Technology

At The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald hits The Washington Post again for the paper’s propensity to believing the most obvious of red herrings as long as they involve Russia.

While these debacles are embarrassing for the…

Sam Sacks writes about Congress’ attempts to curtail encryption at The District Sentinel. These attempts are ongoing, Sacks reports, despite a bipartisan commission finding that doing so would be acting directly in violation of the…

Two takes on Obama’s legacy from The Atlantic. First up is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ take, “My President Was Black.”

This would not happen again, and everyone knew it. It was not just that…

As some of you may know, I published a piece on police militarization at my former place of work last May. There was a companion piece here.

In the 1960s, when John Hadden was a teenager, he went on a picnic with his family in the Negev desert. The family drove out in his father’s Ford Falcon to a remote, arid area and stopped near the city of Dimona.

The latest bid to develop reactive artificial intelligence ran into a stumbling block when it encountered humanity. TayBot, Microsoft’s twitter AI, went online on March 23. Tay didn’t live a full 24 hours before it was pulled offline due to…

What’s another 200 dead? That appears to be the logic behind the Obama administration’s recent drone strike in Yemen from March 22.

The Department of Defense announced in early February, in an address to the Economic Club of Washington by Defense Scretary Ashton Carter, that its Strategic Capabilities Office was innovating “new roles and…