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PALO ALTO, Calif. — In late 2013, an A.T.M. in Kiev started dispensing cash at seemingly random times of day. No one had put in a card or touched a button. Cameras showed that the piles of money had been swept up by customers who appeared lucky to be there at the right moment.

ERKRATH-HOCHDAHL taz | Die Gefahr für die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und Großbritannien geht von einem Keller in Erkrath-Hochdahl aus, 12 Minuten mit der S-Bahn von Düsseldorf. Werner Koch, 53 Jahre alt, sitzt hier oft in einem Raum, der keine zehn Quadratmeter misst. Ein Schreibtisch mit…

Nichts beschreibt die Entwicklung der deutschen Netzpolitik so gut wie die Geschichte des Chaos Computer Clubs (CCC). Diese Geschichte wollen wir erzählen. In vier Folgen führen wir euch in Interviews mit den Gründern und Wegbegleitern des Clubs von den Anfängen in den Achtzigern bis in die…

Simon Davis/DFID Microsoft founder Bill Gates in July 2014. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Bill Gates to the A.I. panic of 2015. During an AMA (ask me anything) session on Reddit this past Wednesday, a user by the name of beastcoin asked the founder of Microsoft a rather excellent question.…

Rap fans—that is to say, people who are passionate and informed about the culture—tend to get into arguments with other rap fans. Debates are often sparked when one mischievous soul declaims their Favorite Rapper . Your favorite rapper is a personal preference, one that requires the most…

On the evening of Thursday, June 26, the Pentagon sent a bold hostage rescue plan to the White House for approval. Dozens of Special Operations forces would fly into Syria under the barest sliver of moonlight, set down in the heart of Islamic State territory and snatch four Americans being held by…

In a New Hampshire apartment during the winter of 1923, this typewritten notice was fastened squarely against a closed door: Nobody may come into this room if the door is shut tight (if it is shut not quite latched it is all right) without knocking. The person in this room if he agrees that one…

As the Snowden leaks continue to dribble out, it has become increasingly obvious that most nations  planning for "cyber-war" have been merely sharpening knives for what looks like an almighty gunfight. We have to ask ourselves a few tough questions, the biggest of which just might be:  "If the NSA…

EIne Analysesoftware wie “Precobs” steigert den polizeilichen Datenhunger. Der bayerische LfD hat damit kein Problem. Nun hat sich der bayerische Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz (LfD) Thomas Petri mit der Software befasst. Sein “Prüfungsergebnis”: Der Einsatz der Software sei…

As she made the long journey from New York to South Africa, to visit family during the holidays in 2013, Justine Sacco, 30 years old and the senior director of corporate communications at IAC, began tweeting acerbic little jokes about the indignities of travel. There was one about a fellow passenger…

David Carr THE MEDIA EQUATION Other than timing, Jon Stewart’s triumphant retirement and Brian Williams’s public and humbling disenfranchisement would seem to have little in common. But begin with the fact that both men went to high school in New Jersey and both began their adult lives without much…

A few months ago my friend Edd Dumbill shared a discovery. He pointed out that if you search Twitter for the words “green bubbles” you’ll find very consistent results. People hate green bubbles. Example: I’ve been performing that same Twitter search every few days and there’s usually someone new…

Apps sind ein Auslaufmodell. Zumindest im Journalismus. Viele Medienhäuser setzen trotzdem auf eigene Lösungen zur Verbreitung ihrer Inhalte. Das zeigt, wie wenig die Verlage aus der Vergangenheit gelernt haben. Leichter kann man es Facebook und Co. kaum machen. 15 Apps. Als Steve Jobs 2007 das…

In einer Kleinen Anfrage hatten sich Abgeordnete deshalb erkundigt, inwiefern die bei der CNO tätigen MitarbeiterInnen ebenfalls als Kombattanten im Sinne des Völkerrechts anzusehen sind, wenn sie sich an offensiven Angriffen beteiligen. Sofern diese in internationalen bewaffneten Konflikten…

My sons will be “Christian” or “Jewish” at least on paper to escape from the propaganda machine of the state.

Gordon Moore’s famous calculation of the gains in power and economy that would drive chip production continues to have profound implications for every enterprise, no matter what the sector. But most of us have difficulty grasping the full impact of what Moore has laid out. Our handicap is that we…

On a weekend in March almost three years ago, Ellie Clougherty flew from London to Rome with Joe Lonsdale. She was a 21-year-old junior at Stanford University, and it was her first trip to Italy. Lonsdale, then 29, was a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and he booked a room for them for two nights in a…

In 2008 Mumbai Attacks, Piles of Spy Data, but an Uncompleted Puzzle

From left, Yusor Mohammad, Deah Shaddy Barakat and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha (Facebook) Yesterday, an outspoken white atheist murdered three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. We don’t yet know for sure whether this was a hate crime or whether the killer, Craig Stephen Hicks, had some…

