Artist Creates Collage of Locations Where People Were Killed by Police
Josh Begley, the artist best known for creating an iPhone app that tracks every reported United States drone strike, has used information...
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Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Alienating Users in Droves
When failed discrimination plaintiff Ellen Pao was appointed CEO of Reddit last January, many predicted that it would herald a new...
Reason Magazine Subpoena Backfires, Anonymous Doxes Silk Road Judge Again
by Virgil Vaduva UPDATE: Since the publishing of this article PH1K3 posted a short note online addressing some of the...
Hackers Stole All Federal Employees’ SSN And Private Data
A federal worker union claims that the massive Office of Personnel Management hack reported last week is even bigger and...
Adam Savage Interviews ‘The Martian’ Author Andy Weir
Adam Savage welcomes author Andy Weir to The Talking Room! Andy wrote ‘The Martian’, the story of an astronaut stranded...
Critics of Silk Road Judge Targeted With Grand Jury Subpoenas
Judge Katherine Forrest was the judge in the trial of Ross Ulbricht. by Virgil Vaduva Even outrage is now a...
US Government Demands More Power After Latest Hack
Congressional leaders are warning the latest major government data hack proves the Senate should hand the US government greater cybersecurity...
U.S. Federal Agency Reports Massive Data Breach, Blames China
<p>US gov't assesses big data breach of Fed personal: Reports</p> <p>CNBC's Sue Herera reports on the scale and scope of...
Sabu is Back From Probation, Pisses Off Everyone Within Minutes
Hector Monsegur, the Anonymous hacker who became a super-informant on the activities of his former pals, returned to Twitter this...
Governments of the World Agree: Encryption Must Die!
Finally! There’s something that apparently virtually all governments around the world can actually agree upon. Unfortunately, it’s on par conceptually...
Federal Prosecutor Claims That Clearing Browser History is Obstruction of Justice
Khairullozhon Matanov is a 24-year-old former cab driver from Quincy, Massachusetts. The night of the Boston Marathon bombings, he ate...
FBI Keeps Tabs on Cellphones with Aircraft Despite Patriot Act Expirations
Not all surveillance tools were lost to the FBI after the expiration of several Patriot Act powers on Sunday. The...
How The USA Freedom Act is Actually Reducing Freedom in America
by Virgil Vaduva You may not know it yet, but there is a reason why the NSA was in favor...
Mystery Woman Recycles Apple I Computer
One of Apple 1 computers runs a program on June 18, 2013 at History San Jose. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News...
San Bernardino Police Used Stingray Spy Tech Over 300 Times Without Warrant
This story originally reported by Cyrus Farivar for Ars Technica The sheriff in San Bernardino County — east of Los...
FBI Admits Patriot Act Cracked No Major Cases
FBI agents can’t point to any major terrorism cases they’ve cracked thanks to the key snooping powers in the Patriot...
WordPress Creator Automattic Acquires WooThemes
WooThemes, a professional website theme developer and creator of the WooCommerce online merchant platform, announced today that it was acquired...
Google’s Homemade Self-Driving Cars to Hit Roads This Summer
Here’s something that irks Chris Urmson: Sometimes people will get in self-driving cars, the spectacularly complex piece of technology he...
Illinois Police Get Approval for Drone Use
If it looks like a drone and smells like a drone, it’s a drone. The Illinois State Police was recently...
Scientists Discovered a New State of Matter, Called ‘Jahn-Teller Metals’
High temperature superconductor levitating above a ring magnet. Credit: Julian Litzel/Wikimedia An international team of scientists has announced the discovery...
