3 Teens Almost Got Away With Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches
Not everyone is so cautious. Baker and Sandoval regularly field calls from police across the country asking for a copy of their warrant. Baker himself…
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What to Expect When You’re Convicted
From Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud-ridden crypto empire to Elizabeth Holmes’ sham biotech company to deepfakers on the internet bilking grandmas of their retirement savings, white-collar crime…
Trump Signs Controversial Law Targeting Nonconsensual Sexual Content
US President Donald Trump signed into law legislation on Monday nicknamed the Take It Down Act, which requires platforms to remove nonconsensual instances of “intimate…
A Silicon Valley VC Says He Got the IDF Starlink Access Within Days of October 7 Attack
Eyal did not reply to two follow-up messages that contained quotes from the webinar and offered Eyal the opportunity to correct or clarify anything that…
Who Even Is a Criminal Now?
At WIRED, we’ve had a long-running obsession with rogues. This is, after all, a publication that was founded in the early ’90s, born of a…
We 3D-Printed Luigi Mangione’s Ghost Gun. It Was Entirely Legal
“Alright. Now we’ve got a gun,” PSR says. “Just make sure you don’t point it at anyone.” The finished and assembled gun, complete with 3D-printed…
For Tech Whistleblowers, There’s Safety in Numbers
Amber Scorah knows only too well that powerful stories can change society—and that powerful organizations will try to undermine those who tell them. In 2015,…
How to Win Followers and Scamfluence People
As soon as Format Boy answers the phone, I recognize his booming voice. I’ve spent weeks immersed in the influencer’s back catalog of videos and…
How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes
They tried logging into secure.telemessage.com using a pair of these credentials and discovered that they had just hacked a user with an email address associated…
Coinbase Will Reimburse Customers Up to $400 Million After Data Breach
As analysts and governments around the world continue to call attention to North Korean digital fraud, researchers this week published 1,000 email addresses they claim…
The Internet’s Biggest-Ever Black Market Just Shut Down Amid a Telegram Purge
For years, a Chinese-language market for crypto scammers and money launderers—by some measures, the internet’s biggest black market of all time—operated in plain sight on…
CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has cancelled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell sensitive…