Amazon Will Sell You a Super Cheap Phone (At the Cost of Your Soul)
Amazon is offering pretty sweet new deal by which you can literally sell your eyeballs to the spirit of mobile advertising that lives under the sea—in exchange for a slightly cheaper phone.
You Should Update Your Antivirus Software Right Now
A security researcher at Google has found several fatal flaws in Symantec antivirus software (also known as Norton) that he describes as “as bad as it gets.” Symantec has issued an advisory to customers and released updates that fix the security flaws.
Wow, This Credit Card Skimmer Is Sneaky
ATM skimmers are so successful is because they’re nearly impossible to catch. They’re cheap and easy to make and just slide onto anything you might use to swipe a card, stealing your information in the process. They’re also part of the reason you have to use that annoying chip card that takes forever to process.
The New Instagram Feed Is Ruining My Life
Does anyone else feel like the natural order of the world has been flipped upside down? I do, and I know why. It’s because Instagram switched its feed from photos appearing in chronological order to photos being sorted by an algorithm. You may have noticed the change roll out in the past few days, and you may have…
Amazon Busted Illegally Shipping Dangerous Chemicals Again
Amazon just racked up two more fines—amounting to a total of $130,000—from the FAA for improperly shipping dangerous chemicals. Turns out putting acid and flammable gas into a box and putting it on an airplane is not okay.
Wow, Mark Zuckerberg Is Paranoid As Fuck
Mark Zuckerberg, a man who runs a service that collects the personal information of more than a billion people daily, seems to be worried about being spied on. There’s something very interesting in the photo Zuckerberg posted today to celebrate Instagram’s 500 million monthly active users, can you see it?
How Google Is Fixing a Fatal Security Flaw
Google is making the best security feature, two-step verification, a little bit easier to use. This week, the company announced that it’s switching out the annoying (and hackable) six digit code with a simple “yes” or “no” button. This is a great move.
Palantir's Party Culture: Beer Pong, Office Pranks, and a Bad Case of the Hives
Palantir is one of the most secretive tech firms in Silicon Valley. Its clients include the FBI, the NSA, and the CIA, as well as companies like JPMorgan Chase, Walmart, and Credit Suisse. The 12-year-old big data firm has received $2.7 billion in funding, and at a valuation of $25 billion, it’s considered the fourth…
Craig Wright's Claims About Inventing Bitcoin Still Don't Make Any Goddamn Sense
New details have emerged in the saga of Bitcoin’s mysterious creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Last night, the London Review of Books published an incredibly detailed, 35,000-word story about the recent turmoil of Craig Wright, an Australian businessman who claims to have invented Bitcoin. The story offers plenty of…
Two More Women Have Accused Jacob Appelbaum of Sexual Assault [Updated]
Update 6/15/16 1:30 p.m.: Another woman, Isis Lovecruft, who is a staff developer at the Tor project, has accused Appelbaum of sexual assault. We’ve added her statement at the bottom of this story.
Panama Papers Law Firm IT Employee Detained On Suspicion Of Data Theft
A computer technician who works for Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the center of the Panama Papers leak, has been detained in Geneva on suspicion that he recently stole large amounts of data from the firm, French newspaper Le Temps reported.
The Air Force Had a Totally Accidental Computer Disaster [Updated]
Update 6/15/16: The Air Force found the supposedly corrupted files.


