A sampling of the stories NPR staff believe made some of the deepest ripples this year — reminders of what rigorous, compassionate journalism can do, and why the work remains as urgent as ever.

"There had been no prior lawsuits to enforce states’ requirement to keep their voter rolls clean for all federal election ...

In 2026, a new frontier of attacks will be data poisoning: invisibly corrupting the copious amounts of data used to train ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states that would require ...

MCP is the Model Context Protocol, introduced by Anthropic last year to act as the “USB-C” interface for connecting AI ...

In India, a hidden data trove reveals how the censorship regime has now evolved from simply cutting minor scenes to ...

Google's support page has confirmed the closure, of which some users were initially notified via email. Scans for new dark web data breaches will stop on Jan. 15, 2026, and by Feb.16, 2026, the report ...

The Vanderbilt study describes loyalty programs as "ground zero" for the e-commerce industry's shift toward surveillance pricing, where individualized data is used to charge each consumer the maximum ...

Duplicates of crystal structures are flooding databases, implicating repositories hosting organic, inorganic, and ...

Three years later, Prashanth says Stack Overflow is now very comfortable primarily as an enterprise SaaS business, which provides AI-based solutions that are tailored to different companies’ internal ...

ICIJ and its partners organized and analyzed thousands of chilling photographs to assemble comprehensive victim lists and ...

Every line of code is a liability you have to maintain forever. Create a "zombie feature" kill list to reduce technical debt ...