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privacy

Samsung Washing Machine App Requires Access to Your Contacts and Location

For some reason, Samsung apps designed to control internet-connected washer and dryers require "bogus," "absurd," "unacceptable," "pesky," and "awful" permissions.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
7.8.21
personal finance

What to Do if Re-Entry Fun Is Bleeding You Dry Financially

Hunt for deals, splurge thoughtfully, and be upfront with your friends (and honest with yourself!) about money stuff.
Katie Way
7.8.21
Rudy Giuiliani

Rudy Giuliani Is Having an Extremely Bad Summer

A law license suspension. Multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuits. A federal investigation.
Paul Blest
7.8.21
abortion

This TikTok of Pro-Abortion Rights Activists Trolling the Church Is Going Viral

From off-camera, people can be heard shouting “Don’t go in there! It’s a den of lies!”, “You’ll have a lifetime of regret!”, and “It’s not too late!”
Carter Sherman
7.8.21
LGBTQ

‘These Aren’t Just Homophobic Attacks’: Why the Far-Right Is Targeting Pride

Recent attacks by the far-right on Pride events are part of a wider trend of political intimidation, LGBTQ activists and security officials tell VICE World News.
Mitchell Prothero
7.8.21
anom

We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals

'Anom’ phones used in an FBI honeypot are mysteriously showing up on the secondary market. We bought one.
Joseph Cox
7.8.21
wellness

How to Stay Cool When You Don’t Have A/C, According to Science

Heat waves and “domes” are now a common weather reality; here's how to cope, even if you don't have AC.
Hannah Smothers
7.8.21
gun culture

Meet 4chan’s ‘Kommandos,’ the Armed Meme Lords Driving Gun Culture

While the stereotype for the American gun owner is old, white, and hung up on culture wars, Kommandos are young, apolitical, and fluent in memes.
Tess Owen
7.8.21
News

A Police Dog Training Facility Has the Same Name as Hitler’s Bunker and It’s Not Being Changed

One of biggest K-9 training facilities in the U.S. is called Adlerhorst, a name that is “somewhere between creepy and frightening and an absolute abomination.”
Kevin Maimann
7.8.21
Tech

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Declares Support for Right to Repair

In a nine-minute Cameo, the co-founder of Apple talked about how important it is for people to be able to fix their own stuff.
Matthew Gault
7.8.21
News

A Black Memphis Community Says It’s Being Poisoned by the US Government

Cancer-causing arsenic is leaking out of a shuttered coal plant into Memphis groundwater. One local calls it “a ticking time bomb.”
Geoff Dembicki
7.8.21
electric cars

Dodge Announces Electric Cars It Swears Are Tough and American

Unlike all those other electric cars?
Aaron Gordon
7.8.21
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