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Sabotage. Property destruction. For Léna Lazare and her cohort, radicalized by years of inaction on the environmental crisis, these aren’t dirty words. They’re acts of joy.

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In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners.

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Drones that can find their own targets already exist, making machine-versus-machine conflict just a software update away.

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The launch of the iTunes Store 20 years ago laid the groundwork for platforms to transform songs into generic background noise.

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VKontakte was created to empower free speech, but it has instead enabled government censorship and arrests.

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Weaving through traffic and protests in the French capital shows that the real problem isn’t scooters—it’s cars.

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Desperate people in the US and beyond are turning to an unregulated, cross-continental supply chain.

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Global companies are offering free products to get access to live combat data. The Ukrainian government wants to keep this resource for its own emerging defense industry.

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When systems designed to catch welfare cheats go wrong, people find themselves trapped between secretive governments and even more opaque private companies.

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More than 220 people are believed to have been kidnapped and taken to Gaza by Hamas. Their loved ones are trying to trace them using every grain of information they can find.

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An 8-year-old’s YouTube snafu—and one unlikely parent activist—sparked a nationwide debate on the tech giant’s ubiquity and handling of children’s data.

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Tesla’s gigafactory in Germany will temporarily pause production as a group of protesters encamped in the surrounding forest have ramped up their efforts to stop the company’s expansion.

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