How Facebook Bought a Police Force

Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by Motherboard show how Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city. | Continue reading


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The Phone Company Secretly Run by Drug Traffickers

Crime blogger Martin Kok was assassinated while leaving a sex club. It turned out MPC, one of his clients, was not an ordinary phone company. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

In a First, FTC Bans Company from Selling ‘Stalkerware’

The FTC’s move comes after Motherboard revealed a hacker had repeatedly breached Retina-X and gained access to sensitive user data. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

The Phone Company Secretly Run by Drug Traffickers

Crime blogger Martin Kok was assassinated while leaving a sex club. It turned out MPC, one of his clients, was not an ordinary phone company. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

A Powerful California Fault Line Is Moving for the First Time on Record

The Garlock fault could produce a magnitude 8 earthquake. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

At the Times, a Hesitance to Hyperlink

Journalists at the 'New York Times' and its own standards editor say that getting continually dragged by other journalists for not giving credit is embarrassing. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

The Clap and the Clap Back: How Twitter Erased Black Culture from an Emoji

Clapping is just the most recent example of Black wit that has been circulated in non-Black circles and applied almost to exhaustion. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Medieval Strategy Life-Sim 'Crusader Kings 3' Announced for 2020

Paradox's new dynastic strategy game switches to 3D character models and has a focus on approachability and user-friendliness | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

NY Times Journalists and Its Standards Editor Are Tired of Getting Dragged for Not Crediting Other Outlets

An internal memo explains the NYTimes's linking policy. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Users won't be able to upload new content to the site after October 21 and have until December 14 to archive their content, Yahoo said in an announcement. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Uber Drivers Are Organizing Protests at Billionaire Investors’ Homes

When Uber’s early investors cash out on November 6 for the first time since the company went public, drivers on the app will protest outside the homes of top investors. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Blizzard Bans Three College ‘Hearthstone’ Protesters for Six Months

The members of American University who held up a “Free Hong Kong, Boycott Blizz” sign said they have no regrets. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Malware That Spits Cash Out of ATMs Has Spread Across the World

A joint investigation between Motherboard and the German broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) has uncovered new details about a spate of so-called “jackpotting” attacks. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Tech Companies didn't plan for Chinese censorship

Tech companies are censoring information about the demonstrations in Hong Kong. Civil liberties experts say this is symptomatic of larger problems. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Are Hackintosh Users More Passionate About the Mac Than Apple?

The Hackintosh has become a phenomenon in recent years, despite knotty ethical questions, because Apple’s neglected superfans won’t stop thinking different. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Twitch Helped Limit Reach of Synagogue Shooters Video by Uploading Hash

Wednesday's shooting was the first big test of Big Tech’s new alliance to defend against viral violence. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

8chan Is Back from the Internet Grave – and It Has a New Name

The message board has a new name and a new URL, but it will welcome back all the users that made it a hub for hate speech and extremist conspiracy theories. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Gamers Are Organizing a Mass Protest at Blizzcon

"They have no idea what kind of Internet shitstorm they've unleashed," the protest's organizers say. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Major Rights Org: Blizzard Doesn't Respect the Human Rights of Its Customers

"By penalizing a player for speaking up in support of protesters exercising their right to freedom of expression, Blizzard demonstrates a lack of respect for the human rights of its users." | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

OS-related code glitch endangered published studies

The discovery is a reminder that science is collaborative and ideally self-correcting, but that nothing can be taken for granted. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

‘The Internal Silence Is Deafening,’ Blizzard Employee Re: China Controversy

Blizzard employees are reeling after a week of controversy and protests. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

California First State to Require Public Colleges to Provide Abortion Medication

It's the first state to do so. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017)

And happy people just might be slightly delusional. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Why People Are Dying from Vaping in the US and Not the UK

There's a reason—actually, a few—and none of them are very flattering to American politicians. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

GitHub CEO Says It Has to Follow Microsoft’s Lead on Working with ICE

Multiple GitHub employees recalled comments from CEO Nat Friedman made during an internal company meeting. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era

