Anti-Vaxxers Are Terrified the Government Will ‘Enforce’ a Vaccine for Covid

Anti-vax groups on social media are claiming that the spread of the disease will lead to mandatory vaccinations and 'unlimited surveillance.' | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Hackers Steal $140M from Users of Crypto Gaming Company

VulcanForge becomes the third cryptocurrency company to be hit by hackers this month. In total, hackers have stolen more than $400 million. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Jonah Peretti Admits BuzzFeed SPAC Has Been Shitshow, Blames Third Party

Workers who had money on the line are very upset about about having been part of the SPAC from hell. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing Anomalous Materials from UFO Crashes

A Q&A with one of the foremost scientists studying UAPs, and what he hopes to learn by systematically studying bizarre and difficult-to-explain incidents. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

John Deere Blows Off Shareholders Asking About Right to Repair

Facing mounting legislation and pushback from customers and shareholders, an embattled John Deere looks to the SEC to keep it from answering questions. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Better CEO 'Taking Time Off Effective Immediately': Email

The company has also hired an outside firm to “do a leadership and cultural assessment." | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

How the NSA (Or Anyone Else) Can Crack Tor's Anonymity (2014)

Researchers identified 81 percent of people using the service with a honeypot scheme and some statistical analysis. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Wikipedia Editors Mad About Jimmy Wales’ NFT of a Wikipedia Edit

Wikipedia editors agreed that Wales’ post about the auction violated the site's rules about self-promotion. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Remote workers are using “mouse movers” to stay active while AFK

“The tables have turned in favor of the Worker,” said one mouse jiggler company. “They are in power today.” | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Amazon's Server Outage Took Down a 'Decentralized' Crypto Exchange

How decentralized is decentralized finance? | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Researchers find NFT economy is just as unequal as the real one

A growing number of studies indicate that a powerful few control the burgeoning market. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

The CIA Is Deep into Cryptocurrency, Director Reveals

CIA Director William Burns said the agency has "a number of different projects focused on cryptocurrency" on the go. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Hacked Cryptocurrency Platform Begs Hacker to Please Return $119M

BadgerDAO, which lost about $119 million in a hack last week, is now pleading with the hacker to return the money. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

The 'Fake Wealth' Industry Making Influencers Look Rich (2020)

Pretending you were gifted those trainers might be the reason you're not an influencer. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

CEO Feels Terrible About Laying Off 900 Employees over Video Chat

"If you’re on this call, you are part of the unlucky group that is being laid off," mortgage lender Better.com CEO Vishal Garg said. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Hackers Are Spamming Businesses’ Receipt Printers with ‘Antiwork’ Manifestos

Dozens of printers across the internet are printing out a manifesto that encourages workers to discuss their pay with coworkers, and pressure their employers. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

I Lost $400k, Almost Everything I Had, on a Single Robinhood Bet

A young retail trader explains what it’s like to make the retail trade from hell. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

New Zealand Becomes First Country in the World to Fully Legalise Drug Checking

New legislation will allow people to test illicit substances at music festivals and beyond. Experts say it will save lives. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Court Throws Out Messages Obtained by FBI Honeypot Phone Company Anom

A court in Finland ruled that the messages could not be used as evidence against two particular suspects. But the ruling could have a knock-on effect with other cases. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Internal Slacks Show HelloFresh Is Controlling Talk of Unionization

The meal kit-giant is monitoring employees who post about the union, hiding union-related posts, and ignoring customers who have questions about the union. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Kindness Saved the Cult Hit 'Anachronox' from the Wreck of Ion Storm

How Tom Hall and a team of inspired believers created an RPG masterpiece during one of the games industry's—and Hall's—most disastrous projects. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

China Managed to Wipe Out All Mentions of Its Most Explosive MeToo Case

A former Chinese censor says the scale of the censorship is “unprecedented.” | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Canadians rocked by celebrity groundhog death coverup

Town officials are defending their decision to keep the death of the Canada-famous rodent, Wiarton Willie, a secret for over a year. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Whether or not Krause House DAO will also result in failure and chaos is anybody's guess. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Arecibo’s Legacy Lives On, a Year After Its Collapse

