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Hassan Took a Bike Ride. Now He’s One of the Thousands Missing in Gaza

By Mahmoud Mushtaha
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Don’t Listen to Anyone Who Thinks Secession Will Solve Anything

By Ryan D. Griffiths
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Meet the Gods of AI Warfare

By Katrina Manson
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My AI Agent ‘Cofounder’ Conquered LinkedIn. Then It Got Banned

By Evan Ratliff
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He Built the Definitive Epstein Database—and It Consumed His Life

By Ryan Biller
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Two Literal Crypto Bros Built a Real Estate Empire. Then the Homes Started to Fall Apart

By Joel Khalili
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Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code

By Maxwell Zeff
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How Is Kalshi Not Gambling?

By Steven Levy
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The Untold Story of the Birth of the iPhone

By David Pogue
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The 5 Big ‘Known Unknowns’ of Donald Trump’s New War With Iran

By Garrett M. Graff
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Tin Can Is a Dumb Phone for Kids. Can Someone Teach Them How to Use It?

By Anna Holmes
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Why Sierra the Supercomputer Had to Die

By Rebecca Heilweil
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This Is the Worst Thing That Could Happen to the International Space Station

By Rebecca Heilweil
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The Righteous EV Owners Who Won’t Let Their Broken Cars Die

By Aarian Marshall
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AI Will Never Be Conscious

By Michael Pollan
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Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible

By Jane Ruffino
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Inside the Gay Tech Mafia

By Zoë Bernard
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Public Health Workers Are Quitting Over Assignments to Guantánamo

By Amy Maxmen, KFF Health News
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Why Are Some Women Training for Pregnancy Like It’s a Marathon?

By Currie Engel
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ICE Pretends It’s a Military Force. Its Tactics Would Get Real Soldiers Killed

By John Publius
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He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive

By Andy Greenberg
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Revealed: Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound’s Enslaved Workforce

By Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman, and Matt Burgess
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We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower

By Garrett M. Graff
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‘I’m Witnessing a Lot of Emptiness’: How ICE Uprooted Normal Life in Minneapolis

By Lina Misitzis and Katie Thornton