Investigations
Crucial Existed for Nearly Three Decades. Micron Killed It the Moment AI Started Paying More.
Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix, Western Digital, and Seagate all discovered the same thing at the same time: AI data centers pay more for memory and storage than you do. So now they sell to AI data centers.
A Chinese Vaccine Maker Faked Its Paperwork for Two Years Before Anyone Noticed
Changsheng supplied nearly a quarter of the country's rabies shots. Regulators only found out the records were fiction after a tip from inside the building.
China's Biggest Baby Formula Maker Was Cutting Milk With Plastic
Melamine made the protein numbers look right on a lab test. It did not make the formula safe to actually feed a baby.
This Site Almost Had the .com. Someone's Been Sitting on It Since 2014.
We went looking for the nicer version of our own domain name. We found a Network Solutions error page that hasn't changed in over a decade, and a 'Coming Soon' banner that's been coming soon since 2025.
The Man Who Rigged McDonald's Monopoly Game for a Decade (1989–2001)
For twelve years, the house always won the McDonald's Monopoly game — because the house was stealing the winning pieces.
218 Bags of Stolen Potatoes and the Slow Death of the Honesty Box
A Lincolnshire farmer just wanted people to pay £2 a bag and trust each other. Then 218 bags disappeared.