Twitter direct messages have always been a commitment to safety. The DMs you send to friends and strangers online are not end-to-end encrypted, making your conversations potentially accessible if data is leaked on Twitter, or to company employees with access rights to them. Both scenarios are perhaps more likely in Elon Musk’s version of Twitter,...

If you have done any internet crimes lately, you probably shouldn’t have paid for them with bitcoin. While many crypto evangelists have long touted digital currency as a way to buy goods (legal and illegal) online while remaining completely anonymous, the fact is that nearly all crypto transactions leave behind a digital footprint that can...

You met Big Agnes? You may have seen him high up on a shelf at REI or lounging at a local campsite. Doesn’t ring the bell? Maybe you don’t love ultralight camping enough to be introduced. The Steamboat Springs, Colorado-based company makes some of the most advanced tents in the outdoor industry, but exclusively at...

Vibrators are one of the most affordable sex toys on the market, but there are also a lot of of them, so buying one can get overwhelming. Luckily, I have a few tips and tricks that I use when buying and testing vibrators that can help you narrow down your search. First, look at the...

In 2016 Vice reported that non-dominant hand masturbation (also known as “left hand wanking”) was a thing. Various explanations for this practice have been presented, including the thrill of using a less familiar hand to caress one’s genitals. However, some masturbators have insisted that the practice was the result of using the right hand to...

this week The world’s largest search companies have entered the competition to use a powerful new generation of “generative AI” algorithms. Specifically, Microsoft announced that it is rebuilding Bing, which is somewhat behind Google in popularity, to use ChatGPT, the insanely popular and often amazingly capable chatbot created by artificial intelligence startup OpenAI. If you’ve...

For many years in Russia Ransomware gangs launched devastating attacks on businesses, hospitals and public sector entities, extorting hundreds of millions of dollars from victims and causing untold destruction. And they did it with impunity, but nothing more. Today, as part of the fight against ransomware gangs, the UK and US governments have exposed some...

The deadliest in the world the animal is picky eater. Because they carry viral diseases such as Zika and chikungunya, as well as parasites that cause malaria, mosquitoes love blood-sucking Aedes aegypti are responsible for over 700,000 deaths worldwide every year. But in Omid Veiseh’s lab at Rice University, his team of bioengineers struggled to...

twenty minutes after Microsoft gave me access to a limited preview of their new chatbot interface for the Bing search engine. I asked him about something you don’t usually get up with someone you just met: was the 2020 presidential election stolen? Answering political questions was not one of the use cases that Microsoft showed...

After viewers tagged the segment with transphobic remarks, Twitch banned it. Nothing, forever for two weeks. Hartle, embarrassed and apologetic, said he would be more careful in filtering topics for offensive ones. But he didn’t promise that Larry would get more funny stuff. Nanyung Peng, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California,...