The Taiwan-based tech giant ASUS is believed to have pushed the malware to hundreds of thousands of customers through its trusted automatic software update tool after attackers compromised the company’s server and used it to push the malware to machines. | Continue reading
Sun bears show social intelligence by copying the open-mouthed expressions of their playmates. | Continue reading
Gamers under the age of 18 have to take regular breaks or face diminishing returns after three hours of playing 'Fortnite.' | Continue reading
It appears that LockerGoga, the same ransomware that hit aluminum manufacturing giant Norsk Hydro this week, also infected American chemicals companies Hexion and Momentive, leaving employees locked out of their computers. | Continue reading
A consumer spyware vendor left a lot of incredibly sensitive and private data, including intimate pictures and private call recordings, for all to see on a server freely accessible over the internet. And it still hasn’t taken the data down. | Continue reading
While social media giants crack down and Facebook says it will make changes to stop anti-vaxx content, Instagram’s recommendation engine makes it exceptionally easy to come across a waterfall of anti-vaccine accounts. | Continue reading
Services like Google's Stadia seem convenient, but they could completely change the past and future of video games. | Continue reading
Slack, Signal, Hangouts, Wire, iMessage, Telegram, Facebook Messenger. Why do we need so many apps to do one thing? | Continue reading
An experiment involving 40 drugged alligators reveals how dinosaurs might have located sounds in their environment. | Continue reading
You can’t fix a problem you don’t understand, and America has no idea just how bad its broadband coverage gaps are. | Continue reading
Google saw an issue with moderating the Christchurch terrorist’s so-called manifesto in part because of its length, telling moderators to mark potential copies or sections as “Terrorist Content” if they were unsure. | Continue reading
Uber, which is pushing back against the requests for real-time location data of its JUMP scooters, was granted a provisional, month-long permit, while other companies received a full-year license. | Continue reading
Why the creative software giant Adobe deserves a place in the broader discussion of breaking up tech giants like Facebook and Google. It’s not just Photoshop. | Continue reading
Neighbors, a social media crime-reporting app owned by Amazon, creates a digital ecosystem in which you are encouraged to assume the worst about your neighbors—and people of color are once again being harmed. | Continue reading
Goatse.cx's latest play with virtual money is selling pixel space for ether, the Ethereum blockchain's native token. | Continue reading
"I feel bad here because I feel like I'm ruining a really good story." | Continue reading
“This name reminds us that it is in the human genes to explore.” | Continue reading
Documents show that bail bond companies used a secret phone tracking service to make tens of thousands of location requests. | Continue reading
A Motherboard investigation has found that around 250 bounty hunters and related businesses had access to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint customer location data. | Continue reading
Documents obtained by Motherboard using public information requests show that verify previously unconfirmed police department contracts with predictive policing company PredPol. | Continue reading
On Monday, the World Magnetic Model was updated to account for the north pole’s eccentric behavior, after a delay caused by the US federal shutdown. | Continue reading
Just keep it. | Continue reading
"The material value of e-waste alone is worth $62.5 billion, three times more than the annual output of the world’s silver mines and more than the GDP of most countries." | Continue reading
Prominent right to repair advocates are teaching the basics of the movement and how to get in touch with legislators during live YouTube town halls. | Continue reading
A 20-year-old college student who was accused of stealing more than $5 million in cryptocurrency in a slew of SIM hijacking attacks is the first person to be sentenced for the crime. | Continue reading
Some cosmologists have predicted the existence of “walls bounded by strings” in the aftermath of the Big Bang, and now a team of physicists have created these quantum structures on Earth for the first time. | Continue reading
Motherboard has identified a specific UK bank that has fallen victim to so-called SS7 attacks, and sources say the issue is wider than previously reported. | Continue reading
The “moderate to severe” vulnerabilities discovered by the hacker LimitedResults have since been fixed, according to the smart bulb company LIFX. | Continue reading
Google is taking steps to make it harder for someone to push a malicious update that disables the security features on an Android phone. | Continue reading
When researchers measured the welfare of hundreds of people who left Facebook for a month, they found they were happier, less politically informed, more active in IRL activities, and less likely to go back to Facebook. | Continue reading
By shutting down the Wii Store Channel and not letting users download old games, Nintendo is once again showing that in the modern digital era, you don’t actually own the things you buy. | Continue reading
The unsettling costume was dreamt up by an employee at the agency that oversees America's nuclear stockpile. | Continue reading
A viral video shows a terrorist promising holy war on America from inside the latest migrant caravan. It's the story of the year—and in this future, that may be all that matters. | Continue reading
Network investment is down, layoffs abound, and networks are falling apart. This isn’t the glorious future Ajit Pai promised. | Continue reading
As temperatures in North Carolina dropped this week, some residents appeared frozen in ice. | Continue reading
The island has just one submarine cable that provides internet access for the entire island. | Continue reading
Your life will be so much easier if you force yourself to learn keyboard shortcuts. | Continue reading
Teams will compete in 10 tournaments in Europe for the chance at a €100,00 prize pool. | Continue reading
Google’s main source of revenue is ads, but Chromium developers claim the change is necessary to enhance user privacy and control. | Continue reading
The founder says the charge is ‘baseless,’ but that hasn’t stopped employees at some of the most important infosec companies from posting misogynistic comments in a closed Facebook group. | Continue reading
Zumigo, which sold the location data of American cell phone users, wanted the FCC to remove requirements around user consent. | Continue reading
Apple security expert Jon Callas, who helped build protection for billions of computers and smartphones against criminal hackers and government surveillance, is now taking on government and corporate spying in the policy realm. | Continue reading
The Mac Pro Upgrade community is taking old "cheese grater" Mac Pros and putting cutting-edge graphics cards in them. The specs often outperform even top-of-the-line new Apple computers. | Continue reading
Documents released by the Department of Defense reveal some of what its infamous Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was working on. | Continue reading
After AT&T and T-Mobile said they would stop selling their customers’ phone location data to third parties, Sprint followed suit. A Motherboard investigation found all three telcos selling data that ultimately ended up in the hands of bounty hunters. | Continue reading
Leaked internal documents and stories from influencers show that Instagram has an influencer-hacking problem. | Continue reading
A security firm found that hackers could have logged into the accounts of any Fortnite player, potentially stealing their credit card information, or listening in on their conversations. | Continue reading
The Chairman's staff said the selling of location data is not a 'threat to the safety of human life or property that the FCC will address during the Trump shutdown.' | Continue reading