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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...

How Google perfected the web ( www.theverge.com )

We often hear about the latest engagement hacks on other platforms like Instagram, TikTok, or X, formerly known as Twitter. But Google is consequential above all of these, acting essentially as the referee of the web. Yet deep knowledge of how its systems work is largely limited to industry publications and marketing firms —...

They’re Paid Billions to Root Out Child Labor in the U.S. - Why Do They Fail? Private auditors fail to detect migrant children working for U.S. suppliers of Oreos, Gerber, McDonald’s, and many others ( archive.ph )

This is part 6 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...

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