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Government scientists are calling on the European Union to ban massive space mirrors and other forms of solar geoengineering.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Last month, news emerged that Chinese hackers penetrated the networks of a number of US broadband providers. The situation is even worse.
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By Victor Tangermann

Hackers have targeted a phony "online university" founded by Andrew Tate, the far-right influencer and alleged human trafficker.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A hacker has apparently gotten access to testimony from a woman who claims she was paid to have sex with Matt Gaetz when she was underage.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Startups Are Biohacking Psychedelic Drugs to Make Sure You Never Have a Bad Trip Again
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By Victor Tangermann

A pair of Harvard students successfully rigged Meta-formerly-Facebook and Ray Ban's smart glasses with facial recognition software.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An independent journalist has chosen to publish in full the opposition research file Donald Trump's campaign compiled on JD Vance.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Some Silicon Valley tech bros are being paid to ride along California's coast in a Winnebago releasing balloons of sulfur dioxide.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Authorities are reporting an uptick in "sextortion" scams — but you probably don't have to worry about your browser history being leaked.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Eight years ago, Donald Trump begged Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails. Now, he's at the receiving end of such a breach.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A data scientist who correctly predicted the 2020 election is betting Kamala Harris will win big over Donald Trump.
Data Privacy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Thousands of pagers belonging to members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah exploded Tuesday afternoon.
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By Victor Tangermann

A background check site may have been majorly breached, resulting in the potential exposure of literally everyone's Social Security numbers.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Trump's campaign confirmed that it was hacked by Iranian operatives. Among the stolen materials is a 271-page dossier outlining JD Vance's "vulnerabilities."
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By Victor Tangermann

Michael Orlitzky found a clever hack that tricks the coin drop in washing machines into thinking a quarter was inserted.
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By Frank Landymore

In an unmistakable case of irony, KnowBe4, the developer of a security awareness program, accidentally hired a North Korean hacker.
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By Victor Tangermann

After self-described gay furry hackers breached the Heritage Foundation, an exec with the think tank has completely lost it.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A researcher claims to have found the "world's first spatial computing hack" that affect's Apple's Vision Pro VR headset.
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By Victor Tangermann

It appears that someone has hacked the payment platform used to process tickets for the annual Gathering of the Juggalos festival.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Lindsey Graham might have been tricked by hackers who convinced him he was talking to his colleague Chuck Schumer. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of self-described "gay furry" hackers have breached the servers of a far-right media outlet over its transphobic rhetoric.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter has been selling user data to the surveillance firm Dataminr, which in turn provides real time surveillance to government agencies.
Data Privacy

By Frank Landymore

Leaks have revealed the locations of hundreds of people who visited the notorious private island owned by Jeffrey Epstein.
Data Privacy

By Noor Al-Sibai

White hat hackers discovered a vulnerability with hotel room keycards over a year ago — but for the most part, it hasn't been fixed.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Be careful what you tell AI chatbots, because apparently it's very easy for hackers to figure out your prompts.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Ocean water and Arctic ice may contain viruses that can help trap pollution — and scientists are figuring out ways to enhance them.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Users of a UC Irvine student-run Discord server fell victim to a horrifying cyberattack, and were sent extremely graphic content.
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By Victor Tangermann

China's population is falling and falling -- and that's a major problem for its economic and demographic outlook.
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By Sharon Adarlo

The "highly motivated" 18-year-old hacker who leaked GTA VI footage will stay in a secure hospital unless he is deemed no longer a threat.
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By Frank Landymore

A prison phone company is in trouble with the feds after not only improperly securing its users' data, but also failing to alert them.
Data Privacy

By Noor Al-Sibai

A hacker got away with a whopping 800 gallons of gas — roughly worth $3,000 — at a Shell station in Detroit.
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By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump Jr.'s account on X-formerly-Twitter was apparently hacked today, with the account tweeting that his father had died.
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By Victor Tangermann

All it allegedly took for cyberattackers to hack MGM Grand casino servers was a LinkedIn scroll and a phone call.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

