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Darktrace R&D: Academics Meet Agents • HOW MACHINE LEARNING EXPERTS ARE PREPARING TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST AI-POWERED CYBERATTACKS

ELECTRIC WORD

TOTALLY WIRED • DIARIES OF AN UNBRIDLED DIGITOPIAN

“WHILE WORKING ON THIS ISSUE, WHAT GAVE YOU HOPE?”

“Let’s hear it for the nerds!” • —University of Southern Maine Libraries, via Facebook

WHEN MARKETING LOSES ITS COOL • Keep calm and consider supply and demand.

CHARTGEIST

MOVE, COUNTERMOVE • Yes, authoritarians have co-opted digital technology. But the story is far from over.

RAISE ONE TO THOSE WHO NEVER LET YOU DOWN.

OLD SCHOOL • Who are the most successful entrepreneurs? The middle-aged.

ANGRY NERD

GOLDEN EYE • NASA’s massive, $10 billion telescope prepares to launch in 2021.

Safe House • Helm’s personal server is a secure way to take back control of your digital life.

Hide and Seek • Small children (and sometimes bigger ones) can be as slippery as salmon. Keep an eye on them with a kid-friendly GPS tracker.

Open Sesame • Your brain has better things to do than store secure passwords. Offload the job to a dedicated password manager, which will keep your login data synced and protected across all your devices.

Balanced Beams • These multitalented routers ensure that your home Wi-Fi isn’t just stable and fast but also secure.

Private Eyes • Surveillance works best when the bad guys can see they’re being watched. So why design smart-home security cameras to blend in so beautifully?

REBUILD THE BRIDGE—AGAIN • MAKING PROGRESS MEANS MAKING (SOMETIMES DEVASTATING) MISTAKES. AND THEN LEARNING FROM THEM.

Wendell Lim

Joy Buolamwini

Guillaume Chaslot

Eva Galperin

Chad Rigetti

Matthew Prince

Lisa Jackson

The youth plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States • Suing for climate justice.

Jason Buenrostro

Emily Leproust

Lina Khan

N. K. Jemisin

Dawn Song

Laura Boykin

Jonathan Yaney

Mariana Mazzucato

Alex Stamos

Dana DeBeauvoir

Patrick Collison

Jack Conte

Dominic Williams

Kate Darling

Unicef Ventures

Moriba Jah

Hany Farid

Anne Neuberger

Astro Teller • CAPTAIN OF MOONSHOTS / X

Pat Brown

Uma Valeti

THE MOST DECEPTIVE HACK IN HISTORY • Inside the hunt for THE HACKERS who nearly took down the Olympics. And why the next big cyberattack will be even harder to crack.

LAUNCH _ SEQUENCE • WITH RON MOORE’S SPACE-RACE DRAMA FOR ALL MANKIND, APPLE IS BETTING ON MARQUEE NAMES AND LUSH PRODUCTION TO GET ITS TV+ SERVICE OFF THE GROUND. CAN IT ACHIEVE ORBIT?

PHELPS CLONE SWEEPS ENTIRE SWIMMING EVENT.