'Financial Colonialism': A Bitcoin Mine in Navajo Nation Flares Tensions

A Bitcoin mine run by a Canadian company is the newest power customer in Navajo Nation, where many residents live without basic utilities. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Scammer Convinced Instagram That Its Top Executive Was Dead

A scammer said they managed to lock down the head of Instagram's account using a fake obituary. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Hostage-Style Bitcoin Scam Videos Are Spreading Across Instagram

The scam, where victims are forced to film a video of themselves to try and get their money or account back, is seemingly more widespread than previously known. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

What the Hell Is ‘Right-Clicker Mentality’?

A Twitter meme reveals everything you need to know about NFTs and the culture around it. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

How Facebook Is Stoking a Civil War in Ethiopia

Online hate is adding fuel to the country’s deadly conflict, and researchers say Facebook is failing to stop it. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Robinhood Says It Was Hacked and Extorted but Nobody Lost Any Money

The online trading company said a hacker obtained email addresses of 5 million users, and full names of 2 million users. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Drug Users Are Nostalgic for ‘Old-School Heroin’ as Fentanyl Takes Over

In many former heroin strongholds in the U.S. and Canada, the opioid is disappearing, fueling fentanyl overdoses and prompting some users to push for a renaissance. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Everyone Is Thinking About You

If this horrifies you, keep in mind people probably like you a lot more than you think. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

In many former heroin strongholds in the U.S. and Canada, the opioid is disappearing, fueling fentanyl overdoses and prompting some users to push for a renaissance. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

The Teeny-Tiny Printed Out Crypto Keys of Snowden’s Email Service (2016)

Recently unsealed court documents reveal a memento from the Snowden leaks. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Hackers Apologize to Arab Royal Families for Leaking Their Data

“Bluntly, UAE sends assassination teams to deal with people they don’t like. [...] Even ransomware groups are subject to political pressure." | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Ukraine Doxes Russian Government Hackers’ Phone Calls

By publishing a video containing the intercepted conversations, Ukraine is sending a message to Russia. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

New NYC Mayor Eric Adams Wants the City to Have Its Own Cryptocurrency

“We need to look at what’s preventing the growth of bitcoins and cryptocurrency in our city." | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Ethical AI Trained on Reddit Posts Said Genocide Is OK If It Makes People Happy

Fed by Reddit and Mechanical Turks, the algorithmic morality spinner is a dangerous and stupid use of technology. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Crypto Investors Buy 40 Acres of Land in Wyoming to Build Blockchain City

The group is using a new Wyoming law that legally recognizes them as a corporate entity to help speed along the process. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes

The bots convincingly and effortlessly help hackers break into Coinbase, Amazon, PayPal, and bank accounts. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Lincoln Project Posed as Charlottesville White Supremacists at GOP Event

The Lincoln Project acknowledged they were behind the stunt after VICE News identified one of the people in the photo as a Democratic operative. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Zuckerberg’s Meta Endgame Is Monetizing All Human Behavior

Exploiting data to manipulate human behavior has always been Facebook’s business model. The metaverse will be no different. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Eye-Scanning Silver Orb Cryptocurrency Launches with $1B Valuation

Worldcoin envisions mass producing tens of thousands of silver orbs operated by entrepreneurs scanning eyeballs in return for free crypto. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Crypto Investors Are Bidding to Touch a 1,784-Pound Tungsten Cube Once a Year

You'll have to travel to a storage facility in Willowbrook, Illinois, to touch the forbidden cube. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

But, Mr. Zuckerberg, How Do You Play Basketball Against a Hologram?

