Wikileaks has published the complete Sony leaks in a searchable database
Today, Wikileaks published a database of all of the data leaked from Sony Pictures in last year’s hack, comprising 173,132 emails and 30,287 separate documents. The documents contain private legal opinions as well as sensitive conversations between executives, many of which were the subject of reports in the wake of the hack.
April 16, 2015 at 05:02PM
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The Roomba for Lawns Is Really Pissing Off Astronomers
In a scenario that sounds straight out of the Golden Age of sci-fi, it all comes down to robots versus telescopes, and how they all communicate.
April 16, 2015 at 02:53PM
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More Teens Are Vaping Instead Of Smoking
Use of the devices among middle and high school students tripled from 2013 to 2014, according to federal data released on Thursday, bringing the share of high school students who use them to 13 percent — more than smoke traditional cigarettes.
April 16, 2015 at 12:42PM
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Steampunk… Or Just Punk’d?
Before there was the Periscope app, there was the Periscope machine.
April 16, 2015 at 11:33AM
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The Dawn Of Killer Robots
Motherboard gains exclusive access to a small fleet of US Army bomb disposal robots — the same platforms the military has weaponized — and to a pair of DARPA’s six-foot-tall bipedal humanoid robots. They also meet Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams, renowned physicist Max Tegmark and others who grapple with the specter of artificial intelligence, killer robots and a technological precedent forged in the atomic age.
April 16, 2015 at 11:32AM
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Facebook brings back the away message in a new mobile experiment
Services like AIM and ICQ let us stay in touch not just through chat, but through away messages — tiny fragments letting friends know what you were up to while away from your keyboard. Facebook is bringing those fragments back with what it’s calling the “sidebar status” — a kind of away message you can post in the sidebar of its mobile apps for iOS and Android.
April 16, 2015 at 08:29AM
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The DEA Has Been Secretly Buying Hacking Tools From an Italian Company
The software, known as Remote Control System or “RCS,” is capable of intercepting phone calls, texts and social media messages, and can surreptitiously turn on a user’s webcam and microphone as well as collect passwords.
April 16, 2015 at 06:43AM
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The Messy Business Of Reinventing Happiness
Inside Disney’s radical plan to modernize its cherished theme parks.
April 15, 2015 at 07:45PM
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Small Packages of Code Are the Biggest Thing in App-Making
Instead of building big, monolithic applications, programmers are increasingly stitching apps together using open source software packages. As the package paradigm has taken hold, app-making has become more efficient than ever.
April 15, 2015 at 06:45PM
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Drug-buying bot vindicated, criminal case dropped
The Random Darknet Shopper art project has been vindicated, drugs destroyed.
April 15, 2015 at 04:57PM
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