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A Strange Loop

The Tech World’s Greatest Living Novelist Goes Meta

In which Robin Sloan writes Moonbound—a science fiction book about science fiction—and our writer writes his way into total insanity.

Jason Kehe

The OceanGate Files

The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined

Mark Harris

The Big Interview

How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI

Samanth Subramanian

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Crossover Event

China Miéville Writes a Secret Novel With the Internet’s Boyfriend

Hannah Zeavin

It's a trap

Inside the Biggest FBI Sting Operation in History

Joseph Cox

The Death of Truth

You Think You Know How Misinformation Spreads? Welcome to the Hellhole of Programmatic Advertising

Steven Brill

The Big Interview

Don’t Think Breakdancing Is a ‘Real’ Olympic Sport? The World Champ Agrees (Kinda)

Dexter Thomas

Ballot Bots

Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded With Millions of Deepfakes. Political Candidates Approve

Nilesh Christopher and Varsha Bansal

Parasocial Studies

I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty

Brendan I. Koerner

The Big Interview

Meet the Woman Who Showed President Biden ChatGPT—and Helped Set the Course for AI

Steven Levy

Flux Capacitor

The Showdown Over Who Gets to Build the Next DeLorean

Kathy Gilsinan

Book Excerpt

They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a War

Rachel Lance

Tip of the Iceberg

These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged

David Kushner

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He Emptied an Entire Crypto Exchange Onto a Thumb Drive. Then He Disappeared

Jenna Scatena

Big Interview

‘$5,000 to Save a Life Is a Bargain’

Virginia Heffernan

Immoral calculus

The Deaths of Effective Altruism

Leif Wenar

A Tale of Two Cities

The Mayor of London Enters the Bullshit Cinematic Universe

Peter Guest

Attention!

8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story

Steven Levy

Snoo You Lose

Can Reddit Survive Its Own IPO?

Robert Peck and Paresh Dave

Big Interview

Javier Bardem Is Menacing and Thrilling in Dune: Part Two—and a Soulful Teddy Bear IRL

Hemal Jhaveri

Change Your Settings

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

Byron Tau

Big Interview

Nvidia Hardware Is Eating the World

Lauren Goode

War and Peace

Give Me Propaganda or Give Me Death

Vadim Smyslov