5/20/22Elon Musk Completes Transition to Supervillain With Bolsonaro Meeting in BrazilElon Musk took a trip to visit Brazilian strongman Jair Bolsonaro to supposedly talk Amazon conservation, but the…
5/20/22Terra Crypto Execs Dissolved Korean Headquarters Mere Days Before Crash: DocsDo Kwon, the founder of the Terra blockchain and its sidekick coin Luna, is planning a rebirth of sorts for Terra.
5/19/22Crypto Exchange FTX Digs Into Stock Trading Alongside Its Coin GameIt joins the likes of Robinhood in the online stock trading scene, but the announcement couldn’t have come at a…
5/18/22Netflix Kneecapped Its Own Efforts to Champion Diverse Shows, Axed Writers SayThe original creator for Netflix’s diverse social channels Strong Black Lead, Most, and more decried the loss of…
5/18/22New Site Allows Users to Crank Call Russian Bureaucrats to Protest War in UkraineA site called ‘Waste Russian Time’ uses a leaked database of Russian officials, connecting two random individuals in…
5/17/22Time-Traveling Digital Ads Might Start Infiltrating Your Favorite TV ShowsBoth Amazon Prime Video and NBCU’s Peacock have unveiled beta programs that allow products to be inserted into…
5/17/22Feds to Businesses: FYI, Don’t Accidentally Hire a North Korean HackerThree U.S. federal agencies say there’s a host of DPRK-backed fake IT workers looking for backdoors into companies’…
5/17/22Shanghai Says It Hit 'Zero-Covid' Milestone After Massive LockdownThe city has had some of the harshest covid lockdowns, where residents have been holed up in apartments and even…
5/16/22Luna Foundation Tried to Prop Up Terra’s Crumbling Base With Billions in Bitcoin, But It Still FailedThe LFG emptied its reserve coffers last week, going from 80,000 bitcoin to just over 300.
5/16/22See How Likely It Is Your House Will Burn Down From WildfiresA nonprofit research group’s new online tool models the likelihood of a wildfire turning your house to ash over the…
5/16/22Feds Charge Unnamed Person for Helping People Evade U.S. Sanctions with CryptoA federal judge pounded the point home with a few SNL references saying the lingering belief in crypto’s anonymity…
5/14/22A Movie Magician Digitized Hundreds of 35MM Movie Trailers, Here’s A Selection for Millennials Wanting a Nostalgia TripPut on some rose tinted glasses while you step back into the days before digital.
5/14/22Netflix Blames You for Its Stock Problems, but the Real Problem Is NetflixNetflix lost users for the first time ever last month, blaming password sharing and the war in Ukraine. Maybe that's…
5/13/22Mother Alleges TikTok Challenge Led to Daughter's Death, Was Recommended by Its AlgorithmA 10-year-old who died last year participated in a so-called ‘blackout’ aka ‘choking’ challenge.
5/13/22U.S. Officials Ask Social Media to Make Record of Russian AtrocitiesThe war in Ukraine is likely the most-documented conflict in the world’s history, thanks to the proliferation of…
5/12/22Google Search Ads Keep Promoting Stalkerware, Despite an Explicit BanProducts that claim they’re used for keeping track of wayward children also advertise themselves for tracking…
5/12/22Hackers Infiltrated Multiple U.S. Law Enforcement Data Systems, Report ShowsThe hack was reportedly connected to the infamous LAPSUS$ group, but it’s not clear yet what—and how much—data was…
5/12/22Texans Can Again Sue Social Media Companies if Their Account Gets BannedThe law had been under temporary injunction after social media companies sued back in 2021.
5/11/22This Year's Weird Flu Season Just Got Even WeirderInfluenza hasn't gotten the memo that it's almost summer.