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Image: Ukraine government / Facebook This is the batshit-crazy future of cyber attacks. As more sophisticated weapons make it out into the wild, it’s becoming easier and easier for blackhats to deploy malware and shut down computers all over the globe in exchange for a few bitcoins. But by proxy, it’s also easier for hackers…

Photo: Getty Uber laid out new details in a court filing today about how it learned the former lead of its self-driving car unit, Anthony Levandowski, took documents from Google, his former employer. The ride-hailing company has long maintained that it didn’t know Levandowski had allegedly downloaded 14,000 documents from Google’s autonomous vehicle unit before…

Image: Albert Kok/Wikimedia Commons It’s hard work being online these days. What with all of the “fake news” and “viral posts” corrupting the World Wide Web. So how are you supposed to know what’s real and what’s bullcrap, or rather, bull shark crap? When it comes to hoax stories about inland shark sightings, at least,…

Image: Tinder Summer’s here, the weather’s hot and sticky. What did you expect Tinder to do? It has needs… …It needs your money to stay afloat! In the infamous app’s latest scheme to get you to pay for the ability to swipe right on your future excruciatingly awkward first date, Tinder’s offering to let you…

Researchers in the UK used machine learning algorithms to analyze 1.6 million tweets in London during the infamous 2011 riots, which resulted in widespread looting, property destruction and over 3,000 arrests. According to the researchers, analyzing Twitter data to map out where violence occurred in London boroughs was faster and more accurate than relying on…