The story of the trader who’d made large sums trading from home in West London only to contribute to the 2010 “Flash Crash”, when a trillion dollars was wiped off the world’s stock markets in the course of a few minutes.
A piece chronicling some of the damning accusations made about the cruise industry’s response to coronavirus.
The story of how a specialist team sensationally extracted the former CEO of Nissan from his house arrest in Tokyo to Lebanon, a country that has no extradition treaty with Japan.
Bloomberg’s cover story provides their take on Facebook’s apology cycles.
This one could run and run. Of all the forms of cyber warfare, hacking the hardware (i.e physical machines), is perhaps the hardest to pull off. It also has the potential to be the most damaging. The story alleges that cloud servers owned by Super Micro, a big player in the tech infrastructure industry, contained tiny processors that could enable back door access to devices, programmes or networks that used them. Super Micro clients have included Amazon, Apple and numerous other blue chips, as well as several branches of the Federal government. The organisation that is alleged to have perpetrated the hack – the People’s Liberation Army of China.
This article is 38,000 words long and is all about code. It’s a year old. It’s also a masterpiece.
An investigation into Peter Thiel’s data mining company reveals the extent of the surveillance done by government and corporate clients using their technology.
A sobering examination of the extraordinary array of online trolling techniques conceived, promoted and deployed by states around the world to silence dissent.
A piece examining the growing insect farming industry, with around 1,900 species worldwide already part of human diets.