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WIRED'S Top Stories in March

Everyone wanted to know about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica—but also about DDoS attacks, engineering disasters, and more.
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    GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded

    On Wednesday, a 1.3Tbps DDoS attack pummeled GitHub for 15-20 minutes. Here's how it stayed online.
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    A Hurricane Flattens Facebook

    As the Cambridge Analytica story broke over the weekend, Facebook has struggled to formulate a response.
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    Operation Bayonet: Inside the Sting That Hijacked an Entire Dark Web Drug Market

    Dutch police detail for the first time how they secretly hijacked Hansa, Europe's most popular dark web market.
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    Saving Baby Boy Green

    Born at a barely viable 24 weeks, his life began as a battle for survival. His future is a test for how far neonatal medicine has come.
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    What Are Screens Doing to Our Eyes—and Our Ability to See?

    Our eyes are hardening; we can barely see our phones anymore. We must learn to look at the wider world.
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    Sea Level Rise in the SF Bay Area Just Got a Lot More Dire

    Sea levels are rising. But the San Francisco Bay Area has another problem: It's sinking. By 2100, it could lose 165 square miles to the sea.
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    AI Has a Hallucination Problem That's Proving Tough to Fix

    Machine learning systems, like those used in self-driving cars, can be tricked into seeing objects that don't exist. Defenses proposed by Google, Amazon, and others are vulnerable too.
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    The Ordinary Engineering Behind the Horrifying Florida Bridge Collapse

    The "quick build" process used to put up the span that fell and killed six people is actually quite common—and has been around for decades.
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    Mind Games: The Tortured Lives of ‘Targeted Individuals’

    Thousands of people think that the government is using implanted chips and electronic beams to control their minds. They are desperate to prove they aren’t delusional.
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    The Complete Guide to Facebook Privacy

    Despite repeated privacy lapses, Facebook offers a fairly robust set of tools to control who knows what about you.

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GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded
On Wednesday, a 1.3Tbps DDoS attack pummeled GitHub for 15-20 minutes. Here's how it stayed online.
A Hurricane Flattens Facebook
As the Cambridge Analytica story broke over the weekend, Facebook has struggled to formulate a response.
Inside the Sting That Hijacked a Dark Web Drug Market
Dutch police detail for the first time how they secretly hijacked Hansa, Europe's most popular dark web market.
A Baby's Battle for Survival Tests How Far Medicine Has Come
Thanks to advances in neonatal care, Baby Boy Green joined a generation of premature babies whose survival would have been unimaginable a generation ago.
What Are Screens Doing to Our Eyes—and Our Ability to See?
Our eyes are hardening; we can barely see our phones any more. We must learn to look at the wider world.
Sea Level Rise in the SF Bay Area Just Got a Lot More Dire
Sea levels are rising. But the San Francisco Bay Area has another problem: It's sinking. By 2100, it could lose 165 square miles to the sea.
AI Has a Hallucination Problem That's Proving Tough to Fix
Machine learning systems, like those used in self-driving cars, can be tricked into seeing objects that don't exist. Defenses proposed by Google, Amazon, and others are vulnerable too.
The Engineering Behind the Horrible Florida Bridge Collapse
The "quick build" process used to put up the span that fell and killed six people is actually quite common—and has been around for decades.
Mind Games: The Tortured Lives of ‘Targeted Individuals’
Thousands of people think that the government is using implanted chips and electronic beams to control their minds. They are desperate to prove they aren’t delusional.
A Complete Guide to Facebook's Privacy and Security Settings
Despite the repeated privacy lapses, Facebook offers a fairly robust set of tools to control who knows what about you.
The Best Digital Photo Frames We’ve Tried
Get your pictures off your phone and in front of your loved ones with these WIRED-tested digital picture frames.
How Data Centers Actually Work
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the economics and environmental impacts of energy-hungry data centers and whether these facilities are sustainable in the age of AI.