The Taylor Swift red herring
The strategy employed by Trump and the Republicans against the singer is the same as that of all authoritarian populists: disorienting and suffocating is better than outright lying
War games
The Capitol assailants did not think they had come to destroy democracy. They had come to save it in a mixed reality game called Make America Great Again
In favor of a more generous understanding of the world
In the future, we may remember 2023 as the year in which everything went wrong: the climate crisis became irreversible and artificial intelligence got out of control. But we could also remember 2024 as the year in which we decided to fight for something different
Why Sam Altman wants to scan two billion eyes
The CEO of Open AI plans to create the largest biometric database in the world with another of his companies, which is registered in the Cayman Islands
Binance: The last great cryptofraud
The platform, which has been delisted and registered ‘unaccounted for,’ has been moving money to places such as Seychelles, Kazakhstan and Lithuania
Will Elon Musk buy Twitter on Friday?
The world’s richest man has a deadline to complete a deal for the platform and avoid a breach of contract trial, handing him control of the medium on the eve of the US midterms