US Navy releases new UFO incident reports: This is about newly-released written incident reports, not the grainy videos that made headlines several weeks ago ~space Article 15 votes
Ohio has stopped kicking workers off unemployment after a hacker targeted its website ~life work Article 314 words 12 votes
Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide "sick-out" ~finance business Article 1051 words 16 votes
Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account ~tech facebook ios privacy Article 667 words 10 votes
The most critical fight against Donald Trump's US border wall you've never heard of ~society politics Article 1821 words 4 votes
Leaked document shows how big companies buy credit card data on millions of Americans ~finance Article 1813 words, published Feb 19 2020 13 votes
Analysis of Voatz mobile voting app by MIT researchers finds elementary security flaws ~tech security Article 1644 words 11 votes
The mysterious drone sightings in Colorado seem to have been a classic case of mass hysteria, with no evidence of illegal drone activity ever found ~tech Article 977 words 15 votes
Hackers are breaking directly into telecom companies to take over customer phone numbers ~tech security Article 984 words 10 votes
Farmers are buying forty-year-old tractors because they're actually repairable ~tech Article 398 words 21 votes
SpaceX has quietly—and retroactively—relicensed its photos out of the public domain ~space Article 744 words, published Dec 11 2019 14 votes
Libraries and archivists are scanning and uploading books that are secretly in the public domain ~books libraries Article 833 words 8 votes
Flawed algorithms are grading millions of students’ essays ~tech Article 2130 words, published Aug 20 2019 13 votes
BangBros bought PornWikiLeaks.com—a website devoted to doxing and harassing porn performers—solely to shut it down and remove all information associated with it ~tech privacy Article 337 words 26 votes
Security researchers find several bugs in Nest security cameras ~tech security.home Article 667 words, published Aug 21 2019 10 votes
The Installation: A dystopian science fiction short that imagines the future of big pharma ~books short stories science fiction Article 2896 words 4 votes
UN says humans must transform our diets and land use to save the planet ~enviro climate change Article 619 words 5 votes
Ordinary Americans are using armies of phones to generate extra income for beer, diapers, and bills through ad fraud ~tech Article 2511 words 8 votes
As authoritarian governments surveil the internet, open source projects decide how to respond ~tech internet privacy Article 808 words 7 votes
The internet has spent three years taking care of this guy’s plants: The subreddit r/takecareofmyplant has 11,300 members, all dedicated to, well, taking care of a plant ~life Article 739 words 17 votes
How Pornhub and Girls Do Porn are enabling doxing and harassment ~tech nsfw internet Article 2207 words 20 votes
China's border guards are installing malware onto the phones of travellers crossing its border ~tech Article 1358 words 8 votes
Creator of DeepNude, app that undresses photos of women, takes it offline ~tech Article 457 words 30 votes
When Myspace was king, employees abused a tool called ‘overlord’ to spy on users ~tech privacy social media Article 1201 words 8 votes
Prisons are banning books that teach prisoners how to code ~books libraries.prison Article 903 words 8 votes
InfoWars agrees to pay Pepe the Frog creator $15,000 in copyright settlement ~tech Article 559 words 25 votes
The Google outage highlights the perils of a centralized internet ~tech google internet Article 585 words 4 votes
Twitter has started researching whether white supremacists belong on Twitter ~tech social media Article 1187 words 21 votes
Confessions of a Reddit 'Karma Whore': My years-long journey to the top of Reddit's karma leaderboards has only made me feel more alone ~tech social media Article 3130 words 21 votes
Snapchat employees abused data access to spy on users ~tech privacy social media Article 1309 words 11 votes
Ravens spread negative emotions to their friends, study finds ~science biology Article 648 words 7 votes
Alex Jones’s Pepe the Frog copyright trial will help decide who can use memes ~tech Article 623 words 18 votes
Apple is telling lawmakers people will hurt themselves if they try to fix iPhones ~tech apple smartphones Article 1344 words 8 votes
Report: Twenty-six states now ban or restrict community broadband ~tech internet Article 826 words 9 votes
Compromised credentials for a Microsoft support agent enabled outside access to non-enterprise Hotmail, Outlook, and MSN emails for months ~tech security microsoft.outlook Article 683 words 9 votes
Internal documents show Apple is capable of implementing right to repair legislation ~tech apple Article 1158 words 7 votes
Hackers hijacked ASUS software updates to install backdoors on thousands of computers ~tech Article 2541 words 10 votes
Britain will have water shortages in twenty-five years thanks to climate change, environment chief says ~enviro climate change Article 416 words 7 votes
Microsoft says the FCC 'overstates' broadband availability in the US ~tech internet microsoft Article 907 words 16 votes
The prototype iPhones that hackers use to research Apple’s most sensitive code ~tech apple security Article 3973 words 7 votes
"Deep Adaptation": A paper that predicts an inevitable near-term social collapse due to climate change ~enviro climate change Article 2461 words 26 votes
Right to repair legislation is officially being considered in Canada ~tech smartphones Article 563 words 15 votes
Wikipedia editors have been fighting over corn for at least a decade ~humanities language Article 1068 words, published Dec 19 2017 20 votes
The internet was built on the free labor of open source developers. Is that sustainable? ~tech internet Article 5933 words 14 votes
Nintendo makes it clear that piracy is the only way to preserve video game history ~games Article 1602 words 29 votes