A Supercomputer in a 19th Century Church Is 'World's Most Beautiful Data Center'

The MareNostrum 4 is only the world’s 25th most powerful supercomputer, but it definitely has the most style. | Continue reading


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ASCII Pr0n Predates the Internet but It’s Still Everywhere

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Border Patrol Union Deleted Webpage: Wall Would Be 'Wasting Taxpayer Money'

Digital archives show that the page was deleted after the union's president supported building a border wall with Donald Trump in the White House Briefing Room. | Continue reading


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Scientists Can’t Fix Map of Earth’s Magnetic Field Thanks to Government Shutdown

The federal government was set to update the World Magnetic Model but had to delay it because of the shutdown. | Continue reading


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Google Demanded T-Mobile, Sprint to Not Sell Google Fi Customers' Location Data

Google’s phone, text, and data service relies on infrastructure provided by T-Mobile and Sprint. A Motherboard investigation found both telcos selling customers’ location data that ultimately ended up in the hands of bounty hunters. | Continue reading


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American Phone Companies Are Literally Letting Their Networks Fall Apart

Limited oversight, no competition, and state corruption aren’t a recipe for broadband success. | Continue reading


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Astronomers Discover a Supermassive Black Hole Rotating at Half Speed of Light

The astronomers took advantage of a fortuitous discovery to measure the rotation of a supermassive black hole with unprecedented accuracy. | Continue reading


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Boomers Share the Most Fake News on Facebook

A new study found that age was the main factor that determined whether someone would spread misinformation on Facebook. | Continue reading


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Thousands of Stars Are Actually Just Giant Solid Crystals Hanging in Space

Turning into crystal spheres is the ultimate fate of billions of stars in our galaxy, including our own Sun. | Continue reading


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The Rise and Demise of RSS

Before the internet was consolidated into centralized information silos, RSS imagined a better way to let users control their online personas. | Continue reading


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CES Revoked an Award for a Female Pleasure Device for Being 'Immoral'

The device was deemed “immoral, obscene, indecent, [or] profane” by CES. | Continue reading


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SIM Swapping Victims Who Lost Millions Pressure Telcos to Protect Customers

A small group of victims of SIM swapping hacks is trying to raise awareness, teach people about the scam, and put pressure on cell phone providers to step up their efforts against cybercriminals. | Continue reading


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I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone

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I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone

T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to possess it, letting them track most phones in the country. | Continue reading


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Forget Netflix: Inside the Forums Where People Share Obscure Pirated Movies

It's difficult to draw the line between distributing essential, hard-to-find cultural relics and piracy. | Continue reading


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Zero-day marketplace increase payouts to $1M for exploits in WhatsApp etc.

Companies that buy and sell exploits, or zero-days, are now willing to offer seven figures for hacks that allow spies and cops to steal WhatsApp, iMessage and other chat app messages. | Continue reading


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Meet the Teen Who Translated a Bible Verse into DNA and Injected Himself with It

Will bioengineering become the hot new teen trend? | Continue reading


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River Rising: a story about execution by social media

After Twitter and Facebook comes the River—a social media platform embedded in the criminal justice system, where the crowd determines who lives and dies. | Continue reading


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Researchers Fool ReCAPTCHA with Google’s Own Speech-To-Text Service

The new method has a 90 percent success rate at tricking the robot into thinking it’s human. | Continue reading


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The Dark Overlord and the 9/11 Insurance Files Hack

After apparently raising thousands of dollars through a crowdfunding effort, The Dark Overlord have decrypted a set of the 9/11 attack connected litigation documents. | Continue reading


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How to Download the Books That Just Entered the Public Domain

Public Domain Day was yesterday, but you were probably hungover, so here’s how to download the tens of thousands of books that became legal to download for free in 2019. | Continue reading


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Tim Cook: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones

Apple finally says that repair hurts its bottom line. | Continue reading


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Federal judge overrides Oregon fine, says man can call himself an engineer

Mats Järlström has won his First Amendment case against the state of Oregon: "This restriction clearly controls and suppresses protected speech." | Continue reading