For weeks, hackers have been targeting major telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, forcing scientists to suspend all observations.
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By Victor Tangermann

Security researchers say they can hack a card shuffling machine widely used by casinos to show the hands of other players.
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By Frank Landymore

In an effort to combat balding, a team of scientists claims to have successfully gene-hacked mouse stem cells to stimulate hair growth.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It appears that hackers have compromised the University of Arizona's website and posted a bunch of stuff a Southeast Asian online casino.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Vow, an Australian cultured meat company, wants you to know that it's made a meatball out of mammoth meat which may or may not be tasty.
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By Frank Landymore

Dr. David Peterson argues that if we are indeed living in a computer simulation of reality, we can probably hack it — by submitting feature requests.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hackers have taken over a subdomain of wired.com, and used it to promote an Indonesian online casino. Wired does not appear to be able to kick them out.
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By Victor Tangermann and Jon Christian

Swatting is bad enough, but now, these sorts of dangerous trolls are using Ring cameras to make this crime that much worse.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter alternative Hive Social has had to pull all of its servers offline in light of some serious security vulnerabilities.
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By Victor Tangermann

Hackers gained access to Apple News push notifications via a business magazine — and sent out a trollish, racist push notification that's as juvenile as it is offensive. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The hacking collective Anonymous is targeting the Iranian government amid widespread citizen protests sparked by the alleged murder of Mahsa Amini.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

When a self-proclaimed hacker announced that it had breached Uber's security, some other ride-sharing company's employees seemed to think it was a joke.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The popular parent-teacher app Seesaw was hacked, and bad actors sent a horribly explicit, NSFW meme to unassuming users.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Using gene modification techniques, a team of researchers have come up with a new promising way to treat balding, a condition experienced by millions.
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By Victor Tangermann

Hackers are using James Webb Space Telescope image files to spread malware on Windows computers, according to cybersecurity firm Securonix.
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By Victor Tangermann

Japanese Government Says Employees Will Stop Saving Official Data on Floppy Disks
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By Victor Tangermann

Hackers are using never-before-seen methods to bypass email security measures to read and download messages and attachments.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Famed hacktivist sect Anonymous claims to have deleted incredibly revealing — and now, potentially criminalizing — data from unnamed period tracking apps.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A gaggle of hackers has decided to take the US Supreme Court's sudden and devastating reversal of landmark decision Roe vs. Wade into their own hands.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Russian news outlets are accusing Ukrainian IT hackers of DDoS attacks on their government alcohol sales servers. Is it true?
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

According to a leaked document obtained by Motherboard, Facebook has no idea where the data it collects goes — or what it's even doing with it.
Data Privacy

By Victor Tangermann

A hacker called Los Pelaos posted bizarre video to Justin Bieber, Travis Scott, Taylor Swift and other official celebrity YouTube acconts for Paco Sanz.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

Hackers have been forging emergency legal requests to get personal information from both Facebook parent company Meta and tech giant Apple.
Data Privacy

By Victor Tangermann

Government-backed North Korean hackers are likely behind a hack aimed at more than 300 people that used a Google Chrome zero-day vulnerability to exploit.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

Does one need any more proof that indie sleaze is back in vogue?
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A deepfake video of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenksy calling on Ukrainian troops to surrender reportedly made it onto a hacked Ukrainian news site.
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By Victor Tangermann

An "IT army" is amassing on popular messaging platform Telegram, volunteers determined to take down the government of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
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By Victor Tangermann

After declaring "cyber war against the Russian government" last week, famed Guy Fawkes mask-themed hacker group Anonymous is hacking Russian TV services.
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By Victor Tangermann

Hacktivist group Anonymous claimed to have taken down websites connected to the Russian government including state sponsored news website Russia Today.
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By Tony Ho Tran

An American white hat hacker managed to disrupt the internet connection of North Korea — while wearing pajamas, eating chips, and watching "Alien."
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By Victor Tangermann

As the Russian military are gathering forces near the Ukrainian border, a hacktivist group claims they hacked a Belarusian railway system.
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By Tony Ho Tran