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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

Big Interview

Kara Swisher Is Sick of Tech People, So She Wrote a Book About Them

Steven Levy

Ship It

The World’s Most Important Industry Has a New Captain—and She’s Piloting It Into the 21st Century

Virginia Heffernan

Reset Button

The One Internet Hack That Could Save Everything

Jaron Lanier and Allison Stanger

Book Excerpt

2054, Part VI: Standoff at Arlington

Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis

Book Excerpt

2054, Part V: From Tokyo With Love

Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis

Book Excerpt

2054, Part IV: A Nation Divided

Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis

Book Excerpt

2054, Part III: The Singularity

Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis

Book Excerpt

2054, Part II: Next Big Thing

Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis

Book Excerpt

2054, Part I: Death of a President

Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis

Big Interview

‘Over Time the Trust Will Come’: An Exclusive Interview With TikTok’s CEO

Dexter Thomas

Of All Mankind

Two Nations, a Horrible Accident, and the Urgent Need to Understand the Laws of Space

Khari Johnson

The Source

How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity

Andy Greenberg

Warm Tech

My Parents’ Dementia Felt Like the End of Joy. Then Came the Robots

Kat McGowan