Casey Newton

Silicon Valley editor for The Verge

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Casey Newton is a writer living in San Francisco. He moved there in 2010 to cover technology for the business desk of the San Francisco Chronicle, and later became a senior writer at CNET. In 2013 he joined The Verge, wherehe is a senior editor leading our coverage of Silicon Valley. CNewton.org is his personal blog, that he uses as a kind of rolling portfolio of the more substantive pieces he writes.

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Today the U.S., U.K., and Canada accused Russian spies of trying to steal coronavirus vaccine research. On Wednesday, there was a massive security breach at Twitter.

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More than 150,000 tech reporters and gadget heads are crammed into every available hotel room in Las Vegas this week for the Consumer Electronics Show, or C.E.S.

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