The federal government is investigating mysterious signals coming from Havana that are jamming popular frequencies. | Continue reading
After raising $235 million in funding, AnyVision CEO Avi Golan tried to rally fellow executives to #stopthemadness of rising salaries for workers. | Continue reading
The move comes as activist and media organizations publish new findings on the Israeli surveillance vendor. | Continue reading
Malaysian authorities did not mess around when they broke up a cryptocurrency mining farm and charged the operators with stealing electricity. | Continue reading
Hundreds of workers at the Frito-Lay plant in Topeka, Kansas are striking for the first time. | Continue reading
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
But the reward may not apply to lots of ransomware gangs. | Continue reading
Remembering the chatbot that was my introduction to artificial intelligence. | Continue reading
Newly released emails show that the Utah Department of Health thought Banjo AI was full of hot air. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
A new report by Google researcher details a hacking campaign by “likely Russian government-backed” hackers targeting European government officials. | Continue reading
Robert Williams was arrested last year in Detroit after a facial recognition system misidentified him as a suspect. | Continue reading
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
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
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
The promise and peril of turning the Salton Sea into California's "Lithium Valley." | Continue reading
New AI tools CLIP+VQ-GAN can create impressive works of art based on just a few words of input. | Continue reading
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
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
Detecting 'technosignatures' such as hypothetical Dyson spheres in space could lead us to extraterrestrial life, and now NASA is funding the search. | Continue reading
For some reason, Samsung apps designed to control internet-connected washer and dryers require "bogus," "absurd," "unacceptable," "pesky," and "awful" permissions. | Continue reading
'Anom’ phones used in an FBI honeypot are mysteriously showing up on the secondary market. We bought one. | Continue reading
A Motherboard investigation found the algorithmic surveillance tools allow racist groups like the KKK while flagging LGBTQ health sites as 'porn'. | Continue reading
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
Private equity firm that's snatching up houses has now also bought a collectibles grading giant. | Continue reading
“I'm talking about the fear you'd feel when facing death or serious injury. That's the fear that was removed.” | Continue reading
The federal government is officially planning to fight policies that prevent farmers from repairing their tractors. | Continue reading
A trip through the intentionally unseeable World of Hiding Data in Imagery | Continue reading
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
Companies can own potentially valuable psychedelic IP without anyone even knowing if it works. | Continue reading
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
The new law will require advertisements where a body’s shape, size, or skin has been retouched to be labeled. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The company said the hackers targeted video games in China, potentially to cheat and compromise their accounts. | Continue reading
A new experiment probed how the human brain encodes and processes the flow of time. | Continue reading
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
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