Musicians Demand Ticketmaster Ban Facial Recognition at Concerts

Yvette Clarke, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley plan to propose a federal law banning the technology this week, citing concerns over privacy and bias. | Continue reading


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What Happens When Two Satellites Collide in Space?

The first-ever collision between artificial satellites changed how the world looked at space. Now, low-Earth orbit is about to get a lot more crowded. | Continue reading


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The Worst Ways People Have Lost Their Saved Games

Warning: Heartbreak within. | Continue reading


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Multiple DMV's selling private data

You gave them your data in exchange for a driver’s license. DMVs are making tens of millions of dollars selling it, documents obtained by Motherboard show. | Continue reading


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Apple Disputes Google’s Claims of a Devastating iPhone Hack

Apple says that Google oversold the nature of the hack and that it quickly fixed the vulnerability. | Continue reading


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Google Maps Is Directing Women Seeking Abortions to Pro-Life Clinics

In areas where abortion access is under threat, misleading or wrong results are common, a VICE News analysis found. | Continue reading


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What Happens to Your Brain When You Stop Believing in God

It's like going off a drug. | Continue reading


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Thieves Used Audio Deepfake of a CEO to Steal $243,000

The heist is just a preview of how unprepared we are for AI-powered cybercrime. | Continue reading


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A Shocking Number of Americans Want to 'Just Let Them All Burn'

A study measured the 'Need for Chaos' that leads people to spread online misinformation and vote for politicians like Trump. | Continue reading


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Apple Devices Are Not as Secure as We Think

After several high profile attacks and embarrassing slip-ups, Apple’s perception as the secure consumer device is starting to crack. | Continue reading


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Experts Want to Give Control of America's Nuclear Missiles to AI

If America is attacked with a nuclear bomb, artificial intelligence would automatically fire back even if we are all dead. | Continue reading


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Amazon Is Looking More and More Like a Nation-State

Amazon is levying taxes on French businesses after France approved a tax on the tech giant. | Continue reading


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The Messy Relationship Between Mario Maker's Hacking Community and Nintendo

Some of Mario Maker's biggest fans love to break the game, thinking they're making new tools. Nintendo wants to ban them. | Continue reading


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Has Been the Worst Year for iPhone Security Yet

After several high profile attacks and embarrassing slip-ups, Apple’s perception as the secure consumer device is starting to crack. | Continue reading


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The Internet Has a C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal with It

What do Heartbleed, WannaCry, and million dollar iPhone bugs have in common? | Continue reading


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Being Born Rich Still Leads to Success More Than Working Hard (2017)

But economic justice groups in the UK are campaigning hard to fix a broken system. | Continue reading


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YouTube Has Been Harvesting Kids' Data for Years

YouTube wants to put the responsibility on content creators to turn off ads for kids under 13. | Continue reading


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Twitter won't ban neo-Nazis because it'd mean banning Republican politicians too

A Twitter employee who works on machine learning believes that a proactive, algorithmic solution to white supremacy would also catch Republican politicians. | Continue reading


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The British Army's Plan to Shoot Protesters in Hong Kong in the 80s

The British Army of the 1980s was willing to control riots by shooting people. | Continue reading


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What Happened at Hanging Rock

The geological formation outside Melbourne is famous for the fictional disappearance of a school group. But it's also the site of a very real mass disappearance. | Continue reading


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In the Future, Your Watch Will Tell You If You’re Wasted

A wearable that measures your drunkenness sounds embarrassing, but so does finding out the hard way (puking on the street). | Continue reading


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Google Contractors Are Unionizing with a Steel Workers Union

Part of Google’s “shadow work force” is unionizing in Philadelphia. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Venmo Is Still Exposing Your Connections to Everyone You Know

The EFF and Mozilla published an open letter today urging Venmo parent company PayPal to fix the app's privacy holes. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Google Says Malicious Websites Have Been Quietly Hacking iPhones for Years

It may be the biggest attack against iPhone users yet. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

