On a gloomy Saturday morning this past May, a few months after entire blocks of Altadena, California, were destroyed by wildfires, several dozen survivors met at a local church to vent their built-up frustration, anger, blame, and anguish. As I sat there listening to one horror story after another, I almost felt sorry for the...

This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. What it's like to be in the middle of a conspiracy theory (according to a conspiracy theory expert) -Mike Rothschild is a journalist and an expert on the growth and impact of conspiracy...