PLUS: The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story, and more View this email in your browser | Manage newsletter subscriptions 12.30.23 CTRL+ALT+DELINQUENTS | 78-MINUTE READ The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story BY ANDY GREENBERG Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack. All down for millions of people. How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld of cybercrime and broke the internet—then went to work for the FBI. YEAR IN REVIEW | 5-MINUTE READ The Year the Millennial Internet Died BY JASON PARHAM From Tumblr to Gawker, the sites and voices that defined the 2010s are gone or changed. There is no happy ending to this story. YEAR IN REVIEW | 6-MINUTE READ The Foods the World Will Lose to Climate Change BY MARYN MCKENNA Droughts, heat, and extreme weather are pushing crops to their limits. The...