Shitposting Shiba Inu Accounts Chased a Russian Diplomat Offline

The Fellas, or NAFO, are a loose cadre of extremely online shitposters who are raising money for Ukraine and fighting Russian disinformation. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

How the FBI Wiretapped the World

We finally understand the code behind the Anom phones. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Hackers Say They Can Unlock and Start Honda Cars Remotely

They key fobs of several Honda models have a flaw that could allow hackers to unlock and start the cars. | Continue reading


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What We Know About the ‘Homemade’ Gun That Killed Shinzo Abe

The former Prime Minister of Japan was assassinated on the streets of Nara on Friday. | Continue reading


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Why Is Google Translate Spitting Out Sinister Religious Prophecies? (2018)

Google Translate is moonlighting as a deranged oracle—and experts say it’s likely because of the spooky nature of neural networks. | Continue reading


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United States Life Expectancy Has Fallen Behind China

Life expectancy in China was on course to overtake that of the U.S. around 2027. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Congress to Investigate Data Brokers and Period Tracking Apps

The move comes directly in response to Motherboard’s own investigations into how data brokers have provided access to location data related to abortion clinics. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

The Code the FBI Used to Wiretap the World

Motherboard is publishing parts of the code for the Anom encrypted messaging app, which was secretly managed by the FBI in order to monitor organized crime on a global scale. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

NASA Spacecraft Sent to Unexplored Orbit for Moon Outpost Goes Silent

NASA has lost contact with CAPSTONE, a spacecraft sent to an unexplored orbit as a test for an outpost around the Moon called the Gateway. | Continue reading


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Leaked Videos Show Disney Is the Biggest Ad Tech Giant You've Never Heard Of

Watch beloved Disney and Star Wars characters explain how the company offers clients the ability to use Disney data and target particular audiences. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Venture Capitalists Say the Era of Recklessly Burning Cash Is Over

After a decade of funding theoretical promise and growth at all costs, VCs say careful spending, boring businesses, and solid unit economics are back in style. “We are now in an era of profitability," one said. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

A Tech Millionaire Bought a Giant Cold War Radar to ‘Find UFOs’

A British tech entrepreneur posted on Reddit looking for help getting a Cold War era nuclear early warning radar dish to spin again. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

I Tried the App That ‘Makes You Trip’ – and It Was Surprisingly Good

A new app claims it can get you high, using just your smartphone. We tested it out. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

The Hot New Millennial Trend Is Scamming Amazon for Big Money

"To most people $230,000 is a lot of money, but for Amazon it probably doesn’t do anything to hurt its stock price." | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Among the Landlords

Three days in St. Louis with 200 landlords at the 21st Annual Mr. Landlord.com National Landlord Convention. | Continue reading


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Watch the Moment That CEO of Delivery Startup Enjoy Fires Hundreds of People

The unceremonious Zoom meeting bookends a company that recently said it had 'hope' it could pay employees what they were owed. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Amtrak Spent 11 Years and $450M to Save Acela Riders 100 Seconds

Meanwhile, France built a brand new 210-mile high speed rail line with a max speed of 200 mph in six years. | Continue reading


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Unity Employees ‘Mad and Stressed Out’ Amidst Unexpected Layoffs

The company's CEO wrote in an internal memo it "did not enter into this process with a target in mind of how many jobs needed to be eliminated." | Continue reading


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We Should Stay Far Far Away from This: Robinhood Said After Musk Tweeted: Stonks

A Congressional report criticizes Robinhood for "troubling business practices, inadequate risk management, and a culture that prioritized rapid growth." | Continue reading


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Bernie Sanders Has a Plan to End Flight Delays and Cancellations: Fine Them

“Given all of the generous taxpayer support that has been provided to the airline industry, all of us have a responsibility to make sure that passengers and crew members are treated with respect, not contempt.” | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

China Reveals Project to Find ‘Earth 2.0’

A new 115-page paper reveals in detail China's plan to find "Earth 2.0" and answer the question: Are we alone in the universe? | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

What Period Tracking Apps Say They Do with Your Data

Motherboard asked popular period and fertility trackers how they're handling data, privacy, and requests from law enforcement. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Japanese Man Lost a USB Drive with Entire City’s Personal Data After a Night Out

An average Tuesday bender turned into an unforgettable night. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

'Cradle of Humankind' Fossils Are 1M Years Older Than We Thought

Particles from outer space helped refine the age estimates of South African ancestors of humans. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Facebook Is Banning People Who Say They Will Mail Abortion Pills

A Facebook user and Motherboard both faced consequences for posting about mailing abortion pills on Facebook on the same day the Supreme Court overturned protections offered by Roe v. Wade. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

The #1 Period Tracker on the App Store Will Hand over Data Without a Warrant

Stardust Period Tracker was the most-downloaded free app on iOS over the weekend. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Tech Companies Won't Say If They’ll Give Cops Abortion Data

Motherboard asked some of the biggest tech companies on the planet if they'll provide law enforcement with user data related to abortions. None of them answered the question. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Why the Hell Is Iced Coffee So Expensive? An Investigation

Yes, I am a terrible millennial, but is it so wrong to want to buy a budget iced coffee now and then? | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

DALL-E Is Now Generating Realistic Faces of Fake People

Things are about to get really weird in the world of image-generating AI. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

The Crackdown on Florida Rehab Clinics That Became Piss-Test Scams

Defrauding insurance companies with unnecessary urine drug tests is a cash cow. Cops are starting to catch up. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Once Upon a Time, This Tech Company Actively Recruited Furries (2017)

Pre-web programming and furrydom were a magical combination. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Mount Everest Base Camp Is Moving Due to Climate Change

The mountain's Nepalese camp will relocate after climate change and erosion, including streams of human pee, have made its current location unsafe. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Head of Hercules Discovered in Ancient Antikythera Mechanism Shipwreck

Tantalizing finds are emerging from the shipwreck that carried the Antikythera Mechanism, the world’s oldest analog computer. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

TikTok Users Are Showing Readers How to Game Amazon’s eBook Return Policy

Independent authors claim the viral trend is costing them royalties and nonrefundable delivery fees. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Why Do I Sneeze at the Same Time Every Day?

It turns out your nose has a clock of its own. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Chinese Officials Are Weaponizing Covid Health Tracker to Block Protests

Would-be protesters saw their health codes turn red and were forced into quarantine. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Uvalde Hires Law Firm, Argues It Doesn't Have to Release Shooting Public Records

Some of the records relating to the Robb Elementary School shooting could be “highly embarrassing,” involve “emotional/mental distress,” and are “not of legitimate concern to the public,” the lawyers argued. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Founders of $10B Crypto Hedge Fund Have ‘Ghosted’ After Bets Go Bad

Three Arrows Capital, founded by two high school friends, is MIA as firms scramble to assess the damage amid indications the fund has been wiped out. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Tether Claims 'Coordinated' Conspiracy Is Trying to Take It Down

The top stablecoin claimed rumors about its reserves are being spread in an attempt to generate profits from a failing Tether by "coordinated" funds. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Scientists Reveal Krypton in Mars Meteorite, Rewriting Red Planet's History

An ultra-rare rock from Mars upended the traditional view of how rocky planets receive essential ingredients for life. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

The Polish LARPers Who Pretend to Be American

Roleplaying as people celebrating the 4th of July in Ohio is a unique take on LARP, to say the least. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

The Boom-Bust Cycle of Baby Names and Dog Breeds

People choose names and dogs depending on how common they are. Other cultural ideas spread or sputter out in similar ways, research suggests. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

The Bitcoin Crash Is Taking El Salvador's Big Bet with It

The value of El Salvador's Bitcoin hoard is down 50 percent amid an ongoing crypto crash. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Facial Recognition Is Out of Control in India

The country’s use of biometric data against activists and “hooligans” paints a grim picture of how the technology is threatening human rights. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

US Marshal Charged for Using Cop Phone Location Tool to Track People He Knew

Adrian O. Pena allegedly abused the Securus system by simply uploading blank documents and pretending he had authority to track people he had personal relationships with and their spouses. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Qanon, Crypto, and JFK rising from the dead

QAnon influencer Michael Protzman, known to his followers as Negative 48, is teaching followers to invest in a cryptocurrency network. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Startup Plans to Launch Nuclear Reactor into Space for First Time in Decades

There's never been a better time to launch nuclear power into space, according to Atomos Space, which believes regulatory hurdles are the main obstacle rather than technology. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 1 year ago

Texas Police Want Uvalde Bodycam Footage Suppressed, It Could Expose ‘Weakness’

The Texas Department of Public Safety asked the state's Attorney General to prevent the public release of body camera footage in response to a public records request from Motherboard. | Continue reading


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