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How Teen ‘After-Prom’ Kings in LA Monetized the High School Rager

By Manisha Krishnan
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We Bought a $500 Counterfeit Luxury Watch. Nobody Could Spot the Difference

By Alistair Charlton and Jeremy White
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The Cop Who Took On Flock

By Dhruv Mehrotra
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Her Brain Was Broken. It Was Fixed With Sound—Not a Scalpel

By Emily Mullin
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The Most Dangerous Diagnosis in a Heat Wave

By Hilary Beaumont
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Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts

By James Crawford
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Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and the Misreading of Science Fiction

By Jill Lepore
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AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive

By Claire L. Evans
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How Data Centers Broke American Politics

By Molly Taft
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The Real Story Behind the 2018 Google Walkout

By Claire Stapleton
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A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?

By Jeff Wise
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Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool

By Elana Klein
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For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

By Noah Shachtman
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‘The Child Is Terrified’: Measles Doctors Speak Out

By Amy Maxmen, KFF Health News
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A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out

By Ara Rosenthal
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Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read

By Megan Greenwell
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Elite Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to ‘Trackflation’

By Brendan I. Koerner
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The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT

By Sarah Ciston, David M. Berry, Anthony C. Hay, Mark C. Marino, Peter Millican, Jeff Shrager, Arthur I. Schwarz, and Peggy Weil
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Data Centers Are Quietly Taking Over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic

By Evan Simon
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Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities

By Noah Shachtman and Maddy Varner
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What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out

By Andy Greenberg
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People Used to Control Machines. They Don’t Anymore

By Ian Bogost
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How Hunter Biden Won the Internet

By Alana Hope Levinson and Makena Kelly
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I Found Jesus at a Drone Show

By Sheon Han
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