State of Surveillance

Tech

Big Meat Companies Want to Use Smartwatches to Track Workers’ Every Move

11.02.22

By Tatyana Woodall
Tech

Companies in the UK Are Mining Users’ Personal Data to Place Billboard Ads

10.13.22

By Tatyana Woodall
Tech

Users Are Building Their Own AI-Powered Alternatives to Amazon’s Ring Cameras

10.12.22

By Karl Bode
Tech

Police Are Using DNA to Generate 3D Images of Suspects They’ve Never Seen

10.11.22

By Chloe Xiang
Tech

Privacy Advocates Say NYC’s Fix for the ‘Digital Divide’ Is a Hyper-Surveillance Mess

10.11.22

By Karl Bode
Tech

Alleged Hacker Who Broke Into AI Surveillance Company Raided By Police

03.12.21

By Joseph Cox
Tech

This Is Footage From a Spy Plane That Flew Above George Floyd Protests in Minneapolis

07.29.20

By Sam Richards
Tech

This Small Company Is Turning Utah Into a Surveillance Panopticon

03.04.20

By Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, and Joseph Cox
Tech

The CIA Won’t Admit It Uses Slack

02.21.20

By Tim Marchman
Tech

The Decade We Learned There’s No Such Thing as Privacy Online

12.31.19

By Karl Bode
Tech

The US Government Is Suing Edward Snowden

09.17.19

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

The NSA Uses Slack. Why?

08.15.19

By Derek Mead

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Sports

Spencer Rattler Literally Practiced in Cafeteria Freezer to Prep For Icy ‘MNF’ Game

We talkin’ about practice, man.

12.23.24

By Kyle Phillippi
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News

Luigi Mangione Is Being Held in the Same Notorious Prison as Diddy

Just in time for the Most 2024 Headline Ever award.

12.23.24

By Meredith Kile
Screenshot: Yogscast Games

Gaming

‘The Holy Gosh Darn’: The Best Adult Swim Show That Isn’t One (Review)

‘The Holy Gosh Darn’ is an Adult Swim-esque narrative-based comedic adventure. One that should have been in Indie Game of the Year discussions.

12.23.24

By Anthony Franklin II
A weather balloon, not a drone. (Photo: NASA)

NASA Astronaut Says 2 ‘Metallic Orbs’ Almost Hit His Plane at 9,000 Feet

The former astronaut did not see the objects on his radar, and was not notified about them by air traffic control.

12.23.24

By Meredith Kile
Pope Francis in Vatican City, Vatican. (Photo by Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)

Life

Is the Pope Actually Opening 5 Portals to Other Worlds on Christmas Eve?

Firstly, the “spiritual portals” are actually just doors.

12.23.24

By Meredith Kile