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TRANSFER DENIED | 4-MINUTE READ

The Biggest Hack of 2023 Keeps Getting Bigger

BY LILY HAY NEWMAN AND MATT BURGESS

Victims of the MOVEit breach continue to come forward. But the full scale of the attack is still unknown.

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IDEAS | 3-MINUTE READ

How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet

BY MEGAN GRAY

Testimony during Google's antitrust case revealed that the company may be altering billions of queries a day to generate search results that will get you to buy more stuff.

CONTROL FREAKS | 2-MINUTE READ

The 15-Minute City Conspiracy Theory Goes Mainstream

BY DAVID GILBERT

The fringe idea that cities built for biking and walking are part of a government plot has been picked up by … the UK government.

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EASY MARKS | 8-MINUTE READ

Why Silicon Valley Falls for Frauds

BY PETER GUEST

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried will stand trial on charges of overseeing fraud that sucked in high-profile investors and hundreds of thousands of clients. Why do smart people buy into bad companies?

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JUST ONE JOB | 8-MINUTE READ

Predictive Policing Software Terrible at Predicting Crimes

BY AARON SANKIN AND SURYA MATTU

A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1 percent of the time.

PAYBACK | 6-MINUTE READ

This Exec Is Forcing Google Into Its First Trial Over Sexist Pay Discrimination

BY CAITLIN HARRINGTON

Google Cloud director Ulku Rowe says she was underpaid by hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's set to be the first case to reach trial since an employee revolt led Google to drop forced arbitration.

NOT EASY BEING GREEN | 4-MINUTE READ

What Will Plants Be Like on Alien Worlds?

BY RAMIN SKIBBA

Scientists know enough about exoplanets to speculate about how simple plants might arise on them. But don't count on them being green.

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GET SMART | 4-MINUTE READ

The Game Theory of the Auto Strikes

BY AARIAN MARSHALL

As the United Auto Workers strike against Detroit's Big Three drags on, a classic behavioral theory provides a way to figure out how long it may continue.

MRNA | 15-MINUTE READ

Katalin Karikó's Nobel Prize Marks the Beginning of a Vaccine Revolution

BY STEPHEN BURANYI

Nobel Prize winners Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman pioneered the technology that produced a Covid-19 vaccine in record time. Next, mRNA could tackle flu, malaria, and HIV.

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