Top Hackernews posts from gizmodo.com

1. Internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla (gizmodo.com)
   638 points by rntn about 1 year ago | 638 comments
2. The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017) (gizmodo.com)
   580 points by grecy over 1 year ago | 171 comments
3. Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores (gizmodo.com)
   545 points by walterbell 6 months ago | 747 comments
4. How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (2014) (gizmodo.com)
   532 points by ushakov over 3 years ago | 238 comments
5. Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate Politicians and Public (gizmodo.com)
   516 points by DoubleDerper about 3 years ago | 198 comments
6. Celsius Execs Cashed Out $40M in Crypto Before Halting Withdrawals for Customers (gizmodo.com)
   476 points by ekpyrotic almost 2 years ago | 309 comments
7. South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices (gizmodo.com)
   443 points by KomoD almost 2 years ago | 291 comments
8. Microsoft broke a Chrome feature to promote Edge (gizmodo.com)
   432 points by adrian_mrd over 1 year ago | 315 comments
9. Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV (gizmodo.com)
   407 points by gpspake about 3 years ago | 291 comments
10. A single laser fired through a keyhole can expose everything inside a room (gizmodo.com)
    398 points by anigbrowl about 3 years ago | 170 comments
11. Signal's Cellebrite Hack Is Already Causing Grief for the Law (gizmodo.com)
    389 points by gumby over 3 years ago | 155 comments
12. 200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring (gizmodo.com)
    353 points by Hooke almost 3 years ago | 155 comments
13. Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Gets Banned (gizmodo.com)
    351 points by 1cvmask over 3 years ago | 92 comments
14. Meta executives ‘inadvertently’ identified in OnlyFans bribery suit (gizmodo.com)
    344 points by perihelions almost 2 years ago | 218 comments
15. Apple fined $8.5M for illegally collecting iPhone owners' data for ads (gizmodo.com)
    334 points by nixcraft over 1 year ago | 131 comments
16. The feds asked TikTok for lots of domestic spying features (gizmodo.com)
    328 points by thunderbong about 1 year ago | 227 comments
17. ‘Deep Nostalgia’ can turn old photos of your relatives into moving videos (gizmodo.com)
    326 points by DamnInteresting over 3 years ago | 93 comments
18. Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up for sale online (gizmodo.com)
    305 points by gumby over 2 years ago | 381 comments
19. Apple sends DSID with iPhone analytics data, tests show (gizmodo.com)
    303 points by kelthuzad almost 2 years ago | 112 comments
20. Someone is hacking the hackers (gizmodo.com)
    295 points by fortran77 over 3 years ago | 160 comments
21. PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever (gizmodo.com)
    295 points by jmsflknr over 1 year ago | 242 comments
22. After OpenAI's blowup, it seems pretty clear that 'AI safety' isn't a real thing (gizmodo.com)
    295 points by rntn 10 months ago | 370 comments
23. Facebook's 'Clear History' Tool Doesn't Clear Shit (2020) (gizmodo.com)
    287 points by decrypt over 3 years ago | 88 comments
24. Signal's CEO Just Hacked the Cops' Favorite Phone Cracking Tool (gizmodo.com)
    269 points by thunderbong over 3 years ago | 120 comments
25. Cricut Wants Users to Pay for Unlimited Use of Cutting Machines They Already Own (gizmodo.com)
    267 points by DyslexicAtheist over 3 years ago | 136 comments
26. GoDaddy is cutting off Texas Right to Life’s abortion ‘whistleblowing’ website (gizmodo.com)
    267 points by HiroProtagonist about 3 years ago | 366 comments
27. New Yorkers want to stop landlords from using facial recognition (gizmodo.com)
    264 points by onychomys over 1 year ago | 173 comments
28. Vast Majority of People Who Invest in Bitcoin Inevitably Lose Money, Study Shows (gizmodo.com)
    262 points by mikece almost 2 years ago | 258 comments
29. Lawmakers Ask Zuck to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' Since App Made Kids Suicidal (gizmodo.com)
    257 points by bryan0 about 3 years ago | 154 comments
30. Canada to make online hate speech a crime punishable by fine (gizmodo.com)
    245 points by elorant about 3 years ago | 298 comments
31. Secret FBI Watchlist Leaks Online (gizmodo.com)
    241 points by gmays about 3 years ago | 2 comments
32. The Feds Want to Know What the McFuck Is Going on with the McFlurry Machines (gizmodo.com)
    239 points by ourmandave about 3 years ago | 151 comments
33. NASA solved a $100M problem for five bucks (2012) (gizmodo.com)