Wer einen Streamingdienst wie Spotify nutzt, bekommt auf Grundlage seiner Hörgewohnheiten ständig neue Musikempfehlungen — von ähnlich klingenden Künstlern über Songs, die sich in etwa so anhören wie die eigenen Lieblingslieder, bis hin zum neuen heißen Scheiß aus dem bevorzugten Genre. Aber wie…

This past week the person who manages one of the world’s most important cryptography projects, Werner Koch, went from going broke to raising more than $100,000 for his project, GNU Privacy Guard. This is in addition to the $60,000 The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) dedicated…

Getty Images Software reverse engineering, the art of pulling programs apart to figure out how they work, is what makes it possible for sophisticated hackers to scour code for exploitable bugs. It’s also what allows those same hackers’ dangerous malware to be deconstructed and neutered. Now a new…

We would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Without the financial, logistical and moral support provided by the Tow Center—and by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism more broadly—it would not have been possible for us to spend a semester…

White and silent, death is undoing everything. For years, the 20 or so families in the tiny riverside settlement had lived hard yet improving lives, clearing the forest around them, fishing the waters, planting crops and building houses. Birth by birth, the population grew. From time to time,…

Frequently I get requests from students and security researchers to get a copy of my password research data. I typically decline to share the passwords but for quite some time I have wanted to provide a clean set of data to share with the world. A carefully-selected set of data provides great…

The US government will come under intense pressure this week to explain what action it took after receiving a massive cache of leaked data that revealed how the Swiss banking arm of HSBC, the world’s second-largest bank, helped wealthy customers conceal billions of dollars of assets. The leaked…

Six years ago, I went through a 10 day Vipassana silent meditation course. It was easily, one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Not the silence mind you. That was easy. The hard part is sitting in your own emotional shit in meditation for 11+ hours a day. That shit, that shit is hard. I learned…

Ever since their invention, automobiles have been symbols of innovation. The flying car, for example, has been a staple of science fiction for more than a hundred years. The industry’s progressive nature has even led some in the field to claim that the car may well be the most technologically…

The most disturbing part of the Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR) story is also the strangest: how the boss of the Silk Road drugs marketplace attempted to arrange not one but six murders-for-hire. No murders actually took place. The first “hit” was purchased from an undercover DEA agent and was meant to…

Rebecca Richards says that "cute" legal interpretations hurt the surveillance agency's legitimacy with the public. foskurulla/Flickr A year ago, Rebecca Richards joined the NSA as its director of privacy and civil liberties. As yet, she hasn't testified before Congress because, in her words, "nobody…

Guys, I wanted to let you know about a personal decision I recently made. I don’t really feel like discussing it, but I want to put my position out there. Please be respectful. This is a really long post, but please read the whole thing. I’m taking the brakes off my car. This isn’t a rash decision,…

WWPHD? / "Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses," by Peter F. Rothermel, via public domain. WWPHD? / “Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses,” by Peter F. Rothermel, via . Where do revolutions begin? In the streets? On Twitter? In Greece? No! Little did we know, they…

Last October, Motherboard gained access to a massive, secretive Bitcoin mine housed within a repurposed factory in the Liaoning Province in rural northeast China. The mine we visited is just one of six sites owned by a secretive group of four people, part of a colossal mining operation that, as of…

Slate’s Political Gabfest The Serial Spoiler Special, the Slate podcast that, each week, analyzed the most recent Serial episode, was Slate’s quickest podcast launch when you measure the time between its ideation and debut. “Four weeks after [Serial] launched everyone at Slate was talking about it,”…

For almost two decades, the open source GnuPG encryption project has teetered on the brink of insolvency. Now, following word of that plight, the lone developer keeping the project alive has received more than $135,000—in a single day, no less. Short for Gnu Privacy Guard, GnuPG or simply GPG was…

Have you heard the story about a drone that crashed into the White House yard? Wired has done a follow-up story , drawing from a conference to discuss drone risks. The conference was open to civilians, but explicitly closed to the press. One attendee described it as an eye-opener. Laughably Wired…

Anzeige Leben wir bald in einer Welt, in der reiche Menschen sich mit Hilfe moderner Medizin unsterblich machen und Maschinen den Großteil der Bevölkerung ohne Job und Aufgabe zurücklassen? Der israelische Universalhistoriker Yuval Harari behauptet das. Ein Gespräch. Der israelische…

At the beginning of the year, I did something I’ve never done before: I made a new year’s resolution. From here on out, I pledged, I would install only digitally signed software I could verify hadn’t been tampered with by someone sitting between me and the website that made it available for…

Twenty years ago, a pair of psychologists hooked up a shoe to a computer. They were trying to teach it to tap in time with a national anthem. However, the job was proving much tougher than anticipated. Just moving to beat-dominated music, they found, required a grasp of tonal organisation and…