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Cloudflare has launched its own consumer Domain Name System (DNS) service that not only promises to keep your browsing history safe, but appears significantly faster than any other DNS service available. Cloudflare, known primarily for DDoS mitigation, launched DNS resolver 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 on Sunday and, at time of writing, analytics show it processing queries…
Today is the first day that self-driving cars can legally drive on the streets of California without a human safety operator inside them. As the Silicon Valley-based outlet The Mercury News put it, today should be historical. Except there will be no unmanned driverless cars legally on the roads today. A spokesperson from the California…
If you’ve seen any old gangster movies, you’re probably familiar with the phrase: “Calling all cars, calling all cars!” It became a cliche for when police headquarters sent out an alert via radio. But radio hasn’t been around forever. And at the dawn of radio technology, there were some pretty goofy-looking devices anticipated for the…
This weekend, Americans of varying denominations gathered with friends and family to celebrate. Reciting from the haggadah, Jews congregated around the seder table to commemorate their ancestors’ passage from Egypt. Christians marked the death and resurrection of Jesus. And in a markedly newer observance, conservatives decried their persecution at the hands of search engine for not…
Congratulations, you made it through the humorless hellscape that is April Fool’s Day. Sure, it is the one day of the year when society collectively applies the appropriate amount of skepticism before gobbling up spoonfuls of bullshit. And yeah, some of the pranks may have made us chuckle—but that’s only because they’ve trained us, man.…
Cybercriminals who ran off with info on five million debit and credit cards from Saks Fifth Avenue (including its discount brand) and Lord & Taylor databases appear to be preparing to sell them on the dark web, according to a Sunday report from Gemini Advisory. The majority of the stolen payment cards were taken from…
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and his entourage are likely the reason one of Silicon Valley’s highest-tier hotels is closed to the public this week, Recode reported, as the prince continues to make the rounds in a marathon spree of meetings with some of the United States’ most powerful people. According to Axios, after…
City officials in Atlanta, Georgia are still trying to recover 10 days after a ransomware attack on municipal computer systems hit at least five out of 13 departments, knocking out some city services and forcing others to revert to paper records. Per Reuters, over a week has passed since the SamSam ransomware began spreading throughout…
Not long ago, on-demand package pickup Shyp closed its doors, saying it had failed to achieve critical mass for its explosive growth strategy and a last-minute pivot to business customers was too little, too late. Now UberRush, Uber’s delivery service for merchants in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, is following suit and will soon…
The ridiculous mess over at Facebook has continued to get worse, with staff allegedly in a full-on “uproar” over the fallout of the leak of consumer hardware VP Andrew Bosworth’s 2016 memo claiming things like terrorism and cyberbullying suicides were justifiable side effects of the site’s continued growth. Per the New York Times, what began…
President Donald Trump’s dumb feud with Amazon—a company he almost certainly hates solely because it’s owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Trump-critical Washington Post—continued on Saturday with another series of incoherent tweets. Trump has long insisted that Amazon doesn’t pay “internet taxes,” which aren’t a thing. He’s also repeatedly claimed it doesn’t…
For the longest time, the iPad was Apple’s big boring thing. It never lived up to its promise to revolutionize media and save magazines. It didn’t really change the way we play mobile games. It certainly didn’t seem like a good investment. For the first eight years of the iPad’s existence, my primary exposure to…
A Russian national accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring, and possibly compromising the personal information of more than 100 million users, has been extradited to the United States, The New York Times reported on Friday. Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, 30, was arrested in October 2016 while vacationing in the Czech Republic by Interpol agents working…
The future is here, and it’s cool as shit if you love heist movies. In the most incredible gang operation gone wrong of 2018, smartphone smugglers in China were busted by customs officers in Shenzhen, but not before moving 500 million yuan ($79.8 million) worth of stolen smartphones, and using drones to pull it off,…
An encrypted email service widely used among journalists and political dissidents just got several new sick features, including, let’s be honest, the only thing we really care about: a shorter domain name. ProtonMail users can now activate a @pm.me domain name and use it with the same @protonmail.com email account they already have. “Ever since…
Noted GMG fave Senator Feinstein (D-CA) is set to wage a new crusade in a wake of a sobering study published this week: She wants to get hormone-disrupting chemicals known as phthalates out of our food packaging. As reported by Gizmodo, the study found that people who mostly dined out the day before had phthalate…
Uber is partnering with Goodwill to offer free rides to Virginians recovering from opioid addiction. Announced Friday, Goodwill, Uber, and Chesterfield County officials are launching a small pilot program to help those in need, offering them free rides to treatment. “Opioid treatment costs money. Transportation costs money. We want to eliminate any barrier to treatment…
When Robbie Barrat trained an AI to study and reproduce classical nude paintings, he expected something at least recognizable. What the AI produced instead was unfamiliar and unsettling, but still intriguing. The “paintings” look like flesh-like ice cream, spilling into pools that only vaguely recall a woman’s body. Barrat told Gizmodo these meaty blobs, disturbing…
Mass-email service MailChimp has updated their acceptable use policy, putting a moratorium on newsletters promoting cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings. As you can imagine, everyone’s taking it well. It’s unclear how popular MailChimp’s service was among ICO and cryptocurrency promoters. Either out of an abundance of caution, or an uptick of users being scammed through…
No one likes getting hacked, and it’s generally true that the quicker you can spot something has gone awry, the better your chances of minimizing the damage. These are the main warning signs to look out for, what they might mean, and some quick pointers about what you should do next. 1) Unexplained financial transactions…
