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OpenAI is now everything it promised not to be: closed-source and for-profit (www.vice.com)

1623 points by isaacfrond over 1 year ago | 567 comments
Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters (www.vice.com)

969 points by edward over 3 years ago | 487 comments
Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone (www.vice.com)

855 points by ciprian_craciun over 2 years ago | 676 comments
The FBI's internal guide for getting data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon (www.vice.com)

818 points by arkadiyt almost 3 years ago | 265 comments
Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator Wyden reveals (www.vice.com)

699 points by jbegley over 3 years ago | 247 comments
Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees (www.vice.com)

640 points by fireball_blaze over 3 years ago | 598 comments
Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions (www.vice.com)

630 points by zdw over 2 years ago | 467 comments
Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken (www.vice.com)

622 points by signor_bosco over 2 years ago | 1067 comments
Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing' (www.vice.com)

618 points by weare138 over 3 years ago | 593 comments
A hacker got all my texts for $16 (www.vice.com)

583 points by pje over 3 years ago | 289 comments
The NSA and CIA use ad blockers (www.vice.com)

566 points by infodocket almost 3 years ago | 330 comments
Police are telling ShotSpotter to alter evidence from gunshot-detecting AI (www.vice.com)

516 points by danso about 3 years ago | 334 comments
Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure (www.vice.com)

479 points by fieryscribe about 3 years ago | 242 comments
The 'Insanely Broad' Restrict Act Could Ban Much More Than Just TikTok (www.vice.com)

471 points by isaacfrond over 1 year ago | 269 comments
T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked (www.vice.com)

432 points by jbegley about 3 years ago | 251 comments
The FBI Identified a Tor User (www.vice.com)

427 points by mikece over 1 year ago | 341 comments
Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’ (www.vice.com)

420 points by yoelo over 2 years ago | 394 comments
Amazon Unlawfully Confiscated Union Literature, NLRB Finds (www.vice.com)

406 points by cf100clunk about 3 years ago | 234 comments
The Teamsters announce coordinated nationwide project to unionize Amazon (www.vice.com)

406 points by cratermoon about 3 years ago | 375 comments
CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders (www.vice.com)

406 points by KoftaBob over 2 years ago | 415 comments
2,200 forgotten vintage computers from a barn in Massachusetts (www.vice.com)

398 points by zhte415 about 1 year ago | 94 comments
Cops Are Suing a Teen for Invasion of Privacy After False Arrest Vid Goes Viral (www.vice.com)

385 points by isaacfrond 11 months ago | 252 comments
Amazon doesn't 'employ' drivers, but hired firms to prevent them from unionizing (www.vice.com)

381 points by rntn about 1 year ago | 410 comments
Hackers used Slack to break into EA Games (www.vice.com)

365 points by danso over 3 years ago | 209 comments
Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims of ‘hash collisions’ (www.vice.com)

361 points by nickthegreek about 3 years ago | 450 comments
California man fined for selling maps of property boundaries without a license (www.vice.com)

351 points by hampelm almost 2 years ago | 304 comments
Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand security force (www.vice.com)

341 points by codq over 3 years ago | 404 comments
Two Portland delivery companies revolt against Amazon, shut down (www.vice.com)

331 points by watchdogtimer about 3 years ago | 301 comments
A growing number of scientists are convinced the future influences the past (www.vice.com)

329 points by myth_drannon over 1 year ago | 436 comments
Blink-182 tickets are so expensive because Ticketmaster is a monopoly (www.vice.com)

327 points by Victerius almost 2 years ago | 384 comments
I'm a Frito-Lay Factory Worker. I Work 12-Hour Days, 7 Days a Week (www.vice.com)

319 points by elsewhen about 3 years ago | 231 comments
Fired comedian ordered to get day job back after jokes ruled 'simply funny' (www.vice.com)

303 points by danso 9 months ago | 435 comments
Sex worker-led payment platform shuts down after being cut off by processor (www.vice.com)

288 points by isaacfrond over 1 year ago | 395 comments
Multiple Beverly Hills PD officers now weaponizing copyright against streaming (www.vice.com)

283 points by booleanbetrayal over 3 years ago | 244 comments
Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (2019) (www.vice.com)

280 points by andyxor over 3 years ago | 84 comments
Walmart Sells Fake 30TB Hard Drive That's Two Small SD Cards (www.vice.com)

