Data editor Helena Bengtsson once asked the national statistics agency to cross-match a teachers database with another featuring court convictions. The findings led to a change in Swedish law.

The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration ...

The University of Washington’s Allen School is tackling six “grand challenges” in computer science — from AI and education to ...

In the late 1930s, a Dutch civil servant, Jacobus Lentz, designed a near-unforgeable identity card. In 1940, the Dutch government rejected his proposal as too intrusive. Weeks later, Germany ...

First published in The Atlantic on October 26, 2025.

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the ...