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Updated 2024-11-22 09:00
New Bill Would Stop Internet Service Providers From Screwing You With Hidden Fees
Cable giants routinely advertise one rate then charge you another thanks to hidden fees a well-lobbied government refuses to do anything about.
Are Hackintosh Users More Passionate About the Mac Than Apple?
The Hackintosh has become a phenomenon in recent years, despite knotty ethical questions, because Apple’s neglected superfans won’t stop thinking different.
Take These Google Earth Tours Through American Black History
"The Journey of Us" project is a collaboration with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, and Google.
Watch a Man Calmly Describe Choking a Mountain Lion to Death to Save His Life
"I just kind of had my heart sink into my stomach."
How Kids YouTube Star Blippi Used Copyright Law to Hide His Harlem Shake Poop Video
Someone claiming to represent Blippi filed DMCA copyright takedown requests to Google in order to get an embarrassing viral video hidden.
Watch Scientists Express Their Research in Interpretive Dances
Dancers performed as electrons, brain processes, and teaching tools.
Venezuela’s Government Appears To Be Trying to Hack Activists With Phishing Pages
Security researchers and activists exposed a brazen attempt to steal Venezuelan usernames and passwords for popular email and social media websites such as Gmail, Facebook, Microsoft Live, and Twitter.
Jayda G Is Bridging the Gap Between Music and Science
Jayda G studied whales before becoming a globetrotting DJ and music producer. Now, she's running a series of talks with young scientists to marry her two passions.
Mountains Bigger Than Everest May Lie Deep Inside Earth
Scientists used the second largest earthquake on record to glimpse the terrain 410 miles under our planet's surface.
This Website Uses AI to Generate the Faces of People Who Don't Exist
Thispersondoesnotexist.com serves up a new AI-generated face every time you hit refresh.
Insurance Giant Allstate Buys Independent Phone Repair Company, Joins Right to Repair Movement
With Allstate's purchase of iCracked, you could say the right to repair movement is ... in good hands.
Don’t Call JP Morgan Chase’s New ‘JPM Coin’ a Cryptocurrency
The largest bank in the US is launching a 'digital coin,' and Bitcoin fans are nonplussed
Amazon Won't Build HQ2 in New York, But it Will Continue Grifting Taxpayers Elsewhere
It's a huge win for New Yorkers, but Amazon's practice of extracting subsidies from state and local governments is still hugely successful all over the country.
Academics Confirm Major Predictive Policing Algorithm is Fundamentally Flawed
PredPol uses an algorithm based on earthquake prediction to “predict crime.” Academics say it’s simplistic and harmful.
Pro Wrestler Booker T Is Suing 'Call of Duty' Publisher for Copying His Comic Book
Booker T. Huffman filed suit in Texas after Activision Blizzard allegedly lifted his character GI Bro in 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 4'
The New, Kinder King of YouTube
King Vader has built his brand on parodies like "Hood Naruto"—and a commitment to avoid beefing.
Early Adopter
This Valentine's Day, enjoy a timeless tale of courtship, love, and loss as experienced through the connective technologies of the internet age, and beyond.
This Interactive Map of Human Emotional Sounds Is Both Horny and Horrifying
Researchers plotted “vocal bursts” on a map, and found that we experience around 24 nonverbal emotions.
The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable?
A look at the complicated business of funding open source software development.
An African Black Leopard Has Been Captured in Stunning Rare Photographs
Sightings of wild melanistic leopards are rare in Africa—but not unheard of.
How to Pick a Chastity Cage Lock With a Condom Wrapper
A Valentine’s Day tribute to the kinkier side of lockpicking.
NASA’s Mars Opportunity Rover Is Likely Dead
Mission leads have not heard from Oppy since it was caught in a massive dust storm last June. On Wednesday, NASA will likely announce that it has died.
Here's an Interactive Map That Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Your Town in 60 Years
If we do nothing to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the weather in New York City will feel like Alabama and Los Angeles will be as hot as the tip of the Baja Peninsula.
Netflix Has Saved Every Choice You’ve Ever Made in ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'
A tech policy researcher used GDPR to request information about all of his choices from Netflix.
