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People are selling stolen Uber accounts on the dark web

Jan 30, 2024

Motherboard noticed some interesting activity on popular dark web marketplace AlphaBay recently. Apparently, at least two vendors are selling what appears...

Idaho and Mississippi lead the nation in cybersecurity… I’m serious

Jan 30, 2024

Which state governments have the best cybersecurity policy? The answer may surprise you. According to a new report, Idaho and...

Good news guys, Windows 93 has been released!

Jan 30, 2024

It's only 22-years late but Windows 93 has finally arrived. The first version of this browser-based operating system was released...

Judge rules that cops need warrants to access cellphone location data

Jan 30, 2024

If law enforcement wants to get its hands on someone's past cellphone location data, they'll need to get their hands...

This encrypted messaging app could be a nightmare for the NSA

Jan 30, 2024

The NSA has made its dislike of encryption abundantly clear, something made even clearer last week when the agency's director...

Why are women in developing nations less likely to have phones?

Jan 30, 2024

Mobile growth has remained steady in the developed world due to the fact that pretty much everyone already has a...

Gemalto claims the GCHQ/NSA hack isn’t as bad as it seems

Feb 25, 2015

It was revealed last week that the GCHQ and the NSA conducted a joint operation that resulted in the theft of...

Cuban refugees can now return to their homeland with Oculus Rift

Jan 3, 2015

There are numerous Cuban immigrants in the US who fled from their homeland in the decades past in order to...

This 3D-printed dress actually defends itself

Dec 24, 2014

Silk? Meh. Taffeta? Blergh. When it came time to craft her latest dress, Dutch artist Anouk Wipprecht instead turned to...

This website will pay you to read pirated articles

Dec 23, 2014

Don't like that many of the big, traditional news outlets hide the online editions of their stories behind paywalls? Neither...

Sony is looking to sue Twitter and its users for “damaging” tweets

Dec 22, 2014

While Sony is still licking its post-hack wounds it’s going on the offensive about its leaked emails. Right now it...

Researchers create a farm for mushrooms that consume plastic

Dec 16, 2014

Biodegradable plastics exist because traditional ones take between 20 and 1,000 years to break down in the wild, often blocking...