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In December 2012, he stumbled upon a software bug while withdrawing money from his account on Silk Road, an online marketplace used to hide criminal dealings behind the seemingly bulletproof…

Sam Bankman-Fried built the cryptocurrency exchange FTX on the reputation of his trading firm, Alameda Research LLC.Alameda was applying Wall Street-style…

When Dana Lu recently logged on to Instagram she felt like she had traveled back in time 20 years.At the top of her direct messages, she saw her friends’…

Masayoshi Son, the billionaire boss of SoftBank 9984 0.67% Group Corp., has long presided over a quarterly…

Sybren Stüvel is an Amsterdam-based software developer with a fairly uncommon name and a surprisingly common predicament.As he completes the tasks of daily life, computers refuse to accept…

In May, shortly after the draft of the Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade became public, location-data specialist Tapestri Inc. received unusual requests from two companies.Each…

Startups are getting mixed signals as concerns about stock market volatility and the prospect of a recession clash with record amounts of capital investors have at the ready. Venture…

The precise movements of millions of users of the gay-dating app Grindr were collected from a digital advertising network and made available for sale, according to people familiar with the…

SEOUL—Wearing a dark suit and red tie, Yoon Suk-yeol, the main opposition party’s candidate for South Korean president, stared into the camera with a stern look in his eyes. He prepared to…

Rocker Neil Young came across an NPR report on the morning of Jan. 24 that seemed like a fit for his Times-Contrarian online newspaper, which is housed on…