Hong Kong Stabbing: Attacker Asked Victims About Their Views on Protests

One person, a journalist, is in critical condition after being stabbed. Two others escaped with minor injuries. | Continue reading


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Scientists Are 99% Sure They Just Detected a Black Hole Eating a Neutron Star

“If it turns out to be right, then we’ve confirmed a new type of star system. It’s that fundamental.” | Continue reading


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Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays

Fooled by gibberish and highly susceptible to human bias, automated essay-scoring systems are being increasingly adopted, a Motherboard investigation has found | Continue reading


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

Apple accidentally unpatched a vulnerability it had already fixed, making current versions of iOS vulnerable to hackers. | Continue reading


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Criminals are racing to cash out their Bitcoin. Here's how they're doing it

It’s getting harder for the people who drove cryptocurrency’s initial value to reap the rewards. | Continue reading


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Hacker Made Clothes That Can Confuse Automatic License Plate Readers

Designer Kate Rose presented her "adversarial fashion" line of clothing, which introduces garbage data into license plate reader systems, at DEF CON 27. | Continue reading


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How Sierra and a Disgraced Cop Made the Most Reactionary Game of the 90s (2018)

In the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots that ruined his reputation, Daryl Gates found himself in a point-and-click professional afterlife. | Continue reading


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How Big Far Right Social Network Gab Has Gotten

Gab has experienced a huge growth spurt in the first half of 2019, a worrying sign of the spread of hateful ideologies and radicalization online. | Continue reading


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Amazon’s Creepy Twitter PR Army Is Growing

Amazon now has dozens of apparent employees tweeting about how much they love the company. But even former employees are suspicious of the accounts. | Continue reading


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We Asked Def Con Attendees Why People Are Still Getting Hacked

The cybersecurity industry is worth billions of dollars, and tens of thousands of people attend Black Hat and Def Con every year. So, are we getting any safer? | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Big Brands Using Amazon’s Anticounterfeiting Measures to Crush Small Businesses

Amazon sometimes requires small businesses to get permission from manufacturers to sell their products on Amazon Marketplace. | Continue reading


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Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Black at Google’

“Over the last 5 years I’ve heard co-workers spew hateful words about immigrants, boast unabashedly about gentrifying neighborhoods, mockingly imitate people who speak different languages, reject candidates of color without evidence because of ‘fit.’" | Continue reading


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Pigs Are Eating Las Vegas' Casino Leftovers and It's Saving the Damn Planet

Can Vegas ever be truly sustainable? | Continue reading


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Workers Seize the Shipyard That Built the Titanic, Plan to Make Renewable Energy

The closure of the last shipyard in Belfast would end centuries of ship building in the city. A group of workers are demanding the U.K. nationalize the yards. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

The Memo About the ‘Burden of Being Black at Google’

Read the full memo written by a departing Google employee on his experience as a Black person at Google. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

The NSA Refuses to Tell Us the Name of Its Slack

The United States' top digital surveillance agency is using an off-the-shelf version of Slack. For what? They should tell us! | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

We Talked to People in the 11 Percent of Millennials Who 'Always' Feel Lonely

"How can I be this old and not have any friends?" | Continue reading


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The First Thing Securely Sold on the Internet

25 years ago, a college kid named Dan Kohn had the novel idea to let people buy things online. The first thing he ever sold was a Sting solo album. | Continue reading


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Microsoft Admits Humans Listen to Skype and Cortana in Privacy Policy Update

The change comes after Motherboard found that Microsoft hired contractors to listen to some Skype phone calls. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Amazon Facial Recognition Misidentified 1 in 5 California Lawmakers as Criminals

The ACLU tested Rekognition, Amazon's facial recognition technology, on photographs of California lawmakers. It matched 26 of them to mugshots. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Real Hackers Tell Us Why They Love the Movie 'Hackers'

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Our Galaxy's Black Hole Suddenly Lit Up and Nobody Knows Why

In May, the supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way became 75 times brighter in just two hours. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

New York City’s New Ride-Hail Rules Fail to Fight Uber

In an attempt to fight poverty and congestion, the city may end up hurting drivers. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Google Hackers Found 10 Ways to Hack an iPhone Without Touching It

Many of the vulnerabilities relied on using iMessage to own the rest of the phone, Google's Project Zero said. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

