An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Mushrooms are the safest of all the drugs people take recreationally, according to this year’s Global Drug Survey. Of the more than 12,000 people who reported taking psilocybin hallucinogenic mushrooms in…

Facebook has signed deals with Vox Media, BuzzFeed, ATTN, Group Nine Media and others to make shows for its upcoming video service, which will feature long and short-form content with ad breaks. The social media company is reportedly set to…

schwit1 quotes a report from Vocativ: The Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles has been caught using facial recognition software — despite a state law preventing it. Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont describe such a program,…

New submitter boundary writes: The UK government looks to be about to put the most egregious parts of the Investigative Powers Act into force “soon after the election” (which is in a couple of weeks) in the wake of the…

The Department of Defense has selected Boeing to make a new hypersonic spaceplane that can be reused frequently over a short period of time to deliver multiple satellites into orbit. “DARPA, the agency that tests new advanced technologies for the…

An academic paper to be presented today at IEEE posits that analysis of network signals provides a better early warning of malware than infections than current practices.

Twitter fixed a flaw in its Twitter Ads service could have allowed an attacker to tweet as any user.

Researchers warn two features, not flaws, in Android can be used together to open devices up to attack.

The market for automated credential stuffing tools is growing fast, because of a record number of breaches.

Salem State University was horrified when its account was taken over and used to spout racist venom – how could they have prevented it? We’ve got some advice