OneZero – Yancey Strickler – May 20, 6:00 AM

This is also what the internet is becoming: a dark forest In his sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem, author Liu Cixin presents the dark forest theory of the universe. When we look out into space, the theory goes, we're struck by its silence. It…

I lost north of $100,000 last Wednesday. It evaporated over a 24-hour time span in a “SIM port attack” that drained my Coinbase account. It has been four days since the incident and I'm gutted. I have zero appetite; my sleep is…

China is poised to strengthen its laws on gene editing in humans. A draft of the country's new civil code lists human genes and embryos in a section on personality rights to be protected. Experiments on genes in adults or embryos that endanger…

To top it off, unlike the City of Atlanta—which suffered from a Samsam ransomware attack in March of 2018 —Baltimore has no insurance to cover the cost of a cyber attack. So the cost of cleaning up the RobbinHood ransomware, which…

Access to a government jet 24 hours a day. An office in the West Wing, plus guaranteed weekends off for family time. And an assurance of being made secretary of homeland security by November. Those were among a list of 10 conditions that Kris…