White Coat, Wise Words? Rebuilding Trust in an Age of Medical Misinformation There is a picture I keep in my mind from the early days of the pandemic: a nurse, exhausted after a twelve-hour shift in an overwhelmed ICU, sitting in her car with the windows rolled up, crying. She had just spent another day watching people die from a virus that she believed was largely preventable. But the hardest part wasn’t the long hours or the crushing equipment or the ever-shifting protocols. The hardest part was the moment she walked into her patient’s room, and that patient looked at…

Between Oct. 8 and Oct. 11, Ukrainian drones struck three Yandex data centers in the Russian cities of Sasovo, Kaluga, and Vladimir, shutting down two of them completely and damaging a third. At first glance, this seemed like another blow to Russian infrastructure, but the consequences were far more interesting than a simple outage. Yandex is not just a Russian Google. It is the digital skeleton for much of the country’s daily life, providing taxi services, navigation, email, cloud storage, streaming, online payments, and the backend for thousands of businesses. When the facilities went dark, applications stalled, corporate databases became…