More than 100 members of Congress signed a letter demanding the DOJ investigate of child sexual abuse material on OnlyFans—which adult industry experts say are baseless. | Continue reading
Nvidia pulled off a stunt to promote and showcase its latest technology by digitizing its CEO Jensen Huang in a conference keynote. | Continue reading
The odds of asteroid Bennu hitting Earth are still extremely low, NASA said in an update, but an impact could be disastrous. | Continue reading
According to the paper, their findings imply that facial recognition systems are “extremely vulnerable.” | Continue reading
Poly Network wasn't alone in asking for the money back: cryptocurrency users have been sending the hackers messages begging for a handout. | Continue reading
Triantha occidentalis is the latest member of the “small but fascinating ecological guild of carnivorous plants,” reports a new study. | Continue reading
For decades the U.S. has failed to accurately track where broadband is or isn’t available. After constant criticism, it’s only just starting to fix the problem. | Continue reading
The site fooled so many anti-vaxxers that it crashed last week. | Continue reading
The town of Massena, New York, has put a 90-day moratorium on new Bitcoin mines sucking up cheap power in “unsightly old trailers and sea boxes." | Continue reading
What if the universe is a giant alien chatroom, and we just can't understand it? | Continue reading
An underground industry is abusing Instagram's mechanisms for removing self-injury and impersonating content to censor and harass people. | Continue reading
The 'dead zone' is caused by nutrient pollution and renders a swath of the Gulf uninhabitable for wildlife. This year, it's absolutely massive. | Continue reading
Miami's mayor has said returns from the city's new cryptocurrency could be used to "eliminate homelessness" and for "increasing the police force." | Continue reading
Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart have spent the past year failing to introduce Prop 22 clones through legislation. This is the first ballot measure since California's last year. | Continue reading
The Cybersecurity for Democracy project had been tracking vaccine disinformation and revealing how Facebook's political ad program works. | Continue reading
The bipartisan infrastructure bill has a provision that mandates the unproven technology be incorporated into all passenger vehicles within the decade. | Continue reading
The National Labor Relations Board found that Amazon illegally interfered with worker organizing at its Staten Island, New York warehouse in May. | Continue reading
Several popular streamers complained that there are just too many cheaters in Warzone now, and they are considering quitting the game. | Continue reading
Bezos’ protests about NASA’s selection of SpaceX for its Moon lander contract were dismissed on Friday by the US Government Accountability Office. | Continue reading
That’s more than twice his salary as a U.S. senator. | Continue reading
Patty Hernandez, a 23-year-old Amazon warehouse worker in Tracy, California, miscarried after pleading with her manager and human resources for lighter duty. | Continue reading
The founder of psychoanalysis had a serious blow habit. | Continue reading
Among other things, the trucks couldn't even run on their own battery power for basic product demonstrations and had to be plugged into a wall. | Continue reading
Company employees at a hacking conference made several inappropriate comments to a security researcher who was inquiring about Blizzard’s job openings. | Continue reading
Their future seems as uncertain as the market itself, so young investors are cashing in on the post-pandemic bubble. | Continue reading
"I knew I was in trouble when the FBI guy that I was assigned to literally didn’t know anything about crypto." | Continue reading
Uber and Lyft drivers across the country are striking for better pay, this is why. | Continue reading
Silicon Valley CEOs keep hailing its imminent arrival as they hawk digital goods, but the metaverse was a dystopian idea from its inception. | Continue reading
On July 31, some DoorDash drivers will refuse to work on the app to protest low wages and DoorDash's decision to cut out a third-party app that allowed them to see their tips. | Continue reading
In a court-filed declaration, NSO Group’s CEO says Facebook tried to buy an Apple spying tool in 2017. | Continue reading
According to the company, posts featuring unverified pictures of upcoming iPhone models could prompt accessory makers to produce cases with wrong sizes. | Continue reading
"This is the beginning of an enduring movement in favor of better labor conditions for all employees." | Continue reading
“I don't know how to help someone that far gone.” | Continue reading
Motherboard spoke to economists and historians about why fast food and retail workers around the country are suddenly quitting en masse. | Continue reading
Nigeria has the highest volume of startups on the continent. But recent policy decisions, such as an indefinite Twitter ban, are making it harder for these companies to survive. | Continue reading
A separate program tracked kids’ grades, attendance records, and more in order to predict whether they’d “fall into a life of crime.” | Continue reading
Prosecutors in Chicago are being forced to withdraw evidence generated by the technology, which led to the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo earlier this year. | Continue reading
“Do you know anything about chemotherapy? Do you know what happens to the immune system?” | Continue reading
An income tax raid revealed over 250 street food vendors and scrap dealers have been buying homes and cars while evading taxes. | Continue reading
In a proof-of-concept, researchers reported they could embed malware in up to half of an AI model's nodes and still obtain very high accuracy. | Continue reading
VICE spoke to two Brits who bought false documents and a pair who forge them for friends and family. | Continue reading
The idea that the universe has a 3D torus shape ties in to some pretty far-out stuff, like the CIA’s 1980s Gateway report on psychic phenomena. | Continue reading
After the company took down several posts on Instagram that included the popular protest chant against Iran’s ruler, the company made a temporary exception to its own policies. | Continue reading
“My hope is that it creates world peace or helps create world peace," the tie-dye wearing Twitter CEO said during a panel talk with Elon Musk and investor Cathie Wood. | Continue reading
The Federal Trade Commission officially published a policy paper outlining how it plans to tackle right-to-repair. | Continue reading
A Substack publication used location data from Grindr to out a priest without their consent. | Continue reading
The Israeli surveillance technology maker denied that the list, which underpins a series of bombshell stories in several media outlets, has anything to do with the company. | Continue reading
Persistent anti-vaccination myths from Airbnb hosts are raising new questions about what the platform can do to stop them. | Continue reading