Small stickers on the ground trick Tesla autopilot into steering into opposing traffic Unknown 16:17 Add Comment Edit Researchers from Tencent Keen Security Lab have published a report detailing their successful attacks on Tesla firmware, including remote c... Read More
Banksy's art authentication system displays top-notch cryptographic nous Unknown 13:57 Add Comment Edit Banksy's anonymity makes it hard to authenticate his pieces and prints, so Banksy has created a nonprofit called "Pest Control... Read More
The Boston Globe on breaking up Big Tech falls into the trap of tech exceptionalism Unknown 08:37 Add Comment Edit The Boston Globe has published a giant weekend package of responses to Elizabeth Warren's proposal to break up the Big Tech monopolies... Read More
Animated David Byrne/Big Suit enamel pin Unknown 12:26 Add Comment Edit PSA Press's $15 Stop Making Sense pin is jointed for moving Big Suit action, just like in the greatest concert movie ever made ; I just... Read More
Frazetta sweatta Unknown 12:26 Add Comment Edit The $100 Frank Frazetta Death Dealer Xmas sweater is licensed, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Frazetta museum in East Stroudsb... Read More
Researchers find mountains of sensitive data on totalled Teslas in junkyards Unknown 08:16 Add Comment Edit Teslas are incredibly data-hungry, storing massive troves of data about their owners, including videos of crashes, location history, contact... Read More
Facebook owns Netscape Unknown 07:41 Add Comment Edit AOL bought Netscape, renamed it New Aurora Corporation, sold it to Microsoft, who sold it to Facebook , where it is a "non-operating su... Read More
I want to go to the cast iron market in Brimfeld, Mass Unknown 16:21 Add Comment Edit I want to go there. My favorite pan is a Wagner I got at Goodwill in San Francisco. I especially like to refinish cast iron waffle irons... Read More
Second try with my neglected sourdough starter Unknown 15:01 Add Comment Edit Sourdough is not the complicated, finicky bread baking technique some folks might like you to believe. Sourdough baking takes very little ef... Read More
Alex Jones's deposition over his role in the harassment of Sandy Hook parents is a total shitshow Unknown 13:56 Add Comment Edit As the lawsuit against Alex Jones for his role in directing and encouraging the vicious harassment of the parents of children murdered at t... Read More
Watch Betsy DeVos smirk and smile as she ignores questions about her attempt to gut the Special Olympics Unknown 12:01 Add Comment Edit Watch CNN's @ryanobles try to ask Betsy DeVos about proposed federal cuts to the Special Olympics. pic.twitter.com/69yzJsq5Hy — Danie... Read More
Brexit Crisis: Church of England to host Emergency Tea Parties Unknown 10:17 Add Comment Edit With the Prime Minister's Brexit deal failing for the third time to receive Parliament's blessing and the looming possibility of cr... Read More
Oklahoma Republicans introduce bill forcing doctors to warn abortion patients about the existence of an imaginary "reversible abortion" Unknown 09:32 Add Comment Edit On Tuesday, the Oklahoma House Judiciary Committee approved Senate Bill 614 , which forces doctors to counsel patients seeking medical abort... Read More
War criminal and snowflake Erik Prince cancels Beloit College talk after student protests, threatens lawsuit Unknown 09:12 Add Comment Edit Genie Ogden writes, "Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince ( previously ) was invited to speak at Beloit College last night, by the right w... Read More
The Chinese Communist Party's newspaper has spun out an incredibly lucrative censorship business Unknown 09:07 Add Comment Edit People.cn is a publicly listed subsidiary of The People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party; its fortunes are... Read More
New York State goes after the Sackler family's opioid fortune, claims they funneled their Oxy millions through offshore laundries Unknown 08:56 Add Comment Edit The Sacklers ( previously ) are mostly known around the world as "philanthropists," with their names adorning the wings of galleri... Read More
After the Parkland shooting, NRA official reached out to Sandy Hook denier to discuss possibility that it was an anti-gun conspiracy Unknown 08:11 Add Comment Edit NRA training instructor and program coordinator Mark Richardson is a veteran of the organization, having worked there since at least 2006; i... Read More
British parliament rejects Prime Minister May's Brexit plan for third time Unknown 08:11 Add Comment Edit This time she'd promised to resign if they approved it, paving the way for new leadership to execute Prime Minister Theresa May's de... Read More
Come see me this weekend at Anaheim's Wondercon! Unknown 07:51 Add Comment Edit This weekend, I'm wrapping up the tour for my new book Radicalized at Anaheim's Wondercon , where I'm giving a keynote appearan... Read More
Soviet space dog shoes Unknown 07:41 Add Comment Edit Belka and Strelka, who both survived their trip to orbit , are immortalized here on a pair of shoes. Soviet Space Dog Shoes [$59, octophan... Read More
How to save your ass if the Boeing 737 MAX you're flying decides to nosedive Unknown 06:11 Add Comment Edit In the extremely unlikely event that you end up piloting a Boeing 737 MAX jet and it decides to nosedive, here's a 20 minute tutorial f... Read More
Grooveless metal engineering Unknown 14:16 Add Comment Edit In this otherwise unsourced video ( via Singaporean news site Mothership ) we may enjoy seeing parts so finely engineered that when they a... Read More
Inexpensive adjustable smart phone stand for desktop Unknown 14:02 Add Comment Edit This desktop phone stand has a heavy base and a platform that swivels up to 45 degrees. The platform is coated with silicone rubber so as n... Read More
AOC is going to Appalachia to talk to coal miners Unknown 13:26 Add Comment Edit After Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivered a blistering rebuttal to Rep Sean Duffy's [R-WI] charge that the Green New Deal ... Read More
