Don’t click any porn links on Facebook. Just don’t. It’s a good rule of thumb, but there’s an extra good reason right now. There’s a troubling type of porn-based malware that’s apparently infected over 110, 000 Facebook users in two days. And you could get the same Click Transmitted Disease. Read more…
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Beware: Porn-Based Malware Is Sweeping Across Facebook
Jay-Z is buying the Scandinavian music streaming company Aspiro—which currently runs to music services—for $56 million, in a bid to take on Spotify. Read more…
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Jay-Z Is Taking on Spotify By Buying Aspiro For $56m
Not all spider silk is created equal. Some spiders spin webs of wet, sticky silk. Others like the Uloborus spider have fluffy webs made of nanoscale filaments. But those fluffy webs are just as good at catching prey, likely thanks to their electrostatic charge. Read more…
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This Spider Catches Prey With a Web of Electrically Charged Silk
This is the European Space Agency’s test spaceplane, which is planned to go on a 100 minute mission without a crew on February 11. It will blast off from Kourou, French Guiana. Read more…
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This Gleaming Monolith May Spawn the Next Space Shuttle
Linux users around the world are scrambling to update their operating systems, as a new flaw known as GHOST has been shown to have the potential to cause “a lot of collateral damage on the Internet.” Read more…
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New Linux Bug Could Cause "a Lot of Collateral Damage on the Internet"
The jolly good life of a pirate was not a jolly healthy one, what with the syphilis and scurvy and ship-raiding. Archeologists excavating Blackbeard’s flagship off the coast of North Carolina have unveiled their latest findings: a cache of medical instruments that include this rather horrifying urethral syringe. Read more…
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Terrifying Medical Instruments Found on Blackbeard’s Sunken Ship
Michelin and Bridgestone have been racing to take the air out of everyone’s tires—but in a good way. Both companies have been developing open-air wheels that will never puncture or deflate, and while they’ve mostly seen use in research and military vehicles to date, John Deere will finally offer a ride-on mower that uses Michelin’s see-through Tweels . Read more…
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John Deere’s New Ride-On Mower Is One of the First To Have Airless Tires
We’ve known for a long time that federal authorities have a lot of license plate readers at their disposal, some of which they surely use for nefarious purposes. However, new details have emerged that show exactly how nefarious those purposes are. Does secretly spying on millions of Americans and seizing property sound nefarious enough to care? Read more…
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Feds Are Spying on Millions of Cars With License Plate Readers
WikiLeaks is demanding explanations, after it’s come to light that Google gave the FBI emails and digital data belonging to three WikiLeaks staff members when warrants were served in March 2012. Read more…
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Google Handed Stacks of WikiLeaks Email Straight to the FBI in 2012
The Pirate Cinema turns worldwide torrent traffic into art. The results are equally beautiful, chaotic, inspiring, maddening, and there’s a slight chance that I can feel my brain melting. Read more…
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The Pirate Cinema Is Just Endless Torrenting and I Can’t Stop Watching