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Dozens of Al Jazeera Journalists Were Hacked Via Zero-Click iPhone Exploit

It appears that 36 Al Jazeera journalists reportedly had their personal iPhones hacked using spyware created by NSO Group, a sketchy Israeli security firm. The terrifying thing is the zero-day, zero-click exploit, which abuses a vulnerability in iMessage, went undetected for about a year—and likely originated from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The…

Privacy & Security Victoria Song

SolarWinds Hackers Broke Into the Federal Agency That Oversees the Nation’s Nukes

The federal agency that controls the safety, security, and effectiveness of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile was also breached in the massive SolarWinds hack suspected to have been perpetrated by Russian operatives, Politico reported. This week, news broke that thousands of customers had installed a software package from IT management firm SolarWinds that had been…

Tech News Tom McKay

We Now Know How Much Ubisoft Games on Amazon’s Cloud Gaming Service Will Cost

As of this morning, anyone who has received, or will receive, a beta invite to Luna, Amazon’s brand new cloud gaming service, can access the Ubisoft+ channel that’s filled with—you guessed it—Ubisoft games like Assassins’ Creed Odyssey. What Amazon didn’t initially announce was the price of subscribing to that game channel. But according to Ubisoft,…

Internet Joanna Nelius

That’s Bait

After 12 years Supernatural finally did it! Sort of. Kind of. OK, did you watch last night’s Supernatural yet? If not, time to click away. We’re talking “Despair.” In a scene ripped straight out of Joss Whedon’s Buffy or Angel, the (unrelated) angel Castiel (Misha Collins) admitted that his one true moment of happiness—his most…

io9 Alex Cranz

NASA Can’t Contact Voyager 2 Until 2021, as Deep Space Antenna Gets Much-Needed Upgrades

A radio antenna in Australia in dire need of upgrades will be offline for the next 11 months, during which time NASA mission controllers won’t be able to transmit commands to the Voyager 2 probe, which is currently in interstellar space. Measuring 230 feet wide and standing 20 stories high, the DSS43 radio antenna at…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Jeffrey Epstein Sure Had Some Extremely Disturbing Thoughts on Science

Jeffrey Epstein—the billionaire investor facing charges of sex trafficking dozens of underage girls and who hobnobbed with the rich and powerful including multiple presidents—sure had a lot of thoughts about science. Specifically, disturbing ones concerning the viability of a plan to “seed the human race with his DNA” by impregnating women at a ranch he…

Tech News Tom McKay

Half of Child Grooming Cases Involve Facebook-Owned Platforms, UK Report Finds

Data compiled by the UK’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) found that in the past 18 months, over half of child grooming incidents in England and Wales where the communication method was known involved a Facebook-owned platform. The data is far from perfect. It was compiled from responses to freedom…

Social Media Avery Ellis

Disable FaceTime Right Now [Updated]

A jaw-dropping flaw in Apple’s FaceTime software allows for users to eavesdrop on others while a call is still ringing, according to 9to5Mac. The bug works by simply dialing another user, then swiping up and inserting the originating number via the “Add Person” screen before it is answered. FaceTime apparently is thus tricked into believing…

Tech News Tom McKay

A Heart Failure Patient Actually Coughed Up This Blood Clot Shaped Like a Lung Passage

Though it resembles a coral, root system, or some other kind of growth, the above photo actually depicts a six-inch-wide blood clot in the near-perfect form of the right bronchial tree of a human lung, the Atlantic reported on Thursday. Even more uncomfortable is the revelation that it was not removed by medical staff, but…

Health Tom McKay

Report: Increasingly Desperate MoviePass May Not Be Paying for Major Films Anymore

Last week, movie-ticketing service MoviePass’ ongoing business problems hit crisis mode when its app stopped working in the middle of Thursday night, with the company having to secure a $6.2 million emergency payday loan just to keep the lights on. But over the weekend, the app blocked subscribers in many markets from purchasing Mission: Impossible—Fallout…

Movies Tom McKay

Google CEO Says AI Is ‘More Profound Than, I Dunno, Electricity or Fire’

“AI is one of the most important things humanity is working on. It is more profound than, I dunno, electricity or fire.” Those words were not uttered from the lips of a stoned Gizmodo staffer but said on a stage at a Recode- and NBC-sponsored “town hall” in San Francisco last month by Google CEO…

Tech News Alex Cranz

The US Intelligence Community Apparently Wants Someone to Build Them a Brain [Updated]

Are you a postdoctoral researcher with a hankering to help the US government hone its brain-warfare skills? Well, Uncle Sam has just the job for you! The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) recently posted an opportunity online for a postdoctorate fellow who will “examine how BNNs work and determine if they can…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz

Researchers Say $400 Million Raised Through Cryptocurrency ICOs Has Been Lost or Stolen

New risk assessment research into cryptocurrency investing has arrived at an unsurprising (if finally quantifiable) conclusion: Over 10 percent of all funds raised through initial coin offerings (ICOs) has vanished into thin air. ICOs have become a popular form of early-stage investment for companies involved in blockchain tech. Rather than shares, participants are offered a…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Intel Hit With Three Class Action Lawsuits Related to Security Vulnerability

It’s been just two days since The Register first reported that all Intel x86-64x processors were subject to a severe security vulnerability, and already Intel has been hit with at least three separate class action lawsuits related to the vulnerability. The Register first reported the news on January 2nd, noting that the solution to fixing…

Tech News Alex Cranz

North Korean Defectors Say Radiation Is Leaking From Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site

