More than 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, there were black people in the Deep South who had no idea they were free. These people were forced to work, violently tortured, and raped. | Continue reading
Catching up with Peter Turchin, whose theory predicted a period of political violence starting this year. | Continue reading
Because of phone number reuse, I ended up receiving a load of a stranger’s personal WhatsApp messages. | Continue reading
While the country deals with a pandemic and mass protests, Sen. Thom Tillis has repeatedly sent letters to the Internet Archive that warn its projects may be illegal. | Continue reading
iFixit has built a comprehensive online database of repair manuals for ventilators and medical equipment to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. Last week it received a letter claiming copyright infringement. | Continue reading
An illuminating new survey shows record-breaking levels of discontent in the United States. What's going on? | Continue reading
An elaborate open-source intelligence investigation shows the potential danger of posting protest photos online. | Continue reading
Instead of reopening society for the sake of the economy, what if we continued to work less, buy less, make less—for the sake of the planet? | Continue reading
The U.S.-based videoconferencing company is adding a new feature that will help Beijing target Chinese users. | Continue reading
Scientists combed through nearly 30 years of earthquake data to probe huge and mysterious objects near the Earth's core. | Continue reading
Canadian exchange Coinsquare was practicing so-called 'wash trading', according to leaked emails, Slack chats, and other files. Generally, wash trading violates securities law. | Continue reading
Transfer limits and security freezes are stalling efforts to get people free from jail in the middle of a pandemic. | Continue reading
As journalists wage a civil war, America's leading media ethicist doesn't seem to quite understand what anyone is fighting about. | Continue reading
How 'Settlers of Catan' introduced the world to a different kind of family game. | Continue reading
Facebook won't censor Trump's posts, but it will censor an account repeating them word for word. | Continue reading
The expo features a 'Sharpshooter Classic' shooting competition and hundreds of companies trying to get huge government contracts to militarize the border. | Continue reading
The repeating burst is coming to us in an unexplained 157-day cycle, astronomers discovered, and its active phase should be starting now. | Continue reading
Amidst nationwide protests, two audiophiles have designed a defense against LRADs, the militaristic sonic weapons used by police to disperse crowds. | Continue reading
They create semi-sentient imaginary animal friends who live in their brains. | Continue reading
Scientist Peter Turchin's work suggests that the next state of upheaval in the US is set to hit in 2020 based on historical violence cycles. | Continue reading
The repeating burst is coming to us in an unexplained 157-day cycle, astronomers discovered, and its active phase should be starting now. | Continue reading
The statements of solidarity with the black community have all come too little, too late. | Continue reading
Amazon, which provides the technical backbone of ICE and plotted to smear a fired Black organizer, says it 'stands in solidarity with the Black community' in the 'fight against racism and injustice.' And that's just the beginning. | Continue reading
As anti-racism protests rage across the U.S., Hong Kong activists are standing by to offer guidance from afar. | Continue reading
There’s no scientific evidence that the light emitted by phones and computers causes eye problems. | Continue reading
Slack declined to say whether it is still working with the police department. | Continue reading
Pastebin quietly changed its terms and services that allowed researchers to study leaked data, malware, and stolen passwords. | Continue reading
The story of the Autonomous Astronauts Association, which fought military-corporate control of space through dance parties. | Continue reading
Apps that let people listen to police scanners have skyrocketed to the top of the App Store. | Continue reading
She filed a lawsuit against the city and multiple officers Monday. | Continue reading
Multiple activists have called for people to not take photos of protesters faces because they may face retaliation. | Continue reading
After Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg disagreed with Twitter's decision to fact check the president, misinformation about him was shared widely on the internet, including his own platform. | Continue reading
The surveillance drone is flying in a circle above the city, which has broken out in protests over the police killing of George Floyd. | Continue reading
Two unrelated studies recently raised the same possibility: the laws of physics might not apply everywhere, which, if true, would upend an idea underpinning centuries of science. | Continue reading
The surveillance drone is flying in a circle above the city, which has broken out in protests over the police killing of George Floyd. | Continue reading
After a DMCA takedown request, Github and YouTube removed this calculator hack from the web. | Continue reading
The photos and videos of the JUMP bike heaps posted to social media sites have disappointed former JUMP employees, bike and scooter advocates, and people who don't like to see useless waste. | Continue reading
Two unrelated studies recently raised the same possibility: the laws of physics might not apply everywhere, which, if true, would upend an idea underpinning centuries of science. | Continue reading
At least 11 TV stations aired an identical segment written and produced by Amazon’s PR team. | Continue reading
As humans remain stuck inside or socially distanced, trillions of buzzing cicadas will burst out of the ground across the U.S. between now and summer 2021. It's already starting. | Continue reading
The new unc0ver jailbreak relies on a vulnerability that the researcher who found it says Apple is unaware of. | Continue reading
The AI-generated version of 'Pac-Man' is fuzzy, and is biased against the player dying, but chipmaker Nvidia says it works even without a game engine. | Continue reading
The Patriot Act is about to be reauthorized, but we still don't know basic facts about how our web browsing habits are being collected. | Continue reading
The Golden Driller is Oklahoma's state monument and represents an oil worker. Now, it's a 75-foot-tall idol representing Elon Musk. | Continue reading
Several people, including security researchers, hackers, and bloggers, have had access to an early version of the new iOS 14 for months. | Continue reading
Even a global pandemic hasn't deterred the city-state from enforcing its harsh drug laws. | Continue reading
The mysterious lights were seen by thousands of people, there's video evidence, and people are saying posts disappeared from social media. What happened? | Continue reading