Cyber Security

If Planet X Exists, It’s Running Out of Places to Hide

Welcome back to the Abstract!  This week, it’s time to demand a new planet. Don’t we deserve it? Haven’t we…

7 months ago

Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes

Meta deleted nonbinary and trans themes for its Messenger app this week, around the same time that the company announced…

7 months ago

Behind the Blog: What Is Real?

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of…

7 months ago

Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

This article was produced with support from WIRED. Some of the world’s most popular apps are likely being co-opted by rogue members…

7 months ago

‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes

Meta employees are furious with the company’s newly announced content moderation changes that will allow users to say that LGBTQ+…

7 months ago

People Think AI Images of Hollywood Sign Burning Are Real

There’s a video going viral this week of the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles with a wildfire raging behind it,…

7 months ago

‘We’re Fine’: Lying to Ourselves About a Climate Disaster

In 2020, after walking by refrigerated trailers full of the bodies of people who died during the first wave of…

7 months ago

Google’s AI Overview Tells Adults to Use ‘Magic Wand’ With Kids

When Google’s AI Overview search feature launched in May, it was generally regarded as a mess. It told people to…

7 months ago

Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users

Telegram, the popular social network and messaging application which has also become a hotbed for all sorts of serious criminal…

7 months ago

Violent Hackers Are Using U-Haul To Dox Targets

Members of an underground criminal community that hack massive companies, steal swathes of cryptocurrency, and even commission robberies or shootings…

7 months ago