The writer and editor has self-expelled from the newspaper, she tells VICE. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Bari Weiss Is Leaving the New York Times

The writer and editor has self-expelled from the newspaper, she tells VICE. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

People are using your Facebook data to sell you corny T-shirts (2018)

Facebook’s not just changing the course of American presidential history, it’s also being used by T-shirt companies to make very customized, very targeted, and very corny T-shirts. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Some of Reddit's Wildest Relationship Stories Are Lies. I'd Know – I Wrote Them

Reddit's r/relationships has some 3 million fans, lapping up stories of bizarre relationship quirks. We spoke to some of the people who fabricate those stories. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Scientists Discovered a Gigantic Structure in a Hidden Zone of Space

The South Pole Wall is a filament of a fundamental structure known as the cosmic web hiding in the 'Zone of Avoidance,' and it's one of the biggest structures ever seen by humans. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Researchers Say This Router Is Open to Outside Attack by Hackers

Researchers working for a cybersecurity firm found several vulnerabilities within a common router. They shared their findings to the router’s manufacturer six months ago and have yet to hear back. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

New Study Shows Coronavirus Immunity May Only Last a Few Months

The study "puts another nail in the coffin of the dangerous concept of herd immunity." | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Target’s Gig Workers Will Strike to Protest Switch to Algorithmic Pay Model

On Wednesday, the day of the work stoppage, Shipt will expand a blackbox pay model that workers say will hurt their earnings. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Encrochat – The Criminal Phone Service Hacked by Cops

EncroChat was supposed to protect criminals and their communications from the police, but then it got hacked. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Why Repair Techs Are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland

As COVID-19 surges, hospitals and independent biomedical technicians have turned to a global grey-market for hardware and software to circumvent manufacturer repair locks and keep life-saving ventilators running. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

European encrypted messaging system (EncroChat) was hacked by police

The continent's gangland is taking a massive hit after its encrypted messaging system was hacked by police. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

A Tesla YouTuber Wants a Gas Car and Now YouTube Keeps Taking Down His Video

Rich Benoit announced to his over 700,000 YouTube subscribers that he was selling his latest Tesla project in favor of purchasing a gas powered vehicle. Within hours the video was taken down for violating Community Guidelines. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

The Robots Microsoft Assigned to Do My Job Can't Do It

MSN robots can't make fine discriminations for a startlingly vast audience of readers. What they can do, and why they're asked to do it, is unclear. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Facebook Just Failed Its First Ever Civil Rights Audit

The auditors warned that Facebook's failures to address misinformation will have "direct and consequential implications" for the 2020 election. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

What Is the Earn IT Act and Why Is It Bad for the Internet?

The bill has the potential to be damaging to free speech and directly harmful to anyone who uses encryption-based communication services. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Ripples in Spacetime Keep Revealing Bizarre Occurrences in Space

Two recent studies probed ripples in spacetime from cataclysmic black hole events to reveal light in an implausible place and a mystery object in the cosmos. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Covid-19 Is Causing a National Coin Shortage

A lack of circulation is causing stores all over the country to run out of coins and cash. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Post Office Delivery Trucks Keep Catching on Fire

Hundreds of the iconic Post Office delivery trucks have caught on fire in recent years, thanks to a 30-year-old fleet and a manufactured budget crisis. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Silicon Valley Elite Discuss Journalists Having Too Much Power in Private App

In leaked audio from an invite-only app, venture capitalists pondered everything they think is wrong with journalism. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

The Plot to Kill the Open Technology Fund

This U.S. program provides encryption technologies to journalists and activists living under repressive regimes. But a Trump appointee wants to tear it all down. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

In leaked audio from an invite-only app, venture capitalists pondered everything they think is wrong with journalism. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

VICE - Silicon Valley Elite Discuss Journalists Having Too Much Power in Private App

In leaked audio from an invite-only app, venture capitalists pondered everything they think is wrong with journalism. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

VICE - Inside the Plot to Kill the Open Technology Fund

This U.S. program provides encryption technologies to journalists and activists living under repressive regimes. But a Trump appointee wants to tear it all down. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime

Police monitored a hundred million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by career criminals to discuss drug deals, murders, and extortion plots. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Amazon Delivery Drivers Are Overwhelmed and Overworked by Covid-19 Surge

