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The Untold Story of a Crypto Crimefighter’s Descent Into Nigerian Prison

The Untold Story of a Crypto Crimefighter’s Descent Into Nigerian Prison

Mickey Vernon

Gambaryan says he wanted to hear Ogunjobi explain himself. On the phone, Gambaryan remembers, the EFCC official began crying, apologizing ...

A Spymaster Sheikh Controls a .5 Trillion Fortune. He Wants to Use It to Dominate AI

A Spymaster Sheikh Controls a $1.5 Trillion Fortune. He Wants to Use It to Dominate AI

Mickey Vernon

For a while in the mid-2000s, a refrigerator-sized box in Abu Dhabi was considered the greatest chess player in the ...

The World’s Biggest Bitcoin Mine Is Rattling This Texas Oil Town

The World’s Biggest Bitcoin Mine Is Rattling This Texas Oil Town

Mickey Vernon

The previous October, Sawicky organized a weeklong protest alongside environmental activist group Greenpeace and brandished various anti-bitcoin signs at anyone ...

The Green Economy Is Hungry for Copper—and People Are Stealing, Fighting, and Dying to Feed It

The Green Economy Is Hungry for Copper—and People Are Stealing, Fighting, and Dying to Feed It

Albert Wagner

Moqadi Mokoena had been feeling uneasy all day. When he’d left his home on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa, ...

The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes

The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes

Mickey Vernon

On January 29, in testimony before the Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee, Hunt-Blackwell urged lawmakers to scrap the bill’s criminal penalties ...

The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Exclusive Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined

The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Exclusive Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined

Albert Wagner

The Ocean Sciences Building at the University of Washington in Seattle is a brightly modern, four-story structure, with large glass ...