When I’m 125? What it means to live an optimized life and why Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint just doesn’t get it first person J. Paul Neeley
Captured: how Silicon Valley is building a future we never chose AI’s prophets speak of the technology with religious fervor. And they expect us all to become believers. perspective Isobel Cockerell
Who owns the rights to your brain? Soon technology will enable us to read and manipulate thoughts. A neurobiologist and an international lawyer joined forces to propose ways to protect ourselves q&a Isobel Cockerell
How an EU-funded agency is working to keep migrants from reaching Europe The International Centre for Migration Policy Development is arming countries along European borders with surveillance tech and training to keep migrants out of Europe feature Zach Campbell and Lorenzo D'Agostino
DeepSeek shatters Silicon Valley’s invincibility delusion A lean Chinese startup's AI breakthrough has exposed years of American hubris explainer Natalia Antelava
Blocking Pornhub and the death of the World Wide Web The construction of digital walls, as governments exert more control over access to information, is changing the nature of the once global internet perspective Ryan Broderick
Musk, Zuck and the business of chaos Why interfering in European politics and abandoning fact-checks are about the bottom line brief Shougat Dasgupta
The global battle to control VPNs By targeting proxy connections, authoritarian governments are policing their citizens’ internet usage and blocking access to information explainer Haniya Javed
Does Trump need Taiwan to make America great again? As the White House changes hands, bipartisan support for Taiwan might be wavering explainer Isobel Cockerell
Legendary Kenyan lawyer takes on Meta and Chat GPT Mercy Mutemi has made headlines all over the world for standing up for Kenya’s data annotators and content moderators, arguing the work they are subjected to is a new form of colonialism q&a Isobel Cockerell
Climate Disinformation Worth Millions Google placed advertisements alongside articles by The Epoch Times, which generated close to $1.5 million in combined revenue q&a Nishita Jha
Sinister Tech: When Pagers Explode Outside the realm of geopolitics, we should all be alarmed about the larger implications of turning everyday tech into weapons of destruction explainer Nishita Jha
Stop Drinking from the Toilet! We have systems to filter our water. Now we need systems to filter our tech perspective Judy Estrin
Elon Musk vs The Defender of Democracy How far must we go in the fight against the far-right? Elon Musk’s trials in Brazil raise crucial questions explainer Nishita Jha