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.…
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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…
Amazon Is Using Specialized AI Agents for Deep Bug Hunting
As generative AI pushes the speed of software development, it is also enhancing the ability of digital attackers to carry out financially motivated or state-backed…
US Border Patrol Is Spying on Millions of American Drivers
Eight years after a researcher warned WhatsApp that it was possible to extract user phone numbers en masse from the Meta-owned app, another team of…
This Hacker Conference Installed a Literal Anti-Virus Monitoring System
Elevated levels of CO2 lead to reduced cognitive ability and facilitate transmission of airborne viruses, which can linger in poorly ventilated spaces for hours. The…
Four Indicted In Alleged Conspiracy to Smuggle Supercomputers and Nvidia Chips to China
Stern said text messages obtained by authorities show Li boasting about how his father “had engaged in similar business on behalf of the Chinese Communist…