Singapore pushes for water independence as temperatures rise

The tiny city-state, which imports water from Malaysia, has set its eyes on self-sufficiency. Climate change has added new urgency to the situation.

Our water infrastructure needs to change

Climate change will bring about more deadly floods and deep droughts. The solution is not more dams and levees.

The US exports too much of its most valuable resource

At a time of record droughts, American farmers are in effect sending water around the world in food and clothing exports. The lack of regulations is to blame.

The internet runs on free open-source software. Who pays to fix it?

Volunteer-run projects like Log4J keep the internet running. The result is unsustainable burnout, and a national security risk when they go wrong.

“A grim outlook”: How cyber surveillance is booming on a global scale

New data paints a detailed picture of the ways Western companies are selling cyber weapons and surveillance technology to NATO’s enemies.

Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade

The US government is starting a generation-long battle against the threat next-generation computers pose to encryption.

After 20 years of drone strikes, it’s time to admit they’ve failed

The very first drone attack missed its target, and two decades on civilians are still being killed. Why can't we accept that the technology doesn't work?

The Facebook whistleblower says its algorithms are dangerous. Here’s why.

Frances Haugen’s testimony at the Senate hearing today raised serious questions about how Facebook’s algorithms work—and echoes many findings from our previous investigation.

Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election, internal report shows

“This is not normal. This is not healthy.”

This US company sold iPhone hacking tools to UAE spies

An American cybersecurity company was behind a 2016 iPhone hack sold to a group of mercenaries and used by the United Arab Emirates.

Apple says researchers can vet its child safety features. But it’s suing a startup that does just that.

The iPhone maker is inviting anyone to closely inspect its code while fighting against people who do.

Deleting unethical data sets isn’t good enough

The AI research community has tried to scrub away its past. But the internet is forever.

She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story.

Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, revealed that it enables global political manipulation and has done little to stop it.

Review: Why Facebook can never fix itself

In An Ugly Truth, reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang reveal Facebook's fundamental flaws through a detailed account of its years between two US elections.

What the latest Pegasus spyware leaks tell us

New documents show journalists and activists are being surveilled using the tools built by secretive Israeli security company NSO.