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Badbox 2.0
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1 Million Third-Party Android Devices Have a Secret Backdoor for Scammers
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New research shows at least a million inexpensive Android devices—from TV streaming boxes to car infotainment systems—are compromised to allow bad actors to commit ad fraud and other cybercrime.
Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess
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Hazy Priorities
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US State Department Kills Global Air Monitoring Program Researchers Say Paid for Itself
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Zeyi Yang
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Unmasked
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US Charges 12 Alleged Spies in China's Freewheeling Hacker-for-Hire Ecosystem
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Andy Greenberg
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The Plight of Migrants Is Deeply Misunderstood. Can a Video Game Help?
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An Overdiagnosis Epidemic Is Harming Patients’ Mental Health
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João Medeiros
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Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved
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Will Knight
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Money Job
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### Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries
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Kate Knibbs
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
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Taiwan Dispatch
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Takeover
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Takeover
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### DOGE's Misplaced War on Software Licenses
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Airplanes of the Future Could Be Fitted With Feather-Like Flaps
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Pioneers of Reinforcement Learning Win the Turing Award
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How Trump’s Tariffs Will Disrupt Key Industries in Mexico
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A Case for Turning Tulsa Into the Next Big Tech Hub
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Review: Carl Friedrik The Carry-On
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Apple’s MacBook Air Receives an M4 Upgrade at Last
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Review: Philips GamePix 900 Projector
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A Lethal Mystery Illness Spread in Congo. USAID Cuts Have Slowed the Response
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Scientists Just Created a ‘Woolly Mouse’ With Mammoth-Like Fur
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How to See the Total Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon This Month
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A Private Space Mission Just Successfully Landed on the Moon for the First Time
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online
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Noah Shachtman
In the epic US-Russian prisoner swap last summer, Vladimir Putin brought home an assassin, spies, and another prized ally: the man behind one of the biggest insider trading cases of all time.
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The Big Story
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Bean Counter
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Martin Cizmar
The expensive plastic-free coffee press from AeroPress makes espresso-ish coffee with glass, metal, and a few manageable quirks.
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Love, Actuarially
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Kevin Poulsen
_Originally published in January 2014:_ Mathematician Chris McKinlay hacked OKCupid to find the woman of his dreams.
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How to Fail
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Unlikely Showdown
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### Meet the Immigrants Who Took On Amazon
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Rise and Fall
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Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
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