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Ex-Yahoo Engineer Pleads Guilty to Hacking Thousands of Accounts to Search for Nude Photos

A former Yahoo software engineer who worked at the tech company for more than a decade pleaded guilty on Monday to accessing email accounts belonging to thousands of customers while searching for sexually explicit content. Reyes Daniel Ruiz, 34, confessed to using his company access to breach the accounts, accessing internal systems and cracking passwords,…

Privacy & Security Jennings Brown Oct 1 '19

Emperor Be Praised, Marvel Is Making Warhammer Comics

The grimdark future of the 41st millennium has a new master in the realm of comic books. Not a daemonspawn of chaos, not the husk of a long-dying emperor sustained by untold human sacrifice, just…well, technically Disney? Last night Games Workshop made the surprise announcement that it had handed over the comic book rights to…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Oct 1 '19

Game Subscriptions Have Never Been Cheaper

With Google’s Stadia cloud based gaming service arriving sometime next month with a $10/month subscription fee, the competition is already preparing for an all out war this holiday season. Today Sony announced it’s officially dropped the price of PlayStation Now from $20/month to $10, but with even more competition looming, you can probably expect further…

Games Andrew Liszewski Oct 1 '19

Leaked Zuckerberg Audio Reveals Facebook’s Plan to Sue the U.S. Government If Elizabeth Warren Tries to Break Up Big Tech

Mark Zuckerberg is fully prepared to sue the federal government if someone like Democratic Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren tries to break up Facebook into smaller companies, according to audio recordings obtained by the Verge. Warren has made breaking up Big Tech a signature promise of her presidential campaign. The audio recordings, which were…

Social Media Matt Novak Oct 1 '19

A Gigantic Iceberg Has Broken Off Antarctica

A huge iceberg weighing upwards of 350 billion tons has broken off the Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica. AFP reports the calving event happened at some point between September 24 and 25, as evidenced by U.S. and European satellite images. Dubbed D28, the gigantic chunk of ice measures 1,636 square kilometers (632 square miles) in…

Earth Science George Dvorsky Oct 1 '19

New Eternals Set Pictures Reveal the City of the Space Gods and More

There’s more wild hearsay about which villains are in The Batman. Two Supermen meet in new behind-the-scenes pictures from Crisis on Infinite Earths. Supernatural casts a former ally of Dean for its final season. Plus, what’s to come on The Terror, get a new look at Titans’ Deathstroke, and new set pics tease a bad…

Television James Whitbrook Oct 1 '19

Viral Video Shows Hong Kong Police Shooting Teen Protester in the Chest

Hong Kong Police shot a teen protester in the chest with live ammunition this morning, according to reports from journalists on the ground and a video that has gone viral on Facebook and Twitter. Video of the incident shows a Hong Kong police officer charging a crowd of protesters with his gun before firing a…

Tech News Matt Novak Oct 1 '19

President Trump’s Lies Are Finally Called Out in Rare Statement From U.S. Intelligence Community Watchdog

The watchdog for the U.S. Intelligence Community issued a rare statement Monday night in an attempt to correct misinformation currently being spread by the President of the United States. The short version from the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community: The rules for whistleblowers were not recently changed to let secondhand information be deemed credible…

Tech News Matt Novak Oct 1 '19

Unruly Airport Cart Tries to Ram Plane at O’Hare, Is Promptly Sideswiped by Worker Driving Another One

Good night, sweet prince: An out of control, apparently furious, and driverless catering cart that was spinning in wild circles on the tarmac of Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) on Monday was laid to its final rest by a quick-witted worker who prevented it from hitting a plane by slamming into it with another vehicle. American…

Tech News Tom McKay Sep 30 '19

Fake Lightning Cables That Can Hijack Connected Devices Are Heading for Mass Production

Dummy Lightning cables that allow an attacker to gain remote control of computers they’re plugged into are slated to hit mass production, per a Wednesday report in Motherboard. Mike Grover, who goes by the pseudonym MG, designed the “O.MG cable” to look and function exactly like a legitimate Lightning cable made by Apple—but they are…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Sep 30 '19

A Severed Hand Searches for Its Body in an Award-Winning Netflix Animated Film

The new animated film I Lost My Body tells two parallel stories. One is of a disembodied hand that somehow reanimates, escapes a lab, and ventures out into the world to try to find its owner. The other is of a pizza delivery boy named Naoufel whose life, frankly, sucks. We assume the hand is…

Trailers Germain Lussier Sep 30 '19

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Explores Kylo’s ‘Nakedness’ With Rey

The door isn’t totally closed, folks. Rey may have physically and metaphorically cut herself off from Kylo Ren at the end of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but further developing their “complicated relationship” is still a big part of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. In an interview with Empire, The Rise of Skywalker co-writer…

Movies Beth Elderkin Sep 30 '19

What Would It Be Like to Live in an Era of Geoengineering?

