Tomi Masters was a 23-year-old from Indiana who moved to California with dreams of making it big in the cannabis business. Then she met a hacker who introduced her to a dark new world of digital manipulation, suspicion, paranoia, and fear — one that swallowed her alive and left her floating in a river in the Philippines.
Boomtown San Francisco, as seen from the Google Bus.
A Q&A with Twitter’s CEO on right-wing extremism, Candace Owens, and what he’d do if the president called on his followers to murder journalists.
When IP mapping goes awry dozens of strangers show up to the same home again and again looking for their stolen gear.
When Swedish teenagers hacked the phone system and turned a state-owned telecom system into a proto-Internet.
The reality of Silicon Valley is that it’s commerce by any means necessary. And the reality of Sandberg is that she’s excellent at it.
Hitman-for-hire darknet sites are all scams. But some people turn up dead nonetheless.
The story of $800 million hedge fund fraudster Boaz Manor who led the alleged $31 million Blockchain Terminal ICO after disguising his identity with a beard.
There are people of all genders and political persuasions looking to walk the plank of the good ship Reality before they’re pushed, but I’ve never met so many so transparently trying to con as many fellow travelers on their way down.
On the friendship that made Google huge.
How the Silicon Valley set fell in love with sourdough and decided to disrupt the 6,000-year-old craft of making bread, one crumbshot at a time.
Alexander Weygers and his Discopter.
On the lengths Mark Zuckberberg and Sheryl Sandberg have gone to protect their power.
On the world’s (then) largest online community.
Did Uber steal Google’s intellectual property?
Rethinking “the internet’s kindest place.”
Inside the ongoing argument over whether Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the blockchain are transforming the world.
Forty years ago, a trio of student teachers created the most popular educational game of all-time.
Tom Bissell was an acclaimed young writer when he started playing Grand Theft Auto. For the last three years he has been sleep deprived, cocaine fueled, and barely able to write a word—and he has no regrets.
The platform’s entertainment for children is weirder—and more globalized—than adults could have expected.
The hidden history of poker and crypto.
The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain.
A profile.
“This is the story of the past three years of my life. It’s romance in a way, but it’s also a breakup story.”
“It was a clusterfuck of clusterfucks.”
