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Microsoft’s Apps Problem Has Never Been More Dire

At Microsoft’s Build conference, the dorkiest of companies put on a big show, complete with fog machines and fancy lights, in order to show it’s a cool competitor to Apple and Google. The speakers who came on stage during keynotes had stylish hair. “Do they have dressers backstage?” an attendee asked a group of us…

Tech News Alex Cranz

Global Ransomware Attack ‘Accidentally’ Halted But It’s Probably Not Over [Updated]

An anonymous 22-year-old security researcher who goes by MalwareTech has, at least temporarily, managed to find a kill switch for the ransomware that spread across the globe yesterday. He insists his discovery was entirely accidental but experts credit his quick action for mostly stopping the malware from spreading to the United States. https://gizmodo.com/theres-a-massive-ransomware-attack-spreading-globally-r-1795168952 Cybersecurity professionals…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Today’s Massive Ransomware Attack Was Mostly Preventable—Here’s How To Avoid It

Ransomware may be mostly thought of as a (sometimes costly) nuisance, but when it hinders the ability of doctors and nurses to provide aid to those in need of emergency medical care, then it qualifies as armed robbery. On Friday, a quickly spreading, nasty piece of malware crossed mountains and oceans to infect more than…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Facebook Thinks Saying “Men Are Trash” Is Hate Speech

As the old saying goes, “men are trash.” If you’re a twenty-something woman, you’ve probably said this phrase to your friends at least once, possibly over alcoholic drinks after a man has done something bad. Or perhaps you’ve said it to coworkers after your dumb boss makes a boob joke in front of the entire…

Social Media Libby Watson

We Asked Jacques Cousteau’s Grandson About SpongeBob, The Life Aquatic, and Pooping Underwater

You might think space is the final frontier, but there’s an entire alien world beneath the sea. Exploring the deepest abysses even looks a lot like exploring outer space. So, we set up some time with Fabien Cousteau, aquanaut, Jacques Cousteau’s grandson, and arguably the ocean’s biggest fan, to chat about what it’s like. Cousteau…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum and Rae Paoletta

Here Are Some Pillows Sean Spicer Might Scream Into Tonight

“James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!” our president tweeted publicly today, in what was almost certainly a threat against the former FBI Director he unexpectedly fired on Tuesday. Both pointed and totally incomprehensible, it’s the sort of looming question mark a press…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Disruptive Undersea Air Gun Blasts Okayed By Trump

Extremely loud air gun blasts have not been used to hunt for oil deposits in the mid and south Atlantic ocean for the last 30 years, but since the industrial practices of the ‘80s are apparently in vogue again, on Wednesday the Trump administration restarted the application process to use seismic surveying. Environmentalists say the…

Tech News Bryson Masse

Rose Gold Is the Best Thing That’s Ever Happened to Tech and I Will Hear No Arguments

Call me a basic bitch all you want—and it’s true, I totally am—but I absolutely adore rose gold. In fact, if I’m being brutally honest, I think rose gold is the best thing that has ever happened to tech. It’s pretty simple, really. As you might have guessed, I love the color pink. Any pink…

Gadgets Christina Warren

Something Wonderful Happens When You Mix Microwaves, Soda, and Wood

The next time you accidentally spill soda, or water, plus a little baking soda on one of your cutting boards, don’t complain about having to clean it up. Instead, tear the safety cover off your microwave and use it as a high-voltage power source to etch a cool lightning pattern into the mess. The patterns…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

There’s a Massive Ransomware Attack Spreading Globally Right Now [Updated]

A ransomware attack is quickly spreading across the globe rendering vital systems inaccessible. Friday morning, the Twitter account MalwareHunterTeam reported ransomware known as WanaCrypt0r (a WannaCry variant) spreading at an alarming rate. “In less than 3 hours (even can say less than 2 hours if we count it from the explosion), they got victims already…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Hospitals Across England Infected With Ransomware, Leaving Patients Without Care

England’s healthcare system fell victim to a massive cyberattack Friday afternoon, forcing several hospitals to divert emergency patients to other facilities. Ransomware appears to be the cause. At roughly 12:30pm local time, the National Health Service’s (NHS) clinical and patient systems began crashing, with pop-up messages appearing on screens demanding $300 in bitcoin in exchange…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Giant Sea Monster Washes On Shore Because World Is Ending

While many of us envisioned the world going out in a wicked blaze of glory, sadly, that doesn’t seem to be the way things will go. Instead, we have to settle for Ted Cruz, the other horsemen of the apocalypse, and this massive beast that just washed up on the shore of Indonesia’s Maluku province.…

