How Shady Chinese Encryption Chips Got Into the Navy, NATO, and NASA
When WIRED reached out to the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, a spokesperson responded that the BIS is restricted by law from commenting…
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UFO Whistleblower, Meet a Conspiracy-Loving Congress
Gillibrand is sponsoring an amendment she hopes to attach to this year’s must-pass National Defense Authorization Act to mandate that no money can be spent…
The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens
The United States government has been secretly amassing a “large amount” of “sensitive and intimate information” on its own citizens, a group of senior advisors…
A Massive Vaccine Database Leak Exposes IDs of Millions of Indians | WIRED
On the evening of June 11, a journalist from the Kerala-based news portal The Fourth reported that a Telegram bot in a channel called “hak4learn” was…
An Anti-Porn App Put Him in Jail and His Family Under Surveillance
Molly Greene, The Appeal’s strategy and legal director, calls the censorship alarming. “It’s incredibly concerning to hear readers say they can no longer access our…
Talitrix Prison-Monitoring System Tracks Inmates Down to Their Heart Rate
The conditions inside the Fulton County Jail system are dire. Inmates at one of the jails in Atlanta, Georgia, are sleeping on the floor in…
9 Years After the Mt. Gox Hack, Feds Indict Alleged Culprits
Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference this week included an array of announcements about operating system releases and, of course, the company’s anticipated mixed-reality headset, Vision Pro.…
The Bizarre Reality of Getting Online in North Korea
Over the past decade, there has been an increased number of digital devices in North Korea. Around 50 to 80 percent of adults may now have…
The Bold Plan to Create Cyber 311 Hotlines
The idea for the UT-Austin project emerged from discussions in CISA’s Cybersecurity Advisory Committee, a group of experts from the private sector, academia, civil society,…
Apple Expands Its On-Device Nudity Detection to Combat CSAM
In December, Apple announced that it was killing a controversial iCloud photo-scanning tool the company had devised to combat child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in…
Hacks Against Ukraine’s Emergency Response Services Rise During Bombings
The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare has offered the free web security service Project Galileo for nearly a decade, giving human rights and public interest organizations…
Inside 4chan’s Top-Secret Moderation Machine
According to the cross-section of bans provided to New York, which were issued in the days after the Buffalo mass shooting, 21 bans were imposed…