NASA Has Turned on a Deep Space GPS

The miniature atomic clock is a big step toward self-driving deep space probes. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Researchers Created AI That Hides Your Emotions from Other AI

As smart speaker makers such as Amazon improve emotion-detecting AI, researchers are coming up with ways to protect our privacy. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Cops Hijack Botnet, Remotely Wipe Malware from 850k Computers

Police in France took down a large cryptocurrency-mining malware operation with the help of a cybersecurity firm. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Rich Families Are Legally Separating from Their Kids to Pay Less for College

It's the latest tactic the wealthy use to game the system. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Teens These Days Are Queer AF, New Study Says

Exclusive: According to a new survey of people aged 13-34, members of "Generation Z" find the gender binary much less on fleek than millennials. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

AI Gives Emojis Real Faces and the Results Are Horrifying

If you train a machine learning tool to find human features in emojis, the results are not pretty. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

A Fake Country That Created a Real Political Movement

What had started out as an innocent meme mocking the 2017 struggle for independence in Catalonia ended up deeply dividing Spain. | Continue reading


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Hacker Drops Steam Zero Day After Being Banned from Valve Bug Bounty Program

Valve says banning him was a mistake, but he made the bug public anyway. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

NotPetya Ushered in a New Era of Malware

EternalBlue and NotPetya through the eyes of influence. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Apple just released an emergency patch for the iPhone

The company released a patch to fix a dangerous bug on Monday, a week after hackers had released a jailbreak for fully patched iPhones. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Freelance Site Fiverr Offers Illegal Private Spying Services

Fiverr removed a number of listings after Motherboard approached the company for comment. | Continue reading


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'Ancestors' Is an Audacious Experiment. I Never Want to Play It Again

It will be impossible to play 'Ancestors' and not come away with an opinion on what it’s trying. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Hacker Releases First Public Jailbreak for Up-to-Date iPhones in Years

Apple expanded the scope of its bug bounty, increased payouts, and promised special devices to a select group of researchers. For jailbreakers and hackers, there’s never been a better time to pwn the iPhone. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Climate Change Revived a Plant That Hasn't Bred in 60M Years in the UK

Cycads used to grow in the UK during the age of the dinosaurs. Warming temperatures are helping them return. | Continue reading


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Feeling Sad About the Amazon Fires? Stop Eating Meat

The growing demand for meat around the world is directly linked to the Amazon fires. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Security Researchers Find Several Bugs in Google Nest Security Cameras

Cisco Talos researchers report finding eight security vulnerabilities in the Nest Cam IQ that can allow attackers to take over the camera, prevent its use or allow code execution. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

People Paid to Dox Airbnb Addresses

In response to a need to enforce short term rental legislation, an industry of companies has popped up tasked with finding the real addresses of Airbnbs and other properties. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Scientists are discovering long-lost rules for ancient board games

You can play reconstructions of ancient board games thanks to these scientists and their algorithms. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Microsoft Contractors Listened to Xbox Owners in Their Homes

Multiple contractors working for Microsoft explain how they listened to audio captured by Xbox consoles. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

T-Mobile Put My Life in Danger, Says Woman Stalked with Illegal Location Data

Telecom giants are giving up customers' real-time location data to stalkers and bounty hunters. Now, Motherboard speaks to a victim. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Chrome and Firefox Block Kazakhstan's CA

Two of the main browser makers announced they would block the Kazakhstan government’s root certificate, which was designed to spy on citizens’ internet usage. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Hundreds of people mysteriously died over a millennium at “Skeleton Lake”

The new arrivals bring the total wolf population of Isle Royale National Park to eight. | Continue reading


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Nobody Knows Why Hundreds of People Died at This Himalayan Lake

Hundreds of people mysteriously died over a millennium at "Skeleton Lake" in the Himalayas according to a new study, making the creepy location even more mysterious. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

The Amazon Is on Fire and the Smoke Can Be Seen from Space

The Amazon has been burning for weeks amid increasing deforestation. The intense smoke was detected by NASA and plunged São Paulo into darkness on Monday. | Continue reading


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