How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

Most alarmingly, PlanetRisk began seeing evidence of the US military’s own missions in the Locomotive data. Phones would appear at American military installations such as Fort Bragg in North Carolina and MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida—home of some of the most skilled US special operators with the Joint Special Operations Command and other … Read more

2054, Part V: From Tokyo With Love

Zhao Jin cast an appraising glance at Mohammad, who moved his food around on his plate and said, “He won’t be a senator for much longer.” “No,” Zhao Jin answered. “He won’t.” “He’ll be in the White House soon.” “It would seem so.” “He won’t take Lily Bao with him,” added Mohammad. “Would Kennedy have … Read more

2054, Part IV: A Nation Divided

Wisecarver stepped across the threshold. “Good morning, Mr. President.” He gave a little nod. Beneath his arm he carried a single binder. “Good morning, Trent.” Smith gestured for Wisecarver to sit with him on the sofa while Hunt and Hendrickson sat opposite. As they settled in, Julia caught Wisecarver glancing at the half dozen other … Read more

2054, Part I: Death of a President

“But do you understand what you did wrong?” She struggled to look him directly in the eye. Her gaze instead fell over his shoulder, where the news was streaming live on his computer screen. Hendrickson was familiar with this posture of avoidance. Since Julia’s adoption at 9 by his old friend Sarah Hunt, Hendrickson had … Read more

How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity

When Meiklejohn started college at Brown in 2004, she discovered cryptography. This branch of computer science appealed directly to her puzzle addiction—what was an encryption system, after all, but another secret language demanding to be deciphered? There was a maxim in cryptography, often referred to as Schneier’s law after the cryptographer Bruce Schneier. It asserted … Read more

The Aftermath of a ‘Miracle Treatment’ for a Uncommon Most cancers

Gleevec was authorised simply because the Human Genome Challenge was wrapping up, and it served as Exhibit A for many who have been on the lookout for proof that the period of gene-guided well being care had arrived. Francis Collins, director of the Human Genome Challenge, spotlighted Gleevec on the venture’s celebratory conclusion. Gleevec was … Read more

Digital Tradition Is Actually Reshaping Ladies’s Faces

In December 2021, megawatt American entertainer Ariana Grande posted a photograph of herself sporting darkish winged eyeliner, a basis lighter than her pores and skin tone, and a brilliant pink lip usually related to Korean make-up. On-line commenters dragged her so quick for “Asian-fishing,” appropriating Asian options, that she shortly deleted the put up. However … Read more