Author: Megan Burrows

A Canadian software developer picked up his phone at around 7:30 a.m. on May 27, saw a series of terrified texts from colleagues, and attempted to log into Slack. He was unable to. The screen remained locked. The previous evening, there had been no warning. No management clues, no all-hands meeting, and no polite warning from HR. There was only silence, followed by a locked laptop that provided him with all the information he required before any email could. He wrote on LinkedIn, directly tagging Linda Tong, CEO of Webflow, “Rumor has it we’ve been laid off, but I don’t…

The on-duty lock operator described the yacht as the largest he had seen in fourteen years as it approached slowly, as these things always do at the Ballard Locks. When Launchpad, Mark Zuckerberg’s 387-foot Feadship, which is estimated to be worth $300 million, drifted into Lake Union on Tuesday night, the crowd along the walkway had gotten so dense that you could feel something being held in the air. The crew was told to pay their taxes by someone. Some just gazed. The hull’s bumpers were roughly the size of compact SUVs. Depending on your point of view, the timing…

Watch the numbers fly as you type “Tim Tebow net worth” into a search bar. Five million dollars, according to one website. Ten, says another. Some claim seventy, and at least one daring outlet reports $108 million as fact. For a man whose financial records are largely public, it’s an odd thing to see. The reality is likely closer to the modest end, between five and ten million, and the difference reveals more about the internet’s preference for round numbers than it does about Tebow’s real bank account. The part that surprises people is this. Tebow’s football career was never…

Joe Lonsdale possesses a certain type of wealth that doesn’t show itself. Elon Musk made headlines this spring when he became the first person to surpass $800 billion, but Lonsdale only made it to number 1440 on Forbes’ 2026 Billionaires list, with a fortune of about $2.9 billion, up from $2 billion the previous year. In just one year, that amounts to almost a billion dollars. That number is unthinkable to the majority of people. It’s a Tuesday for Lonsdale. There is no mystery surrounding the engine that powers the jump. Palantir is here. He co-founded the data analytics company…

Just after midnight, the drone arrived, and most of Limassol was awake when the sirens sounded. I remember that particular detail. Not the hangar, not the scorch marks the cameras would capture in the morning, but the common people on a vacation island running for cover at a time when the main concern is typically whether the tavernas have closed. None of this was agreed upon by Cyprus. And yet there it was, an Iranian-made Shahed crashing into British sovereignty, drawing an EU member state into a conflict it had insisted for weeks it had no interest in. The official…

Since late February, New Delhi has been practicing a certain kind of silence that conveys more than any press conference could. Much of the world anticipated that India would respond in the same way it had in the past, using that well-known moral language about moderation and the suffering of common people, when American and Israeli missiles started to fall on Iran. Rather, nothing showed up. No condemnation. After the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, there was not even a standard note of condolence for days. It’s difficult to ignore the intentionality of that emptiness. Technically, India did say things.…

Indian diplomats describe their nation’s actions in the Middle East with a certain pride. India can purchase oil from one rival, sell weapons-grade cooperation to another, and maintain cordial relations with a third, they have stated for years in an almost casual manner. When you say it aloud, it sounds unattainable. It mostly worked for a considerable amount of time. However, it’s difficult not to feel that the trick was always more brittle than New Delhi revealed as you watch it strain this spring. Think about the order. Modi referred to the friendship between Israel and India as a source…

Felix Roemer’s name was unfamiliar to the majority of Sheffield residents until late last year, and by then, the story had already reached halfway through. In December, he emerged as one of three men involved in an attempt to purchase Sheffield Wednesday, an ancient, illustrious football team that had fallen into administration. Then the whole thing collapsed equally quickly. After placing a bid of £47.8 million to obtain preferred bidding rights, the consortium withdrew because their assessment of the club was substantially less than what they had offered. Basically, whiplash. The Star And that’s where determining his wealth becomes problematic.…

The proprietor of a jewelry store on a side street in Faisalabad manually updates the daily gold rate on a little chalkboard by the door. That figure hardly changed enough to be worth erasing for the majority of the previous ten years. He now cleans it every morning, sometimes twice. He informed a customer that he had stopped attempting to explain the price of gold when it surpassed $4,743 per ounce earlier this year and had instead begun to record it. It’s difficult to ignore how rapidly the discourse surrounding gold has changed. $4,000 seemed like a ceiling a year…

Right now, South Korea has a peculiar split-screen quality that is difficult to ignore. On the one hand, the KOSPI continues to engage in novel activities. For the first time this month, it surpassed 7,000, driven almost solely by the chip companies riding the global AI trade, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. Conversely, twenty-six Korean-affiliated commercial ships with about 180 crew members are stranded close to the Strait of Hormuz and sitting motionless in the Gulf. Sailors in the same nation experiencing record stock highs are unable to return home. The entire narrative revolves around that contradiction. Chung Byung-ha, a…