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Tesla has been accused of manipulating the odometers in its cars to avoid repair responsibilities and warranty agreements.

Tesla Accused of Hacking Odometers to Rip Off Customers

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers took over the crosswalk buttons of downtown intersections in several California cities, to play clips of Elon Musk's cloned voice.

Someone Is Hacking Crosswalk Buttons to Speak in the Voice of Elon Musk Lamenting the Terrible Sadness in His Life

By Victor Tangermann

Immortality-obsessed tech mogul Bryan Johnson is trying to get ahead of what he's claiming to be a "hit piece" by the New York Times.

It Sounds Like Something Nasty Is About to Come Out About That Millionaire Biohacker Who Used His Son as a “Blood Boy”

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the AI security company Adversa AI have found that xAI's Grok 3 is a cybersecurity disaster waiting to happen.

Researchers Find Elon Musk’s New Grok AI Is Extremely Vulnerable to Hacking

By Victor Tangermann

Amid a spate of vandalism at Supercharger stations, Tesla appears to be employing countermeasures to head off the theft of its copper cables.

Tesla Installing Countermeasures as People Are Hacking the Cables Off Superchargers

By Noor Al-Sibai

Recent efforts by right wing groups to target Wikipedia are beginning to converge as Elon Musk enters the fray.

Leaked Documents Show Plot to Dox Anonymous Wikipedia Editors Using Hacking and Facial Recognition

The FBI admitted that they believe hackers broke into AT&T's systems last year to steal months of call and text logs.

Hackers Apparently Stole the FBI’s Call Logs With Confidential Informants

By Victor Tangermann

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

Scientists Call for Ban on Hacking the Earth’s Climate With Chemicals or Giant Mirrors

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.

It Appears That Chinese Hackers Have Stolen Your Naughty Texts

By Victor Tangermann

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

Hacktivists Leak Chatlogs From Andrew Tate’s Fake Online University

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.

A Hacker Has Reportedly Obtained Matt Gaetz Sex Testimony

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

Terrifying Smart Glasses Hack Can Pull Up Personal Info of Nearby Strangers in Seconds

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.

Twitter Suspends Journalist for Publishing Trump’s Hacked Dossier About JD Vance’s Weaknesses

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.

Tech Bros Releasing Climate-Hacking Chemicals From “Stealth” RV

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.

Here’s What to Do If Hackers Threaten to Release Your Porn History

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.

Trump Cheered When Russia Hacked Hillary Clinton’s Emails. Now His Embarrassing Documents Have Been Stolen by Iranian Hackers

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Hezbollah Throwing Out Pagers After Hackers Reportedly Figured Out How to Explode Them Remotely

By Victor Tangermann

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

Hackers May Have Leaked Every American’s Social Security Information

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."

Hackers Just Leaked Trump’s Secret ‘Reasons Why Vance Sucks’ List

By Victor Tangermann

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

Genius Hacker Shows How to Use Laundry Machines for Free

By Frank Landymore

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

Security Firm Alarmed to Discover Their Remote Employee Is a North Korean Hacker

By Victor Tangermann

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

Project 2025 Exec Loses Mind, Threatening “Furry Perverts” After Embarrassing Hack

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.

Researcher Discovers Terrifying Apple Vision Pro Hack That Can Fill Your Entire Home Office With Fearsome Spiders

By Victor Tangermann

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

The Gathering of the Juggalos’ Payment Processer Appears to Have Been Hacked, Stealing Ticket Buyers’ Money

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Lindsey Graham Says His Phone Was Hacked By Someone Impersonating Chuck Schumer

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.

Gay Furry Hackers Attack Right-Wing News Outlet

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.

Android Phones Can Open Almost Any Hotel Room Door, Hackers Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Hackers Can Spy on Your Chats With Almost Any AI, Experts Find

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.

Scientists Propose Hacking Viruses to Fight Climate Change

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.

Students Hospitalized After Hackers Send Horrifying Pictures

By Victor Tangermann

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.

GTA 6 Hacker Committed to Hospital Indefinitely After Vowing to Strike Again

By Frank Landymore

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

Man Reportedly Steals 800 Gallons of Gas by Hacking Pump

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.

Don Jr’s Twitter Account Got Hacked, Posted That Trump Had Died

By Victor Tangermann

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

Casinos Shut Down Amid Hacker Intrusions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Mysterious Hackers Are Targeting Space Telescopes

By Victor Tangermann

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

Hackers Gain Control of Casino Card Shuffling Machine for Godlike Control Over Games

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.

Gene Hacking Offers Hope for Regrowing Bald Guys’ Hair

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.

Someone Has Apparently Hacked the University of Arizona’s Website

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.

Gene Hackers Create Meatball From Resurrected Mammoth Meat

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.

A Scientist Is Looking Into Whether We Can Hack the Reality Simulation

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.

Hackers Took Over a Subdomain of Wired.com for Several Months and Replaced It With Sleazy Online Casino Content

By Victor Tangermann, Jon Christian

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

Fiends Allegedly Swatted Victims, Use Hacked Ring Cameras to Livestream It

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Twitter Competitor Shuts Down App When It Turns Out Hackers Can Read Users’ Private Messages

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.

Hackers Send “Incredibly Offensive” Alert to Apple News Users

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.

Anonymous Hacks Iran After Woman Allegedly Killed by “Morality Police”

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.

Uber Hack Was So Huge Employees Thought It Was a Prank

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Parent-Teacher Messaging App Hacked to Send Mom and Dad Horrifying Images

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.

Scientists Are Working on a Gene-Hacking Drug That Could Treat Baldness

By Victor Tangermann

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

Devious Hackers Are Hiding Malware in a James Webb Image

By Victor Tangermann

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

North Korean Hackers Are Reportedly Going After Gmail Accounts

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Anonymous Says It’s Hacking Databases to Protect Women Who Get Abortions

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.

Hackers Declare War on Anti-Abortion States

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Ukrainian Hackers Allegedly Cut Off Russian Soldiers’ Beloved Vodka Supply

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

A Hacker Just Stole Justin Bieber’s YouTube Channel and Uploaded Something Truly Bizarre

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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.

North Korea Launches Wave of Hacks Directed at US Companies

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Does one need any more proof that indie sleaze is back in vogue?

Grimes Says She Got Hackers to Shut Down a Blog She Didn’t Like

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.

Hackers Deepfaked a Video of the Ukrainian President Telling His Soldiers to Surrender

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.

300,000 Volunteer “Hackers” Are Attacking Russian Computer Systems

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.

Anonymous Says It’s Hacking Entire Russian Television Channels Now

By Victor Tangermann

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

Hacker Group Anonymous Says It’s Taking Down Russian State Sites

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."

Hacker Wearing Pajama Pants Brings Down North Korea’s Entire Internet

By Victor Tangermann

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

Hackers Trying to Prevent War by Disrupting Railway Used by Russian Military

By Tony Ho Tran

A massive cache of pirated movies, TV shows, sporting events, video games, and more have begun appearing as publicly-accessible PDFs on USDA.gov.

Someone Appears to Have Hacked the USDA’s Website to Share Pirated Movies

By Tony Ho Tran