A Poker Pro Accused of Cheating Wants $330M in Damages
Mike Postle, a 42-year-old poker pro who has been widely accused of cheating on livestreamed games at a Sacramento casino, has never […]
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The Cheating Scandal That Ripped the Poker World Apart
Mike Postle was on another tear. The moonfaced 42-year-old was deep into a marathon poker session at Stones Gambling Hall, a boxy […]
How We’ll Know the Election Wasn’t Rigged
Late last October—before health officials in central China began racing to contain a mysterious outbreak of viral pneumonia, before DIY hand sanitizer […]
One Data Scientist’s Quest to Quash Misinformation
One day in early June 2018, Sara-Jayne Terp, a British data scientist, flew from her home in Oregon to Tampa, Florida, to […]
A Texas County Clerk’s Bold Crusade to Transform How We Vote
In the winter of 2017, shortly after STAR-Vote was declared a loss, Josh Benaloh was sitting in his office at Microsoft when […]
The Facebook Defectors Turning Trump’s Strategy Against Him
Three months before Election Day, James Barnes teleconferenced into a strategy meeting about how, exactly, to persuade people not to vote for […]
The Furious Hunt for the MAGA Bomber
Weird things happen in and around New York City nearly every day, so the appearance of a suspicious package at George Soros’ […]
The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet
At around 2:30 on that Friday afternoon, Marcus Hutchins returned from picking up lunch at his local fish-and-chips shop in Ilfracombe, sat […]
Mark Warner Takes on Big Tech and Russian Spies
In mid-November, as his House colleagues on Capitol Hill were consumed with questions about Ukraine and impeachment, Senator Mark Warner took to […]
Meet Cliff Stoll, the Mad Scientist Who Invented the Art of Hunting Hackers
When Stoll traced the hacker’s intrusions to the Department of Defense’s MILNET systems, an Alabama army base, the White Sands Missile Range, […]