Protesters on Sunday in Moscow, where rallies called by the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny were banned. “You have your own life at stake,” Mr. Navalny said in a pre-recorded message. Tatyana Makeyeva/Reuters MOSCOW — Protesters across Russia braved icy temperatures on Sunday to demonstrate…

Enlarge / A music streaming site that participated in Coinhive crypto mining maxes out the visitor's CPU. Malwarebytes A researcher has documented almost 2,500 sites that are actively running cryptocurrency mining code in the browsers of unsuspecting visitors, a finding that suggests the unethical…

Enlarge Diego Betto YouTube was recently caught displaying ads that covertly leach off visitors' CPUs and electricity to generate digital currency on behalf of anonymous attackers, it was widely reported. Word of the abusive ads started no later than Tuesday, as people took to social media sites to…

We’ve seen it before: Giant discounts on TVs or games consoles or perhaps the latest iPhone generate a frenzy among shoppers. But in France, it seems, 70 percent off the hazelnut-and-chocolate spread Nutella can also do the trick. When a supermarket chain slashed the price of 33-ounce jars of the…

Properly construed, Spice World is one of the greatest films ever made, narrowly beaten only by Die Hard and Home Alone . There is much that is wonderful about the 1997 classic, and much that is merely good, but all of it is worth noting as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the film. In 1997, the…

Part 1. Gameday: Beer, bros and The Beastie Boys. ROSE: If you have a guiding principle of the WWE and Vince McMahon, it's the live event is where it happens. Give the fan his or her money's worth. When they leave that stadium, leave that arena, you want them to say, "I can't wait to get back. I had…

Columns Do You Think I’m Pretty? Consent as community I don’t say yes. I say oh, yes. I say yes, please. I paper his walls with my yeses. I come to with a boy on top of me. I am drunk, I am taking my shirt off. And I’m asking something over and over again: Do you think I’m pretty? Do you think I’m…

The emailed response from the Guggenheim's chief curator to the White House was polite but firm: The museum could not accommodate a request to borrow a painting by Vincent van Gogh for President and Melania Trump's private living quarters. Instead, wrote the curator, Nancy Spector, another piece was…

Television ratings for the N.F.L. have fallen 17 percent over the past two seasons. The league is embroiled in a continuing crisis over concussions, and youth participation rates are falling. All of this suggests a difficult future for the sport, yet the N.F.L.’s most notorious competitor, Vince…

The XFL is not an American institution. There are not millions of fans eager to see if the Los Angeles Xtreme, the Memphis Maniax, or the Orlando Rage will be playing in the Million Dollar Game this year. They aren’t tuning in to see Jesse Ventura announce the game, or to watch if “He Hate Me” will…

Sex on Campus The Game Is Rigged Why sex that’s consensual can still be bad. And why we’re not talking about it. Photograph by Andrew Lyman SCAD class of 2016 Last winter, Reina Gattuso was a Harvard senior majoring in literature and gender studies and writing a biweekly column for the college…

James Franco in 2016. Image via Getty. Over the summer—before his Oscar campaign, before the Harvey Weinstein allegations, and before Franco’s Time’s Up pin prompted women to come forward with their stories of Franco’s sexual misconduct—James Franco did a cover story with Out Magazine . The tone…

A visual representation of our national discourse. Baloncici/Getty Images Trash. He’s trash. She’s trash. They’re trash. You’re trash. “Trash”—as well as its sister term “garbage”—has become the word du jour to describe everything from men to Tinder to, perhaps most frequently, Lena Dunham . It’s a…

Sonny Ross Sometimes video game developers make games. And sometimes they don’t. In 2017, Campo Santo, the studio that made Firewatch , announced that it was working on a new game, In the Valley of Gods . And Visceral Games, a studio that had been working on a single-player Star Wars game led by Amy…

A year ago, before the investor lawsuits and the federal investigations, before the mass resignations, and before the connotation of the word “Uber” shifted from “world’s most valuable startup” to “world’s most dysfunctional,” Uber’s executives sat around a hotel conference room table in San…

One of the most memorable scenes of the Oscar-nominated film Silver Linings Playbook revolves around Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms , a novel that does not end well, to put it mildly. Patrizio Solitano Jr. (Bradley Cooper) has come home after an eight-month stint being treated for bipolar…

Let 2018 be the year we demand more than freedom from sexual harassment and abuse. This year, it’s time we demand pleasure. fter giving a talk about pleasure anatomy to a group of Ivy League students, complete with 3-D models of a clitoris, a tall, soft-spoken sophomore student came up to me with…

This week on That Startup Show we are examining the ins-and-outs of body tech. Inventors and entrepreneurs are creating technology that will change our relationship with our own bodies, building brilliant businesses in the process. Broadcom co-founder Henry Nicholas was arrested in Las Vegas on…

