On the intersection of technology and revolt.

At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI.

After 20 years of long-distance competition, I ran my fastest. All it took was tech, training, and a new understanding of my life.

Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being. But then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable—for a long time, no one could make sense of it.

Nature is already socking away a lot of carbon for us. It could soak up a lot more—if we help.

Gus Weiss, a shrewd intelligence insider, pulled off an audacious tech hack against the Soviets in the last century. Or did he?

People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it’s a beacon of so much that’s right.

An amateur sleuth tracks runners who cheat. But how far should he go?

What happens when humans, not algorithms, are in charge.

Sixty years ago, a sharecropper’s son invented a technology to identify faces. Then the record of his role all but vanished. Who was Woody Bledsoe, and who was he working for?

Jared Johns found out too late that swapping messages with the pretty girl from a dating site would mean serious trouble. If only he had known who she really was.

The author, who works remotely, and her evolving relationship with her physical representation at the office: “an iPad on a stick on a Segway-like base.”

The Salesforce founder has donated a fortune to right capitalism’s wrongs, and he thinks his fellow billionaires should too. Why can’t we just be grateful?

Jerold Haas was on the brink of blockchain riches. Then his body was found in the woods of southern Ohio.

How digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big attack will be even harder to crack.

If researchers can figure out how pigeons and rats evolve to thrive in hostile city habitats, it could help other beasts—including us—adapt to climate change.

Can Karen Navarra’s Fitbit explain her murder?

Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Employee walkouts. The Silicon Valley giant is trapped in a war against itself. And there’s no end in sight.

How a hacker shamed and humiliated high school girls in a small New Hampshire town, and how they helped take him down.

How the CIA used a fake science fiction film to sneak six Americans out of revolutionary Iran. The declassified story that became Ben Affleck’s Argo.

How a disease came back.

For years, it was the largest portal for sex on the internet. Now its fate could shape the future of Silicon Valley.

Exposure to the internet did not make us into a nation of yeoman mind-farmers (unless you count Minecraft). That people in the billions would self-assemble, and that these assemblies could operate in their own best interests, was … optimistic.

On July 11, 2002, the researchers revealed that they had synthesized the polio virus, which had been wiped out in the US in 1979. It was the first time a virus had been created from scratch with synthetic DNA. The work was funded by the Pentagon in part to establish whether terrorists could pull off such a feat. The answer was yes.

In a small Minnesota town, an IT technician found his way to the darkest corner of the web. Then he made a deadly plan.