Spouseware

Tech

Security Companies and Activists Launch ‘Coalition Against Stalkerware’

11.19.19

By Joseph Cox
Tech

In a First, FTC Bans Company From Selling ‘Stalkerware’

10.22.19

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Freelance Site Fiverr Offers Illegal Private Spying Services

08.26.19

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Twitter Pushed Adverts for Spyware to Monitor Girlfriends

07.03.19

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Hosting Provider Finally Takes Down Spyware Leak of Thousands of Photos and Phone Calls

03.26.19

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

This Spyware Data Leak Is So Bad We Can’t Even Tell You About It

03.22.19

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Identity

How to Tell If Your Partner Is Spying on Your Phone

12.11.18

By Samantha Cole
Tech

‘Stalkerware’ Website Let Anyone Intercept Texts of Tens of Thousands of People

10.31.18

By Joseph Cox and Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

Hacker Steals Customers’ Text Messages from Android Spyware Company

07.09.18

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Don’t Use Software to Spy on Your Spouse

06.01.18

By Samantha Cole
Tech

‘Stalkerware’ Seller Shuts Down Apps ‘Indefinitely’ After Getting Hacked Again

03.06.18

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company’s Servers—Again

02.16.18

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

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Life

Someone May Soon Pay $1.5 Million to Tape a Banana to a Wall

The artwork that debuted in 2019 is set to fetch more than $1 million at auction. The purchaser won’t actually take home the item, though.

11.17.24

By Paige Gawley
Screenshot: Cartoon Network

Gaming

The Cartoon Network Shockwave Game Era

Believe it or not, there was a time where computer gaming was done on Cartoon Network’s website. And it was incredible.

11.17.24

By Anthony Franklin II
Screenshots: 11 Bit Studios

Gaming

‘The Thaumaturge’ Is a Delightfully Unhinged RPG Coming to Xbox and PlayStation Soon

‘The Thaumaturge’ is finally making the jump from PC to the Xbox and PlayStation, and I need y’all to play this unsung, awesome RPG.

11.17.24

By Dwayne Jenkins
Screenshot: Virgin Interactive Entertainment

Gaming

The Lion King: My Gaming Nemesis

The Lion King video game was my white whale. The game that haunted me for years before I finally decided to fight back.

11.17.24

By Anthony Franklin II
AEW

Sports

AEW Uses Guns N’ Roses Hit To Promote Full Gear (And It Rocks)

AEW debuted a music video for Full Gear on Collision using a classic Guns N’ Roses song.

11.17.24

By Haley Miller