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As Twitch turns 10, a look at how the service pioneered the patronage system that is prevalent across the internet's creator economy today
Hackers stole and posted 70GB of data from LineStar Integrity Services, a compliance tech provider to pipeline clients, on dark web around time of Colonial hack
Gene sequencer malware injection via encoded DNA (2017)
Facebook taking feedback from critics, and Zuckerberg transparently signing off on a concrete policy change, shows the Board's valuable, if limited, function
Amid a boom in retro gaming, enthusiasts are scouring online marketplaces for old CRTs, as modern displays can't replicate the unique characteristics of CRTs
Google researchers detail "Half-Double", a new Rowhammer attack technique they say will be difficult to mitigate as future generations of DRAM chips get smaller
Florida's new Stop Social Media Censorship Act almost certainly violates the US Constitution and Section 230, and will likely be struck down in court
A look at CaliberAI, a company that develops a tool for detecting potentially libelous claims, which may be particularly valuable for short-staffed newsrooms
The Ford F-150 Lightning Is the Electric Vehicle of Dystopia
The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told
RSA executives recount the hack of its SecurID seeds in 2011, which affected millions of users around the world and redefined the cybersecurity landscape
Q&A with Google SVP Prabhakar Raghavan, who runs Search, Assistant, Ads, Commerce, and Payments, on cookie tracking, Google's culture shift, AI ethics, and more
Early look at Google's Project Starline, a video booth with a 65" display and several sensors and cameras allowing for 3D representations of video call subjects
Top gamers are quitting esports to become Twitch and YouTube influencers as esports organizations and game publishers reallocate resources to streamers
The Teeny, Tiny Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill | WIRED
The Pentagon inches toward letting AI control weapons
Research: Rumble, a video-sharing site popular with conservatives, is more likely than not to recommend videos with misinfo for "vaccine", "election" searches
ISPs Funded 8.5 Million Fake Comments Opposing Net Neutrality
It Began As an AI-Fueled Dungeon Game. It Got Much Darker | WIRED
Using PayPal for Twitter's Tip Jar could reveal tipper's address to the recipient and possibly recipient's email to the tipper; Twitter says it will add a label
Dr. Fill, a puzzle-solving AI, won the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament last week, the first time AI managed to outscore human solvers at the national event
How AI Dungeon, a text adventure game that uses the GPT-3 text generator, can create sex scenes involving children, and why attempts to stop it aren't working
They Told Their Therapists Everything. Hackers Leaked It All | WIRED
An in-depth look at the fallout from a ransomware attack on Finnish private mental health provider Vastaamo, which exposed therapists' notes about patients
Founders and VCs are flocking to Miami for "Miami Tech Week", an impromptu event kicked off by a tweet from Delian Asparouhov, a principal at Founders Fund
Q&A: Evelyn Douek, a lecturer and Ph.D. student at Harvard studying online speech regulation, on why a "proportional" approach to online speech is a good thing
IRS arrests a Russian-Swedish citizen in LA for laundering 1.2M+ bitcoins over 10 years when he allegedly ran Bitcoin Fog, which remains online after his arrest
NFTs could incentivize underfunded public and private museums and archives to tokenize their holdings and become less accessible to non-commercial users
The Last Generation of Typewriter Repairmen (2010)
They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War | WIRED
Mathematicians Settle the Erdős Coloring Conjecture
The FBI Takes a Drastic Step to Fight China’s Hacking Spree: The agency’s approach to protecting vulnerable victims of the recent Hafnium attack manages to be at once controversial and refreshingly restrained.
Game streaming services like Xbox Game Pass allow disabled gamers to try new games without wasting money on potentially inaccessible games
Facebook had ample warning about privacy problems with “contact import” feature
Researchers say Facebook has known for years about exploits similar to the one that used its "contact importer", enabling the scraping of 533M users' data
The FBI arrested a far-right extremist who allegedly plotted to destroy AWS data centers in Virginia with C-4; FBI was tipped off by posts following Jan. 6 riot
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