…circa 2007. People also called numbers randomly in search of phone friends who might become romantically involved and eventually meet face to face. Persistent calls from unknown numbers became a…

Number of U.S. Presidents who were also painters: 4 Number of U.S. Presidential paintings released by hackers? 23 1 Number of U.S. Presidential nude self-portrait paintings released by hackers: 2…

…here. With name and badge number in hand, Anonymous tweeted a dox containing the officer’s name (Anthony Bologna), last known addresses, family members, phone number, and legal troubles. Because Bologna…

…well. The other type of criticism came from humanitarians. They argued not that the shelter did too little, but that it did too much. It provided a fully integrated, flat-pack…

…often from cell phone signals, too; devices that were not as portable as expected, with godmothers carrying their phones in their hands, an obstacle that some have overcome by crafting…

…You got the post-mortem data from the world’s worst crashes, you got all the simulation data from the botcaves: the vast, virtual killing-field where the machine-learning algorithms duked it out…

…need for continually lower numbers means that these very numbers have become less meaty. On the one hand, not doing better than in the previous year means admitting failure. One…

…from the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico by a single company based in Houston, Texas, with a benign-sounding name: Omega Protein. The company’s profits derive largely from a…

…of such tactics against other states. The intelligence services’ concerns about Anonymous, for example, are derived not just from Aurora but also from their own use of worms as a…

…20 gigabytes in size, and not just from transactions. * The lottery expands, writes Borges, from merely contributing to the vicissitudes of human life to apportioning power: “I have been…

…refrigerator was not plugged in, and was used only for storage. Doña Monterroso did not believe that it was capable of cooling, and whether it was or not was beside…

…from the usual years to months, preparations have begun for large-scale studies in Ebola-affected countries to begin in January 2015. While logistical questions remain—ranging from the number of doses needed…

…humans, among other endeavors. Each research project was considered one part of an “integrated pilot study” designed to answer common questions: “where, when, and how do wild birds interface with…

…277). This lack of preparedness was especially alarming, he argued, since the world could expect an increasing number of epidemic emergencies due to a number of factors: growth in human…

…decades of progress. Led by the Social Protection Unit at the World Bank shortly after its creation in 1996, a number of aid agencies began to move away from static…

…are stricken with Ebola from those who are not. Most of the health care workers infected with the virus in Africa were not working in specialized Ebola treatment units: they…

…physicist that biology was not as complicated as he thought, Knight successfully requested a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) to test his idea of biobricks, or…

…and violence in the pursuit of justice and democracy cannot succeed if they do not communicate securely, or if they cannot remain safe online. Security must become a fundamental right…

…not keep a copy? Why not digitize it? Why not store—and share, analyse or leak—a petabyte of data every 48 hours? Costs fall and digital information properly structured can produce…

…regarding statistical “tricks” and “hid[ing] the decline.” Climate scientists at the Climatic Research Unit and other climate research centers also reported an uptick in threatening emails, phone calls, and other…

Small technologies of government now permeate the field of international aid. From micro-insurance, sin taxes, and cash transfers to solar lanterns, water filtration systems, and sanitation devices, examples proliferate across…

…worm?” they might charge back, among many other cases). None, however, quite fit the mold of this relatively new political strategy. What then distinguishes the PIH from other varieties of…

…(Theillaumas, interview 07/20/2011) Since traumatic events are rare, the psou also organizes simple “conversations”, which are scheduled after a phone call from a person who wants to talk about other…

…the trend toward species extinction, whatever the cost” (italics added). In other words, the benefits of the resources to be extracted by an infrastructure project could not be weighed against…

…It poses the question of how knowledge about transgenerational diseases was not built on these sentinel populations. In other words, under what circumstances does an alert not lead to action?…

…workers with high rates of task acceptance. However, large scale requesters use a number of other methods to discriminate “good faith” workers from the “malicious.” Most methods boil down to…

…is understood to be radically different than using hacked computers and the information from them to cause what are banally called “effects”—from breaking hard drives or centrifuges, to contaminating the…