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Bill Murray Can Steal the $2 Million Wu-Tang Album Back From That Asshat [Corrected]

The world wilted a little bit after learning that price-gouging pharmaceutical executive and human cesspool Martin Shkreli bought an impossibly rare Wu-Tang album for $2 million. But guess what. Wu-Tang reportedly wrote a brilliant clause into the sales contract that would enable them to get it back. A random guy tweeted out a screenshot of…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Dec 10

Former Secret Service Agent Gets Nearly Six Years in Prison for Silk Road Theft

Former Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges is going to prison for 71 months, or nearly six years, for stealing over $800,000 in Bitcoin from drug dealers while investigating the Silk Road. Bridges conspired to break bad as part of the Baltimore Silk Road Task Force with an (excellently named) DEA agent, Carl Force. Together, Bridges…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Dec 7

LinkedIn Probably Owes You Money for Being Annoying

People join LinkedIn to help advance their careers (or at least feel like they’re trying). People do not join LinkedIn to receive an endless torrent of emails with this infamous line: “Hi, I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.” A judge agrees, and now LinkedIn must pay. After a class action…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Oct 5

Meanwhile in the Future: You Can Live for 300 Years, But You’ll Be in Prison

What if “life in prison” could mean 100 or 200 or 400 years? Does that change the way that sentences are doled out? What happens when a person gets out of prison? For all of you who’ve written in asking me to do an episode about longevity, this episode is for you. But instead of…

Tech News Rose Eveleth Aug 11

Eclair Bandersnatch: Street Artist for the Snowden Age

Walk pretty much anywhere in San Francisco’s SoMa, Haight or Mission neighborhoods, and you’ll see one of Eclair Bandersnatch’s glittery stencils, often featuring “Saint Snowden” or Chelsea Manning. We talked to Bandersnatch about bringing art, tech and politics together on the streets. Bandersnatch has been stenciling San Francisco streets for several years, and her subjects…

Tech News Annalee Newitz Jul 21

Auschwitz Guard Convicted on 300,000 Counts of Accessory to Murder

Oskar Groening, a 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard, admitted to feeling “moral guilt” for serving as an SS sergeant at the infamous Nazi death camp. The landmark ruling shows that courts are willing to prosecute those involved in the Holocaust irrespective of their “minor” roles or advanced age. After a two-and-a-half month trial in the northern…

io9 George Dvorsky Jul 15

The Unbelievable Case of the Two-Year-Old Who Was Framed For Murder

Imagine enduring 25 years of being told that when you were two, you caused the death of your four-month-old brother. Conversely, imagine being the sort of person low enough to frame a toddler for murder. In 1971, a tragedy and its prolonged aftermath would go on to shape more than one life. Tracy Rhame grew…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy Jun 29

Obama’s Ban on Military Gear for Police Won’t Fix the Real Problem

American cities resemble war zones during times of protest. Now, Washington’s going to try to fix this problem by rolling back a 25-year-old program that supplied local police forces with free surplus military gear. It’s about damn time—but unfortunately, it’s not going to solve America’s police problems. President Obama just issued a ban on giving…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes May 18

The FBI’s Secret Air Force Is Watching Us

This might come as a shock: The FBI has a secret air force of sorts that’s recently been buzzing over Baltimore. Or maybe it’s not a shock at all. The FBI’s been using aircraft for decades. These new planes, however, use surveillance equipment designed for warfare and capable of tracking innocent citizens. That’s bad. It’s…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes May 7

How Police Body Cameras Were Designed to Get Cops Off the Hook

In the wake of protests over police violence against black men, many civil rights activists are calling for a high-tech solution: strapping wearable body cameras to cops. The idea is to hold police accountable for unnecessary violence. But the history of police body cams reveals that the devices have often had the opposite effect. On…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Mar 16

Why a Silk Road Retrial Is Necessary

It only took a few hours for a jury to convict Ross Ulbricht of running the infamous online drug marketplace Silk Road, so the urge to write off Ulbricht’s lawyer’s bid for a retrial as a desperate move is understandable. But desperate or not, a retrial is important, and it should be granted. Because the…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Mar 9

Feds Just Charged 3 Spammers With the Biggest Data Breach in History

The only thing that sucks more than spam are the greedy people who send it to you. That’s why the Department of Justice charging three spam kingpins responsible for one of the largest data breaches in history is so exciting. Finally, Feds are taking down the spam kingpins—or at least trying. A small army of…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Mar 6

