I Miss Polaroids
Image: Victoria Song/Gizmodo I MissI MissGizmodo staff fondly remembers the extinct gadgets of years past. I know, I know. You’re probably thinking, “Aren’t Polaroids back?” And my answer is that…
An ’80s File Format Enabled Stealthy Mac Hacking
Microsoft Office macros have long been a crude but effective tool in the hands of hackers: Trick someone into opening an attachment and clicking “allow” to enable macros, and a…
Inside the Courthouse Break-In Spree That Landed Two White Hat Hackers in Jail
Just after dark on September 10 last year, Justin Wynn and Gary DeMercurio carefully slunk along a dimly lit hallway inside the Polk County courthouse, an ostentatious Beaux-Arts building in…
Can Killing Cookies Save Journalism?
“Something goes to the DMP, something goes to the DSP, something goes to the exchange, something goes to the SSP,” said Linda Worp, a product manager at Ster, describing the…
Your Income Predicts How Well You Can Socially Distance
“It could also be that people in low-income communities just received different information, and they are following different sources of information. That may have been playing down the role of…
Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘There are now nearly 9,000 Bitcoin ATMs worldwide’
Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin BTC every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with…
Stop what you’re doing, here are 9 tips to avoid procrastinating at work
You have an impending deadline but instead of fulfilling that particular task you find yourself cleaning your entire house, folding socks, or going for a walk. If that’s you, I’m…
Apple wants to make 2FA safer with domain bound SMS codes
Authenticating transactions or login sessions through SMS-based two-factor authentication is standard practice. However, SMS as a 2FA medium might not be totally secure. Hackers can intercept these messages and use…
Rallycross is going electric in 2021 with a chaotic new race series across Europe
If you’ve ever watched Formula E and thought: “This is great, but is would be so much better with more mud,” then electric rallycross might be the motorsport for you.…
Files by Google adds PIN protection for your most sensitive files on Android
The Files by Google app, which primarily gives Android users an easy way to manage files and free up space on their phone, is getting a new PIN-protected “Safe Folder”…