    237 points by rbanffy over 1 year ago | 124 comments
34. Dungeons and Dragons’ new license tightens its grip on competition (gizmodo.com)
    222 points by ndiddy over 1 year ago | 209 comments
35. School surveillance tools are harming kids, report finds (gizmodo.com)
    221 points by rntn 12 months ago | 198 comments
36. NASA Power Hack Extends 45-Year Voyager 2 Mission Even Longer (gizmodo.com)
    217 points by taubek over 1 year ago | 68 comments
37. I fooled millions into thinking chocolate helps weight loss (2015) (gizmodo.com)
    217 points by worez almost 2 years ago | 166 comments
38. Barbed wire fences were an early DIY telephone network (gizmodo.com)
    205 points by giuliomagnifico over 2 years ago | 63 comments
39. Oracle started as a CIA project (2014) (gizmodo.com)
    204 points by mantiq about 2 years ago | 90 comments
40. Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination (gizmodo.com)
    197 points by rntn 4 months ago | 156 comments
41. Jay Leiderman has died (gizmodo.com)
    190 points by leotravis10 about 3 years ago | 26 comments
42. The College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores with TikTok and Facebook (gizmodo.com)
    183 points by mikece about 1 year ago | 96 comments
43. Microsoft is slowly rolling out ads in the Windows 11 start menu (gizmodo.com)
    180 points by ourmandave over 1 year ago | 203 comments
44. Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews (gizmodo.com)
    178 points by rexreed about 3 years ago | 95 comments
45. A 1980s space telescope may have seen planet nine (gizmodo.com)
    172 points by starwind almost 3 years ago | 128 comments
46. Some Epson printers are programmed to stop working after a certain amount of use (gizmodo.com)
    170 points by marron about 2 years ago | 144 comments
47. Leaked FBI Email Reportedly Shows Desperation to Justify Warrantless Wiretaps (gizmodo.com)
    164 points by Jimmc414 4 months ago | 80 comments
48. AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway (gizmodo.com)
    159 points by lapcat 3 months ago | 176 comments
49. What ever happened to the transhumanists? (gizmodo.com)
    158 points by atlasunshrugged about 2 years ago | 422 comments
50. CNET Has Been Quietly Publishing AI-Written Articles for Months (gizmodo.com)
    158 points by herbertl over 1 year ago | 86 comments
51. Casio adds fitness features to original G-Shock digital watch (gizmodo.com)
    157 points by occamschainsaw over 1 year ago | 170 comments
52. Bloomberg Is Throwing $500M at Efforts to Shut Down All U.S. Coal Plants (gizmodo.com)
    152 points by rntn 12 months ago | 137 comments
53. Rogue editors started a competing Wikipedia that's only about roads (gizmodo.com)
    149 points by cainxinth 7 months ago | 130 comments
54. Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show (gizmodo.com)
    146 points by nickthegreek 7 months ago | 194 comments
55. Nationwide Ban on TikTok Inches Closer to Reality (gizmodo.com)
    144 points by arkadiyt over 1 year ago | 180 comments
56. Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office (gizmodo.com)
    143 points by unionpivo over 1 year ago | 139 comments
57. Cult of the Dead Cow wants to save internet privacy with new encryption protocol (gizmodo.com)
    141 points by CharlesW about 1 year ago | 79 comments
58. California Passes Regulation Banning "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law (gizmodo.com)
    139 points by ryanwhitney over 3 years ago | 41 comments
59. False 911 Calls Increase During Festival as iOS Mistakes Dancing for Car Crashes (gizmodo.com)
    139 points by KomoD about 1 year ago | 156 comments
60. Portugal Says No More Golden Visas and No More Airbnbs (gizmodo.com)
    135 points by shankr over 1 year ago | 2 comments
61. Whistleblower: Pentagon purchased tool collecting Americans' web browsing data (gizmodo.com)
    133 points by rbanffy almost 2 years ago | 44 comments
62. OpenAI Finally Allows ChatGPT Complete Internet Access (gizmodo.com)
    133 points by gmays 11 months ago | 114 comments
63. Woman's experimental bionic hand passes major test (gizmodo.com)
    131 points by jordigg 11 months ago | 49 comments
64. When Google Fiber abandons your city as a failed experiment (2019) (gizmodo.com)
    130 points by stl_fan 10 months ago | 118 comments
65. Microsoft's CEO Says No Raises for Full-Time Employees This Year (gizmodo.com)
    126 points by _djo_ over 1 year ago | 6 comments
66. Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again. It Works Every Time (gizmodo.com)
    123 points by rntn 7 months ago | 221 comments
