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Amsterdam roofs that not only grow plants but also capture water for residents

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Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers

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North Korea is evading sanctions by animating Max and Amazon shows

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Some file names gave away clues about the series and episode numbers. There were also files...
Some file names gave away clues about the series and episode numbers. There were also files and projects the researchers could not identify—including a “bunch of files” with videos of horses and a Russian book on horses, Williams says.Sanctions placed upon the North Korean regime, for its ongoing human rights abuses...
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It's Hyperobjects All the Way Down

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1.You might think, in this time of profound human and climate trauma, that the world is...
1.You might think, in this time of profound human and climate trauma, that the world is coming to an end. Timothy Morton disagrees: It has already ended, and not a moment too soon. Not because doomsday has arrived, Morton clarifies, but because what we call “the world”—a place that revolves around human beings and i...
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Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text–with a twist

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“I’m going to take this as a win for now,” Shupe says, even though she knows...
“I’m going to take this as a win for now,” Shupe says, even though she knows that “in some ways, it’s a compromise.” She maintains that the way she uses ChatGPT more closely resembles a collaboration than an automated output, and that she should be able to copyright the actual text of the book.Matthew Sag, a profess...
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Big Tech Says Spy Bill Turns Its Workers into Informants

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A trade organization representing some of the world’s largest information technology companies—Google, Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft...
A trade organization representing some of the world’s largest information technology companies—Google, Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft among them—say its members are voicing strong opposition to ongoing efforts by the Biden administration to dramatically expand a key US government surveillance authority.The US Senate is ...
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Dubai's Floods Weren't Caused by Cloud Seeding

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Dubai is underwater. Heavy storms have caused flash flooding across the United Arab Emirates, leading to...
Dubai is underwater. Heavy storms have caused flash flooding across the United Arab Emirates, leading to shocking scenes circulating on social media: Cars abandoned by the roadside, planes sloshing through flooded runways. Hundreds of flights have been canceled at Dubai’s busy international airport, and at least 18 ...
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US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call 'Stasi-Like'

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Google employees protest company's work with Israeli military

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US government’s reliance on Microsoft means the company gets a free pass

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These incidents occurred as security experts were increasingly criticizing Microsoft for failing to promptly and adequately...
These incidents occurred as security experts were increasingly criticizing Microsoft for failing to promptly and adequately fix flaws in its products. As by far the biggest technology provider for the US government, Microsoft vulnerabilities account for the lion’s share of both newly discovered and most widely used ...
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North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet

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P4x says he has largely automated his attacks on the North Korean systems, periodically running scripts...
P4x says he has largely automated his attacks on the North Korean systems, periodically running scripts that enumerate which systems remain online and then launching exploits to take them down. “For me, this is like the size of a small-to-medium pentest,” P4x says, using the abbreviation for a “penetration test,” th...
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The Battle to Define Mental Illness (2010)

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Every so often Al Frances says something that seems to surprise even him. Just now, for...
Every so often Al Frances says something that seems to surprise even him. Just now, for instance, in the predawn darkness of his comfortable, rambling home in Carmel, California, he has broken off his exercise routine to declare that "there is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't...
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House Votes to Extend–and Expand–A Major US Spy Program

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A controversial US wiretap program days from expiration cleared a major hurdle on its way to...
A controversial US wiretap program days from expiration cleared a major hurdle on its way to being reauthorized.After months of delays, false starts, and interventions by lawmakers working to preserve and expand the US intelligence community’s spy powers, the House of Representatives voted on Friday to extend Sectio...
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The Future of America's Biggest Spy Program Is Being Decided Right Now

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The United States government, like its rivals in Moscow and Beijing, has poured untold millions of...
The United States government, like its rivals in Moscow and Beijing, has poured untold millions of dollars into quietly turning the phones and internet browsers of its own citizens into a powerful intelligence-gathering tool. Shadowy deals between federal agencies and commercial data brokers have helped the US intel...
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A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress

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The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island

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Welcome to the Age of Technofeudalism

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The tech giants have overthrown capitalism. That’s the argument of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis,...
The tech giants have overthrown capitalism. That’s the argument of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who became famous trying to defend debt-laden Greece from its German creditors. Varoufakis has never quite regained the notoriety of 2015. But he has remained a prominent left-wing voice. After a failed...
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The Deaths of Effective Altruism

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The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet

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At around 7 am on a quiet Wednesday in August 2017, Marcus Hutchins walked out the...
At around 7 am on a quiet Wednesday in August 2017, Marcus Hutchins walked out the front door of the Airbnb mansion in Las Vegas where he had been partying for the past week and a half. A gangly, 6'4", 23-year-old hacker with an explosion of blond-brown curls, Hutchins had emerged to retrieve his order of a Big Mac ...
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Vigilante Hacker Took Down North Korea's Internet. Now He's Taking Off His Mask

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“That's not nice, and it’s not a good norm,” says Schneider. She says that much of...
“That's not nice, and it’s not a good norm,” says Schneider. She says that much of the US government’s slow approach to cyberattacks stems from its care to ensure it avoids unintentionally hitting civilians as well as breaking international law or triggering dangerous blowback.Still, Schneider concedes that Caceres ...
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The Incognito Mode Myth Has Unraveled

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If you still hold any notion that Google Chrome’s “Incognito mode” is a good way to...
If you still hold any notion that Google Chrome’s “Incognito mode” is a good way to protect your privacy online, now’s a good time to stop.Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” the company collected while users browsed the web using Incognito mode, according to documents filed in federal court in Sa...
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Jeffrey Epstein's Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker

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Now, however, 11,279 coordinates obtained by WIRED show not only a flood of traffic to Epstein’s...
Now, however, 11,279 coordinates obtained by WIRED show not only a flood of traffic to Epstein’s island property—nearly a decade after his conviction as a sex offender—but also point to as many as 166 locations throughout the US where Near Intelligence infers that visitors to Little St. James likely lived and worked...
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Cliff Stoll, the mad scientist who wrote the book on how to hunt hackers

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In 1986, Cliff Stoll’s boss at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs tasked him with getting to the...
In 1986, Cliff Stoll’s boss at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs tasked him with getting to the bottom of a 75-cent accounting discrepancy in the lab’s computer network, which was rented out to remote users by the minute. Stoll, 36, investigated the source of that minuscule anomaly, pulling on it like a loose thread u...
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Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data with over 1,500 Companies

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