For a fleeting moment Tuesday , President Trump seemed to signal he would do the right thing on immigration. At a 90-minute meeting with congressional Republicans and Democrats, much of it televised, he said he’d be willing to “take the heat” for a broad immigration deal of the sort urgently needed…

If you want to start taking classes at an Ivy League university unenrolled and undetected, says Guillaume Dumas, a 28-year-old Canadian, start with big lecture courses. If you must sit in on a smaller seminar class, it’s important to show up consistently starting with the first session, instead of…

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/05/politics/donald-trump-hill-republicans/index.html The other day I asked my audiences on Facebook and Twitter what they think are some of the most under-reported stories about the awful things the Trump administration has been doing. The Russiagate narrative has…

SAN FRANCISCO — Creating a new Bitcoin requires electricity. A lot of it. In the virtual currency world this creation process is called “mining.” There is no physical digging, since Bitcoins are purely digital. But the computer power needed to create each digital token consumes at least as much…

Deconstructeam/Devolver Digital Here is a game about the attractions and the perils of self-improvement. For me, the lesson is germane: Playing The Red String s Club makes me remember that I have a bad temper. I learned my foul temper from my father, who learned it from his father. Those two men had…

Where they're going, they don't need roads. Try to picture a voyeuristic video camera that gleefully records the following: a bear that attempts to outrun a car, a car that runs into an unsuspecting cow, two gentlemen who solicit prostitutes one late evening, two men who get into a fistfight, two…

• Much of the federal government officially shut down early Saturday morning after Senate Democrats, showing remarkable solidarity in the face of a clear political danger, blocked consideration of a stopgap spending measure to keep the government operating. • The Senate adjourned for the night…

Few would argue Michael Wolff’s explosive new book about Donald Trump and his administration, Fire and Fury, is a no-holds-barred, knife-filled fire-tornado wreaking havoc on the entire political institution as we know it. (Read an excerpt for yourself, here .) But, interestingly, there’s one topic…

For our grandparents, having a job and a family, putting food on the table and not dying in a war was normally enough. But we’re looking for something more: we need to know we're not just another Jake or Sarah floating around in the millennial milieu – we need meaning in our lives and to know we…

Over the weekend, actor, writer and director Aziz Ansari was accused of sexual assault by an anonymous woman in an article published by the online publication Babe. The headline read: “ I went on a date with Aziz Ansari. It turned into the worst night of my life .” The story of Ansari’s date with…

This is the headline you will read all day and probably tomorrow. That, after leaving Janet Jackson for dead after the Super Bowl in 2004, Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson actually “made peace”. Those aren’t the words that come of out his mouth though. Those are the words that Zane Lowe put in…

Timberlake and Biel photographed during the album release party for Man of the Woods . By Kevin Mazur/Getty Images. Justin Timberlake’s highly anticipated new album is called Man of the Woods, and, at his listening party—the American Express x Justin Timberlake Man Of The Woods Listening…

I don’t know if you’ve heard but Justin Timberlake has a new aesthetic. He’s been super subtle about it so you probably had no idea that JT is now a very outdoorsy manly man of the woods who wears flannel. For all of the people who missed Timberlake’s vague tracklist featuring song titles like…

There’s a joke in the creative industry that “everyone is a designer”, making light of how infuriating it is to have someone (without a visual background) tell a designer how things should look. It’s a huge and common problem, caused by a “client is always right” attitude — something we’ve all…

Who are you? Tell us about your background. I have a long history with Hyper Island. I joined in 2009 to help out with marketing and recruitment and quickly became invested in the relationships between brands, technology and people. I wanted to explore how all these connect and interact with each…

In 1998, the professional moral scold William Bennett published a book titled “The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals.” In it, Bennett described blasé attitudes toward presidential adultery as corrosive. Clinton’s promiscuity, he argued, implicated his fitness for…

Mark was a sophomore at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when he began mining cryptocurrencies more or less by accident. In November 2016, he stumbled on NiceHash, an online marketplace for individuals to mine cryptocurrency for willing buyers. His desktop computer, boosted with a graphics card, was…

It was true that everything did seem okay to me, so when I heard that it was not the case for her, I was surprised and concerned. I took her words to heart and responded privately after taking the time to process what she had said. I continue to support the movement that is happening in our culture.…

Perhaps the aphorism should be changed to “In Google, veritas.” Where do people go with their most intimate worries, thoughts, and fears? Not the nearest water cooler or humblebrag app. More likely, they’ll seek comfort in the relative privacy of a search box. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a former data…

“So now that we’re finally listening to women,” Samantha Bee says in the wake of the #MeToo movement and revelations around Harvey Weinstein and others. “Some people are asking an important question: Should we stop listening to women?” On her show Wednesday, Bee tackled the backlash to the movement,…

Earlier today, I wrote that Justin Timberlake must be actively trying to piss off anyone paying attention . It has to be intentional, right? He can't be THIS much of an oblivious, self-serving, egotistical vulture, right? Except that he is. There is no other explanation for his new music video.…