Geoengineering is the bogeyman of climate policy, a word that calls to mind skies bleached sulphur white, dessicated crop fields, and dead zones expanding across the oceans. Humanity has a garbage track record when it comes to manipulating the environment so it’s not as if these fears are unfounded, but the reality is a little…

Climate Change Rebecca McCarthy Sep 30 '19

Words With Friends Data Allegedly Stolen in Breach That Could Affect 218 Million Users

One of the most popular mobile games in the United States has reportedly been breached by a prolific hacker. The Hacker News originally reported that the Pakistani hacker, who goes by the alias Gnosticplayers, told the outlet that on and before September 2 he was able to access data belonging to all players who installed the…

Privacy & Security Jennings Brown Sep 30 '19

Susanna Clarke Announces Piranesi, Her First Book Since Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

It’s now been over a decade since Susanna Clarke exploded onto the scene with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an eye-popping magical adventure. Fifteen years later, she’s finally back with a follow-up novel about a watery labyrinth and its many mysteries. But that’s not all we can expect from Clarke. According to the Bookseller, Bloomsbury…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin Sep 30 '19

Here’s What the Most Recent FBI Crime Stats Can Actually Tell Us

On Monday, the FBI released its latest “Crime in the United States” figures, a closely watched (albeit historically problematic) data set that relies on the voluntary reporting of thousands of law enforcement agencies across the country. Throughout the week, many Americans are likely to hear about how the violent crime rate has “fallen for the…

Tech News Dell Cameron Sep 30 '19

U.S. Workers Are Getting Less Sleep Than 10 Years Ago, Study Finds

That many people don’t get enough sleep is hardly news, but a recent study suggests that sleep deprivation is getting worse in the U.S., especially for people with high-pressure jobs in medicine, law enforcement, and transportation. There’s been plenty of research suggesting that people generally aren’t getting as much sleep as they ought to be.…

Health Ed Cara Sep 30 '19

The Nerd’s Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in October

You can get comprehensive lists of everything coming to streaming services anywhere. But half of those titles you don’t care about, and the other half are terrible. Where’s the good stuff? io9 is here to help. Below you’ll find what we deem to be the best sci-fi and fantasy movies and TV coming to Netflix,…

Movies Germain Lussier Sep 30 '19

Star Wars Has Been Hiding a Gay Couple in Plain Sight

A lot of fans have been waiting for different forms of representation in Star Wars for a long, long time and, it turns out, at least one has already been there for a little while. Speaking to the Coffee With Kenobi podcast, the executive producers of Star Wars Resistance confirmed that Orka and Flix—voiced by…

io9 Germain Lussier Sep 30 '19

James Gunn Implores Marvel and DC Fans to Let Go of Their Petty Rivalry

Comic book fans often pit Marvel and DC’s respective properties against one another because the publishers and the live-action movies based on their IP represent two of the largest corporate titans in the larger entertainment industry, but there are few things more exhausting then fans’ desire to “prove” whether DC or Marvel are “better” than…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Sep 30 '19

Ex-Yahoo Engineer Pleads Guilty to Hacking Thousands of Accounts to Search for Nude Photos

Emperor Be Praised, Marvel Is Making Warhammer Comics

Game Subscriptions Have Never Been Cheaper

Leaked Zuckerberg Audio Reveals Facebook’s Plan to Sue the U.S. Government If Elizabeth Warren Tries to Break Up Big Tech

A Gigantic Iceberg Has Broken Off Antarctica

New Eternals Set Pictures Reveal the City of the Space Gods and More

Viral Video Shows Hong Kong Police Shooting Teen Protester in the Chest

President Trump’s Lies Are Finally Called Out in Rare Statement From U.S. Intelligence Community Watchdog

Unruly Airport Cart Tries to Ram Plane at O’Hare, Is Promptly Sideswiped by Worker Driving Another One

Fake Lightning Cables That Can Hijack Connected Devices Are Heading for Mass Production

A Severed Hand Searches for Its Body in an Award-Winning Netflix Animated Film

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Explores Kylo’s ‘Nakedness’ With Rey

What Would It Be Like to Live in an Era of Geoengineering?

Words With Friends Data Allegedly Stolen in Breach That Could Affect 218 Million Users

Susanna Clarke Announces Piranesi, Her First Book Since Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Here’s What the Most Recent FBI Crime Stats Can Actually Tell Us

U.S. Workers Are Getting Less Sleep Than 10 Years Ago, Study Finds

The Nerd’s Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in October

Star Wars Has Been Hiding a Gay Couple in Plain Sight

James Gunn Implores Marvel and DC Fans to Let Go of Their Petty Rivalry

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