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The Big Story

Elite Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to ‘Trackflation’

By Brendan I. Koerner
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The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT

By Sarah Ciston, David M. Berry, Anthony C. Hay, Mark C. Marino, Peter Millican, Jeff Shrager, Arthur I. Schwarz, and Peggy Weil
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Data Centers Are Quietly Taking Over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic

By Evan Simon
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Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities

By Noah Shachtman and Maddy Varner
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What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out

By Andy Greenberg
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People Used to Control Machines. They Don’t Anymore

By Ian Bogost
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How Hunter Biden Won the Internet

By Alana Hope Levinson and Makena Kelly
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I Found Jesus at a Drone Show

By Sheon Han
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British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

By Matt Burgess and Mark Wilding
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Interactive. Violent. Gross. Inside Fishtank, the Unhinged Future of Reality TV

By Owen Long
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Traditional Home Insurance Is Collapsing. Here’s What Could Fill the Gap

By Katie Thornton
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My Father Wants to Age in Place. AI Will Be Watching

By Steven Blum
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Designing the Dream House of an 87-Year-Old Tech Visionary

By Steven Levy
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What Do Americans Spend on Housing?

By Sandra Upson
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Streamer IShowSpeed Is Gen Z’s ESPN

By Jason Parham
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The Untold Story of the Google Buses That Took Over San Francisco

By Jonathan Weber
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Anguished Parents, Crying Doctors: Life Amid Utah’s Measles Outbreak

By Amy Maxmen, KFF Health News
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Afroman Is Back—and He’s Bitcoin’s Latest Freedom Fighter

By Jessica Klein
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Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’

By Steven Levy
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Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School

By Todd Feathers
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The Romance Scammer Who Made a Small Fortune Posing as a WWE Superstar

By Carlos Barragán
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The Painful Truth About Long Covid

By Alan Levinovitz
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AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos. Here’s Exactly How That Happened

By Steven Levy
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AI Is Taking Over the Most Cursed Job in the World

By Kate Knibbs
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