How YouTube Drives Shane Dawson and Other Creators to Conspiracy Theories
YouTube structurally prioritizes audience feedback, which can drive content-makers to promote conspiracy theories or hate.
Most Online ‘Terms of Service’ Are Incomprehensible to Adults, Study Finds
Reading the terms and conditions of online consumer contracts requires, on average, more than 14 years of education.
30 Tons of Pangolin Parts Seized in Historic Trafficking Bust
Malaysian authorities found two warehouses full of the most trafficked mammal in the world.
‘Runaway Collapse’ of Environment Could Cause the Next Great Recession
“Mainstream political and policy debates have failed to recognize that human impacts on the environment have reached a critical stage.”
Scammers Are Filing Fake Trademarks to Steal High-Value Instagram Accounts
Scammers don't only hack Instagram accounts. Sometimes they just provide Instagram with some paperwork.
How Google Tracks Hackers
This week, CYBER speaks to Shane Huntley, the Director of Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG), essentially Google's hacker hunting team.
NASA Discovers Second Crater Hidden Under Greenland's Ice
Within a matter of months, NASA has discovered the first subglacial craters known to science. They’re both huge and relatively young.
Researchers Use AI to Discover Evidence of Unknown Human Ancestor In Our DNA
The research explains how a third ancient human ancestor bred with humans to produce the modern human genome.
Dozens of Polar Bears Overtake Russian Island and Cause State of Emergency
"Daily life is in turmoil."
This Hand-Drawn 'Super Mario Bros.' Animation Is Cute as Hell
Twitter user and YouTuber Kisaragi Hutae 6 animated the iconic character jumping across the lined pages of a notebook
Insects Are In 'Catastrophic' Decline Worldwide, Scientists Warn
More than 40 percent of insects are at risk of extinction within 100 years.
Why Are Gamers Mad About a Real Competitor to Steam?
Epic’s new store has started a war with Steam, representing two titans duking it out for dominance.
Researchers Developed a Technique to Turn Nearly a Quarter of Our Plastic Waste into Fuel
The process could help convert millions of tons of plastic we generate every year into an gasoline and diesel-like fuel.
Scientists Discover the Closest Known Asteroid to the Sun
It's one of 19 asteroids that have been detected within Earth's orbit.
The Live-Action LEGO Porn Parody Is Here to Corrupt Your Childhood
“Dicksburg has become a post-ablockalyptic glandscape."
Watch 10,000 Maggots Scarf Down a Pizza in Two Hours
Black soldier flies are the Joey Chestnuts of the larvae world.
What A-GPS Data Is (and Why Wireless Carriers Most Definitely Shouldn’t Be Selling It)
A Motherboard investigation found that telecom companies are selling their customers' "assisted GPS" data, which is intended for first responders answering 911 calls.
Amazon’s Home Security Company Is Turning Everyone Into Cops
Neighbors, a social media crime-reporting app owned by Amazon, creates a digital ecosystem in which you are encouraged to assume the worst about your neighbors—and people of color are once again being harmed.
Owner of USB Stick Found in Seal Poop Has Come Forward
"I feel bad here because I feel like I'm ruining a really good story."
Goatse Keeps Trying to Make Money With Cryptocurrency
Goatse.cx's latest play with virtual money is selling pixel space for ether, the Ethereum blockchain's native token.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Should Nationalize Utilities
PG&E is asking for a bailout. Instead, we should make that utility, and all utilities, public assets.
Broadband 'Zero Rating' Actually Costs Customers More, Study Finds
ISPs shouldn’t be allowed to pick and choose winners on the internet, study suggests.
A Rover Named After DNA Pioneer Rosalind Franklin is Headed for Mars in 2020
“This name reminds us that it is in the human genes to explore.”
Spy Versus Spy: How a Researcher And a Journalist Unmasked an Undercover Agent
This week on CYBER, we talk to the people who concocted a bold sting operation to unmask an undercover agent.
The Juicy, Round World of Blueberry Porn
The kink for watching people transform into sloshing human berries is more widespread than you think.
A Scammer Used YouTube’s Copyright System to Ransom Creators
By submitting fake copyright “flags” a scammer demanded hundreds of dollars via Paypal or Bitcoin and even managed to get past YouTube’s anti-abuse team.
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