Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites.
Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions.
Warum Kakadus so gut tanzen können.
Vor mehr als zehn Jahren wurde Kakadu „Snowball“ wegen seiner lustigen Tanzbewegungen zum Internet-Star. Jetzt bescheinigen ihm auch Wissenschaftler außerordentliche Kreativität – und stellen die Frage: Woher hat der Vogel diese krassen Moves?
An incomplete list of women scientists.
Minimum Wage Machine (via blakefallconroy.com).
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The SIM Hijackers.
Meet the hackers who flip seized Instagram handles and cryptocurrency in a shady, buzzing underground market for stolen accounts and usernames. Their victims' weakness? Phone numbers.
SIM hijacking is a little-known but growing threat. To learn how to keep hackers from stealing your phone number, read their guide on how to protect yourself from these attacks.
The World’s Fastest Glacier Is Loud, Dangerous, and Transfixing.
Even without a tongue, Sermeq Kujalleq is loud. Its front is an enormous ice wall—stretching 300 feet at its peak, or as tall as the Statue of Liberty—that constantly explodes. Icebergs break off the glacier accompanied by blasts and roars akin to a rocket launch. When they hit the sea below, the calved icebergs can create huge waves that threaten to swallow people, boats, and buildings.
Seeing isn’t believing – The Fact Checker’s guide to manipulated video.
Migrant Journal is a six-issue publication exploring the circulation of people, goods, information, and even fauna and flora, around the world.
In Vienna available at 21erhaus.at.