A new book highlighting the visual evolution of web design paints a picture of a risk-taking creative culture that hasn’t been quite the same since Steve Jobs stuck a knife into Flash. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Blizzard's Hong Kong Screw-Up Is Officially an International Incident

The company's communities are in chaos and US senators are taking notice, following the suspension of a pro 'Hearthstone' player who declared support for Hong Kong's protest movement. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Internal Email Shows GitHub Plans to Renew ICE Contract

Even though GitHub leadership and others oppose ICE’s child separation policy, an internal email suggests GitHub won’t stop ICE from renewing a contract with the tech company. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Twitter Took Phone Numbers for Security and Used Them for Advertising

This could make people think twice about using a phone number to secure their account at all. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

An Os for the Apocalypse

The operating system is designed to work with ubiquitous, easy-to-scavenge components in a future where consumer electronics are a thing of the past. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Cleveland Woman Could Go to Jail Because Her House Needs a New Coat of Paint

"I’m going to jail cuz I’m broke, disabled, and can’t fix my home.” | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

After 'South Park' Censorship Episode, China Deleted the Show from the Web

The episode criticized American entertainment leaders for catering to China's censorship rules. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Twitter Sees Itself

Multiple current and former Twitter employees, including executives, explain how Twitter really positions itself and its responsibilities around moderating speech. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

I Learned About My Terrible Internet Data Cap, Thanks to Video Games

It turns out downloading 100GB video games will quickly have Comcast knocking, not-so-politely asking for more money. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Telegram Became White Nationalists' Go-To Messaging Platform

More than two-thirds of 150 far-right channels were created in 2019, an exclusive analysis by VICE News found. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

The Thai UFO Group Convinced That Aliens Will Save Us from Armageddon

The ‘space portal’ where they supposedly chat to aliens was raided, but they aren't giving up. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

24% of Your Cable TV Bill Is Just Bogus Fees

Consumer Reports estimates cable industry makes $28 billion a year in misleading surcharges alone. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

An Indian Dealer Explains Why Instagram Is So Great for Selling Weed

“I manipulate people. I might follow them but wait for them to see my Stories to know I sell.” | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Violence Is Just Part of the Job When You're a Nurse

"We've had nurses get kicked so hard they could hardly stand up, and they're asked to finish their shift." | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

A 14-Year-Old Designer Became Part of Apple's Splashy New Gaming Service

After being picked by Apple to attend the company's developer conference, he was given a chance to pitch them—and seized the moment. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

I've Never Felt Professionally Lonelier Than I Did at a WeWork

WeWork touts its ability to build community, but coworking is bleak. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Kickstarter Workers Just Asked for Union Recognition Despite Pushback from CEO

Days after Kickstarter's CEO Aziz Hasan said he would not voluntarily recognize a union at the company, employees sent him a letter requesting voluntary recognition. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Amazon Workers Walked Out over Warehouse Working Conditions

They are asking for better pay on the night shift and better working conditions. It's the second work stoppage at a Minnesota fulfillment center in the last two months. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

WeWork touts its ability to build community, but coworking is bleak. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Researchers Uncovered Uzbekistan Hacking Operations Due to Bad Opsec

A new threat actor Kaspersky calls SandCat, believed to be Uzbekistan’s intelligence agency, is so bad at operational security, researchers have found multiple zero-day exploits used by the group, and even caught malware the group was still developing. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

I Gave My Cat a Fitness Tracker and the Results Were Worrying

Data is the new oil and kitty FitBits are a thing. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Curiosity, Luck, and the Flip of a Switch Saved the Moon Program

Lightning never strikes the same place twice, until it does, and you're in a rocket to the moon. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Number Theorist Fears All Published Math Is Wrong

"I think there is a non-zero chance that some of our great castles are built on sand," he said, arguing that we must begin to rely on AI to verify proofs. | Continue reading


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