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Bethesda confirmed that a bug has accidentally turned ‘Fallout 76’ into a nuke free game. | Continue reading


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Hackers Threaten to Dump Insurance Files Related to 9/11 Attacks

The Dark Overlord appears to be trying to capitalize on conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks. | Continue reading


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A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve

Why the copyright terms on a goldmine of works from 1923 are about to expire. | Continue reading


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The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead's Short-Lived Wall of Sound

The untold story of the Grateful Dead's short-lived mega PA, arguably the largest, most technologically innovative sound system ever built. | Continue reading


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Why Is AI-Generated Music Still So Bad?

Researchers say it’s a lot more complex than it seems on the surface. | Continue reading


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Hackers Make a Fake Hand to Beat Vein Authentication

Security researchers disclosed new work at the Chaos Communication Congress showing how hackers can bypass vein based authentication. | Continue reading


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If You Harvested Body Heat from 44,000 People You Could Mine 1 Bitcoin per Month

A best case scenario would look like a ‘Matrix’-esque hellscape and still require hundreds of people. | Continue reading


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Children’s Personal Data and SSNs Are Being Sold on the Dark Web

The data includes names, phone numbers, addresses, and Social Security Numbers. | Continue reading


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China Is Achieving AI Dominance by Relying on Young Blue-Collar Workers

To remain the world leader in artificial intelligence, China relies on young “data labelers” who work eight hours a day processing massive amounts of data to make computers smart. | Continue reading


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An Amoeba-Based Computer Found Solutions to 8 City Traveling Salesman Problem

These single-celled organisms have a strange computing capacity that allows them to generate approximate solutions to a computationally complex problem known as the “traveling salesman problem.” | Continue reading


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We Should Replace Facebook with Personal Websites

Personal websites and email can replace most of what people like about Facebook—namely the urge to post about their lives online. | Continue reading


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We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites

Personal websites and email can replace most of what people like about Facebook—namely the urge to post about their lives online. | Continue reading


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Personal websites and email can replace most of what people like about Facebook—namely the urge to post about their lives online. | Continue reading


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How Hackers Bypass Gmail 2FA at Scale

A new Amnesty International report goes into some of the technical details around how hackers can automatically phish two-factor authentication tokens sent to phones. | Continue reading


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American Sues US Government Pressuring Him to Unlock His Phone at Airport

CBP and DHS officers allegedly detained a Los Angeles man of Muslim faith before he boarded a plane for four hours, asking him questions and pressuring him to show them the contents of his phone. | Continue reading


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Hacker Banner Ads Are Totally Wild

While the advertising industry generally moved away from banner adverts, they’re still very much alive, well, and kicking on cybercrime forums. | Continue reading


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The Future of American Broadband Is a Comcast Monopoly

The FCC insists a new report proves that broadband competition is raging and prices have dropped. The reality is notably different. | Continue reading


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These People Are Not Real–They Were Created by AI

Machine learning algorithms are getting scary-good at creating fake images that look real. | Continue reading


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The Decline of American Peyote

The small, bulbous peyote cactus is central to the religious rituals of the Native American Church, but poaching and unsustainable harvesting practices put it at risk of extinction in the United States. | Continue reading


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The Last Independent Mobile Operating System

Alternative mobile operating systems have come and gone over the years, but only Sailfish has survived the iOS and Android duopoly. | Continue reading


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How I Quit Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook

A reflection on my month without Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon, plus a how-to guide if you want to quit the biggest companies in tech. | Continue reading


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There's a 'Subterranean Galapagos' Deep Inside the Earth – Motherboard

“A decade ago, we had no idea that the rocks beneath our feet could be so vastly inhabited.” | Continue reading


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Why Your Ad Blocker Doesn’t Block Those ‘Please Turn Off Your Ad Blocker’ Popups

It is technically pretty simple to disable those pop ups, but many ad blocker plugins choose to let them live. | Continue reading


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You Can Now Buy RAM That Does Nothing but Look Cool

These sold out RAM sticks exist only to glow inside your case and take up empty slots. | Continue reading


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