North Korea’s infamous nuclear test site, a facility in Punggye-ri in Kilju County, has long been reported to maintain the standards one might expect for a pariah government low on everything but zeal and weaponry. Outsiders can only get a limited picture of the country, let alone the test site, thanks to its isolation from…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay

Study: Vast Majority of Google Play Apps Are Covertly Tracking Users

A new study by France’s Exodus Privacy and the Yale University Privacy lab has concluded that over three out of four of apps available on Google’s Play Store contain third-party tracking plugins, the Guardian reported on Tuesday. Apps sucking up personal information included some of the most popular ones on the platform, “including Tinder, Spotify,…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay

Ancient Parasite Found in Mummy Autopsy Tells a Timeless Horror Story

Who among us hasn’t drunkenly slung back a few raw oysters at a fourth of July barbecue, or kicked back some uncooked clams just to feel alive? While it’s usually okay to enjoy a slimy shellfish or six, remains from very dead, mummified man show what happens when things go awry. CT Scans recently performed…

Biology Rae Paoletta

Nightmarish Crocodile Relative Terrorized Dinosaurs in Prehistoric Madagascar

Roughly 165 million years ago during the mid-Jurassic, Madagascar is an alien place. The famously large island has yet to fully cleave itself tectonically from India and Africa, still crammed together with the rest of the southern supercontinent of Gondwana. Primates have yet to evolve, and flowers aren’t even a thing yet. This Madagascar is…

Tech News Jake Buehler

Bill Nye Spends Most of His New Netflix Show Yelling at the Audience

If you’re skeptical about human-caused climate change or the safety of vaccines, would being berated in front of a live studio audience by a bombastic old man make you change your mind? Then congratulations, Bill Nye’s new Netflix show, Bill Nye Saves The World, is literally just for you! Wait…where’d you go, bud? I was…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Will Humans Have to Upgrade Their Bodies to Survive on Mars?

Living and boning in space—particularly on Mars—has fascinated our degenerate species for decades. Recently, SpaceX founder Elon Musk decided to put his very large amount of money where his mouth is by announcing his plans to colonize the Red Planet. NASA also likes to bloviate about its Journey to Mars in the 2030s, and there…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

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Dozens of Al Jazeera Journalists Were Hacked Via Zero-Click iPhone Exploit

SolarWinds Hackers Broke Into the Federal Agency That Oversees the Nation’s Nukes

We Now Know How Much Ubisoft Games on Amazon’s Cloud Gaming Service Will Cost

That’s Bait

NASA Can’t Contact Voyager 2 Until 2021, as Deep Space Antenna Gets Much-Needed Upgrades

Jeffrey Epstein Sure Had Some Extremely Disturbing Thoughts on Science

Half of Child Grooming Cases Involve Facebook-Owned Platforms, UK Report Finds

Disable FaceTime Right Now [Updated]

A Heart Failure Patient Actually Coughed Up This Blood Clot Shaped Like a Lung Passage

Report: Increasingly Desperate MoviePass May Not Be Paying for Major Films Anymore

Google CEO Says AI Is ‘More Profound Than, I Dunno, Electricity or Fire’

The US Intelligence Community Apparently Wants Someone to Build Them a Brain [Updated]

Researchers Say $400 Million Raised Through Cryptocurrency ICOs Has Been Lost or Stolen

Intel Hit With Three Class Action Lawsuits Related to Security Vulnerability

North Korean Defectors Say Radiation Is Leaking From Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site

Study: Vast Majority of Google Play Apps Are Covertly Tracking Users

Ancient Parasite Found in Mummy Autopsy Tells a Timeless Horror Story

Nightmarish Crocodile Relative Terrorized Dinosaurs in Prehistoric Madagascar

Bill Nye Spends Most of His New Netflix Show Yelling at the Audience

Will Humans Have to Upgrade Their Bodies to Survive on Mars?

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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Dozens of Al Jazeera Journalists Were Hacked Via Zero-Click iPhone Exploit

SolarWinds Hackers Broke Into the Federal Agency That Oversees the Nation’s Nukes

We Now Know How Much Ubisoft Games on Amazon’s Cloud Gaming Service Will Cost

That’s Bait

NASA Can’t Contact Voyager 2 Until 2021, as Deep Space Antenna Gets Much-Needed Upgrades

Jeffrey Epstein Sure Had Some Extremely Disturbing Thoughts on Science

Half of Child Grooming Cases Involve Facebook-Owned Platforms, UK Report Finds

Disable FaceTime Right Now [Updated]

A Heart Failure Patient Actually Coughed Up This Blood Clot Shaped Like a Lung Passage

Report: Increasingly Desperate MoviePass May Not Be Paying for Major Films Anymore

Google CEO Says AI Is ‘More Profound Than, I Dunno, Electricity or Fire’

The US Intelligence Community Apparently Wants Someone to Build Them a Brain [Updated]

Researchers Say $400 Million Raised Through Cryptocurrency ICOs Has Been Lost or Stolen

Intel Hit With Three Class Action Lawsuits Related to Security Vulnerability

North Korean Defectors Say Radiation Is Leaking From Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site

Study: Vast Majority of Google Play Apps Are Covertly Tracking Users

Ancient Parasite Found in Mummy Autopsy Tells a Timeless Horror Story

Nightmarish Crocodile Relative Terrorized Dinosaurs in Prehistoric Madagascar

Bill Nye Spends Most of His New Netflix Show Yelling at the Audience

Will Humans Have to Upgrade Their Bodies to Survive on Mars?

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor *And* an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!