Cybersecurity

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How FISA Section 702 Works—and Why It Divides Congress Technology

How FISA Section 702 Works—and Why It Divides Congress

FISA Section 702 lets U.S. spy agencies intercept foreigners' communications without individual warrants—but it sweeps in millions of Americans' calls...

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How Insider Trading Law Works—and Why It's Expanding Economy

How Insider Trading Law Works—and Why It's Expanding

Insider trading law prohibits buying or selling securities based on material nonpublic information. Originally targeting corporate insiders, the legal...

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How Open-Weight AI Models Work—and Why They Matter Technology

How Open-Weight AI Models Work—and Why They Matter

Open-weight AI models release their trained parameters for anyone to download, inspect, and modify—democratizing access to powerful artificial intelli...

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How Prediction Markets Work—and Why They're Controversial Economy

How Prediction Markets Work—and Why They're Controversial

Prediction markets let traders bet real money on future events, from elections to economic data. Here's how they work, who regulates them, and why the...

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How Internet Shutdowns Work—and Why They Spread Technology

How Internet Shutdowns Work—and Why They Spread

Governments use BGP withdrawal, DNS blocking, throttling, and deep packet inspection to cut citizens off from the global internet. With 313 shutdowns...

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How AI Chatbot Liability Works—and Why Courts Are Split Technology

How AI Chatbot Liability Works—and Why Courts Are Split

As lawsuits mount against AI companies over chatbot-related harms, courts are grappling with whether chatbots are products, whether Section 230 protec...

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How WCAG Works—the Rules That Make the Web Accessible Technology

How WCAG Works—the Rules That Make the Web Accessible

WCAG, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, sets the global standard for making websites usable by people with disabilities. Here's how its princi...

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How PLCs Work—and Why Hackers Target Them Technology

How PLCs Work—and Why Hackers Target Them

Programmable logic controllers run water plants, power grids, and factories worldwide. Here's how these industrial computers work, why they're vulnera...

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How Geofence Warrants Work—and Why Courts Disagree Technology

How Geofence Warrants Work—and Why Courts Disagree

Geofence warrants let police demand location data on every phone near a crime scene, turning traditional policing on its head. With the US Supreme Cou...

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How FISA Section 702 Surveillance Works Technology

How FISA Section 702 Surveillance Works

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows US intelligence agencies to collect foreign nationals' electronic communications witho...

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How AI Bug Hunting Works—and Why It Changes Security Technology

How AI Bug Hunting Works—and Why It Changes Security

AI models can now autonomously scan millions of lines of code and find vulnerabilities that humans and traditional tools missed for decades. Here's ho...

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How Zero-Day Exploits Work—and Why They Cost Millions Technology

How Zero-Day Exploits Work—and Why They Cost Millions

Zero-day exploits target software flaws unknown to vendors, leaving no time to patch. This explainer covers how they are discovered, weaponized, trade...

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