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Photo: AP A security researcher has, yet again, discovered thousands of U.S. voter files with a minimal amount of effort. Given that over the past year virtually every registered U.S. voter has been exposed by one data breach or another, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to feign our surprise. According to the researcher, Kromtech Security’s Bob…

Photo: Getty Federal agents arrested the man behind the porn operation “StraightBoyz” on Tuesday, after he allegedly spent years tricking men into having sex acts performed on them on camera, and posting the videos online without their consent. According to the Miami Herald, which obtained documents about the case, Bryan Deneumostier, 33, posted ads on…

A scientist preparing DNA samplesPhoto: USFWS Northeast (Flickr) Scientists and biotechnologists have heralded the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system as revolutionary way to edit DNA, like scissors and a glue stick for the genome. But a new study found some potentially harmful unintended effects. This isn’t the first time a paper has found flaws in CRISPR’s abilities,…

RAD in its fully extended configuration.Image: Wyss Institute at Harvard University It’s estimated that around a million species are still waiting to be discovered in our planet’s oceans, especially in the deep midwater sea areas. Many of these undiscovered aquatic animals are gelatinous, and, as a result, super fragile. Conventional capture techniques, like nets, often…

The baby snake encased in amber.Image: Yi Liu Scientists working in Myanmar have uncovered a nearly 100-million-year-old baby snake encased in amber. Dating back to the Late Cretaceous, it’s the oldest known baby snake in the fossil record, and the first snake known to have lived in a forested environment. Over 2,900 species of snake…

Photo: Getty On Sunday, Elon Musk’s long-simmering internet meltdown reached a full boil when he called a man who was mean to his submarine a pedophile. This gave the Tesla founder’s harshest critics and fiercest fanboys something they could finally agree on: the guy needed to give it a rest and log off. A Twitter…

Photo: Getty Earlier this year, Hawaiian residents received a text—“BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII”—wrongly signaling that a nuclear bomb might be headed their way. An employee reportedly mistook a drill for a real attack and sent the alert to all cell phones in the state. Today, U.S. senators introduced a new bill that aims…

Graphic: Roblox A seven-year-old girl was playing the online game Roblox a few weeks ago when her in-game character was assaulted by two other characters in the game. The girl’s mom, Amber Petersen, saw the incident unfolding on the iPad screen—two male characters sexually assaulting her daughter’s avatar as it was lying on the ground.…

Photo: Getty In a new interview published today, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg goes long on a wide range of topics including selling data, taking holocaust deniers at their word, fake news, and one simple idea that’s crazy enough, it just might work. Speaking with Recode, Zuckerberg continued his apology tour that’s followed the Cambridge Analytica…

Space Some of the Most Spectacular Astronomy Images of 2018 "Holding Due North"Image: Jake Mosher George Dvorsky2 minutes agoFiled to: AstronomyFiled to: Astronomy Astronomy astronomy photographs Photography astronomy photography space photography science Edit Embiggen Send to Editors Promote Share to Kinja Move ad slots Go to permalink Over 4,200 photographs were submitted to this year’s…