Banks Tried to Kill Crypto and Failed. Now They’re Embracing It (Slowly).

Digital payments technology is forcing the financial system to evolve. Banks feel their power waning and want to regain control.

Opinion | A.I. Is Not A-OK

Will we end up as the family pet?

Apple’s Most Back-Ordered New Product Is Not What You Expect

It’s a $19 cloth.

How Venture Capitalists Think Crypto Will Reshape Commerce

From banking to gaming, investors are sending billions of dollars to crypto inventors who seek to disrupt industries. Here’s a look at some of those bets.

Facebook Faces a Public Relations Crisis. What About a Legal One?

One of the most pressing questions is whether the Securities and Exchange Commission will significantly add to the company’s woes.

Facebook Wrestles With the Features It Used to Define Social Networking

Likes and shares made the social media site what it is. Now, company documents show, it’s struggling to deal with their effects.

I Was Hacked. The Spyware Used Against Me Makes Us All Vulnerable.

Invasive hacking software sold to countries to fight terrorism is easily abused. Researchers say my phone was hacked twice, probably by Saudi Arabia.

Ignoring Sanctions, Russia Renews Broad Cybersurveillance Operation

The new campaign came only months after President Biden imposed sanctions on Moscow in response to a series of spy operations it had conducted around the world.

Breaking the News: New York Times Journalist Ben Hubbard Hacked with Pegasus after Reporting on Previous Hacking Attempts - The Citizen Lab

Our forensic analysis of two iPhones belonging to Hubbard found evidence of Pegasus infections in July 2020 and June 2021. Notably, these infections occurred after Hubbard reported in January 2020 that we found that he was targeted in 2018 by the...

Internal Alarm, Public Shrugs: Facebook’s Employees Dissect Its Election Role

Company documents show that the social network’s employees repeatedly raised red flags about the spread of misinformation and conspiracies before and after the contested November vote.

Lyft Says 1,807 Sexual Assaults Occurred in Rides in 2019

The company’s first-ever safety report, which it committed two years ago to producing, also included four fatal assaults and 49 deaths in crashes.

The True Cost of Upgrading Your Phone

Buying a $1,000 iPhone can be equivalent to giving up $17,000 in retirement savings or 2,500 cups of coffee.

Vikings Were in the Americas Exactly 1,000 Years Ago

By studying tree rings and using a dash of astrophysics, researchers have pinned down a precise year that settlers from Europe were on land that would come to be known as Newfoundland.

Opinion | James Bond Has No Time for China

America's main rival inspires fear in Hollywood -- and confusion in Americans.

Opinion | China’s Bullying Is Becoming a Danger to the World and Itself

Does Xi understand the cost of the distrust he’s fostering at home and abroad?

Opinion | The Climate Doesn’t Care About Your Hiking Trip

In California, there is no escape from global warming for many of the species affected and none for the species causing the problem.

A Warning That Africa’s Last Glaciers Will Soon Vanish

While African nations contribute less than 4 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, a U.N. report underscored the outsize impact that climate change is having on the continent.

At Axel Springer, Politico’s New Owner, Allegations of Sex, Lies and a Secret Payment

A high-flying German media giant is ahead on digital media but seems stuck in the past when it comes to the workplace and deal-making.

Leader of Apple activism movement says she was fired.

Janneke Parrish, who was a program manager for Apple Maps in Austin, Texas, was one of the two leaders of a group that called itself AppleToo.

A Year Later, a Schoolteacher’s Beheading Still Haunts France

The killing of Samuel Paty by an 18-year-old Chechen refugee intensified debate over security and immigration, and prompted intense scrutiny of the French secular model.