This is a serious question. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Startup That Wants to Let You Fly Helicopter with an iPad Gets $200M

Skyryse claims to be creating an automation system that can “enable anyone to fly as safely as the best pilots on their best day” with two iPads and a joystick. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Ancient Gold Burial Mask Found to Be Painted with Human Blood

The use of human blood may have allowed an ancient society's elite to maintain their status as cosmically privileged deities even in the afterlife, researchers say. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Alleged TikTok ‘Skyrim IRL’ Murders Shows the Real Danger of Stalkerware

Ali Nassar Abulaban, who makes “Skyrim IRL” TikToks, allegedly installed an app on his daughter's iPad to listen to conversations in an apartment. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Cryptocurrency Loan Platform Implodes in $130M Hack

This is the third time C.R.E.A.M. Finance has been hacked this year. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horribel Company

Facebook’s new name is “Meta,” and its new mission is to invent a ‘metaverse’ that will make us all forget what it’s done to our existing reality. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

The Great Competition to Give Away Money

Flush with cash, venture capitalists are fighting to invest in startups they often know less and less about. “The older guys,” said one, “are like, ‘This doesn't end well.’” | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Rare ‘ Plant’ Blooms for the First Time in 25 Years

Experts believe that this is only the third time the aptly named Amorphophallus decus-silvae has bloomed in Europe. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

The Battle for the Last Unclaimed Land on Earth

There have been several attempts to claim Bir Tawil, a region between Egypt and Sudan, over many years, reminding some of the worst excesses of colonialism. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in MS-DOS

The Oscar winning screenwriter of ‘Dune’ writes in an MS-DOS program that can only hold 40 pages in memory. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

The FBI's Internal Guide for Getting Data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon

The newly obtained document shows in granular detail the sort of data that the country's carriers keep, and for how long. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Trump SPAC Becomes GameStop-Like Meme Stock

Trump. YOLO. SPAC. GameStop. Non-Cancellable Global Community. Hell. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Phone Is Listening and It's Not Paranoia (2019)

Here's how I got to bottom of the ads-coinciding-with-conversations mystery. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Former U.S. President Wants to Build a 'Non-Cancelable' Internet

The Trump Media & Technology Group’s pitch reveals the perceived existential threat many conservatives and Trump specifically think they are facing online. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Death Threats Are Creating a Mass Exodus of Election Officials

“Your husband should tell the truth, or your three kids … will be fatally shot.” | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Mastodon's Founder Says Trump's New Social Network Is Just Mastodon

'Truth Social', which will launch officially later in the year, is seemingly using Mastodon's codebase without credit. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Sim Swapper Doxes and SWATs His Accomplice

The hacker turned against his former partner, accusing him of stealing his fair share of a $16,000 heist. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Zillow Pumps the Brakes on Buying Homes

After preparing to go on a massive home-buying spree, the real estate platform admits it bit off more than it could chew. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Miya Marcano’s Killing Is a Wakeup Call on Apartment ‘Master’ Keys

After Miya Marcano rebuffed an apartment maintenance worker’s advances last month, he allegedly used a master key to enter her unit and killed her. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Governor Wants to Prosecute Journalist Who Clicked View Source on Gov’t Site

A St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist found 100,000 Social Security numbers exposed in a government website, and reported the flaw to the government. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Companies Are Making Physical Goods Out of Thin Air

Carbon recycling turns gases sequestered from industrial processes into chemicals for product creation. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Woman Hacked Flight School, Cleared Planes with Maintenance Issues to Fly

A 26-year-old allegedly hacked into an app used by a flight school to manage airplanes in an attempt to get back at her former employer. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Depressed People See the World More Realistically

And happy people just might be slightly delusional. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

In-Q-Tel CIA's venture fund gave encrypted chat app Wickr 1.6M

The funding solidifies Wickr's position as an encrypted chat platform for government agencies. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Men Who Spent 29 Days Lost at Sea Say It Was a Nice Break from the Pandemic

The castaways survived on a diet of floating coconuts and rainwater. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

The Rise of the ‘Vietnamese Rush Limbaugh’

YouTuber Nguy Vu is well-known among Vietnamese-American Republicans, but critics are worried about what he says online. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Doctors Are Injecting Bleach to Treat Covid in Bolivia

The use of bleach to treat COVID has gained legitimacy across Latin America. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Microsoft Has Committed to Right to Repair

Facing pressure from investors and a shifting legal environment, the PC giant has decided to make it easier for people to repair their own stuff. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago