How to get off of people search sites like Pipl, Spokeo, and WhitePages. | Continue reading
Experts say the FTC dramatically underestimated the public’s anger over repeated privacy violations. | Continue reading
Documents obtained by Motherboard show that Ring uses partnership and promotional agreements in order to contractually obligate public officials to promote its products. | Continue reading
Bluetooth tracking beacons will become a lot more effective once everyone ditches their headphone jack. | Continue reading
QAnon and Pizzagate have the attention of the feds. | Continue reading
A hacker graffiti scene surfaces in new documentary. | Continue reading
Ordinary Americans are using armies of phones to generate cash to buy food, diapers, and beer through ad fraud. | Continue reading
Multiple experts have drawn issue with Capital One’s explanations for its data breach of records on over 100 million people. | Continue reading
Falsifying data for dissertations was definitely in the mix. | Continue reading
Another machine learning algorithm has failed to work for people of color. What is it going to take for this to stop? | Continue reading
Ring’s partnerships with law enforcement could be far more more widespread than previously reported. | Continue reading
Nintendo's heralded strategy series is now completely playable in English, thanks to the tireless work of fans battling what the community dubbed the "translation patch killer." | Continue reading
It took a YouTuber's computer 2,700 hours to solve a massive digital Rubik's cube that would be as tall as the Burj Khalifa in reality. | Continue reading
The YouTubers Union has joined forces with Europe's largest trade union to fight for a fairer platform. | Continue reading
It hasn't posted any proof yet, but the former Blink 182 singer's group says it is currently studying materials to see if they came from a UFO. | Continue reading
Sad Panda, a huge hentai-hosting website, is gone, and another 50 terabytes of hentai is also in danger of deletion. | Continue reading
Marcus Hutchins, the 25-year-old researcher who helped stop the dangerous malware WannaCry on its tracks, gets a sentence of served time and will not go to prison. | Continue reading
Researchers from U.S. government contractor Immunity have developed a working exploit for the feared Windows bug known as BlueKeep. | Continue reading
147 million impacted consumers can get a modest cash payout or free credit protection services. | Continue reading
Climate change is 'almost assured' to cause decades-long droughts in the American Southwest not seen since medieval times, scientists warn in a new study. | Continue reading
The Lakeland, Florida police department is required to “encourage adoption” of Ring products as part of a secret agreement with the company. | Continue reading
“I want the whole installation to have sort of a sinister vibe to it. I think of the cheeses as if they were bait or a little trap for the landlord.” | Continue reading
A meticulous rundown of how that fully intact Double-Double ended up next to a bus stop in Jamaica, Queens. | Continue reading
A new report documents two years of science being scrubbed from government websites. | Continue reading
Rising sea levels could be an opportunity for social change—or a dystopian hellscape. | Continue reading
'Because Internet' explores how the internet is transforming the way we communicate. | Continue reading
The European Gaia spacecraft unveils new details about a cataclysmic collision in our galaxy’s distant past. | Continue reading
Scientists have created a quantum logic clock more accurate than any clock ever made. | Continue reading
One of the side effects on the path to boundless perception is, for many, boundless boners. | Continue reading
DoNotPay seeks to help consumers fight back against the “industrialized scams” known as free trials. | Continue reading
An unholy alliance of on-demand companies is desperately trying to stop a California bill from reclassifying their independent contractors as employees. | Continue reading
The small list of around 2,500 login details acts a reminder to stay vigilant and use two-factor authentication. | Continue reading
By taking strings from an online gaming program and appending them to malicious files, researchers were able to trick Cylance’s AI-based antivirus engine into thinking programs like WannaCry and other malware are benign. | Continue reading
Six out of the 10 fastest ISPs are either community-run or public/private partnerships. | Continue reading
On this week’s CYBER, we map out how the secretive Silicon Valley company influences the very technological landscape of the modern world. | Continue reading
The lawsuit, which comes after multiple Motherboard investigations into phone location data selling, is seeking an injunction against AT&T which would try to enforce the deletion of any sold data. | Continue reading
Oakland just joined San Francisco, CA and Somerville, MA in banning the use of facial recognition. | Continue reading
More than 100 wildfires in the Arctic Circle released 50 megatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in June. They're still burning. | Continue reading
I agreed to do something that seemed a little bit sketch but ultimately legal so I wouldn't have to take out loans. It turned out to be a very fine line. | Continue reading
Badass is not the same thing as bad. | Continue reading
"It's super painful to be a human being right now at this point in history." | Continue reading
Company contracts with a fusion center reveal that nearly 8 million people in northern California are subject to Palantir surveillance tools, a Motherboard investigation finds. | Continue reading
Motherboard obtained a Palantir user manual through a public records request, and it gives unprecedented insight into how the company logs and tracks individuals. | Continue reading
Gab, which has been used frequently by neo-Nazi terror groups to organize and recruit, is now the biggest node on the Mastodon network. | Continue reading
We spoke to people who told us how the QAnon conspiracy theory ruined their marriage, turned their parents into completely different people, and otherwise made their lives miserable. | Continue reading
Files so deeply compressed that they’re effectively malware have been around for decades—and a researcher just unveiled a brand-new Zip bomb that explodes a 46-megabyte file to 4.5 petabytes of data. | Continue reading
Police in Prince Edward Island are warning their drivers to stop waving cars into opposing traffic because it’s the nice thing to do. | Continue reading
Scientists used machine learning to reveal new scientific knowledge hidden in old research papers. | Continue reading