Tech News Rae Paoletta

Elon Musk’s Latest Tunnel Test Feels Like Going Into Hyperspace

The more I learn about Elon Musk’s Boring Project—a batshit idea to build a tunnel that sends cars at breakneck speeds under Los Angeles—the more I want to take a ride. The twisted genius just posted video of a test sled zooming through a test tunnel. Holy shit, it’s like going into hyperspeed, and I…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Media Goes Apeshit After One Guy Gets Sick Off of Sushi

Sushi usually contains raw food. It is not cooked. Raw things are full of bacteria, and sometimes parasites, because animals have those things in their tissue. Sushi can get you sick. This should not be a surprise. But still, everyone is surprised. Here they are, being surprised. Would you like to know what they are…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Melissa McCarthy Is Riding the Sean Spicer Podium Outside of CNN Right Now

On Friday morning, a few excited CNN staffers started tweeting some silly photos. Melissa McCarthy, costumed as Sean Spicer, was riding her motorized White House lectern around the street in front of the network’s offices. Why? We’ll give you one guess. It’s for Saturday Night Live. Melissa McCarthy is hosting this week, and it looks…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Trump’s Lawyer Inspires an Instant Meme, With Few Exceptions

Donald Trump’s lawyers have issued a letter to proclaim that the president’s tax returns for the past decade have no “income of any type from Russian sources.” Well, “with few exceptions,” as the Associated Press tweeted. But Trump hasn’t released his tax returns, so the AP story about the letter came with a big fat…

Tech News Matt Novak

This Dolphin Getting Breathalyzed Is All of Us

By now, you probably know that humans are really screwing up the ocean. Climate change aside, we often dump oil into it, ruining the lives of whatever animals live nearby. Just imagine if someone drilled for oil right in the center of your house and then accidentally got the toxic black sludge all over your…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Thirsty Twitter Executive Sees End of Democracy as Great Business Opportunity [Update]

Today, in the middle of a truly impressive example of “tweeting through it,” President Trump sent out—possibly from the toilet—the following message: “Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future ‘press briefings’ and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???” (Three question marks indicate just how good an idea…

Tech News Libby Watson

Huge Trove of Confidential Medical Records Discovered on Unsecured Server Accessible to Anyone

At least tens of thousands, if not millions of medical records of New York patients were until recently readily accessible online to just about anyone who knew where to look. Patient demographic information, social security numbers, records of medical diagnoses and treatments, along with a plethora of other highly-sensitive records were left completely undefended by…

Tech News Dell Cameron

The Body Is Not a Computer—Stop Thinking of It as One

When former DARPA chief Regina Dugan announced on stage last month that Facebook planned to build a brain computer interface to allow users to send their thoughts directly to the social network without a keyboard intermediary, it had all the Silicon Valley swagger of Facebook circa “move fast and break things.” With the same audacity…

Tech News Kristen V. Brown

Microsoft’s Apps Problem Has Never Been More Dire

Global Ransomware Attack ‘Accidentally’ Halted But It’s Probably Not Over [Updated]

Today’s Massive Ransomware Attack Was Mostly Preventable—Here’s How To Avoid It

Facebook Thinks Saying “Men Are Trash” Is Hate Speech

We Asked Jacques Cousteau’s Grandson About SpongeBob, The Life Aquatic, and Pooping Underwater

Here Are Some Pillows Sean Spicer Might Scream Into Tonight

Disruptive Undersea Air Gun Blasts Okayed By Trump

Rose Gold Is the Best Thing That’s Ever Happened to Tech and I Will Hear No Arguments

Something Wonderful Happens When You Mix Microwaves, Soda, and Wood

There’s a Massive Ransomware Attack Spreading Globally Right Now [Updated]

Hospitals Across England Infected With Ransomware, Leaving Patients Without Care

Giant Sea Monster Washes On Shore Because World Is Ending

Elon Musk’s Latest Tunnel Test Feels Like Going Into Hyperspace

Media Goes Apeshit After One Guy Gets Sick Off of Sushi

Melissa McCarthy Is Riding the Sean Spicer Podium Outside of CNN Right Now

Trump’s Lawyer Inspires an Instant Meme, With Few Exceptions

This Dolphin Getting Breathalyzed Is All of Us

Thirsty Twitter Executive Sees End of Democracy as Great Business Opportunity [Update]

Huge Trove of Confidential Medical Records Discovered on Unsecured Server Accessible to Anyone

The Body Is Not a Computer—Stop Thinking of It as One

WD 5TB Portable External Hard Drive for Mac Drops to $0.03 per GB Even After Amazon’s Spring Sale

Apple Offers Rare Olive Branch to Liquid Glass Haters

Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

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The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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