An Anarchist’s Conviction Offers a Grim Foreshadowing of Trump’s War on the ‘Left’
By the standards of the San Francisco Bay Area’s hard left, Casey Goonan’s crimes were unremarkable. A police SUV partially burned by an incendiary device…
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Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List
In 2011, after months of complaints from residents about the department’s SWAT team—broken TVs, missing cash, lost electronics, even a stolen pornographic video—the Kansas City,…
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 don’t know, 15 years ago.…
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 a nonstop operation, funneling immigrants…
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 that accounts for about a…
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 on Wednesday, the result of…
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 guilty in federal court in…
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. Between April and June this…
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 of a Pentagon strategy it…
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, new research seen by WIRED…
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 media, sites tied to Russian…
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 swaths of the web. Monday’s…