“For years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending stories by Brenna Ehrlich, Yiyun Li, Claire L. Evans, Nicholas Casey, and Kent Russell.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Showcasing stories from Erika Hayasaki; A.C. Thompson, James Bandler, and Lukáš Diko; Lauren Smiley; Amanda Petrusich; and Liza Weisstuch.
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The Worst 7 Years in Boeing’s History—and the Man Who Won’t Stop Fighting for Answers
“Fatal crashes. A door blowout. Grounded planes. Inside the citizen-led, obsessive campaign to hold Boeing accountable and prevent the next disaster.”
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The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians
“A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.”
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The Untold Story of a Crypto Crimefighter’s Descent Into Nigerian Prison
“As a US federal agent, Tigran Gambaryan pioneered modern crypto investigations. Then at Binance, he got trapped between the world’s biggest crypto exchange and a government determined to make it pay.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we have stories from David Roth, Dhruv Mehrotra and Andy Greenberg, Thomas Dai, Cameron Maynard, and Katherine Rundell.
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The School Shootings Were Fake. The Terror Was Real
“The inside story of the teenager whose ‘swatting’ calls sent armed police racing into hundreds of schools nationwide—and the private detective who tracked him down.”
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The Spectacular Burnout of a Solar Panel Salesman
“He thought he’d make millions of dollars selling solar panels door-to-door. The reality was much darker.”
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A Year in Reading: The Dark Side of Progress
We’re moving farther, faster, than ever before. But we’re also destabilizing crucial areas of human experience.