These legit-looking iPhone Lightning cables will hijack your computer

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The scientist who injected himself with 3.5M-year-old bacteria (2015)

Is Anatoli Brouchkov for real? Absolutely. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Simple Law Could Have Saved USA $126B in Broadband Deployment Costs

Experts say a law requiring fiber conduit be installed in highway construction is a “no brainer,” so why hasn’t one been passed? | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Black Hat Talk About ‘Time AI’ Causes Uproar, Is Deleted by Conference

A controversial sponsored talk at the Black Hat security conference caused an uproar among security professionals and prompted the conference to delete the talk from the internet. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Computer

It looks like an Apple lightning cable. It works like an Apple lightning cable. But it will give an attacker a way to remotely tap into your computer. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Researchers Show How Europe's Data Protection Laws Can Dox People

A security researcher was able to get companies to give him his fiance’s Social Security Number, passwords, and other sensitive private information with her consent by taking advantage of GDPR’s 'Right of Access' requests. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Teen Security Researcher Suspended for Exposing Vulnerabilities in School

Another vulnerability that Bill Demirkapi found impacted 5,000 schools. | Continue reading


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Ring Told People to Snitch on Their Neighbors in Exchange for Free Stuff

Ring helped people form private ‘Digital Neighborhood Watches’ where they report ‘suspicious activity’ in exchange for free Ring products and discounts, according to a presentation obtained by Motherboard. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

A First-Person Adventure Is One of the Coolest Mario Maker Levels Yet

They somehow pulled this off using tools meant for a platformer. It must be seen to be believed. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Walmart Removes Violent Video Game Signage, Still Sells Guns

The retailer is asking employees to take down signage and playable demos for violent video games, as well as hunting videos, in the wake of shootings at two of its stores. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Romanian Engineers Have Created a Fully Functional Flying Saucer

The "All-Directional Flying Object" is a proof of concept that's the result of more than two decades of engineering work. | Continue reading


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Critical U.S. Election Systems Have Been Left Exposed Online Despite Denials

The top voting machine company in the country insists that its election systems are never connected to the internet. But researchers found 35 of the systems have been connected to the internet for months and possibly years, including in some swing states. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Vodka Was Made Using Contaminated Grain from Chernobyl

"Atomik" vodka is the first consumer product to be made from ingredients from the nuclear reactor's exclusion zone. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Apple Is Locking Batteries to Specific iPhones

The move makes it impossible for anyone who is "unauthorized" to replace a battery on an iPhone without losing important features. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Cloudflare Is Protecting a Site Linked to a Neo-Nazi Terror Group

The Silicon Valley giant is protecting a site linked to a known neo-Nazi terror group from virtual attacks aimed at knocking it offline. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Admin Wants to Make It Impossible to Sue for Algorithmic Discrimination

A new rule would make it easier for businesses to discriminate without consequence. That’s the point. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

How Globalization Broke Gateway, the Cow Computer Company

Thinking about the globalization of the computer industry through a tech company so American it prominently promoted its birth on an Iowa farm on its packaging. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Bernie Sanders Promises to Tell Us About Aliens If He's Elected President

On the Joe Rogan Experience, Sanders said that if he learns anything about aliens, he'll announce it to the public on Rogan's podcast. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls

Documents, screenshots, and audio obtained by Motherboard show that humans listen to Skype calls made using the app's translation function. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

The Pursuit of High Self-Esteem Is Making Us Miserable

“We think of boosts to self-esteem as analogous to sugar: tasty but not nutritious.” | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

What Happens When Telecom Companies Search Your Home for Piracy

Adam Lackman ran TVAddons, a site hosting unofficial addons for Kodi media player. A legal team representing powerful telecom and media companies—Bell and Rogers included—searched his home and sued him for piracy. Now, he's fighting to make it to trial. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

FTC Should Fine Itself for False Advertising for Promising You $125 from Equifax

Consumer groups say the FTC engaged in the same false and deceptive behavior it’s supposed to police. | Continue reading


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The Secret Scripts Amazon Give to Cops to Promote Ring Surveillance Cameras

Documents obtained by Motherboard reveal that Ring provides 46 standardized comments that cops can post on social media, and several documents with scripted responses to possible questions from the public. | Continue reading


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Yelp Is Sneakily Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut

The phone numbers add tracking before connecting to a restaurant so that Grubhub can bill for a marketing fee. | Continue reading


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