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Encryption Is Getting Squeezed From All Sides
Imagine you live in a secure apartment building. You’ve changed the locks, added a deadbolt, and installed a camera in…
Don’t Let a Crypto Inheritance Get Stuck on the Blockchain
Ahoy matey! If someone you know owns cryptocurrency and you expect to inherit it, I hope you have a good…
Microplastics React With Water, a New Study Says. That’s a Problem for Biology
Plastic has become one of the most trusted materials in modern life because it doesn’t fall apart, rust, or react…
Why AI Isn’t Ready to Tackle Our Convoluted Genomes
Imagine your genome as a vast, endlessly detailed cookbook, with each cell containing every single recipe it could ever need.…
Maybe Chatbots Shouldn’t Get to Say ‘I’ or ‘Me’
For nearly four decades, Sherry Turkle has been one of our most careful and credible guides to the strange territory…
The Leap Second Is No More
For fifty years, we have lived with the leap second—that tiny, quirky adjustment to our clocks that keeps our carefully…
Katie Zacharia Was Linked to an AI Rare-Earths Startup. It’s Even Weirder Than It Sounds
For most people, the first week at a new job is a blur of onboarding sessions, forgotten passwords, and awkward…
Thank Gen Z for the ‘Girls’ Revival
The HBO series that once served as a stand-in for everything wrong with white millennial women was not supposed to…
Chicago-Area Cops Helped HSI Spy on Minnesota Anti-ICE Activists
On a cool evening in early April, in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago, a group of people came together at…