May 2019

Trump Opens Tokyo Visit With a Tweet Sure to Unnerve the Japanese

Politics /

TOKYO — President Trump kicked off the first full day of a state visit to Japan on Sunday by playing down North Korea’s recent tests of short-range ballistic missiles, undercutting declarations by both Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the president’s own national security adviser that the launches violated United Nations resolutions. “North Korea fired off […]

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California show explores Warhol’s social, tech foreshadowing

Travel /

Before Instagram and Facebook, before selfies and filters that perfect selfies, there was Andy Warhol, using his art to imbue friends, family, celebrities — even himself — with a certain mystique. A retrospective of Warhol’s work on display in San Francisco captures the artist’s ability to use paintings, drawings, photographs and other mediums to create

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In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen N.S.A. Tool Wreaks Havoc

Technology /

EternalBlue was so valuable, former N.S.A. employees said, that the agency never seriously considered alerting Microsoft about the vulnerabilities, and held on to it for more than five years before the breach forced its hand. The Baltimore attack, on May 7, was a classic ransomware assault. City workers’ screens suddenly locked, and a message in

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As California Wildfire Season Looms, Finding Tree Trimmers Is a New Problem

Finance /

OAKHURST, Calif. — Pacific Gas & Electric has a big problem. Its equipment keeps coming into contact with dry trees and shrubs and starting devastating wildfires. So the company is scrambling to trim or cut down hundreds of thousands of trees across its vast Northern California territory. But it has another problem: finding people to

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