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February 24, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
HUD TVs Hacked With Wild Video of Trump Kissing Feet of “Real King”
The AI-generated brutally mocks Donald Trump’s relationship with Elon Musk.
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November 7, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
China Just Got Its Hands on Trump’s Top Lawyer—Here’s What That Means
Chinese hackers were able to access Todd Blanche’s phone.
August 13, 2024
Edith Olmsted
What Idiot Let the Trump Campaign Get Hacked? This One.
Roger Stone’s dumb mistake let hackers access Donald Trump’s campaign.
August 13, 2024
Robert Schlesinger
Remember When Trump Invited Hacking by Our Enemies? The Media Doesn’t.
His recently hacked campaign is warning against “doing the bidding of America’s enemies” with any potentially leaked documents—and apparently we’ve all forgotten that 2016 ever happened.
July 19, 2024
Jacob Bacharach
Confessions of a Hacktivist
Barrett Brown wanted to use the internet to change the world. He ended up writing a remarkable memoir of his life in prison.
June 7, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
How
Washington Post
’s Shady New CEO Keeps Breaking Journalism Ethics
Democracy dies in darkness … or maybe at the hands of Will Lewis.
February 1, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Bizarre, Unsolved Mystery of Filippo Bernardini and the Stolen Book Manuscripts
His identity was long unknown—until the FBI arrested him earlier this year. Now everyone in the publishing industry is asking, What motivated him?
August 18, 2021
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Jacob Silverman
The New WikiLeaks
How the transparency collective DDoSecrets eclipsed Julian Assange
December 14, 2020
Jacob Silverman
It’s Too Easy to Hack the U.S. Government
Hackers, likely working for Russia, broke into federal agencies’ networks starting in the spring. The next breach could be even more damaging. Is it time for a truce?
July 16, 2020
Alex Shephard
Twitter Is Not Prepared for the 2020 Election
This week’s unprecedented security breach revealed the platform’s terrifying flaws, and the potential chaos hackers could cause in the future.
January 25, 2019
Sean Williams
Elite Soccer’s Culture of Graft
Cristiano Ronaldo's slap on the wrist for Spanish tax fraud belies the scale of the problem.
July 27, 2018
Sarah Jones
Russian Interference 2.0
American democracy is perhaps more vulnerable than ever to election meddling, but Trump and the Republican Party are in denial about it.
July 7, 2017
Clio Chang
The Trump-Putin collusion is happening in plain sight.
June 1, 2017
Graham Vyse
Vladimir Putin just threw Donald Trump under the bus.
December 22, 2016
Alex Shephard
KFC is having a very good year.
December 12, 2016
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump’s new party line: The hacking was done by everyone but the Russians.
October 24, 2016
Jacob Silverman
Why Friday’s Massive Internet Outage Was So Scary
Hackers have turned our cheap electronic devices against us. And at this rate, it's only going to get worse.
October 4, 2016
Brooke Seipel
Even the conspiracy theorists are turning on Julian Assange.
September 23, 2016
Sukjong Hong
Hacking is the new normal for US elections. So why is lax email protocol still so prevalent?
June 22, 2016
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Paul Ford
Reboot the World
The internet was supposed to be democratic and open to all. Then Facebook and the NSA got their hands on it. Is it too late to reclaim our digital future?
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