One person, a journalist, is in critical condition after being stabbed. Two others escaped with minor injuries. | Continue reading
“If it turns out to be right, then we’ve confirmed a new type of star system. It’s that fundamental.” | Continue reading
Fooled by gibberish and highly susceptible to human bias, automated essay-scoring systems are being increasingly adopted, a Motherboard investigation has found | Continue reading
Apple accidentally unpatched a vulnerability it had already fixed, making current versions of iOS vulnerable to hackers. | Continue reading
It’s getting harder for the people who drove cryptocurrency’s initial value to reap the rewards. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
Amazon sometimes requires small businesses to get permission from manufacturers to sell their products on Amazon Marketplace. | Continue reading
“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
Can Vegas ever be truly sustainable? | Continue reading
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
Read the full memo written by a departing Google employee on his experience as a Black person at Google. | Continue reading
The United States' top digital surveillance agency is using an off-the-shelf version of Slack. For what? They should tell us! | Continue reading
"How can I be this old and not have any friends?" | Continue reading
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
The change comes after Motherboard found that Microsoft hired contractors to listen to some Skype phone calls. | Continue reading
The ACLU tested Rekognition, Amazon's facial recognition technology, on photographs of California lawmakers. It matched 26 of them to mugshots. | Continue reading
In May, the supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way became 75 times brighter in just two hours. | Continue reading
In an attempt to fight poverty and congestion, the city may end up hurting drivers. | Continue reading
Many of the vulnerabilities relied on using iMessage to own the rest of the phone, Google's Project Zero said. | Continue reading
Is Anatoli Brouchkov for real? Absolutely. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
Another vulnerability that Bill Demirkapi found impacted 5,000 schools. | Continue reading
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
They somehow pulled this off using tools meant for a platformer. It must be seen to be believed. | Continue reading
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
The "All-Directional Flying Object" is a proof of concept that's the result of more than two decades of engineering work. | Continue reading
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
"Atomik" vodka is the first consumer product to be made from ingredients from the nuclear reactor's exclusion zone. | Continue reading
The move makes it impossible for anyone who is "unauthorized" to replace a battery on an iPhone without losing important features. | Continue reading
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
A new rule would make it easier for businesses to discriminate without consequence. That’s the point. | Continue reading
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
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
Documents, screenshots, and audio obtained by Motherboard show that humans listen to Skype calls made using the app's translation function. | Continue reading
“We think of boosts to self-esteem as analogous to sugar: tasty but not nutritious.” | Continue reading
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
Consumer groups say the FTC engaged in the same false and deceptive behavior it’s supposed to police. | Continue reading
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
The phone numbers add tracking before connecting to a restaurant so that Grubhub can bill for a marketing fee. | Continue reading