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Updated 2024-11-22 07:16
300 Million Butterflies Will Fly Through Texas This Spring
Monarch populations are in decline, but a surge is expected for the 2019 spring migration.
App Developers Left 540 Million Facebook Users' Records on the Public Internet
The exposures didn’t come from Facebook itself, but do show how data generated by one company can end up exposed thanks to another service.
Repairing All the ‘Structurally Deficient’ Bridges in the US Would Take More Than 80 Years
Every day roughly 178 million people in the US travel over bridges in need of “urgent” repair.
Bald Eagles Love Trash, Drop Garbage on Human Neighbors
A Seattle community is being bombed by eagles feeding on a local dump.
An Internet Fan Fiction Archive Is Nominated for a Hugo
Archive of Our Own is a finalist in the prestigious Hugo award's Best Related Works category—which means thousands of fanfics are Hugo finalists.
Kaspersky Lab Will Now Alert Users to 'Stalkerware' Used In Domestic Abuse
Antivirus company Kaspersky Lab announced that its Android security product will now mark all stalkerware apps as malware, prompting users to delete them.
The FTC Makes It Clear It Can’t, Won’t Protect Net Neutrality
When the Ajit Pai-led FCC killed net neutrality, the agency said that the FTC would step in to protect consumers. Now, that seems unlikely.
Twitter and YouTube Won’t Commit to Ban White Nationalism After Facebook Makes Policy Switch
Following a Motherboard investigation, Facebook banned white nationalism and white separatism. But Twitter and YouTube, two platforms with their own nationalism problems, won’t commit to following Facebook’s lead.
Customer Complaints About Telecoms Are Up 44% In Canada
Incorrect charges and non-disclosure of terms were the two most popular complaints customers had, according to a new federal report.
WhatsApp Launches a Tip Line for Misinformation in India Ahead of Elections
WhatsApp has been struggling to address misinformation and rumors on its app without compromising security. “Checkpoint Tipline” gives users in India an opt-in option to submit rumors for fact-checking.
YouTube Decides to Leave Neo-Nazi Propaganda Online
Neo-Nazi propaganda, podcasts, and audiobooks continue to exist on YouTube. Even when alerted to their existence, the platform demonetized and removed some features from them, but did not delete the videos.
Climate Change Could Expose Tons of Human Poop Left on Alaskan Glacier
Climbers have abandoned roughly 66 tons of feces on Mount Denali, and it’s just waiting to reemerge.
What Western Media Got Wrong About China’s Blockbuster ‘The Wandering Earth’
‘The Wandering Earth’ offered an important perspective on climate change and capitalism, but the West’s reviews of the movie are distracted by a techno-Orientalist fear of China.
Climate Change Activists Stripped Semi-Naked In British Parliament
“There is an emergency. It is not Brexit. It is the climate and ecological emergency.”
Prosecutors Launch Investigation Into Company That Put Malware on Google Play Store
Italian government authorities have launched an inquiry into eSurv, a company that made spyware apps that it concealed as legitimate and innocuous-looking apps on the Google Play Store.
New York Is Getting Congestion Pricing, Whether It's Ready or Not
New York is about to institute congestion pricing, and it will include an exemption for people who make below $60,000 per year.
NSO Group Says It Didn’t Hack Jeff Bezos On Behalf of Saudi Arabia
The controversial Israeli spyware vendor denied any role in the bizarre saga of Jeff Bezos against The National Enquirer.
This Fake Boyfriend App Bails You Out of Awkward Moments
Microsoft developer advocate Chloe Condon created an app to fake a call, to get her off the hook in unwanted social situations.
A Cell Phone Carrier Breaks With Big Telecom, Announces Support for Right to Repair Legislation
Cell phone providers have actively lobbied against right to repair legislation, but Ting Mobile announced that it supports consumers' right to fix the things they own.
Why The ASUS Supply Chain Hack Is a Big Deal
This week, CYBER speaks to Kim Zetter about her blockbuster scoop on a daring, sophisticated supply chain attack against computer giant ASUS.
Web Hosting Companies Shut Down a Series of Neo-Nazi Websites
Major online neo-Nazi meeting grounds are being nuked by hosting sites that want nothing to do with connections to militant white nationalists. Meanwhile, several of them have regrouped on Twitter.
Disease Prediction Scores Based on DNA Have a Racial Bias, Study Finds
Polygenic scores were nearly five times less accurate for people of African descent than people of European descent, a new study has found.
Watch a YouTuber Block Flames With a DIY ‘Sekiro’ Umbrella Shield
Colin Furze blocks fireworks and flames with a DIY flip-out umbrella from From Software's new title 'Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.'
