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2,200 forgotten vintage computers are being liberated from a barn in Massachusetts Article 4043 words 25 votes
Scientists working to generate electricity from thin air make breakthrough Article 985 words, published May 24 2023 19 votes
Stack Overflow moderators are striking to stop garbage AI content from flooding the site Article 942 words 45 votes
Revealed: US Military bought mass monitoring tool that includes internet browsing, email data privacy internet security.national Article 2589 words 11 votes
Open-source blueprints are inspiring activists to distribute tent-safe heaters that can be built for as little as $7 Article 503 words 18 votes
Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos security social media Article 436 words 13 votes
New Norwegian law will require advertisements where a body's shape, size, or skin has been retouched to be labeled social media Article 411 words 16 votes
Juan Joya Borja, known as 'El Risitas' or the 'Spanish Laughing Guy' meme, has died 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 Article 3345 words, published Nov 19 2019 11 votes
Browser ‘favicons’ can be used as undeletable ‘supercookies’ to track you online privacy internet browsers Article 732 words 20 votes
Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is ‘embarrassing’ social media Article 63 words 16 votes
How the US military buys location data from ordinary smartphone apps, including a Muslim prayer app with over ninety-eight million downloads Article 2893 words 13 votes
Hasan Piker's Twitch stream is the future of Election Night coverage social media Article 582 words 12 votes
2.1 million of the oldest internet posts are now online for anyone to read internet social media Article published Sep 17 2020 14 votes
Inside Amazon’s secret program to spy on workers’ private Facebook groups privacy amazon facebook social media Article 7 votes
Hundreds arrested after European law enforcement agencies monitored over 100 million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by criminals privacy Article 2927 words 20 votes
Inside the underground trade of pirated OnlyFans porn internet social media Article 2996 words 9 votes
Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account facebook ios privacy Article 667 words 10 votes
Analysis of Voatz mobile voting app by MIT researchers finds elementary security flaws 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 Article 977 words 15 votes
Special Services Group is marketing spying capabilities to local police departments, including cameras that are hidden inside a tombstone, a baby car seat, and a vacuum cleaner Article 1366 words, published Jan 9 2020 7 votes
Hackers are breaking directly into telecom companies to take over customer phone numbers security Article 984 words 10 votes
Farmers are buying forty-year-old tractors because they're actually repairable Article 398 words 21 votes
Flawed algorithms are grading millions of students’ essays 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 privacy Article 337 words 26 votes
Security researchers find several bugs in Nest security cameras security.home Article 667 words, published Aug 21 2019 10 votes
Ordinary Americans are using armies of phones to generate extra income for beer, diapers, and bills through ad fraud Article 2511 words 8 votes
As authoritarian governments surveil the internet, open source projects decide how to respond internet privacy Article 808 words 7 votes
How Pornhub and Girls Do Porn are enabling doxing and harassment nsfw internet Article 2207 words 20 votes
China's border guards are installing malware onto the phones of travellers crossing its border Article 1358 words 8 votes
When Myspace was king, employees abused a tool called ‘overlord’ to spy on users privacy social media Article 1201 words 8 votes
InfoWars agrees to pay Pepe the Frog creator $15,000 in copyright settlement Article 559 words 25 votes
The Google outage highlights the perils of a centralized internet google internet Article 585 words 4 votes
Twitter has started researching whether white supremacists belong on Twitter 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 social media Article 3130 words 21 votes
Snapchat employees abused data access to spy on users privacy social media Article 1309 words 11 votes
Alex Jones’s Pepe the Frog copyright trial will help decide who can use memes Article 623 words 18 votes