Amazon's contracted delivery drivers say that their workloads have dramatically increased during the Covid-19 pandemic, in some cases more than doubling. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Facebook Labeled 'Boogaloos' a 'Dangerous Organization' and Banned 500 Groups

The large network of the anti-government movement, deemed a national security threat, has exploded on the platform since February. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Nuclear Radiation Is Floating Above Northern Europe and Nobody Knows Why

Multiple European monitoring agencies have detected nuclear radiation, likely from a power plant of unknown origin, floating above northern Europe. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Uber’s New Strategy: Buy Unprofitable Companies Like Postmates,?, Profit

Uber's new strategy is just like its old one. Make its money-losing business bigger by buying other money-losing businesses like Postmates. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Arizona Cops Use Drone Surveillance to Arrest Protesters

Black Lives Matter protesters have been subject to unprecedented aerial surveillance in the last month. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Detroit Police Chief: Facial Recognition Software Misidentifies 96% of the Time

Detroit regulated facial recognition software. It's still used only on Black people. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

The Trump Administration Just Furloughed 13,400 Immigration Workers

The move will effectively bring the U.S. immigration system grinding to a halt. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

We Found a Piss Dungeon in a Pub

A true story of sexual deviance in London that will put you off urinals forever. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Grindr Still Hasn't Deleted Its Ethnicity Filter Despite Promise

The popular hookup app said it would delete its controversial ethnicity filter in support of Black Lives Matter, but still hasn't fulfilled its commitment. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Firm That Tracked Protesters Targeted Evangelicals During 2016 Election

The CEO of data broker Mobilewalla, which worked with Republican SuperPACs, says it tracked Evangelicals’ cell phone locations for six months. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Snowden: Tech Workers Are Complicit in How Their Companies Hurt Society

"People who make spreadsheets, people who make weather apps, people who just wanted to create family tree websites, all of them are being bought out, are being subverted, are being corrupted." | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Senate Intelligence Committee Confirms the US Navy Has a UFO Task Force

Marco Rubio wants a "detailed analysis of unidentified aerial phenomena data and intelligence reporting collected or held by the Office of Naval Intelligence, including data and intelligence reporting held by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force." | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Encrypted Phone Network Says It's Shutting Down After Police Hack

Encrochat's customers include hitmen and drug gangs across Europe. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Uber Turned a Promising Bikeshare Company into Literal Garbage

JUMP wanted to create a better, more bike-friendly world. Former employees told Motherboard how getting acquired by Uber led to JUMP bikes being destroyed by the thousands. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Privacy-Focused OS Wants to Know How Facebook and the FBI Hacked It

The developers of Tails and a video player targeted by Facebook and the FBI in an operation to catch a child predator are still in the dark about how the feds hacked the software. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

1,600 Google Employees Demand No Tech for Police

"We, the undersigned Googlers, call on you to stop making our technology available to police forces." | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Days After New Human Rights Policy, NSO Client Hacked an Activist

The finding comes as part of a new technical report into a series of NSO attacks from Amnesty International. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Scientists Found a Mysterious Structure of Deep Shafts Near Stonehenge

The monumental underground structures were discovered in a vast circle just two miles from Stonehenge, and fulfilled an unknown purpose. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Get Ready for Pharmaceutical-Grade Magic Mushroom Pills

As magic mushrooms make the shift from recreational drug to mental health treatment, patients won’t be eating caps and stems, but a synthetic product made in a lab—one that can be patented and profited from. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Texts Claim Hack of Encrypted Phone Company Used by Hitmen

Messages allegedly sent to Encrochat users warned of a law enforcement takeover. Europol said it won’t comment on "ongoing operations." | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Website Lets You Scream into the Void

A website allows people to scream endlessly at their computer screen or smartphone and plays it back. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Hong Kongers Are Erasing Their Own Internet Histories Before China's Crackdown

“Draconian laws and barricades cannot stop our spirit of resistance,” said a young engineer who expects to be targeted by Beijing. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Places in America with Racist Names

It’s not unusual for name-change proposals to become morally complicated, if not outright controversial. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

CEO of Open Technology Fund Resigns After Closed-Source Lobbying Effort

The Open Technology Fund has previously given money to all sorts of internet freedom projects. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago