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  The First Large-Scale Cyberattack by AI Getty Images A state-backed threat group, likely Chinese, crossed a threshold in September that cybersecurity experts have warned about for years. According to a report by Anthropic, attackers manipulated its AI system, Claude Code, to conduct what appears to be the first large-scale espionage operation executed primarily by artificial intelligence. The report states “with high confidence” that China was behind the attack. AI carried out 80% to 90% of the tactical operations independently, from reconnaissance to data extraction. This espionage campaign targeted roughly 30 entities across the U.S. and allied nations, with Anthropic validating “a handful of successful intrusions” into “major technology corporations and government agencies.” GTG-1002—Anthropic’s designation for this threat group—indicates that Beijing is unleashing AI for intelligence collection. Unless the U.S. responds quickly, this will be the first in a long series of incr...
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  Karl Marx está vivo (y tiene muchos herederos) El gran referente clásico de la izquierda vuelve a ser reivindicado y reinterpretado. Sus ideas resuenan como una revancha ante quienes aseguraban que los conflictos de clase eran cosa del pasado. Su influencia es evidente en pensadores contemporáneos y en el análisis poscapitalista, que incluye ideas como la renta básica universal, el decrecimiento o la sociedad postrabajo apoyada en las máquinas El muro de Berlín con un grafiti de Marx con una camiseta que dice: “Os dije cómo cambiar el mundo”. La foto es de junio pasado. KAUAI COLORS ( ALAMY /CORDON PRESS ) Marx sigue ahí. Ya en 2008, cuando  la crisis financiera global  inició esta época de policrisis y atolladero, numerosas voces quisieron desempolvar la figura del barbudo pensador de Tréveris (Alemania). Hubo un tiempo en el que  Margaret Thatcher  presumía de que Marks & Spencer —los grandes almacenes británicos, símbolo del capitalismo— habían derrotad...
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  A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family. November 22, 2025 Photograph by Thea Traff for The New Yorker When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything. Images come in flashes—people and places and stray conversations—and refuse to stop. I see my best friend from elementary school as we make a mud pie in her back yard, top it with candles and a tiny American flag, and watch, in panic, as the flag catches fire. I see my college boyfriend, wearing boat shoes a few days after a record-breaking snowstorm, slipping and falling into a slush puddle. I want to break up with him, so I laugh until I can’t breathe. Maybe my brain is replaying my life now because I have a terminal diagnosis, and all these memories will be lost. Maybe it’s because I don’t have much time to make new ones, and some part of me is sifting through the sands. On May 25, 2024, my daughte...
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  The Failed Crusade to Keep a Rare-Earths Mine Out of China’s Hands Nov. 22, 2025 11:00 pm  ET Mbeya, Tanzania, near where Peak Rare Earths had hoped to develop a rare-earth mine outside of China's orbit.   De Agostini/Getty Images For years, a mining project in Africa held the promise of helping free the West from its dependence on China for rare earths. Some weeks back, it fell into Chinese hands. The failure of Peak Rare Earths, an Australian mining company, to build a China-free supply of rare-earth minerals offers a look at how Beijing came to dominate the global supply of critical minerals—a position it is now  deftly leveraging for geopolitical gain . China has choked off the supply of rare earths to wring key concessions from President Trump in his trade war. The sale of Peak to a Chinese rare-earth behemoth earlier this autumn is part of a pattern that means that, by 2029, Beijing will receive all the rare earths flowing from Tanzania, one of the world’s ma...
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  Opinion | Piggy Gets Polite Credit... Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Listen to this article · 6:55 min  Learn more 1.3k Step by slimy step, President Trump has made us numb to his crudeness and cruelty. The solipsistic Trump, with the parasitic tech emperors and the internet itself, is degrading American values, making honor and integrity seem anachronistic. Still, some moments shock as beyond the pale. Whatever the pale is anymore. On Air Force One recently, Trump cut off Catherine Lucey, a Bloomberg News journalist pressing him about the release of Epstein files that could further implicate Trump in the lurid mess. Stabbing his finger at her face, the President of the United States snapped at Lucey: “Quiet! Quiet, piggy.” The press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, later preposterously explained, “The president being frank and open and honest to your faces, rather than hiding behind your backs, is, frankly, a lot more respectful than what you saw in the last administration.” It was nau...
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