Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# space
"Whoops, sorry about colliding with your satellite, it was a complete accident we'll absolutely investigate. We promise..."
# tech
Pundits are dueling over the question of how afraid we should be of a devastating cyber attack.
# tech
Far from keeping analyses of potential cyber attacks on critical infrastructure nodes, pundits are hyperventilating.
# tech
The internet kill switch bill is back and its author and sponsors have learned absolutely nothing about how the technology works.
# tech
Stuxnet is scary, but we don't yet have clear evidence that it was the first cyber attack by a nation state.
# tech
Joe Lieberman decided that the best way to tackle cyber-security is by literally shutting off the country's internet on demand with nothing more than an executive order by the president.
# tech
Defense contractors are trying to turn the internet into an arena for state-sponsored espionage of dubious efficacy and legality.