+Privacy & Security

Surveillance, spyware, encryption, and the fragile boundaries of digital safety. Stories about how individuals, companies, and governments shape — and sometimes threaten — the privacy of life online.

~Art

Your 2 A.M. Confessions Sit in Someone Else's Inventory

Eliza Douglas pulled a decade of unsold canvases out of a gallery heading for bankruptcy, painted over them, and hung the results at Gagosian. The rest of us hand our 2 a.m. thoughts to chatbots that file them in someone else's inventory. Only one of us gets a second draft.

~AI

AI, Power, and Policy: The Need for Global Red Lines

The numbers alone tell the story. Nvidia and OpenAI are planning a $100 billion infrastructure alliance that would deploy 10 gigawatts of computing power across multiple data centers. To put this in perspective, 10 gigawatts could power roughly 7.5 million homes. Instead, it will train and run artificial intelligence