Category: Wired

With Threats to Encryption Looming, Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Says ‘We’re Not Changing’
04
Dec
2024

With Threats to Encryption Looming, Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Says ‘We’re Not Changing’

“We don’t want to be the outlier that proves the rule, we want to be a new set of rules…

FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel
03
Dec
2024

FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel

The United States Federal Trade Commission is taking action against two American data brokers accused of unlawfully trafficking in people’s…

He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too
03
Dec
2024

He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too

At around 5 pm on a Thursday in December 2022, a privacy- and information-freedom-focused programmer named Micah Lee learned, to…

Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers
03
Dec
2024

Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers

The CFPB’s idea of using existing US law to regulate data brokers is not novel. In February 2023, a group…

Malicious Ads in Search Results Are Driving New Generations of Scams
02
Dec
2024

Malicious Ads in Search Results Are Driving New Generations of Scams

Researchers regularly see malicious ads in search results representing themselves as coming from legitimate businesses and organizations. Whether it’s a…

The Pressure Is on for Big Tech to Regulate the Broken Digital Advertising Industry
02
Dec
2024

The Pressure Is on for Big Tech to Regulate the Broken Digital Advertising Industry

Digital advertising is a whopping $700 billion (£530 billion) industry that remains largely unregulated, with few laws in place to…

The US Army's Vision of Soldiers in Exoskeletons Lives On
29
Nov
2024

The US Army’s Vision of Soldiers in Exoskeletons Lives On

This newfound push appears to have yielded several fresh experiments with exoskeleton technology in recent years. In 2018, Lockheed Martin…

Emergency Vehicle Lights Can Screw Up a Car's Automated Driving System
26
Nov
2024

Emergency Vehicle Lights Can Screw Up a Car’s Automated Driving System

Tesla, which disbanded its public relations team in 2021, did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment. The camera systems…

Russia’s Ballistic Missile Attack on Ukraine Is an Alarming First
23
Nov
2024

Russia’s Ballistic Missile Attack on Ukraine Is an Alarming First

The Oreshnik missile launched Tuesday apparently took off from Russia’s Kapustin Yar rocket base roughly 800 kilometers from Dnipro, well…

Andrew Tate’s ‘Educational Platform’ Was Hacked
23
Nov
2024

Andrew Tate’s ‘Educational Platform’ Was Hacked

A joint investigation by WIRED, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), and Netzpolitik.org uncovered that US companies legally collecting digital ad data are…

The US Is Calling Out Foreign Influence Campaigns Faster Than Ever
23
Nov
2024

The US Is Calling Out Foreign Influence Campaigns Faster Than Ever

Ahead of the the 2024 US elections, the US intelligence community and law enforcement were on high alert and ready…

Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack
22
Nov
2024

Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack

Only after the next intrusion, when Volexity managed to get more complete logs of the hackers’ traffic, did its analysts…