Space scientists Abel Méndez, Génesis Ferrer, and Arianna Colón Cesaní spoke with Motherboard about the incalculable impact of Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Someone Made a Pirate Bay for NFTs

An artist and programer in Australia has uploaded 15 Terabytes of NFTs to a server. Here’s the torrent for them. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

'Crypto' Means Cryptocurrency. We Lost the War, and It's OK

For years, people have insisted that 'crypto' means 'cryptography,' but cryptocurrency won. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Wikipedia and Google Identified Wrong Man as a Serial Killer for Years

After a Discovery show displayed his booking photo in an episode about a serial killer, Nathaniel White's image spread ar | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Apple Will Tell You How to Fix iPhones, Sell Parts to the General Public

In a major shift in policy, Apple says it will sell the parts and tools necessary for DIY iPhone repair. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Restore Net Neutrality, or Facebook Will Dominate the Internet Forever

Without a functioning FCC, it’s only a matter of time before Big Tech and Big Telecom team up to screw us all. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

California Man in 4-Day Standoff with Abandoned Amazon Truck in Driveway

When Captain Lou ordered toilet paper from Amazon, he had no idea he’d end up with a Sprinter van, too. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

More Phantom Braking in Teslas as It Keeps Fixing Then Busting Its Software

The more updates, the more potential for bugs. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Hackers Compromised Middle East Eye News Website to Hack Visitors

Cybersecurity researchers tracked a hacking campaign spanning more than a year that hit around 20 websites. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

South Korea Is Selling Millions of Photos to Facial Recognition Researchers

Travelers to the country are having their biometric data sold to private companies under a program recently uncovered by civil rights groups. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Swedish Officials Call for EU-Wide Ban on ‘Proof of Work’ Crypto Mining

The officials argue that if energy-intensive crypto mining remains legal, the European Union will not be able to meet its climate targets. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

LA Wants to Ban iBuyers, Private Equity Firms from Profiting Off Housing

The city council has voted to explore ways to ban such companies from purchasing single-family homes. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Government Scientists Recover Hypothesized Crystal from Deep Within Earth

The rare mineral, long hypothesized but never seen, was recovered from a diamond that emerged from the Earth's lower mantle. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

An Online Community of People with Microchip Implants

Thousands are injecting themselves with microchips that do everything from unlock doors and make payments to store COVID vaccine certificates.  | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

A Former Facebook VP Thinks Investing in Humans Is the Future of VC

She gets $1.7 million. Sam Lessin’s venture firm gets 5% of her creator earnings for 30 years. “it's def not indentured servitude,” he says. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Denmark Spends $150K to Clean Beach, Then Dumps Seaweed, Plastic Back in the Sea

Experts have described the practice as 'completely idiotic' and harmful for the local ecosystem. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995

This really gives a new meaning to the “paper of record." | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Apple will stop breaking Face ID on independently-repaired iPhone 13s

Apple said it plans to roll out a software update that will fix the issue with broken Face ID on iPhone 13s repaired with aftermarket screens. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Google Caught Hackers Using a Mac Zero-Day Against Hong Kong Users

"The nature of the activity and targeting is consistent with a government backed actor," the Google researchers say. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Top Google Result for NFT Marketplace OpenSea Was a Phishing Site

Motherboard found that the top result was a Google Ad that redirected users to a site that tried to steal their digital wallet. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Facebook Ads Told Me to Become a Certified Cryptozoologist, So I Did

How a sketchy online degree program led me on an IRL quest for legendary creatures during the pandemic. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, Founder of Something Awful, Is Dead at 45

The early internet pioneer and consummate shitposter is dead. He changed the internet forever. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Robinhood Hackers Accessed Internal Tool for Removing Account Security Features

Robinhood told Motherboard that based on its investigation, the hackers did not make changes to any customer accounts. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Portugal Makes It Illegal for Your Boss to Text You After Work

The move is part of a wider swath of laws designed to help remote workers. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago