FCC Investigating Whether Cuban Government Is Jamming HAM Radio

The federal government is investigating mysterious signals coming from Havana that are jamming popular frequencies. | Continue reading


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Tech CEO Says Workers Get Too Much Pay and Benefits

After raising $235 million in funding, AnyVision CEO Avi Golan tried to rally fellow executives to #stopthemadness of rising salaries for workers. | Continue reading


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Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure

The move comes as activist and media organizations publish new findings on the Israeli surveillance vendor. | Continue reading


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Police Destroy 1,069 Bitcoin Miners with Big Ass Steamroller in Malaysia

Malaysian authorities did not mess around when they broke up a cryptocurrency mining farm and charged the operators with stealing electricity. | Continue reading


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I'm a Frito-Lay Factory Worker. I Work 12-Hour Days, 7 Days a Week

Hundreds of workers at the Frito-Lay plant in Topeka, Kansas are striking for the first time. | Continue reading


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Biden Wants to Give Us the Right to Repair. Now What?

The White House explains why Biden cares about right to repair and how it plans to implement new rules that make it easier to fix your things. | Continue reading


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U.S. Government Offers $10M for Info on Hackers Targeting Infrastructure

But the reward may not apply to lots of ransomware gangs. | Continue reading


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A History of SmarterChild

Remembering the chatbot that was my introduction to artificial intelligence. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Health Department Had Opioid-Tracking AI Forced on Them by Utah Lawmakers

Newly released emails show that the Utah Department of Health thought Banjo AI was full of hot air. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

The Industry That Unmasks People at Scale

Unique IDs linked to phones are supposed to be anonymous. But there’s an entire industry that links them to real people and their address. | Continue reading


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Man Harvests Methane for 8 Hours to Fuel Bike That Runs on Swamp Gas

This motorcycle runs on freshly harvested bog methane that rests in a giant condom attached to the back of the bike. It takes eight hours of labor to go 12 miles. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Hackers Move to Extort Gaming Giant EA

After trying to sell a cache of stolen data, hackers are now dumping some of the information publicly in the hopes of forcing EA to pay a ransom. | Continue reading


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MIT Predicted Society Will Collapse in 2040. Research Shows We're on Schedule

A 1972 MIT study predicted that rapid economic growth would lead to societal collapse in the mid 21st century. A new paper shows we’re unfortunately right on schedule. | Continue reading


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Google: LinkedIn Networkers Russian Hackers Spreading Zero-Days

A new report by Google researcher details a hacking campaign by “likely Russian government-backed” hackers targeting European government officials. | Continue reading


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Man Wrongfully Arrested by Facial Recognition Tells Congress His Story

Robert Williams was arrested last year in Detroit after a facial recognition system misidentified him as a suspect. | Continue reading


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Why Are White Women Fake Crying on TikTok?

You don't have to worry about a "white women crying" trend taking over TikTok, unless you're a big fan of vampire shows on The CW. | Continue reading


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Five Million People Die Every Year Now Due to Abnormal Temperatures

Heat-related deaths are on the rise and on track to outpace deaths from cold temperatures, finds a first-of-its-kind study. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

The Billionaire ‘Space Race’ Has Nothing to Do with Space

Billionaires funding suborbital flights aren't building a future for humanity off Earth, so much as seeking capital to build a private space tourism industry that will profit off of Earth. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

A Toxic Lake Will Become One of the US's First Lithium Mines

The promise and peril of turning the Salton Sea into California's "Lithium Valley." | Continue reading


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AI Generated Art Scene Explodes as Hackers Create Groundbreaking New Tools

New AI tools CLIP+VQ-GAN can create impressive works of art based on just a few words of input. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Private Security Force That Works with Citizen Wants the Power to Arrest People

In a video, the founder of ‘subscription’ security company Los Angeles Professional Security said he wants to be able to detain ‘prisoners’ and take them to jail. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Researchers Got a Bunch of Fish Hooked on Meth, for Science

A new study shows that trout can get addicted to meth that comes from human waste, and it "could overshadow natural rewards like foraging or mating." | Continue reading


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NASA Is Quietly Funding a Hunt for Alien Megastructures

Detecting 'technosignatures' such as hypothetical Dyson spheres in space could lead us to extraterrestrial life, and now NASA is funding the search. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Samsung Washing Machine App Requires Access to Your Contacts and Location

For some reason, Samsung apps designed to control internet-connected washer and dryers require "bogus," "absurd," "unacceptable," "pesky," and "awful" permissions. | Continue reading


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We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals

'Anom’ phones used in an FBI honeypot are mysteriously showing up on the secondary market. We bought one. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Schools Use Software That Blocks LGBTQ+ Content, but Not White Supremacists

A Motherboard investigation found the algorithmic surveillance tools allow racist groups like the KKK while flagging LGBTQ health sites as 'porn'. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Debit Card Apps for Kids Are Collecting a Shocking Amount of Personal Data

Greenlight says it isn't currently selling data on kids' spending habits to advertisers, but its privacy policy suggests it could start anytime. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Pokémon Card Grading Company Valued at $500M After Blackstone Acquisition

Private equity firm that's snatching up houses has now also bought a collectibles grading giant. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Guy Had a Piece of His Brain Removed. Now He Can’t Feel Fear

“I'm talking about the fear you'd feel when facing death or serious injury. That's the fear that was removed.” | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Biden to Sign Executive Order Granting Farmers Right to Repair Protections

The federal government is officially planning to fight policies that prevent farmers from repairing their tractors. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Guide to Steganography

A trip through the intentionally unseeable World of Hiding Data in Imagery | Continue reading


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Peter Thiel’s $5B Roth IRA Tax Haven Is the Hottest New Investing Tip

A ProPublica investigation exposed how billionaire Peter Thiel used a Roth IRA to dodge millions in taxes. To many in the finance world, it just revealed Thiel as an inspiration. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Can LSD Treat Food Allergies? We Don’t Know, but It’s Already Been Patented

Companies can own potentially valuable psychedelic IP without anyone even knowing if it works. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Bitcoin Is National Currency in El Salvador. Now Who's Going to Get Rich?

After a mysterious donor turned a Salvadoran surf town into “Bitcoin Beach,” the country made crypto legal tender—and perhaps a source of profit. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Norway Law Forces Influencers to Label Retouched Photos on Instagram

The new law will require advertisements where a body’s shape, size, or skin has been retouched to be labeled. | Continue reading


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Microsoft Tries, Fails to Patch Critical Windows Vulnerability. Chaos Ensues

Security researchers warn there's an unpatched vulnerability in Windows and Windows Server that could allow hackers to take full control of targets' computers and servers. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Amazon Delivery Companies Revolt Against Amazon, Shut Down

The recent shutdown of two Amazon delivery companies in Portland appears to be the first public example in the United States of such companies using their leverage to protest against Amazon. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Science YouTuber Wins $10k Bet with Physicist

Experts including Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson witnessed a science YouTuber design a wind-powered car that a physicist said would defy the laws of physics. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Amazon Demands FTC Chair Recuse Herself from Investigating Amazon

Amazon paints FTC Chair Lina Khan as being its "adversary-in-chief" and argues she would appear to be unable to hear their arguments with "an open mind." | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Six Federal Agencies Used Facial Recognition on George Floyd Protestors

The FBI, U.S. Park Police, and other agencies used the technology during the height of 2020's protests, according to a new government watchdog report. | Continue reading


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A lake twice the volume of San Diego Bay disappeared within three days, a finding that could have implications for understanding climate change in Antarctica. | Continue reading


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VirTra is building police simulation training tools to support officers

The scenarios in VirTra's training include "Hot tub trio," where an officer encounters people "in the backyard hot tub, playing loud music and possibly smoking marijuana." | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Hackers Tricked Microsoft into Certifying Malware

The company said the hackers targeted video games in China, potentially to cheat and compromise their accounts. | Continue reading


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Scientists Discover 'Time Cells' in the Brain That Enable 'Mental Time Travel'

A new experiment probed how the human brain encodes and processes the flow of time. | Continue reading


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The Many App Stores Before the App Store

Assessing the landscape of the app store concept in the years before it became an idea “originated” by Apple. The prior art is strong with this one. | Continue reading


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State Charges 77-Year-Old for 'Practicing Engineering Without a License'

A retired North Carolina engineer volunteered his professional opinion during a lawsuit, now the state says he’s in trouble for practicing engineering without a license. | Continue reading


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