Netflix's ‘Love, Death, and Robots’ Is Everything ‘Black Mirror’ Isn’t
David Fincher's new series favors visual style and ridiculous concepts over Black Mirror's critical societal commentary.
The Department of Suicide
In a white concrete cell, a doctor from the DoS sat across a plastic table and questioned Catherine Gabriel as to why she had chosen misery over standard-issue happiness.
'Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice' Can Teach Anyone to Enjoy 'Dark Souls'
From Software's newest title is punishing, but welcoming, and it's a great lesson in how to win in 'Dark Souls' and 'Bloodborne.'
Researchers Find Google Play Store Apps Were Actually Government Malware
Security researchers have found a new kind of government malware that was hiding in plain sight within apps on Android’s Play Store. And they appear to have uncovered a case of lawful intercept gone wrong.
NASA Is Offering $18,500 to Lie in Bed for 60 Days
The unique study by NASA, the ESA, and the German Aerospace Center will test the effects of artificial gravity on the bodies of astronauts in space.
This Company Will Pay You to Learn to Code, and Take 15 Percent of Your Income Later
Modern Labor promises to teach you to code in five months and help find you a job when you graduate—but you’re on the hook for the next two years.
Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair Legislation
A leaked internal document obtained by Motherboard outlines a program that looks almost exactly like the requirements of right to repair legislation that has been proposed in 20 states.
Facebook Charged for Discriminatory Housing Ads by Department of Housing and Urban Development
On Thursday, the Department of Housing and Urban Development charged Facebook with violating the Fair Housing Act.
A DNA Ancestry Website Is Asking People to Join to Help Hunt Criminals
The popular platform Family Tree DNA is piggybacking forensics' use of genealogy databases to sell its product.
'Dead or Alive' Players Are Pissed That They Can't Touch the Game's Women
'Dead or Alive Xtreme Venus Vacation' players got around a region-lock on Steam to find that a physical harassment mechanic was removed.
Jerks Landed a Helicopter on California's Wildflower Super Bloom
#DontDoomTheBloom.
Facebook Bans White Nationalism and White Separatism
After a civil rights backlash, Facebook will now treat white nationalism and separatism the same as white supremacy, and will direct users who try to post that content to a nonprofit that helps people leave hate groups.
Music Industry Sues Major ISP In Bid to Kick Pirates Offline Permanently
If the music industry has its way, accused pirates could be kicked off the internet permanently based on what’s often flimsy evidence of guilt.
Elizabeth Warren Calls for a National Right-to-Repair Law for Tractors
It would apply only to farm equipment, but Warren becomes the most powerful national politician to support a consumer's right to repair the things they own.
Why Hackers Are Stoked That Beto O’Rourke Was One Of Them
This week, CYBER speaks to Oxblood Ruffin, a long-time member of the legendary hacking group Cult of The Dead Cow.
Thousands of Poisonous Toads Have Overrun a Florida Town
Warm weather and heavy rainfall sparked a massive breeding cycle for the invasive toads.
Why a Growing Glacier Isn't Good News for the Climate
Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier is gaining ice due to cyclical changes in ocean temperature, but that doesn’t mean things are getting better.
Bill That Would Restore Net Neutrality Moves Forward Despite Telecom’s Best Efforts to Kill it
Last minute attempts to weaken the proposal failed as bill now moves toward a showdown in the House and Senate.
Sexism Is Not the Reason NASA Called Off the First All-Female Space Walk
“An individual may find that their sizing preferences change in space.”
Is Congestion Pricing the New Sweeping Regulation We Need?
On April 1, New York state will pass its annual budget. Experts say this might be the year that the state finally passes congestion pricing. The question is whether legislators can do it ethically.
Big Rural
In the not-so-distant future, rural America contends with the arrival of Big Solar.
Hosting Provider Finally Takes Down Spyware Leak of Thousands of Photos and Phone Calls
After Motherboard reported that a consumer spyware vendor left a lot of incredibly sensitive and private data online, the company’s hosting provider took it down.
EU Ignores the Public, Passes Internet-Wrecking Copyright Proposal
Upload filters and link taxes may be well intentioned, but critics say they’re going to seriously screw up the open internet.
ASUS Confirms It Was Used to Install Backdoors on Its Customers' Computers
A press release released by ASUS this morning confirms Motherboard’s reporting.
China Claims to Have Cloned a Police Dog to Save Time
Police in China allegedly cloned a champion sniffer dog to reduce the time and money spent on training new canines.
Paleontologists Identify the World's Largest Tyrannosaurus Rex
"Scotty" weighed about 20,000 pounds and lived longer than any other known tyrannosaur, according to University of Alberta paleontologists.
‘Mutant Rabbit’ Lost By University of Michigan Laboratory, FOIA Docs Show
The University of Michigan was home to a series of animal deaths in 2018.
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