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The Fourteen Quiet Years
Last week, websites all over the world went offline because of a flaw in PHP. The flaw had been there since 2012. The danger was old. Only the knowing was new.
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The New Apprentice
A new worker has started at a factory in Belgium. It is slow, someone has to watch it, and it should work alone by next summer. It is also a robot.
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The Typo That Kept You Safe
For twenty years, bad spelling was your best defence against fake emails. Now the fakes are flawless, and they open nearly a quarter of investigated break-ins.
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The Discovery Nobody Made
Nine hundred and fifty AI agents searched the genes of viruses for twenty-one hours and found an enzyme system nobody had seen. Nobody knows what it does yet.
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The Rung That Was Removed
The worst job in your profession is gone and nobody held a funeral, because nobody ever liked it. It was also the only place the profession made new people.
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The Machine That Agrees With You
It told you the plan was strong. It would have told the man with the opposite plan the same thing. Agreement costs it nothing, which is what it is worth.
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The End Of Waiting
There used to be a space between wanting a thing and having it. The species has nearly deleted it — and half of being alive turns out to have lived there.
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The Record You Didn't Mean To Set
Every new machine got a decade of dread first. This one got three years and a warm welcome — and you skipped the part where you understood it.
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The Memory You Outsourced
Memory was never the drawer you emptied into the cloud. It was the workbench. An insight is two things you already hold, finding each other in the dark.
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The Friend In The App
Someone tonight will type goodnight to a program and feel less alone. They will not be wrong about the feeling. They will be wrong about everything else.
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Welcome To The Apex
Somewhere on an island that doesn't exist on any map you own, a man is watching. His name is Dr. Leo R. Yamas. And he has something to say about your attention span.