NSA ex-contractor Harold Martin pleads guilty to willful retention of national defense data Unknown 13:12 Add Comment Edit Former NSA contractor Harold Martin today changed his plea to guilty, on charges of willful retention of national defense information. Haro... Read More
NSA domestic surveillance debate returns to Congress with 'Ending Mass Collection of Americans’ Phone Records Act' Unknown 13:03 Add Comment Edit Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA 19th District), Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI 3rd District), and Sen, Ron Wyden (D-OR) are introduci... Read More
Russian agent Maria Butina to be sentenced in U.S. on April 26 Unknown 12:41 Add Comment Edit Convicted Russian spy Maria Butina, who admitted to working in the United States as an agent of the Russian government to infiltrate the NRA... Read More
How hedge funds, Goldman Sachs, and corrupt executives used Gymboree's chaotic bankruptcy to cash out while destroying the careers of loyal employees Unknown 12:36 Add Comment Edit Gymboree is one of the many companies acquired by Mitt Romney's Bain Capital, through a "leveraged buyout" through which the c... Read More
Trump's U.S. Energy Secty. Rick Perry gave 6 secret authorizations to sell nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia: Reuters Unknown 12:31 Add Comment Edit U.S. Department Of Energy Secretary Rick Perry gave “six secret authorizations by companies to sell nuclear power technology and assistance ... Read More
Twitter update lets iOS users go ‘Lights Out,’ adds automatic dark modes Unknown 12:26 Add Comment Edit Today, Twitter announced expanded 'dark mode' options for iOS users. Previously, Twitter offered a blue/gray dark mode theme, but th... Read More
Leaked Apple docs describe support program for 3rd-party repairs, just as right-to-repair bills in 20 states would require Unknown 12:16 Add Comment Edit Documents from Apple leaked to reporters describe a program of support for third-party repairs, and the details sound like it was intended t... Read More
Cat post: Wait for the mlem Unknown 12:06 Add Comment Edit Wait for it. Wait for the mlem. :P Here it comes There it is. :P :P [ via ] from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2CTh0T5 via IFTT... Read More
U.S. government now caging asylum seekers under the international bridge in El Paso, Texas Unknown 11:46 Add Comment Edit Photographs we're seeing online today, including one by Mark Lambie of the El Paso Times, below, capture the desperation of the unknown ... Read More
The Economist's visual data journalist fixes magazine's "crimes against data visualisation" Unknown 11:13 Add Comment Edit Sarah Leo is a visual data journalist at The Economist . In this Medium piece , she gives some past examples of Economist charts and graphs... Read More
Creature from Black Lagoon attends confirmation hearing Unknown 11:08 Add Comment Edit Things keep getting weirder. Look in the background during Interior Secretary Nominee David Bernhardt's opening statement. Watch LIVE... Read More
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff blasts GOP stooges calling for his resignation Unknown 11:08 Add Comment Edit US Representative Adam Schiff responds to all 9 Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee calling for his resignation. from... Read More
Reviews of New York City's subway bathrooms Unknown 09:47 Add Comment Edit New York Times reporters Andy Newman and Ana Fota took one (and sometimes two) for the team by visiting subway station restrooms across New ... Read More
This robot is very skilled at tossing bananas Unknown 09:27 Add Comment Edit TossingBot is a robot that teaches itself how to pick up and toss objects with great accuracy. Eventually, the robot -- designed by research... Read More
"Edge of the Knife" is a Canadian film made in a language spoken by only 20 people in the world Unknown 08:52 Add Comment Edit Sgaawaay K'uuna , or Edge of the Knife , is the first feature film to portray the Haida – a group of people from Haida Gwaii, aka the Q... Read More
A tour of part of Kim Dotcom's mansion, including the panic room where he was arrested Unknown 08:47 Add Comment Edit Now this is a bedroom suite. "But wait, there's more!" says mansion-explorer Erick Tseng. Even the panic room, which it took ... Read More
Conservative commentator: trans people will replace humanity with 'New Species' that's 'Human and Part Machine' Unknown 08:26 Add Comment Edit No-one can make you sound quite as great as your enemies can. Here's Dr. Paul Nathanson , responding to conservative host Laura Ingraham... Read More
Teen girl's DIY glitter-shooting unicorn horn prosthetic arm in museum exhibit Unknown 08:01 Add Comment Edit Jordan Reeves, 13, was born with a left arm that doesn't extend past her elbow. Last year, Jordan dreamt up a curious prosthetic arm tha... Read More
Footage of American freestyle canoeing master Marc Ornstein Unknown 07:41 Add Comment Edit Relaxing, and ever so slightly peculiar, is this footage of an American Freestyle Canoeing master at work. American Freestyle canoeing is... Read More
Of $208m in fines leveled against robocallers, the FTC has collected ... $6,790 Unknown 07:21 Add Comment Edit The Wall Street Journal reports that robocallers go largely unpunished, with all those headline-grabbing fines virtually uncollected . As ... Read More
The Cardiff giant, one of the greatest hoaxes of the 19th century Unknown 07:11 Add Comment Edit In 1869, two well diggers in Cardiff, N.Y., unearthed an enormous figure made of stone. More than 600,000 people flocked to see the mysteri... Read More
Study finds 95% of all Bitcoin trading volume is fake, designed to lure in ICOs Unknown 07:11 Add Comment Edit A report from Bitwise -- an investment firm lobbying for FEC approval for a cryptocurrency based exchange-traded fund -- found that 95% of ... Read More
Sting operation: the NRA explains to white nationalist Australian political party how to deflect gun control calls after a massacre Unknown 07:02 Add Comment Edit Australian Al Jazeera reporter Rodger Muller infiltrated a meeting between the US National Rifle Association and Australia's far-right/w... Read More