know how to use it are often just as old. It underpins the entire financial system. And it can’t be removed. How a computer language controls the financial life of the world.

Last year, a hacker gave Glenn Greenwald a trove of damning messages between Brazil’s leaders. Some suspected the Russians. The truth was far less boring.

Shaun MacDonald was an ambitious tech innovator whose start-up was going to revolutionize the crypto economy. His wealthy investors had no idea that their charismatic founder was really Boaz Manor, a notorious Canadian white-collar criminal.

Oomba was a startup designed to make a lot of money from the games industry. Instead, everyone played each other.

How a 16-year-old from suburban Connecticut became the most famous teen in America.

The man on the trail went by “Mostly Harmless.” He was friendly and said he worked in tech. After he died in his tent, no one could figure out who he was.

The automatic culture of the world’s favorite new social network.

Vince Ramos wanted Phantom Secure to be the Uber of privacy-focused, luxury-branded phones—flood the market with devices, and sort out the law later. Then the FBI investigated him.

Exploring the dark and far-reaching consequences of our dependence on the Internet.

Is Palantir’s crystal ball just smoke and mirrors?

How eBay’s Global Security and Resiliency team ran a rogue campaign to terrorize a blogger couple with insects, pornography and pizza.

For years, Mark Zuckerberg has faced criticism that Facebook is bad for democracy. A cache of leaked audio reveals the story of how much ultimately comes down to his judgment—and the forces freezing him in place.

Inside the tech industry’s decades-long failure to reckon with risk.

A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive.

Tech oracle Jaron Lanier warned us all about the evils of social media.

All you need is a blueprint, a polymer, a printer, and a knowledge of government regulations.

The rise and fall of Quayside, a futuristic city concept that Google’s Sidewalk Labs planned to build in neglected part of Toronto.

On the app, users drape themselves in the trappings of Black culture—and steal the viral spotlight. It’s exploitation at its most refined and disturbing.

Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.

An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals.

The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated.