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Tech NewsCultureGender-Reveal Plane Crash Is Perfect Metaphor for Gender-Reveal Parties
The increasingly popular ritual that celebrates the misguided notion of the concept of gender continues to get dumber as expecting parents find new ways to risk lives and destroy property while telling their loved ones the gender they intend to assign their children upon birth. One of the latest gender-reveal catastrophes occurred on September 7 … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityMan Pleads Guilty to Remotely Controlling His Girlfriend’s Car With a Computer
An Australian man pled guilty this week in the Magistrates Court to stalking his ex-girlfriend, largely through the use of an app that tracked and controlled her car. The 38-year-old man, who worked as a mechanic for the Army’s Royal Australian Corps of Transport at the time, allegedly engaged in a string of unhinged behavior … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityRegistered Sex Offender Arrested for Allegedly Soliciting Teens on a Bible App
A registered sex offender in Florida has been arrested for allegedly targeting teenagers on a Bible app. Officials have accused Douglas Earl Kersey, 50, of using the YouVersion Bible App to solicit young girls at a Hillsborough County Christian youth group, according to an arrest warrant reviewed by ABC News’ Tampa Bay affiliate. Florida Department … Continued
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Tech NewsMicrosoft Tried Out a 4-Day Workweek and Hot Damn, It Worked
Microsoft’s Japan offices recently experimented with shorter work weeks, and the results provide a glimmer of hope that large companies can alter the workweek and save us from collectively burning out. In August, Microsoft introduced the “Work Life Choice Challenge,” during which the Tokyo offices were closed every Friday. The company also pressed workers to … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityNetwork of ‘Camgirl’ Sites Exposed Data of Users and Sex Workers
A company that runs several sites featuring camworkers left the back-end database unprotected, allowing the data of hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of customers and sex workers to be exposed. TechCrunch reports that researchers at cybersecurity firm Condition:Black uncovered that VTS Media, a Barcelona-based company, left its database exposed. VTS runs “camgirl” networks like webcampornoxxx.net, placercams.com, … Continued
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Tech NewsFrench Students Will Now Have to Learn About Bitcoin
High school students in France may be among the first people in the world to actually understand how cryptocurrency works. The Next Web reports that the French education ministry, Le Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale, will integrate cryptocurrency into its curriculum and teach students the influence that bitcoin has on the economy. An outline of the … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityRudy Giuliani Had to Ask an Apple Genius to Unlock His iPhone Right After Trump Named Him Head of the Cyber
With the growing number of bumbling mistakes that Rudy Giuliani makes as Donald Trump’s attorney, it’s easy to forget that in early 2017 the President enlisted the maladroit fraudgoblin to be the White House cybersecurity czar. Precisely 26 days after Giuliani was tapped to advise Trump on the cyber, the former mayor went to a … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityInterior Department Grounds Drone Fleet Over Fears of Chinese Spying
The United States Interior Department is grounding its fleet of more than 800 drones over concerns that the Chinese is using the devices to spy or facilitate cyberattacks, according to the Wall Street Journal. There have been growing concerns among military and Homeland Security officials that the UAVs, which are made in China or consist … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityA Radio Enthusiast Was Livestreaming Sensitive Medical Patient Information Being Sent to Pagers
Pagers used within the United Kingdom’s National Health Service are leaking sensitive patient information, and an amateur radio enthusiast has been broadcasting some of that medical data on a webcam livestream, a security researcher has found. TechCrunch reports that Florida-based security researcher Daley Borda stumbled upon the strange confluence of archaic tech that flowed together … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityUntitled Goose Game Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Sow Chaos Only a Goose Could Love
The Untitled Goose Game that became a viral phenomenon right after its launch a month ago has been vulnerable to hacking, according to a report from a security researcher. The wildly popular game allows players to stir shit up in a quaint British town. The whole point is to be an asshole—from snatching up eyeglasses … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightSamsung’s ‘Space Selfie’ Satellite Plummets From Sky Onto Michigan Horse Farm
A satellite that Samsung used for a PR stunt in which it sent a selfie of model and actor Cara Delevingne into space has crash-landed on a farm in Gratiot County, Michigan. “This baby fell out of the sky and landed in our yard,” Nancy Mumby-Welke said in a video she recorded of the fallen … Continued
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Tech NewsFormer Apple Lawyer Tasked With Blocking Insider Trading Indicted on Charges of Insider Trading
A former top lawyer at Apple, who was responsible for ensuring that employees weren’t involved in insider trading, has been indicted on charges of insider trading, reports a press release from the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey. According to the indictment, the former director of corporate law at Apple, Gene Levoff, allegedly … Continued
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ScienceBiologyAt Least We Can All Agree That People Who Torture Animals Should Be in Prison
Providing new evidence that the last remaining thing we can all agree on is that animals are good, the U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously on Tuesday to pass a bill that would make animal cruelty a federal offense, broadening a 2010 law that banned videos of animals being tortured. The original law, the Animal … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityInternal Cybersecurity Memo: White House Is Bound To Get Hacked
In the 1,006 days since Donald Trump became president, his administration has shown little vigilance when it comes to its own security, and a new internal memo suggests the White House is working to weaken its own cybersecurity safeguards. Axios has published a memo written by the White House computer network defense branch chief Dimitrios Vastakis … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityAxon Brings License Plate Recognition to Cops’ Dash Cams
Axon, a manufacturer of Tasers and police body cameras, announced it is developing a police dash camera that can automatically read license plates, as its ethics board simultaneously released a report that warns of the consequences of this technology. The weapon and technology developer issued a release on Wednesday claiming it is integrating automated license … Continued
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Tech NewsSocial MediaBipartisan Bill Aims to Make It Easier to Log Off Facebook Forever
Three senators introduced a bill on Tuesday that aims to make it easier for people to get off large social media networks like Facebook and YouTube. The bipartisan legislation sponsored by Republican Senator Josh Hawley and Democratic Senators Richard Blumenthal and Mark Warner would mandate that these platforms allow their customers to easily pull their … Continued
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Tech NewsTikTok Boots Dozens of ISIS Accounts
For years, the Islamic State has used popular social media platforms networks Facebook, Telegram, Twitter, and YouTube to recruit across the world—so of course, TikTok, one of the fastest-growing platforms, has been used to push ISIS propaganda. TikTok recently removed about two dozen accounts that were sharing ISIS content, according to the Wall Street Journal. Social … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityDOJ Rule Gives Green Light to Collect DNA from Asylum-Seekers and Detained Migrants
The Department of Justice released an amended regulation on Monday that allows the Trump administration to lay the groundwork for a sweeping new policy requiring DNA collection for nearly all migrants who are held temporarily or for an extended period of time in federal immigration custody, so that information can be loaded into an FBI … Continued
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Tech NewsTransportationFAA Says Pilots Complained of ‘Egregious’ Issues With 737 Max In Messages Boeing Withheld
The Federal Aviation Administration has accused Boeing of withholding an exchange between two employees showing their concerns about the 737 Max’s malfunctioning automated system a full two years before crashes occurred in Ethiopia and Indonesia that killed a total of 346 people. In the instant message conversation Mark Forkner, who was the chief technical pilot … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityU.S. Military Will Stop Using Floppy Disks to Operate Its Nuclear Weapons System
The systems used to control the United States arsenal of nuclear weapons rely on outdated computers. But the Department of Defense is updating at least one part of the archaic technology—the floppy disk storage systems. A 60 Minutes segment in 2014 presented a tour of a nuclear control center, revealing to the public that the … Continued
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