Category: Wired

How to Hack a Poker Game
31
Oct
2025

How to Hack a Poker Game

Michael Calore: Yeah. My favorite indiscreet product placement was in the show Entourage from HBO. It was on TV, I…

ICE Wants to Build a Shadow Deportation Network in Texas
30
Oct
2025

ICE Wants to Build a Shadow Deportation Network in Texas

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is exploring plans to launch a privately-run, statewide transportation system in Texas. The agency envisions…

NASA's Quiet Supersonic Jet Takes Flight
30
Oct
2025

NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Jet Takes Flight

The X-59 will generate a lower “sonic thump” thanks to its unique design. It was given a long, slender nose…

The Microsoft Azure Outage Shows the Harsh Reality of Cloud Failures
29
Oct
2025

The Microsoft Azure Outage Shows the Harsh Reality of Cloud Failures

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, its widely used 365 services, Xbox, and Minecraft started suffering outages at roughly noon Eastern time…

Ex-L3Harris Cyber Boss Pleads Guilty to Selling Trade Secrets to Russian Firm
29
Oct
2025

Ex-L3Harris Cyber Boss Pleads Guilty to Selling Trade Secrets to Russian Firm

A former executive at a company that sells zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits to the United States and its allies pleaded…

CBP Searched a Record Number of Phones at the US Border Over the Past Year
28
Oct
2025

CBP Searched a Record Number of Phones at the US Border Over the Past Year

The recent spike in searches at the border has mostly been driven by an increase in the last six months….

This Is the Nuclear-Powered Ship Deployed in Trump’s War on Drug Boats
28
Oct
2025

This Is the Nuclear-Powered Ship Deployed in Trump’s War on Drug Boats

The USS Gerald R. Ford, the US Navy’s most advanced aircraft carrier, is heading to the Caribbean Sea as part…

Hundreds of People With ‘Top Secret’ Clearance Exposed by House Democrats’ Website
27
Oct
2025

Hundreds of People With ‘Top Secret’ Clearance Exposed by House Democrats’ Website

The sensitive personal details of more than 450 people holding “top secret” US government security clearances were left exposed online,…

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda
27
Oct
2025

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda

OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok are pushing Russian state propaganda from sanctioned entities—including citations from Russian state…

Amazon Explains How Its AWS Outage Took Down the Web
25
Oct
2025

Amazon Explains How Its AWS Outage Took Down the Web

The cloud giant Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday leading to cascading outages that took down wide…

25
Oct
2025

DHS Wants a Fleet of AI-Powered Surveillance Trucks

The US Department of Homeland Security is seeking to develop a new mobile surveillance platform that fuses artificial intelligence, radar,…

How Hacked Card Shufflers Allegedly Enabled a Mob-Fueled Poker Scam That Rocked the NBA
24
Oct
2025

How Hacked Card Shufflers Allegedly Enabled a Mob-Fueled Poker Scam That Rocked the NBA

“If there’s a camera that knows the cards, there is always some kind of underlying threat. Customers are gonna be…