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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters What Did the Senate Hearing Reveal About Russian Hacking?
A Q&A with cybersecurity expert Michael Sulmeyer on today’s Armed Services Committee hearing and the intelligence community’s response to foreign interference
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters How One Reporter Turned to His Readers to Investigate Donald Trump
The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold opened up to his audience, using crowdsourcing to explore the president-elect’s charitable activities.
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Regis Duvignau / Reuters Twitter's Misbegotten Censorship
The right way to deal with social media’s neo-Nazis is not by taking away their platforms, but by taking away their audiences.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters Peter Thiel and the Trump Bubble
The Silicon Valley billionaire says he’s backing Trump because the GOP nominee doesn’t offer easy solutions, but that’s all he offers.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Real Scandal of Hillary Clinton's Emails
It’s not what she wrote—it’s her tendency to wall herself off from alternative points of view.
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Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters An Attack on Privacy From the Senators Charged With Protecting It
A newly proposed anti-encryption bill would put every American at greater risk from foreign governments, hackers, and President Trump.
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Paul Sakuma / AP Why Technological Innovation Relies on Government Support
Andy Grove’s life reveals the role of public investment in creating and nurturing Silicon Valley—and the dangers of disinvestment.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters The American Idea in 140 Characters
In 10 years of existence, Twitter has given rise to forces that are completely reshaping the course of political dialogue.
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Mike Blake / Reuters The Rapid Rise of Federal Surveillance Drones Over America
An alphabet soup’s worth of government agencies are exercising their ability to look down on ordinary citizens.
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Christian Rasmussen / Flickr Is Digital Privacy Becoming a Partisan Issue?
It’s historically brought together Democrats and Republicans—but the Apple-FBI fight is starting to align along party lines.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Is Law Enforcement Crying Wolf About the Dangers of Locked Phones?
The examples put forward by FBI Director James Comey and his defenders are underwhelming.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters The Conscription of Apple's Software Engineers
The FBI wants to force tech workers to write code that they believe to be unethical, dangerous, and harmful to their country.
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Alan Graf / Corbis Are Slack Messages Subject to FOIA Requests?
If you work for a government agency, your taco emoji are federal records.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters An Unprecedented Threat to Privacy
A private company has captured 2.2 billion photos of license plates in cities throughout America. It stores them in a database, tagged with the location where they were taken. And it is selling that data.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters Can Drone Pilots Be Heroes?
Traditional definitions of valor don’t always account for the practitioners of advanced war-fighting tactics.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Should Intelligence Whistleblowers Be Protected?
Employees seeking to report wrongdoing are safeguarded across all federal agencies—but the process for doing so in the classified intelligence community can be dangerous.
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Evan Vucci / Reuters Robots Could Make the Supreme Court More Transparent
Computer models can determine the authorship of unsigned legal decisions with startling accuracy.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters A Police Department's Secret Formula for Judging Danger
What makes a private company’s algorithm label some people and addresses more threatening than others during 911 calls?
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Thomas White / Reuters The Flaw in ISIS's Favorite Messaging App
And what it says about the difficulty of encryption
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The Sanders Campaign and Clinton's Voter Data
The presidential candidate tangled with the Democratic National Committee Friday over a data breach.
