Category: Wired

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…

This ‘Privacy Browser’ Has Dangerous Hidden Features
23
Oct
2025

This ‘Privacy Browser’ Has Dangerous Hidden Features

The Universe Browser makes some big promises to its potential users. Its online advertisements claim it’s the “fastest browser,” that…

No, ICE (Probably) Didn’t Buy Guided Missile Warheads
23
Oct
2025

No, ICE (Probably) Didn’t Buy Guided Missile Warheads

On September 19, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement made a $61,218 payment for “guided missile warheads and explosive components,” according…

The Long Tail of the AWS Outage
22
Oct
2025

The Long Tail of the AWS Outage

A sprawling Amazon Web Services cloud outage that began early Monday morning illustrated the fragile interdependencies of the internet as…

What to Know About the Shocking Louvre Jewelry Heist
20
Oct
2025

What to Know About the Shocking Louvre Jewelry Heist

Could the French TV series Lupin have been prophetic? The show envisioned a heist at the Louvre, an event that…

Anthropic Has a Plan to Keep Its AI From Building a Nuclear Weapon. Will It Work?
20
Oct
2025

Anthropic Has a Plan to Keep Its AI From Building a Nuclear Weapon. Will It Work?

At the end of August, the AI company Anthropic announced that its chatbot Claude wouldn’t help anyone build a nuclear…

What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet
20
Oct
2025

What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet

A massive cloud outage stemming from Amazon Web Services’s key US-EAST-1 region, its hub near the United States capitol in…

Hackers Dox ICE, DHS, DOJ, and FBI Officials
18
Oct
2025

Hackers Dox ICE, DHS, DOJ, and FBI Officials

In a stunning new study, researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland revealed this week that satellites…

Why the F5 Hack Created an ‘Imminent Threat’ for Thousands of Networks
16
Oct
2025

Why the F5 Hack Created an ‘Imminent Threat’ for Thousands of Networks

Thousands of networks—many of them operated by the US government and Fortune 500 companies—face an “imminent threat” of being breached…

One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure
16
Oct
2025

One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure

The news last week that Dominion Voting Systems was purchased by the founder and CEO of Knowink, a Missouri-based maker…

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face
15
Oct
2025

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face

“If you don’t include people with disabilities or people with facial differences in the development of these processes, no one’s…