Today's highlights | "It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely." — Albert Einstein |
| It's so easy to monitor the public's Internet traffic. WiFi isn't as secure as you might think. |
| Is she just being nice or is it more? |
| And he had his ex-mistress get me out of there. |
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In case you missed it | Seth Abramson is mocked for his Russia-gate "MEGA-THREADS." But what if he's right? Aaron Gell in GEN 15 min read |
| Apple and Blizzard have been pulled into a political struggle, and the platforms are part of the playing… |
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Quick reads | We have always lived loud, and we're not going to change that |
| How Hugo Boss produced the uniforms of the German army |
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Best in Technology | We asked Wall Street's biggest bull analyst to explain Uber's stock price comeback |
| There's a satisfying irony in a medical school replacing a company that grew briefly rich and famous for… |
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Best in Comics | How an autobiographical novelist inspired me to try to beat death |
| Bringing my four-year-old to the oldest exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry |
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Best in Justice | While the FBI requests 'backdoor' iPhone access, documents indicate law enforcement already has easy access… |
| Trump is just the latest president to suppress reporting on his administration. It's time for Congress to… Trevor Timm in GEN5 min read |
| The impeachment of Donald Trump began with a whistleblower. What kind of person is willing to lose everything… |
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Best in Programming | No, it's not a clickbait. |
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Most read | On the virtues of sleeping on strangers' shoulders |
| Once we unlocked the ability to remember across lifetimes, we had to figure out what to do with it |
| A manifesto for middle-aged creatives |
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