279 points by danso about 2 years ago | 229 comments
Texas police want uvalde bodycam footage suppressed (www.vice.com)

279 points by camjohnson26 over 2 years ago | 228 comments
Right to Repair Gaining Momentum (www.vice.com)

276 points by foobarbecue over 3 years ago | 119 comments
Amazon Keeps Getting Sued for Paying Drivers Less Than Minimum Wage (www.vice.com)

274 points by elsewhen over 3 years ago | 187 comments
‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take over a PC with a Steam Invite (www.vice.com)

269 points by jbegley over 3 years ago | 151 comments
Oregon has legalized human composting (www.vice.com)

269 points by elsewhen over 3 years ago | 233 comments
Shell’s carbon capture plant is emitting more than it’s capturing (www.vice.com)

269 points by bjourne over 2 years ago | 94 comments
The PinePhone could bring the Linux mobile ecosystem to life (www.vice.com)

268 points by ollieparanoid over 3 years ago | 219 comments
The Manual for the Mass Surveillance Tool Cops Use to Track Phones (www.vice.com)

263 points by AtomicOrbital about 2 years ago | 95 comments
Feds want to ban the Flipper Zero – Experts say it's a scapegoat (www.vice.com)

260 points by LinuxBender 7 months ago | 247 comments
Bugs allowed hackers to dox John Deere tractor owners (www.vice.com)

258 points by arkadiyt over 3 years ago | 68 comments
Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has died (www.vice.com)

256 points by elsewhen almost 3 years ago | 160 comments
Citizen’s dangerous effort to cash in on vigilantism (www.vice.com)

249 points by hemloc_io over 3 years ago | 209 comments
Cryptocurrency loan platform implodes in $130M hack (www.vice.com)

246 points by mmastrac almost 3 years ago | 238 comments
The people the suburbs were built for are gone (www.vice.com)

241 points by elsewhen over 3 years ago | 414 comments
FTX Owes Money to More Than a Million People, Court Filing Suggests (www.vice.com)

232 points by bubblehack3r almost 2 years ago | 176 comments
Facebook wants to 'normalize' the mass scraping of personal data (www.vice.com)

231 points by gbrown_ over 3 years ago | 54 comments
Amazon’s AI cameras are punishing drivers for mistakes they didn’t make (www.vice.com)

230 points by echo_hessel almost 3 years ago | 127 comments
Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud (2020) (www.vice.com)

228 points by bentcorner 4 months ago | 208 comments
Maryland License Plates Now Inadvertently Advertising Filipino Online Casino (www.vice.com)

225 points by isaacfrond over 1 year ago | 115 comments
Activision Blizzard Is Trying to Stop a Union Vote at Its Albany Office (www.vice.com)

224 points by hvs almost 2 years ago | 127 comments
A phone the FBI sold to criminals (www.vice.com)

221 points by el_duderino about 3 years ago | 157 comments
I Broke into a Bank Account with an AI-Generated Voice (www.vice.com)

220 points by atlasunshrugged over 1 year ago | 120 comments
MacBooks from 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Activation Lock (www.vice.com)

220 points by ColPanic over 1 year ago | 425 comments
Police destroy Bitcoin miners with steamroller in Malaysia (www.vice.com)

219 points by giuliomagnifico about 3 years ago | 193 comments
Bored Ape virtual land sale breaks Ethereum (www.vice.com)

218 points by danso over 2 years ago | 404 comments
Google Play store bans polyamory dating app (www.vice.com)

212 points by pcthrowaway over 3 years ago | 169 comments
Uber shuts down app that told drivers if Uber underpaid them (www.vice.com)

211 points by donsupreme over 3 years ago | 80 comments
Code from the FBI’s Anom encrypted messaging app (www.vice.com)

204 points by danso about 2 years ago | 103 comments
Don't Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive (www.vice.com)

203 points by zdw about 3 years ago | 116 comments
The FBI’s Contract to Buy Mass Internet Data (www.vice.com)

201 points by leotravis10 over 1 year ago | 51 comments
Researchers Find ‘Backdoor’ in Encrypted Police and Military Radios (www.vice.com)

200 points by pseudolus about 1 year ago | 70 comments
French scientist's photo of ‘distant star’ was chorizo (www.vice.com)

