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In a letter to the CEO, call centers employees are demanding sick leave if they test positive for COVID. Something they don’t currently have.

A journey into the dark heart of the early internet and the search for a mysterious woman that yields no results.

The popular encrypted messaging app is going through changes.

“Revenge is Definite,” said yet another piece of state-backed media depicting the death of the former president.

New legislation would delay the enforcement of a popular law by three years, scoring a win for automakers and a loss for consumers.

We talked to the guy who spends eight hours harvesting methane to power a specially converted motorcycle.

In Europe, the printing giant showed customers how to circumvent restrictions on printer cartridges.

This week’s Cyber is all about Popcorn Time, the Wu-Tang Clan, and a keyboard so good some people think it’s cheating.

"The goat is sitting on a SpaceX rocket propelling past Earth and the Moon toward Mars like Elon’s vision. The goat is also surrounded by lightning to symbolize Tesla’s solar electricity and electric cars," said designer Danny Wang.

We’ve got pictures of ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’ in federal custody, and they’re not pretty.

The Utah-based, Silicon Valley-backed company asked founder David Bateman to resign soon after the comments surfaced.

There were a lot of incredible optical illusions in 2021, but the official contest winner is a dogshit magician's trick and I hate it.

Experience the collapse of Soviet-style Communism by playing the video games designed by angry teenagers living under it.

Amazon’s history of forcing employees to work during natural disasters.

The comics legend has been minted into an NFT that will be sold in a loot box on what would have been his 99th birthday.

The leftwing Twitch star has been temporarily banned from Twitch following a discussion where he used a word some believe to be an anti-white slur.

Court documents outlined a scheme where a consulting firm paid for early access to non-public files.

A rare bug made a Google smartphone unable to contact emergency services.

iCloud, Steam, Minecraft, and several others are all vulnerable to a vulnerability that is trivially easy for hackers to exploit.

In the history of obnoxious ear-worm advertisements, nothing is worse than this 30 second jingle for Google cell phone service.

Thoughtful gifts don't have to cost an arm and a leg, whether they're for home cooks, plant dads, streetwear buffs, or bougie babes.

Facing mounting legislation and pushback from customers and shareholders, an embattled John Deere looks to the SEC to keep it from answering questions.

The only way I can get through the rest of this year is in a deep marijuana-induced coma.

Wikipedia editors agreed that Wales’ post about the auction violated the site's rules about self-promotion.

Grimes let us know she appreciates nuclear power in a video with TikTok nuke influencer Isodope.

The complicated pieces at the heart of LEGO's new Star Wars set is frustrating some fans.

AI systems aren’t living up to the promise of science fiction, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t being deployed in dangerous ways.

“There’s going to be a lot of stupid stuff and lots of bad stuff,” the Wikipedia co-founder said of NFTs. “But there is something quite interesting in all of it as well."

Ulbricht is serving life in prison for his role in running the notorious Silk Road drug market, but that didn't stop Bitcoiners from coming for him.

NFT apes escape a dying planet on the Musk-1 spaceship in this animated short executive produced by 2 Chainz.

For just under $4 grand, you can own a bulky gun that will launch a metal rod across the room about as fast as a BB gun.

Heidecker puts the emptiness of Rogan on display by embodying him for 12 straight hours.

Zia Chishti has resigned from his billion-dollar artificial intelligence company Afiniti after the allegations emerged at a congressional hearing.

The new group will coordinate efforts across branches in an effort to figure out what, exactly, is flying around up there.

If you got all your financial advice from a hamster, your portfolio is in serious trouble because he’s dead.

Sky Global makes an encrypted messaging app that Washington says is popular among the criminal underground.

‘The Pizzagate Massacre’ is the best movie about the Trump era, and now everyone can finally watch it.

President Bukele’ scheme is the latest in a long line of plans to offer places where people can park their crypto wealth without paying taxes.

The biggest names in the fight to let you fix your own stuff come onto Cyber and explain Apple’s change of heart.

Space scientists Abel Méndez, Génesis Ferrer, and Arianna Colón Cesaní spoke with Motherboard about the incalculable impact of Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory.

An artist and programer in Australia has uploaded 15 Terabytes of NFTs to a server. Here’s the torrent for them.

In a major shift in policy, Apple says it will sell the parts and tools necessary for DIY iPhone repair.

When Captain Lou ordered toilet paper from Amazon, he had no idea he’d end up with a Sprinter van, too.

Inflation, a labor strike, and the lack of repairability on newer models is a perfect storm that’s sent prices surging.

Facebook, it has become increasingly clear, cannot be trusted to govern itself.

Kingship is the brainchild of UMG executives who want to build a Gorillaz-style band for the metaverse cobbled together from marketing buzzwords and NFTs.

The ultimate in right-click mentality is saving thousands of NFTs and forming them into a collage depicting a hand right-clicking to save.

Silicon Valley is rushing to build the next big thing, and people should be skeptical of their intent.

The early internet pioneer and consummate shitposter is dead. He changed the internet forever.

Apple said it plans to roll out a software update that will fix the issue with broken Face ID on iPhone 13s repaired with aftermarket screens.