A Complete Guide to the Jeffrey Epstein Document Dumps
For the past few months, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has engaged in a sprawling and extremely public investigation of disgraced financier and…
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Security News This Week: Oh Crap, Kohler’s Toilet Cameras Aren’t Really End-to-End Encrypted
An AI image creator startup left its database unsecured, exposing more than a million images and videos its users had created—the “overwhelming majority” of which…
Huge Trove of Nude Images Leaked by AI Image Generator Startup’s Exposed Database
An AI image generator startup left more than 1 million images and videos created with its systems exposed and accessible to anyone online, according to…
‘Signalgate’ Inspector General Report Wants Just One Change to Avoid a Repeat Debacle
A United States Inspector General report publicly released today found that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth could have put US troops and military operations at…
A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
As for Wilcox, he’s long been one of that small group of privacy zealots who buys his SIM cards in cash with a fake name.…
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Is Detaining People for ICE
The Louisiana Department Of Wildlife And Fisheries (LDWF), typically responsible in part for overseeing wildlife reserves and enforcing local hunting rules, has assisted United States…
Russia Wants This Mega Missile to Intimidate the West, but It Keeps Crashing
A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fired from an underground silo on the country’s southern steppe Friday on a scheduled test to deliver a dummy…
Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs
If you’re near Rochester, New York, the price for a carton of Target’s Good & Gather eggs is listed as $1.99 on its website. If…
The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens
Expand your mind, man. Opsec is really all about time travel—taking small, protective steps now before you have a disaster on your hands later. If…
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
The team did publish what they called a “sanitized” version of the poems in the paper: “A baker guards a secret oven’s heat, its whirling…
The Destruction of a Notorious Myanmar Scam Compound Appears to Have Been ‘Performative’
After Myanmar’s military junta raided a notorious scam compound and destroyed buildings with explosives in October, officials claimed the country would entirely “eradicate” forced scamming…
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is expanding plans to outsource immigrant tracking to private surveillance firms, scrapping a recent $180 million pilot proposal in favor of…