67. Predictive policing software is pretty terrible at predicting crimes (gizmodo.com)
    122 points by rntn 12 months ago | 3 comments
68. More evidence that Neanderthals were ‘absorbed’ by humans, not wiped out (gizmodo.com)
    121 points by Hooke over 3 years ago | 134 comments
69. Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat (gizmodo.com)
    119 points by RadixDLT 6 months ago | 27 comments
70. A mile-long lava tube where humans sheltered for thousands of years (gizmodo.com)
    119 points by pseudolus 5 months ago | 31 comments
71. Boeing's starliner docks at ISS after five thrusters unexpectedly shut off (gizmodo.com)
    118 points by heywire 3 months ago | 81 comments
72. WhatsApp moderators can read your messages if someone you talk to reports them (gizmodo.com)
    115 points by Nuzzerino about 3 years ago | 56 comments
73. There's More Proof That Return to Office Is Pointless (gizmodo.com)
    113 points by rntn 8 months ago | 147 comments
74. Anti-Piracy Group Takes AI Training Dataset 'Books3′ Offline (gizmodo.com)
    112 points by YeGoblynQueenne 12 months ago | 91 comments
75. Marc Andreessen Is a Maniac (gizmodo.com)
    109 points by jweir 5 months ago | 67 comments
76. iPhone's Adult Content Filter Blocks Anything 'Asian' (gizmodo.com)
    107 points by thereare5lights over 3 years ago | 103 comments
77. U.S. Kids Are Getting Nearly 70% of Their Calories from 'Ultra-Processed' Foods (gizmodo.com)
    102 points by onychomys about 3 years ago | 175 comments
78. Google is screwed, even if it wins its antitrust case (gizmodo.com)
    102 points by gumby over 1 year ago | 160 comments
79. Tesla Quietly Removes All U.S. Job Postings (gizmodo.com)
    102 points by vyrotek 4 months ago | 120 comments
80. Some companies think customers will accidentally cancel if it's too easy (gizmodo.com)
    102 points by passwordoops about 1 year ago | 162 comments
81. RIP Microsoft WordPad (gizmodo.com)
    101 points by thunderbong 9 months ago | 94 comments
82. Cybertruck Owner Breaks His Finger Trying to Show Vehicle Is Safe (gizmodo.com)
    101 points by nickthegreek 4 months ago | 84 comments
83. The enduring mystery of an aggressive FBI raid near Area 51 (gizmodo.com)
    100 points by bookofjoe over 1 year ago | 80 comments
84. Rocket Carrying North Korean Spy Satellite Crashes into Sea (gizmodo.com)
    99 points by nickthegreek over 1 year ago | 72 comments
85. A thin gold layer could be the secret to glasses that don't fog (gizmodo.com)
    99 points by thunderbong almost 2 years ago | 99 comments
86. Somehow, Futurama Is Coming Back Again (gizmodo.com)
    98 points by nickthegreek over 2 years ago | 42 comments
87. What to do if a cop tries to scan your face during a traffic stop (gizmodo.com)
    96 points by danso over 2 years ago | 159 comments
88. YouTube Bans True Crime Videos That Reanimate Dead Children with AI (gizmodo.com)
    95 points by rntn 8 months ago | 57 comments
89. Astrobiologists have released the preliminary results of a SETI survey (gizmodo.com)
    93 points by spamalot159 over 3 years ago | 186 comments
90. Finnish Man Blows Up Tesla Car Instead of Replacing Battery (gizmodo.com)
    93 points by thunderbong over 2 years ago | 109 comments
91. iPhone apps harvest data when they send you notifications, researchers find (gizmodo.com)
    93 points by santaz01 8 months ago | 71 comments
92. Why Isn't Landfill Mining More Popular? (gizmodo.com)
    90 points by rntn 10 months ago | 115 comments
93. Blue beads could be the oldest evidence of European goods in North America (gizmodo.com)
    89 points by Thevet over 3 years ago | 80 comments
94. Nasa’s proposed plasma rocket would get us to Mars in 2 months (gizmodo.com)
    88 points by genman 4 months ago | 92 comments
95. Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Leave the EU If There's Any Real AI Regulation (gizmodo.com)
    87 points by rntn over 1 year ago | 201 comments
96. Evidence of an oceanic impact and megatsunami on Mars (gizmodo.com)
    87 points by 8bitsrule almost 2 years ago | 31 comments
97. The full Windows 95 launch event video is finally online (gizmodo.com)
    85 points by geox over 2 years ago | 27 comments
98. Apple is tracking you even when its own privacy settings say not, research says (gizmodo.com)
    84 points by bookofjoe almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
99. Musk, the Anti-Censorship Crusader, Allegedly Shadowbanned ElonJet Account (gizmodo.com)
    84 points by nickthegreek almost 2 years ago | 79 comments
100. Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet (gizmodo.com)
     84 points by rntn 4 months ago | 120 comments