Scientists explain why ‘doing your own research’ leads to believing conspiracies ~tech google Article 42 votes
US cities have a staggering problem of Kia and Hyundai thefts. This data shows it. ~transport Article 1815 words 32 votes
Meeting bloat has taken over corporate America. Can it be stopped? ~life work Article 3701 words 46 votes
Four former VICE Motherboard journalists founded an independent news company ~tech Article 1043 words 41 votes
2,200 forgotten vintage computers are being liberated from a barn in Massachusetts ~tech Article 4043 words 25 votes
Scientists working to generate electricity from thin air make breakthrough ~tech Article 985 words, published May 24 2023 19 votes
Stack Overflow moderators are striking to stop garbage AI content from flooding the site ~tech Article 942 words 45 votes
Bloodied Macbooks and stacks of cash: Inside the increasingly violent Discord servers where kids flaunt their crimes ~life Article 2248 words 8 votes
UK proposes making the sale and possession of encrypted phones illegal ~tech privacy Article 10 votes
Revealed: US Military bought mass monitoring tool that includes internet browsing, email data ~tech privacy internet security.national Article 2589 words 11 votes
An AI-generated artwork won first place at a state fair fine arts competition, and artists are pissed ~arts Article 453 words 26 votes
Small device ('MOXIE') currently on Mars is generating as much oxygen as a tree, scientists reveal ~space Article 699 words 18 votes
BMW wants to charge for heated seats. These grey market hackers will fix that. ~transport Article 1205 words 10 votes
Scientists discover a new method to break down plastics in less time ~enviro plastics recycling Article 9 votes
I lost $400,000, almost everything I had, on a single Robinhood bet ~finance Article 130 words 13 votes
Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it ~comp Article 2756 words, published Apr 3 2021 7 votes
Despite "decentralized" label, an Amazon outage took down this cryptocurrency exchange ~finance cryptocurrency Article 11 votes
Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos ~tech security social media Article 436 words 13 votes
Aftermath of Constitution DAO/'Buy the Constitution' ~finance cryptocurrency Article 1825 words 8 votes
Vienna museums starts OnlyFans account after its TikTok is banned for posting nudes ~arts art.fine Article 377 words 17 votes
Tesla wanted $22,500 to replace a battery. An independent repair shop fixed it for $5,000. ~transport Article 651 words 10 votes
Vast sunken continent “Icelandia” may exist under the North Atlantic – if proven it could upend long-standing assumptions about region's geological history ~science Article 797 words 9 votes
MIT predicted in 1972 that society will collapse this century. New research shows we're on schedule ~science sociology Article 21 votes
The promise and peril of turning the Salton Sea into California's "Lithium Valley" ~enviro pollution Article 1269 words 8 votes
New Norwegian law will require advertisements where a body's shape, size, or skin has been retouched to be labeled ~tech social media Article 411 words 16 votes
The rise and fall of Cheat Ninja, the group that made more than $70 million selling cheats for PUBG Mobile before being taken down by the Chinese police ~games Article 3282 words 8 votes
'Find this fuck:' Inside Citizen’s dangerous effort to cash in on vigilantism ~news crime Article 4586 words 12 votes
Pokemon card graders face unprecedented shortages in grading services as prices rise ~games.tabletop Article 9 votes
Juan Joya Borja, known as 'El Risitas' or the 'Spanish Laughing Guy' meme, has died ~tech Article 247 words 12 votes
A community of 3D graphics hobbyists are making and selling avatars of real people in order to fulfill their sexual fantasies, and there's little anyone can do to stop them ~tech Article 3345 words, published Nov 19 2019 11 votes
‘It’s going to end up like Boeing’: How freight rail is courting catastrophe ~transport Article 3318 words 11 votes
Scientists discover massive 'pipeline' in the cosmic web connecting the universe ~space astronomy Article 7 votes
Browser ‘favicons’ can be used as undeletable ‘supercookies’ to track you online ~tech privacy internet browsers Article 732 words 20 votes
Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is ‘embarrassing’ ~tech social media Article 63 words 16 votes
Scientists discover the first animal that doesn’t breathe oxygen to live ~science biology Article published Oct 17 2019 23 votes
Hasan Piker's Twitch stream is the future of Election Night coverage ~tech social media Article 582 words 12 votes
'I could show you stuff you wouldn’t believe:' Gravediggers speak out about horrifying conditions ~life work Article 3980 words 8 votes
2.1 million of the oldest internet posts are now online for anyone to read ~tech internet social media Article published Sep 17 2020 14 votes
Auto industry TV ads claim right-to-repair laws would benefit "sexual predators" ~tech Article 18 votes
Inside Amazon’s secret program to spy on workers’ private Facebook groups ~tech privacy amazon facebook social media Article 7 votes
Belarus is trying to block parts of the internet amid historic protests ~tech Article 52 words 9 votes
Hundreds arrested after European law enforcement agencies monitored over 100 million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by criminals ~tech privacy Article 2927 words 20 votes
Kinman Dwarf has seemingly vanished from space with no explanation ~space astronomy Article published May 26 2020 12 votes