How a hacker shamed and humiliated high school girls in a small New Hampshire town, and how they helped take him down.

How an industrial designer became Apple’s greatest product.

At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site in North America, one contractor has died, and others say they fear for their lives.

For years, it was the largest portal for sex on the internet. Now its fate could shape the future of Silicon Valley.

For the purposes of this essay, I’ll call it ‘ambient privacy’—the understanding that there is value in having our everyday interactions with one another remain outside the reach of monitoring, and that the small details of our daily lives should pass by unremembered. What we do at home, work, church, school, or in our leisure time does not belong in a permanent record. Not every conversation needs to be a deposition.

How Adam Neumann turned WeWork into a $47 billion business.

Caleb Cain was a college dropout looking for direction. He turned to YouTube, where he was pulled into a world filled with conspiracy theories, misogyny and racism.

On labor organizing at a Silicon Valley giant and what happens when a company loses touch with its motto of “don’t be evil.”

Exposure to the internet did not make us into a nation of yeoman mind-farmers (unless you count Minecraft). That people in the billions would self-assemble, and that these assemblies could operate in their own best interests, was … optimistic.

A co-founder makes the case for government intervention.

For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,” a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube’s systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake. They called this hypothetical event “the Inversion.”

In a small Minnesota town, an IT technician found his way to the darkest corner of the web. Then he made a deadly plan.

“The key differentiator of Super-Aggregators is that they have three-sided markets: users, content providers (which may include users!), and advertisers. Both content providers and advertisers want the user’s attention, and the latter are willing to pay for it.”

More than 250 people have died since 2011 taking pictures of themselves in dangerous locations.

Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs.

How proposals to change recommendations and curb conspiracies were sacrificed for engagement.

An investigator set out to discover the source of one scammy robocall. Turns out, his target made them by the millions.

Steve Jobs, age 29.

Are some celebrity mediums fooling their audience members by reading social media pages in advance? A group of online vigilantes is out to prove it.

How can you know if you’re about to get replaced by an invading algorithm or an augmented immigrant? “If your job can be easily explained, it can be automated,” Anders Sandberg, of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, tells Oppenheimer. “If it can’t, it won’t.” (Rotten luck for people whose job description is “Predict the future.”)

The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America.

At the end, Theranos was overrun by a dog defecating in the boardroom, nearly a dozen law firms on retainer, and a C.E.O. grinning through her teeth about an implausible turnaround.

Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?

On living with the internet.

It was Hell.