June 15, 2022 Tsunami of junk traffic that broke DDoS records delivered by tiniest of botnets Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) A massive flood of malicious traffic that recently set a new distributed denial-of-service record came from an…
June 15, 2022 Facebook Is Dodging Questions About Surveillance of Users Seeking Abortions A group of data journalists have uncovered evidence that Facebook is collecting sensitive personal information about people who visit the websites of so-called crisis…
June 15, 2022 Tesla Reported More Self-Driving Crashes Than Any Other Automaker in Past 10 Months Federal regulators released data today painting the clearest picture yet of the state of driverless vehicle safety in the U.S. That picture includes at…
June 15, 2022 Cult Horror Grizzly Reminds Us That Man Is the Most Dangerous Animal The blockbuster success of Jaws famously cleared the way for an explosion of animal-attack horror films. One of the most blatant rip-offs is also…
June 15, 2022 PUBG maker teases virtual human – she’s hyperrealistic and coming for your spotlight As if there weren’t enough people already trying to become multi-platform stars, soon they’ll all have to compete with ANA, a hyper-realistic virtual human…
June 15, 2022 China Publishes, Then Deletes Report of Potential Alien Signals Yesterday, Science and Technology Daily, a state-backed media outlet in China, published what could have been an exciting piece of news: Researchers recorded radio…
June 15, 2022 Facebook Forgets Every Lesson Learned Trying to Imitate TikTok For Facebook and its parent company Meta, “pride” and “envy” aren’t so much mortal sins as they are a modus operandi. The company’s obsession…
June 15, 2022 The New Inu-Oh Trailer Raises Hell With Glam Rock in 14th Century Japan Inu-Oh, from acclaimed director Masaaki Yuasa (Ride Your Wave, Keep Your Hands Off Of Eizokuen!), has gotten a new trailer in anticipation of its…
June 15, 2022 YouTube’s TikTok Clone Has 1.5 Billion Monthly Viewers Capitalism breeds innovation: YouTube Shorts (you know, the video sharing website’s clunky attempt at TikTok) reportedly gets 1.5 billion viewers a month. Read more…
June 15, 2022 White House Warns Major Defense Contractor Against Acquiring NSO’s Infamous Spyware Firm On Tuesday, news broke of a potential acquisition that would upend the surveillance industry if approved: NSO Group, one of the most well-known, notorious,…