The 2022 US Midterm Elections’ Top Security Issue: Death Threats
“We’re not the truth police,” he told the conference. “It’s not to say there isn’t an important role for calling out falsity versus truth, it’s just...
China Is Racing to Electrify Its Future
“China has gone from having virtually no electric vehicles to having almost half of the world’s stock of passenger electric vehicles, and far more of that...
Volodymyr Zelensky on War, Technology, and the Future of Ukraine
Ever since Russian forces started their all-out invasion in February, Ukraine has been hailed as an exemplar of how to defend against violent tyranny on the...
Who Owns 4chan?
By 2016, Nishimura announced that the costs of running 4chan were simply too high and suggested the site’s closure was imminent. In 2018, Nishimura attempted to...
The US Plan to Document War Crimes in Ukraine
The US announced today that it will fund data-gathering on the conflict in Ukraine. In addition to laying the groundwork for war-crime prosecutions, the move would...
The Fall of Roe Would Put Big Tech in a Bind
In April 2017, Latice Fisher, a woman from Mississippi, arrived at a hospital suffering from a miscarriage. She was later indicted on a charge of second-degree...
MiamiCoin Is Crashing, but It Won’t Go Away
On a sweltering Tuesday last August, a new cryptocurrency was born. Called MiamiCoin, it was styled as a way for the crypto-savvy to support the Magic...
Europe Has Traded Away Its Online Porn Law
When someone Inês Marinho trusted shared an intimate video of her online without her consent in 2019, she compared it to a chronic disease she would...