The McDonald’s ice cream machine hacking saga has a new twist
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Locked out of ‘god mode,’ runners are hacking their treadmills
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Twitter expands its subscription service to news articles
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What’s harder to find than microchips? The equipment that makes them.
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The lonely work of moderating Hacker News
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A battle among homeowners in Colorado shows how license plate scanners are reshaping American neighborhoods
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Fraudsters cloned company director’s voice in $35 million bank heist, police find
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All the ways Netflix tracks you and what you watch
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Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
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Facebook banned someone for developing a Chrome extension designed to reduce its addictiveness
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DeepMind worked with UK weather forecasters to create a model that was better at making short term predictions than existing systems
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The unbelievable grimness of /r/HermanCainAward, the subreddit that catalogs anti-vaxxer COVID deaths
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Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other tech firms are pressing lawmakers to stop prosecutors from secretly snooping on private accounts
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Documenting the last pay phones in America
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Apple delays the rollout of its plans to scan iPhones for child exploitation images
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The inside story of how the lowly PDF played the longest game in tech
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You're probably not using the web's best browser (Vivaldi)
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You can now practice firing someone in virtual reality
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The promise of open-source intelligence
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History of the Segway - Dean Kamen's literary agent revisits the story twenty years later to reflect on his contribution to the invention's hype and failure
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Sophie Zhang risked everything to expose how Facebook enables global political manipulation. Now she’s telling her story.
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The FTC votes unanimously to enforce right to repair
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Why a YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech
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Interview with Jonathan Rauch on epistemic disruption
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You really need to quit Twitter
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To catch teenage gamers after curfew, Chinese company deploys facial recognition
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I’m scared of the person TikTok thinks I am
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The internet feeds on its own dying dreams
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In leak investigation, tech giants are caught between courts and customers
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A modest proposal: Just log off
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US FBI secretly ran the An0m encrypted messaging platform, yields hundreds of arrests in global sting
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How Twitter turned Kimmy Schmidt into a ‘KKK Queen’
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One-fifth of US beef capacity wiped out by JBS cyberattack
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EU set to unveil digital wallet fit for post-Covid life
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Our digital pasts weren’t supposed to be weaponized like this
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How holograms, deepfakes, and AR are raising the dead
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Substack is selling soap operas
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The current chip and semiconductor shortage
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How China turned a prize-winning iPhone hack against the Uyghurs
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They told their therapists everything. Hackers leaked it all.
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A third of Basecamp’s workers resign after a ban on talking politics
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Extremists find a financial lifeline on Twitch
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After decades of not using them, the Pentagon has given control of millions of IP addresses to a previously unknown company in an effort to identify possible cyber vulnerabilities and threats
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Discord has halted talks with Microsoft and other potential acquirers, is resuming interest in a future IPO
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They hacked McDonald’s ice cream machines—and started a cold war
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Sixty-week delay on router orders shows scale of chip crisis
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I called off my wedding. The internet will never forget
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533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
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Facebook built the perfect platform for Covid vaccine conspiracies
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Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10 billion
39 votes