Technology Employees connect nuclear plant to the internet so they can mine cryptocurrencyZDNet - Catalin Cimpanu The Ukrainian Secret Service is investigating the incident as a potential security breach. Ukrainian authorities are investigating a potential …
Play buttonSoftbank SoftBank bets on Energy Vault to store energy in concrete blocksQuartz - Akshat RathiSoftBank’s Vision Fund is investing $110 million in the Swiss startup Energy Vault, which stores energy in stacked concrete blocks. Quartz was the first to report on the startup when it came out of stealth
Long-form Journalism The Exclusive Inside Story Of The Fall Of Overstock’s Mad King, Patrick ByrneForbes - Lauren DebterOn Thursday, Patrick Byrne, the founder and longtime CEO of former e-tailing giant Overstock.com, resigned, saying his involvement as a federal informant in the investigation of accused Russian spy Maria
Environment New plastic pollution formed by fire looks like rocksNational Geographic - Madeleine StonePieces of plastic that are gray, round, and resembling rocks and pebbles are hiding in plain sight on the beaches of southern England. On the sandy embayments rimming the southwestern English coastline,
Play buttonCondominiums 2 Condos Were Illegally Converted Into 18 Micro Apartments In NYCNPR - Bill ChappellTwo Manhattan landlords took an unusual — and illegal — route to double their rentable space: cutting their two condos in half horizontally so they could rent out 18 tiny apartments in their Lower East
Music Plague-Infested Prairie Dogs Have Thrown a Phish Concert Into ChaosVICE - Josh TerryFor Phish fans, the longstanding jam band's Labor Day weekend concerts at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado have been a welcome tradition returning for eight years. But now, what should
Amazon Amazon under fire for new packaging that cannot be recycledThe Guardian - Miles BrignallAmazon has been criticised by environmental groups and customers after introducing a range of plastic packaging that cannot be recycled in the UK. While supermarkets and other retailers have been reducing
Amazon Those Obviously-Fake Amazon Warehouse Workers Are Still Tweetingfuturism.com - Dan Robitzski Those bizarre “Amazon FC Ambassador” accounts on Twitter, which were ridiculed last year for seemingly posing as happy Amazon warehouse workers, are …
iPod These Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your ComputerVICE - Joseph CoxI plugged the Apple lightning cable into my iPod and connected it to my Mac, just as I normally would. My iPod started charging, iTunes detected the device, and my iPod produced the pop-up asking if I
Play buttonCanon EOS Even DSLR cameras are vulnerable to ransomwareEngadget - Steve DentHackers could hijack your valuable photos from a memory card. Cameras are among the few devices that don't connect to the internet, so you'd think they'd be immune to hackers. However, researchers have
AOL Goodnight Sweet Prince: Digital Prophet Shingy Departs AOLGizmodo - Jennings Brown Shingy, né David Shingy, has relinquished his role as digital prophet of AOL and Verizon Media, after 12 years with the company. The anime-maned …
Science A Crashed Israeli Lunar Lander Spilled Tardigrades on the MoonWIRED - Daniel Oberhaus It was just before midnight on April 11 and everyone at the Israel Aerospace Industries mission control center in Yehud, Israel, had their eyes fixed …
Pizza Hut How Chinese Ingenuity Destroyed Salad Bars at Pizza HutKotaku - Brian Ashcraft You had one trip to the salad bar. So dammit, you had to make it count. In China, Pizza Huts are either take-out only or somewhat upscale sit-down …
Kermit the Frog Jim James and Kermit the Frog sing “Rainbow Connection” with Janet Weiss on drums: Watchconsequenceofsound.net - Ben Kaye Watch Jim James and Kermit the Frog Sing "Rainbow Connection" Jim James Kermit the Frog If I Had a Song Newport Folk Festival 2019 Ben Kaye-1 …
Play button Autonomous vehicles fooled by drones that project too-quick-for-humans road-signsboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow In MobilBye: Attacking ADAS with Camera Spoofing, a group of Ben Gurion security researchers describe how they were able to defeat a Renault Captur's …
Play buttonLil Nas X Lil Nas X Lassos The Record For Longest-Running No. 1 Song In U.S. Chart HistoryNPR - Emily AbshireLess than a year ago, nobody knew the name Lil Nas X. Now, his song "Old Town Road" has set the record for longest time spent atop the Hot 100 singles chart. The country-rap song has now occupied the spot
Chicago, IL College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get AidThe Wall Street Journal. - Douglas BelkinEducation Department, universities are investigating the practice, which has been used in the Chicago area CHICAGO—Amid an intense national furor over the fairness of college admissions, the Education
Peppa Pig is now a gay icon because stan Twitter is committed to a bitPolygon - Palmer HaaschChildren’s entertainment superstar Peppa Pig released her first album, aptly titled My First Album, on July 19. The impact of a true artiste like Peppa was immediate — no other female pop icon could ever
Siemens Siemens contractor pleads guilty to planting logic bomb in company spreadsheetsZDNet - Catalin Cimpanu Logic bomb would crash spreadsheets after a certain date, resulting in Siemens hiring the contractor to fix the latest bugs. A former Siemens …
PlayStation GTA Online players won’t stop killing the casino valetPolygon - Cass MarshallGrand Theft Auto Online has introduced a new casino, where players can unlock fast race cars or a fancy penthouse apartment. That’s pretty cool, but none of it would be possible if it weren’t for this
My Seventh Grade Science Teacher Showed Us a Moon Landing Hoax TV Specialslate.com - Vicky Gan When I was in seventh grade, circa 2003, my science teacher showed us a video making the case for the moon landing hoax theory. It was the Fox TV …
Data That May Keep You Up at Nightblendle.com - The New York Times Brian X. Chen / Sleep-tracking apps and devices can’t help cure your insomnia, and they could even make it worse.
Play button The Village Where Every Cop Has Been Convicted of Domestic Violence — ProPublicapropublica.org - ProPublica Dozens of convicted criminals have been hired as cops in Alaska communities. Often, they are the only applicants. In Stebbins, every cop has a …
What sort of news travels fastest online? Bad news, you won’t be shocked to hearNieman Lab - Joshua BentonWhen one news publisher has a story about something bad — a disaster, a death, or just general terribleness — other publishers move more quickly to match it than they do with good news. As the old newsroom
San Francisco Homeless Census Finds Over 8,000 On Streets, Majority From SFsfist.com - Jay Barmann The official results of San Francisco's point-in-time homeless count for 2019, which took place one night in January, were quietly released Friday by …
Police warn against rise of meth gators in Alabamaconsequenceofsound.net - Alex Young Visual depiction of a meth gator, or... Louis the Alligator from The Princess and the Frog Police are asking residents to think twice before flushing …
Researchers Gave Math Geniuses 5th Grade Math Problems. It Didn't Go WellInc Magazine - Chris MatyszczykAbsurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. He doesn't think like me. Or you. Or, indeed, anyone else I know. This is a good thing -- certainly
Watch: woman has taught herself to run and jump like a horseboingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder Ayla Kirstine of Norway can run like a horse. The effect, especially at a distance, is uncanny. Norwegian woman Ayla Kirstine developed an unusual …
Play button A major asthma drugmaker has been quietly investing in coal on the side.newrepublic.com The pharmaceutical company that just months ago was embroiled in a price-gouging scandal over its life-saving EpiPen now finds itself at the center …
