A protester holds a picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during an anti-North Korea rally following a report of the nuclear test.Photograph: Lee Jin-man/AP The US tried to deploy a version of the Stuxnet computer virus to attack North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme five years ago but…

This image shows the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera and telescope, and the Earth - one million miles away. Credit: Credits: NASA/NOAA A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory…

Deeplinks Blog by , Adam Schwartz | February 25, 2019 Governments Must Face the Facts about Face Surveillance, and Stop Using It It’s time for governments to confront the harmful consequences of using facial recognition technology as an instrument of surveillance. Yet law enforcement agencies across…

Man Vs. Machine The true story of an ex-cop’s war on lie detectors by Drake Bennett | August 4, 2015 Doug Williams used to give polygraph exams. Now he’s going to prison for teaching people how to beat them There was something odd, Doug Williams recalls, about the clean-cut young man who came to see…

By on August 4, 2015 12:17 pm Evidence from the prosecution of Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow potentially implicates a wide array of city and state leaders, including Mayor Ed Lee, in alleged bribery schemes, pay-to-play plots, campaign fund laundering and state construction contract rigging. According…

In a few weeks from now, I will be bringing down the curtain on Fact & Fiction, a small bookshop I started in New Delhi, more than 30 years ago. It's not an easy decision to make, but it's no big deal. Really. Bookshops shut almost every day around the world. For me, though, it is the end of a long…

Kathmandu, Nepal In retrospect, the choice to book a ground-floor room was a sound one. On Saturday, April 25, Andy Fraser lay in bed at the Rokpa Guest House, a modest three-story hotel in Nepal’s ancient capital, a city of 1 million sunk in a valley bordered by the Himalayan range. Fraser, a…

Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox Co. apparently ran out of money six months before it announced in February 2014 that it was filing for bankruptcy after tens of millions of dollars worth of the virtual currency and client funds disappeared, investigative sources said Tuesday. The Tokyo-based company seems…

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The Chinese education system - with its long school days and tough discipline - tops global league tables. But how did British pupils cope when five Chinese teachers took over part of their Hampshire school? For the BBC documentary Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School, an experiment was carried…

One of the most significant US intelligence operations in modern history took place in the heart of Soviet Moscow, during one of the most dangerous stretches of the Cold War. From 1979 to 1985, a span that includes President Ronald Reagan's "evil empire" speech , the 1983 US-Soviet war scare , the…

Time was, the military stuck to blowing things up—just ask the spirit of Elugelab, part of Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Elugelab was vaporized by the first ever test of an H-bomb on All Saints’ Day 1952, ascending to heaven and leaving behind only a deep crater filled with seawater. It…

“You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they’re people just like you. You're wrong. Dead wrong.”— They Live We’re living in two worlds, you and I. There’s the world we see (or are made to see) and then there’s the one we sense (and…

A Colombian police officer at the San Miguel bridge between Ecuador and Colombia Dolores Ochoa/AP LAGO AGRIO, Ecuador — Hitler was behind the wheel, racing through a blur of jungle toward Ecuador’s border with Colombia. Only when an immigration officer in green fatigues hurried out from a…

Step 2: Going online! After some appropriate celebratory whooping, I set to getting my newly connected conjoined computers configured for doing actual things on the Internet from the command line so I could actually do work with them. The natural first choice was Internet Relay Chat, since we at Ars…

Stanford Report, July 31, 2015 The Stanford scholars who founded the groundbreaking online encyclopedia say that the project owes its success to the unique way it organizes its community of contributors, editors and users. Quite a few people in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States are…

Germany's justice minister has sacked the country's top prosecutor, who had accused the government of interfering with a treason investigation. Heiko Maas said he no longer had confidence in Harald Range, dismissing his statements as "incomprehensible". Prosecutors are investigating whether the…

An Idaho law enacted to permit the state to jail anyone, who conducts undercover investigations and secretly records animal abuse, was rejected as unconstitutional by a federal judge today. The decision marked the first time a federal court had struck down a state’s “ag-gag law.” In February 2014,…

