Year: 2024

Microsoft executives have been thinking lately about the end of the world. In a white paper published late last year,...

In authoritarian states, the public has no agency and no real access to justice. In the second episode of Autocracy...

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After weeks of speculation about a new and more powerful AI product in the works, OpenAI today announced its first...

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When the tobacco industry was accused of marketing harmful products to teens, its leaders denied the charge but knew it...

Kylie Cooper has seen all the ways a pregnancy can go terrifyingly, perilously wrong. She is an obstetrician who manages...

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When Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, the most bitter political conflict in the country’s history suddenly seemed to be...

In July of this year, a U.S.-based company called CrowdStrike released an update for its widely used cybersecurity software, inadvertently...