Big Brother Is Streaming—And He’s Got 8K Resolution By the time you finish this sentence, roughly 1.3 petabytes of face-recognition data will be filed away in places you’ve never heard of, with names like “Project Lavender Mist” or “Operation Helpful Walrus.” From Singapore’s lamp posts that scold jaywalkers in real time to Detroit’s “Green Light”…
The world’s most dangerous flower isn’t the poppy blooming in Helmand or the one on a Remembrance Day lapel; it’s the poppy that installs itself on every corporate laptop from Lisbon to Lagos and quietly calls home to Cambridge. Poppy Gustafsson—yes, that is her real, almost too-perfect name—has turned nation-state-grade espionage into a subscription service,…
Stephen Ehikian, a name that sounds like it should belong to a Bond villain’s accountant, has quietly become the most interesting man in Silicon Valley—and, by extension, the world. While you were doom-scrolling about melting ice caps and the latest celebrity divorce, Ehikian has been stitching together the global digital nervous system with the nonchalance…
