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How Would Facebook Know to Recommend This Psychiatrist’s Patients to Each Other?…
Facebook’s ability to figure out the “people we might know” is sometimes eerie. Many a Facebook user has been creeped out when a one-time…
Ha! They Really Do Know What We’re Saying…
They found that dogs processed words with the left hemisphere, while intonation was processed with the right hemisphere — just like humans…
The FBI’s Megaupload Domains Are Now Hosting Porn Ads…
Well, we know the FBI is particularly adept at hosting porn on the internet. After all, just a few days ago it was revealed that in the short time it was running a child porn site…
Government Hackers Caught Using Unprecedented iPhone Spy Tool on Human Rights Activists…
On the morning of August 10, Ahmed Mansoor, a 46-year-old human rights activist from the United Arab Emirates, received a strange text message from a number he did not recognize…
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The NSA Leak Is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm…
On Monday, a hacking group calling itself the “ShadowBrokers” announced an auction for what it claimed were “cyber weapons” made by the NSA…
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Julian Assange ‘Assassination’ Claimed After Foiled Ecuadorian Embassy Break-in…
Speculation over an attempt on the life of Wikileaks founder and political refugee Julian Assange is rife today after a man was detected scaling the wall of…
How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet…
They’re turning the web into a cesspool of aggression and violence. What watching them is doing to the rest of us may be even worse…
China Launches World’s 1st ‘Hack-Proof’ Quantum Communication Satellite…
China has launched the world’s first quantum communications satellite into orbit aboard a Long March-2D rocket earlier today in order to test the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics at space…
Former NSA Staffers: Rogue Insider Could Be Behind NSA Data Dump…
There are a lot of unanswered questions surrounding the shocking dump of a slew of hacking tools used by an NSA-linked group earlier this week. But perhaps the biggest one is…
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Edward Snowden Explains The Historic NSA Hack: “This Escalation Could Get Messy Fast”…
Snowden says “this leak looks like a somebody sending a message that an escalation in the attribution game could get messy fast”…
Judge On Whether Twitter Is Legally Liable For ISIS Attacks: Hahahahahaha, Nope…
This is not a surprise, but the judge overseeing the case where Twitter was sued by a woman because her husband was killed in an ISIS attack has tossed out the case…
Yahoo ‘Aware’ Hacker Is Advertising 200 Million Supposed Accounts on Dark Web…
A notorious cybercriminal is advertising 200 million of alleged Yahoo user credentials on the dark web, and the company has said it is “aware” of the hacker’s claims, but…
Jeep Hackers at It Again, This Time Taking Control of Steering and Braking Systems…
A pair of hackers have compromised their Jeep Cherokee, fooling the car into doing dangerous things like turning the steering wheel or activating the parking brake…
World’s Largest Solar Power Plant Planned for Chernobyl Nuclear Wasteland…
Ukraine’s ecology minister said the government was negotiating with two US investment firms and four Canadian energy companies, which have expressed interest in the Chernobyl’S…
GlaxoSmithKline and Google Team Up to Create New Bioelectronics Health Company…
British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and Google’s parent company Alphabet have announced they’re creating a new company to develop bioelectronic medicines…
Federal Judge Rips Uber Apart Over Dirt-Digging Investigation…
In December of last year, Yale environmental researcher Spencer Meyer filed suit against Uber, alleging price fixing by Uber’s drivers and founder in violation…
Getty Makes Nonsensical Statement On Photographer Carol Highsmith’s Lawsuit For Falsely Claiming Copyright…
We just recently wrote about photographer Carol Highsmith’s copyright lawsuit against Getty Images, for falsely claiming copyright in her images (and demanding she pay to use her own images…)…
Norway to Create World’s First Floating Underwater Tunnel (VIDEO)…
Norway’s Public Roads Administration (NPRA) is building the world’s first floating submerged tunnel system about 30 meters (100ft) underwater…
Artificial Intelligence Swarms Silicon Valley on Wings and Wheels…
For more than a decade, Silicon Valley’s technology investors and entrepreneurs obsessed over social media and mobile apps that helped people do things like…