Barrett Brown Will Spend 5 Years In Jail for Hacking-Related Offenses

A federal judge just sentenced journalist Barrett Brown to 63 months in prison and ordered him to pay nearly $890,000 in restitution for charges related to the 2011 hack of Stratfor Global Intelligence. Brown’s supporters maintain that the young writer and activist was “merely linking to hacked material.” Either way, he’ll spend about five years…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes Jan 22

Ford Is Helping the LAPD Track Cop Cars In Real-Time

Pull up a chair, good citizen, because I’ve got a story about law enforcement and surveillance that you’re actually going to like. The Los Angeles Police Department is now using a new telematics system in 50 of its Ford Police Interceptors. In other words, the watchmen are being watched—in real-time. The stated purposes of the…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Nov 6

The 10 Most Gruesome Torture Techniques From Medieval Europe

During the Middle Ages, torture was considered a legitimate way to extract confessions, punish offenders, and perform executions. Some methods were considerably crueler than others — these 10 being among the most barbaric and brutal. Europe’s Medieval period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. During this time, torture was often used to extract…

io9 George Dvorsky Aug 26

An Animated Map Tracking The History Of The Death Penalty In The US

Capital punishment is legal in 32 states in the US, and the primary method of execution in each of them is lethal injection. But that hasn’t always been the case. The New Republic created this animated map as some states are figuring out how to respond to a shortage of the drugs used in punitive…

io9 Lauren Davis May 2

What will jail terms be like when humans can live for centuries?

Radical life extension is coming. That means future societies will have to do a dramatic rethink of our ideas about how long offenders should be imprisoned and — more crucially — the ways they’ll be rehabilitated. I’m not going to spend any time arguing on behalf of the science that’s driving the efforts behind radical…

io9 George Dvorsky Nov 11

9 Philosophical Thought Experiments That Will Keep You Up at Night

Sometimes, the best way to illustrate a complicated philosophical concept is by framing it as a story or situation. Here are nine such thought experiments with downright disturbing implications. Top image: Isaac Gutiérrez Pascual; published with permission. 1. Prisoner’s Dilemma This is the classic game theory problem in which a suspect is confronted with a…

io9 George Dvorsky Sep 18

Traffic On A Petition To Prosecute Zimmerman Crashed The NAACP’s Site

After last night’s decision in the Trayvon Martin case, many Americans errupted in anger and disappointment about George Zimmerman’s acquittal. Almost immediately following the decision, the NAACP posted an online petition for federal prosecution of Zimmerman. And the site got so much traffic that it crashed and has been in and out ever since. MoveOn.org…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Jul 14

How the NYPD Hunted Down an iPhone Thief in an Awesome Subway Chase

The subway is a prime place for phone theft. Snatch, grab, run. Whether you’re getting on or getting off, you’ll make a quick escape from your target. It doesn’t always work, though. The NYPD managed to catch someone who tried exactly that trick by using Find My iPhone and following along on the ground in…

Tech News Eric Limer May 4

Bill Murray Can Steal the $2 Million Wu-Tang Album Back From That Asshat [Corrected]

Former Secret Service Agent Gets Nearly Six Years in Prison for Silk Road Theft

LinkedIn Probably Owes You Money for Being Annoying

Meanwhile in the Future: You Can Live for 300 Years, But You’ll Be in Prison

Eclair Bandersnatch: Street Artist for the Snowden Age

Auschwitz Guard Convicted on 300,000 Counts of Accessory to Murder

The Unbelievable Case of the Two-Year-Old Who Was Framed For Murder

Obama’s Ban on Military Gear for Police Won’t Fix the Real Problem

The FBI’s Secret Air Force Is Watching Us

How Police Body Cameras Were Designed to Get Cops Off the Hook

Why a Silk Road Retrial Is Necessary

Feds Just Charged 3 Spammers With the Biggest Data Breach in History

Barrett Brown Will Spend 5 Years In Jail for Hacking-Related Offenses

Ford Is Helping the LAPD Track Cop Cars In Real-Time

The 10 Most Gruesome Torture Techniques From Medieval Europe

An Animated Map Tracking The History Of The Death Penalty In The US

What will jail terms be like when humans can live for centuries?

9 Philosophical Thought Experiments That Will Keep You Up at Night

Traffic On A Petition To Prosecute Zimmerman Crashed The NAACP’s Site

How the NYPD Hunted Down an iPhone Thief in an Awesome Subway Chase

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