Tag Archives: April 2026

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW – MARCH/APRIL 2026 PREVIEW

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: The Crime issue features ‘It’s a bad, bad, bad, bad world out there’. From AI-powered scams to roboticized drug-smuggling submarines. New technologies have supercharged the human knack for wrongdoing, just as they’ve juiced the law’s ability to chase them—challenging privacy and equity along the way. Plus, read about crypto shenanigans, breast biomechanics, heist science, and music that’s really, really deep.

AI is already making online crimes easier. It could get much worse.

Some cybersecurity researchers say it’s too early to worry about AI-orchestrated cyberattacks. Others say it could already be happening.

Welcome to the dark side of crypto’s permissionless dream

Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen is a leader of THORChain, a blockchain that is not supposed to have any leaders—and is reeling from a series of expensive controversies.

How uncrewed narco subs could transform the Colombian drug trade

Fast, stealthy, and cheap—autonomous, semisubmersible drone boats carrying tons of cocaine could be international law enforcement’s nightmare scenario. A big one just came ashore.

Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake.

Allison Nixon had helped arrest dozens of members of the Com, a loose affiliation of online groups responsible for violence and hacking campaigns. Then she became a target.

Reason Magazine ———- APRIL 2026 Preview

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REASON MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Joys of Data Centers’…

The Joys of Data Centers

Contrary to the claims of the not-in-my-backyard technophobes, all this growth comes with minimal environmental downsides. By Christian Britschgi

The Enduring Fight Over ‘Fighting Words’

More than eight decades ago, the Supreme Court invented a vague First Amendment exception that would-be censors continue to invoke. Jacob Sullum

Trump 2.0, Year 1: A Libertarian Nightmare

Trump’s second term lurches forward, powered by monarchical authoritarianism by Brian Doherty

Police Drug Tests Are Notoriously Unreliable. They Got This Man Wrongly Charged With Trafficking Fentanyl.

Roughly 30,000 people every year may be getting wrongfully arrested because of unreliable field drug tests, according to one estimate. C.J. Ciaramella

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE – MARCH/APRIL 2026

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘THE NEW AMERICAN HEGEMONY’

The Predatory Hegemon

How Trump Wields American Power by Stephen M. Walt

The Age of Kleptocracy

Geopolitical Power, Private Gain by Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon

The Globalist Delusion

Why America Must Build a New Operating System by Nadia Schadlow

Harvard Business Review – MARCH/APRIL 2026

March–April 2026

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: Why Great Innovations Fail to Scale: Breakthrough ideas need a special kind of leader to help them flourish.

Gen AI Won’t Make Your Employees Experts

But it can help novices perform better and faster.

The HBR Interview with Outgoing Walmart CEO Doug McMillon

His advice to fellow executives: “Listen to your gut.”

Why Gen AI Feels So Threatening to Workers

And what leaders can do to ease the anxiety.