TBT: Inside Mark Zuckerberg's lost notebook

PLUS: The best WIRED stories from this month a year ago. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 02.04.21 When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in his now-famous Senate hearings, he admitted that Facebook can, in fact, track its users. That's across the entire internet. Across multiple platforms. Across multiple accounts. And that's no mistake. It's part of a master plan Mark Zuckerberg originally outlined in a "lost" notebook from the spring of 2006—a notebook he thought he destroyed. But our own Steven Levy found a 17-page chunk from it. Read the pages from Zuckerberg's lost notebook, plus the best WIRED stories from this month a year ago below.   Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Lost Notebook In the early days of Facebook, Zuck kept his plans for world domination in handwritten journals. He destroyed them. But a few revealing pages survived. The Best Stories From This Month, Last Year Coronavirus Is Bad. Comparing It to the Flu Is Worse The whataboutism of infectious disease is as dangerous as it is hackneyed. Want Unlimited Clean Energy? Just Drill the World's Hottest Well An engineering team bored 2 miles into hot rock without causing major earthquakes—a good sign for harnessing the Earth's heat as a power source. An Artist Used 99 Phones to Fake a Google Maps Traffic Jam With his "Google Maps Hack," artist Simon Weckert draws attention to the systems we take for granted—and how we let them shape us. Snow and Ice Pose a Vexing Obstacle for Self-Driving Cars Most testing of autonomous vehicles until now has been in sunny, dry climates. That will have to change before the technology will be useful everywhere. Qanon Deploys 'Information Warfare' to Influence the 2020 Election The conspiracy movement lost its online home when 8chan was shut down. Followers migrated to other sites—and have set their sights on the presidential race. Will Your Cat Eat Your Corpse? The short answer is maybe. The long answer won't make you feel any better. GET WIRED Get 1 year of WIRED access for less than $1 per month. Tech news and analysis you won't find anywhere else. Subscribe now.     This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or manage your newsletter subscriptions