xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity
“Factoring out the deepfake image itself—as it will remain under seal—there is nothing inherently stigmatizing about revealing the fact that a deepfake image was created…
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Android Is Fighting Phone Scams With a New Feature to Prove Who’s Calling
I’ve been covering spam calling for years, so when Google offered me details about a new Android feature built to detect and flag spoofed calls,…
The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It’s Coming for Protests
A right-wing think tank responsible for the emergence of zero-tolerance policing in 1990s New York City and the Trump administration’s scorched-earth campaign against “diversity, equality…
The Romance Scammer Who Made a Small Fortune Posing as a WWE Superstar
In this excerpt from WIRED Book Club pick The Yahoo Boys, journalist Carlos Barragán traces one scammer’s journey from flop to fortune. Source link
Websites Can Now Spy on You Through Your Hard Drive
Over the decades, there has been no shortage of sites using clever techniques to covertly track visitors’ browsing histories, device fingerprints, and keystrokes and mouse…
Cybercrime Crew Claims It Hacked Mike Lindell’s MyPillow
The United States military has known for years that enemies could use location data to track troops’ phones—and it’s also long been aware of easy…
The White House’s Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens
A space-themed White House website that mocks immigrants and compares them to extraterrestrials claims Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested almost half a million people…
The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are
For nearly a decade, the Pentagon was warned—by its own contractors, analysts, and intelligence agencies—that anyone with a credit card could buy a map of…
Scammers Are Using Your Real Hotel Reservations to Trick You With Spear-Phishing Attacks
“We would not say that every single phishing message we observed was definitively caused by a direct compromise of the hotel’s own internal systems,” the…
Internet Starts to Return in Iran After 3-Month Blackout
After more than 2,000 hours of government-imposed connectivity blackouts, there were signs on Tuesday that Iran’s internet is coming back—at least at very low levels.…
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
In the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and…
The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race
“Nation state issues are very serious and very real, but criminal actors still make up the vast majority of incidents that organizations deal with and…