Nature | News Sharing From skin disorders to the immune system, sex with archaic species changed Homo sapiens . Ewen Callaway Article tools PDF Rights & Permissions Xin Lu/Getty A gene variant from archaic humans helps modern-day Tibetans to cope with high altitudes. Our ancestors were not a picky…

A day that changed history: the bodies of unarmed protestors shot by the police and the British army in Athens on 3 December 1944. Photograph: Dmitri Kessel/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images This article is the subject of a column by the readers’ editor. “I can still see it very clearly, I have not…

MIT and Qatar Computing Research Institute have found a way to detect hidden websites on the Tor anonymity network Tor Network Computer scientists from MIT and the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) have demonstrated a security vulnerability affecting the Tor anonymity network that makes it…

Irish immigrants were often depicted as apelike as in this cartoon by Thomas Nast. Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook For many years, the employment ad or sign indicating “No Irish Need Apply” had been part of the historical memory of discrimination against the Irish immigrant in America. In…

ECHELON, the world's satellites, and the Snowden files In December 2014, I asked fellow Scottish journalist and Intercept reporter Ryan Gallagher to check the documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Was there evidence of ECHELON? There was: the documents included details of the…

Facebook says it’s now streaming more video than YouTube. To be able to make that claim, all they had to do was cheat, lie, and steal. Hank Green Aug 2, 2015 I’m a professional YouTube creator. Some people think that this is some kind of joke but I have 30 employees. All of them work in the online…

Arhopala japonica. Credit: Wikipedia A trio of researchers with Kobe University in Japan has found that lycaenid butterfly caterpillars of the Japanese oakblue variety, have dorsal nectary organ secretions that cause ants that eat the material to abandon their fellow ants to instead hang out with…

The drought currently shriveling the West Coast comes with an irony that the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge would recognize. There’s water, water, everywhere out there—literally an ocean’s worth—but you can’t drink it or irrigate with it for the salt. That used to be an insoluble technical and…

Huddled around a laptop at the bottom of a stairwell in Havana, a group of three teenage boys banter as they skip between video clips and music. A fourth arrives with some ice cream, which completes a scene reminiscent of teenagers killing time on YouTube. They play an amateur music video in which…

Op-Ed Contributor Obama Takes a Crucial Step on Climate Change The Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H. is coal-powered. Credit Jim Cole/Associated Press President Obama’s Clean Power Plan has rightly been hailed as the most important action any president has taken to address the climate crisis. The new…

Courtesy of Flickr user Lara604 under Creative Commons license Some people take frequent breaks outside. Others bring in a sweater, a scarf or an “office blanket.” Some block air vents with cardboard, or quietly switch on space heaters under their desks. If you’ve ever sat shivering in your office…

I STEPPED FROM the warmth of our source’s London flat. That February night in 1977, the air was damp and cool, the buzz of traffic muted in this leafy North London suburb, in the shadow of the iconic Alexandra Palace. A fellow journalist and I had just spent three hours inside, drinking Chianti and…

China plans to tighten regulations governing the nation’s 270 online-payment firms including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s finance arm, dealing another blow to the booming business of Internet finance. Under draft rules published on July 31, the central bank will limit the amount an individual can…

Over the weekend, Amazon quietly rolled out a series of changes to its “Amazon Household” program and the ability for Prime members to share their shipping benefits. The changes are designed to limit the ability for customers to share Amazon Prime subscriptions with those who are not actually…

Devan Sabaratnam Jun 2, 2015 Alternatively: The Death of a web app dream. This morning, I returned from my morning walk, threw down my iPhone, earphones and cap onto the dining table, sunk my head in my hands and told my wife “I can’t do this any more…” As is usual on my walks, I listen to the…

FRANKLIN, Tenn.—Spies are infiltrating Wall Street. A wave of companies with ties to the intelligence community is winning over the world of finance, with banks and hedge funds putting the firms’ terrorist-tracking tools to work rooting out employee misconduct before it leads to fines or worse.…

Three archaeologists walk into a recently excavated prehistoric bar in Iceland. Athwart the barstools sit various skeletons, both human and dinosaur. The first archaeologist, a self-styled secular empiricist, is fascinated by the establishment’s seating arrangements and brewing mechanisms, and…