199 points by Anon84 about 2 years ago | 135 comments
A phone app called Lumenate claims to alter the brain’s rhythms (2021) (www.vice.com)

189 points by greenSunglass about 2 years ago | 88 comments
Unity employees ‘mad and stressed out’ amidst unexpected layoffs (www.vice.com)

185 points by tosh about 2 years ago | 226 comments
Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse (www.vice.com)

183 points by UncleOxidant 8 months ago | 169 comments
Amazon execs intentionally made site shittier to rake in more profit – Lawsuit (www.vice.com)

181 points by cratermoon 11 months ago | 139 comments
Archivists Are Preserving Capitol Hill Riot Livestreams Before They’re Deleted (www.vice.com)

181 points by ironyman over 3 years ago | 116 comments
Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop (2019) (www.vice.com)

180 points by ruph123 over 1 year ago | 109 comments
Instructions show how cops use GrayKey to brute force iPhones (www.vice.com)

180 points by elorant about 3 years ago | 110 comments
The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in Movie Master on MS-DOS (www.vice.com)

180 points by onychomys almost 3 years ago | 214 comments
Motorcycle airbag vest will stop working if you miss a payment (www.vice.com)

179 points by elliekelly over 3 years ago | 238 comments
Nvidia Reveals Its CEO Was Computer Generated in Keynote Speech (www.vice.com)

178 points by tosh about 3 years ago | 85 comments
The Forgotten Operating System That Keeps the NYC Subway System Alive (2019) (www.vice.com)

170 points by lproven almost 2 years ago | 120 comments
Some WFH employees now live in another country (www.vice.com)

166 points by ghuntley about 2 years ago | 403 comments
Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos (www.vice.com)

166 points by thunderbong almost 3 years ago | 224 comments
How the US can stop wasting billions of dollars on each transit project (www.vice.com)

163 points by jseliger almost 2 years ago | 247 comments
Why does everything on Netflix look like that? (www.vice.com)

163 points by cpeterso about 2 years ago | 210 comments
Car thieves using tech disguised inside old Nokia phones and Bluetooth speakers (www.vice.com)

161 points by isaacfrond over 1 year ago | 166 comments
Big telecom used fake and dead people to fight net neutrality, New York AG says (www.vice.com)

160 points by anigbrowl 5 months ago | 25 comments
Albanian gangs have set up their own CCTV networks to spy on cops (www.vice.com)

159 points by mschuster91 over 1 year ago | 110 comments
Archaeologists Discover Lost Civilization in Guatemala (www.vice.com)

156 points by 8bitsrule over 1 year ago | 34 comments
Amtrak is streaming an empty railroad on Twitch (www.vice.com)

156 points by CrazedGeek over 2 years ago | 229 comments
Beware of the perfect gentleman (www.vice.com)

155 points by gmays almost 2 years ago | 169 comments
Conservatives think ChatGPT has gone 'woke' (www.vice.com)

155 points by DocFeind over 1 year ago | 453 comments
'Unbelievable': Astronomer Claims 'Direct Evidence' of Gravity Breaking Down (www.vice.com)

155 points by signa11 about 1 year ago | 97 comments
Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules (www.vice.com)

153 points by thunderbong about 1 year ago | 156 comments
An industry that unmasks people at scale (www.vice.com)

152 points by walterbell about 3 years ago | 36 comments
Facebook Moderators Speak Out About Poor Working Conditions in Ireland (www.vice.com)

151 points by waynekerr over 3 years ago | 106 comments
The Bizarre World of Scam Audiobooks (www.vice.com)

151 points by ilamont over 3 years ago | 33 comments
Tech CEO Says Workers Get Too Much Pay and Benefits (www.vice.com)

150 points by pinewurst about 3 years ago | 219 comments
Facebook Wanted NSO Spyware to Monitor Users, NSO CEO Claims (2020) (www.vice.com)

147 points by yhoiseth about 3 years ago | 14 comments
Scientists Increasingly Can’t Explain How AI Works (www.vice.com)

145 points by isaacfrond almost 2 years ago | 216 comments
Pirates spammed an infamous Soviet-era short-wave radio station with memes (www.vice.com)

142 points by caaqil over 2 years ago | 40 comments
X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists with No Explanation (www.vice.com)

141 points by greenie_beans 8 months ago | 98 comments