Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by Motherboard show how Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city. | Continue reading
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
The FTC’s move comes after Motherboard revealed a hacker had repeatedly breached Retina-X and gained access to sensitive user data. | Continue reading
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
The Garlock fault could produce a magnitude 8 earthquake. | Continue reading
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
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
Paradox's new dynastic strategy game switches to 3D character models and has a focus on approachability and user-friendliness | Continue reading
An internal memo explains the NYTimes's linking policy. | Continue reading
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
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
The members of American University who held up a “Free Hong Kong, Boycott Blizz” sign said they have no regrets. | Continue reading
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
Tech companies are censoring information about the demonstrations in Hong Kong. Civil liberties experts say this is symptomatic of larger problems. | Continue reading
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
Wednesday's shooting was the first big test of Big Tech’s new alliance to defend against viral violence. | Continue reading
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
"They have no idea what kind of Internet shitstorm they've unleashed," the protest's organizers say. | Continue reading
"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
The discovery is a reminder that science is collaborative and ideally self-correcting, but that nothing can be taken for granted. | Continue reading
Blizzard employees are reeling after a week of controversy and protests. | Continue reading
It's the first state to do so. | Continue reading
And happy people just might be slightly delusional. | Continue reading
There's a reason—actually, a few—and none of them are very flattering to American politicians. | Continue reading
Multiple GitHub employees recalled comments from CEO Nat Friedman made during an internal company meeting. | Continue reading
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
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
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
This could make people think twice about using a phone number to secure their account at all. | Continue reading
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
"I’m going to jail cuz I’m broke, disabled, and can’t fix my home.” | Continue reading
The episode criticized American entertainment leaders for catering to China's censorship rules. | Continue reading
Multiple current and former Twitter employees, including executives, explain how Twitter really positions itself and its responsibilities around moderating speech. | Continue reading
It turns out downloading 100GB video games will quickly have Comcast knocking, not-so-politely asking for more money. | Continue reading
More than two-thirds of 150 far-right channels were created in 2019, an exclusive analysis by VICE News found. | Continue reading
The ‘space portal’ where they supposedly chat to aliens was raided, but they aren't giving up. | Continue reading
Consumer Reports estimates cable industry makes $28 billion a year in misleading surcharges alone. | Continue reading
“I manipulate people. I might follow them but wait for them to see my Stories to know I sell.” | Continue reading
"We've had nurses get kicked so hard they could hardly stand up, and they're asked to finish their shift." | Continue reading
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
WeWork touts its ability to build community, but coworking is bleak. | Continue reading
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
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
WeWork touts its ability to build community, but coworking is bleak. | Continue reading
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
Data is the new oil and kitty FitBits are a thing. | Continue reading
Lightning never strikes the same place twice, until it does, and you're in a rocket to the moon. | Continue reading
"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