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Algorithms quietly run the city of DC—and maybe your hometown

Dmitry Marchenko/Getty Images reader comments 26 with 17 posters participating Share this story Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City agencies use automation to screen housing applicants, predict criminal recidivism, identify food assistance fraud, determine… Read More »

The fight to cut off the crypto funding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

reader comments 85 with 56 posters participating Share this story As Russian troops have flooded into Ukraine’s borders for the past eight months—and with an ongoing mobilization of hundreds of thousands more underway—the Western world has taken drastic measures to cut the economic ties that fuel Russia’s invasion and occupation. But even as those global… Read More »

Mystery hackers are “hyperjacking” targets for insidious spying

Marco Rosario Venturini Autieri/Getty Images reader comments 14 with 12 posters participating Share this story For decades, virtualization software has offered a way to vastly multiply computers’ efficiency, hosting entire collections of computers as “virtual machines” on just one physical machine. And for almost as long, security researchers have warned about the potential dark side… Read More »