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The Confessions of the Hacker Who Saved the Internet - At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. ( archive.ph )
Hutchins was coming off of an epic, exhausting week at Defcon, one of the world's largest hacker conferences, where he had been celebrated as a hero. Less than three months earlier, Hutchins had saved the internet from what was, at the time, the worst cyberattack in history: a piece of malware called WannaCry. Just as that...
Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need (2023 Pulitzer nomination) ( www.statnews.com )
This is part 1 of an ongoing investigative series....
Children Risk Their Lives Building America’s Roofs (Pulitzer Prize winner) ( archive.ph )
This is part 5 of an ongoing Pulitzer-Prize winning series. Click here for the earlier parts in the series, or to discuss the series as a whole....
The Jungle Prince of Delhi - For 40 years, journalists chronicled the eccentric royal family of Oudh. It was a tragic, astonishing story. But was it true? ( archive.ph )
I knew about the royal family of Oudh, of course. They were one of the city’s great mysteries. Their story was passed between tea sellers and rickshaw drivers and shopkeepers in Old Delhi: In a forest, they said, in a palace cut off from the city that surrounds it, lived a prince, a princess and a queen, said to be the last of...
High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace ( archive.ph )
When a freighter packed with cargo worth $103 million flipped onto its side in the North Pacific, a motley salvage team got the call to save it.
The Kids on the Night Shift (Pulitzer Prize winner) ( archive.ph )
This is part 4 of an ongoing Pulitzer-Prize winning series. Click here for the earlier parts in the series, or to discuss the series as a whole....
When Wizards and Orcs Came to Death Row - For men awaiting execution in Texas, illicit games of Dungeons & Dragons became a lifeline. ( www.themarshallproject.org )
Back then, death row for men was located in a prison near Huntsville, Texas, where hundreds lived in tiny cells. The men were allowed to hang out together, watch television, play basketball and go to work at prison jobs. And because they were locked behind bars rather than solid doors, they could call out to one another and...
As Migrant Children Were Put to Work, U.S. Ignored Warnings ( archive.ph )
This is part 3 of an ongoing Pulitzer-Prize winning series. Click here for the earlier parts in the series, or to discuss the series as a whole....
Biden Administration Plans Crackdown on Migrant Child Labor ( archive.ph )
This is part 2 of an ongoing Pulitzer-Prize winning series. Click here for the earlier parts in the series, or to discuss the series as a whole....
Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S. ( archive.ph )
Part 1 of a 2023 Pultizer-winning article series by Hannah Dreier...
