Category: Wired

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
03
Oct
2025

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

United States immigration authorities are moving to dramatically expand their social media surveillance, with plans to hire nearly 30 contractors…

Google's Latest AI Ransomware Defense Only Goes So Far
30
Sep
2025

Google’s Latest AI Ransomware Defense Only Goes So Far

Ransomware attacks have loomed for years as an urgent digital threat with no easy solution—especially as they have evolved to…

How to Use Passkeys With Google Password Manager (2025)
30
Sep
2025

How to Use Passkeys With Google Password Manager (2025)

Google wants you to start using passkeys. Its vision is to “progress toward a passwordless future,” allowing you to store…

How to Use a Password Manager to Share Your Logins After You Die (2025)
29
Sep
2025

How to Use a Password Manager to Share Your Logins After You Die (2025)

It’s not fun to talk about, but there’s only one thing certain in life. You need to have a plan…

Tile Tracking Tags Can Be Exploited by Tech-Savvy Stalkers, Researchers Say
29
Sep
2025

Tile Tracking Tags Can Be Exploited by Tech-Savvy Stalkers, Researchers Say

Tile trackers, used to locate everything from lost keys to stolen pets, are used by more than 88 million people…

How a Travel YouTuber Captured Nepal’s Revolution for the World
28
Sep
2025

How a Travel YouTuber Captured Nepal’s Revolution for the World

When Harry Jackson pulled his small motorcycle into Kathmandu on September 8, he had no idea the city was exploding…

An App Used to Dox Charlie Kirk Critics Doxed Its Own Users Instead
27
Sep
2025

An App Used to Dox Charlie Kirk Critics Doxed Its Own Users Instead

New research released this week shows that over the past few years the US Department of Homeland Security has collected…

Inside the Nuclear Bunkers, Mines, and Mountains Being Retrofitted as Data Centers
27
Sep
2025

Inside the Nuclear Bunkers, Mines, and Mountains Being Retrofitted as Data Centers

Data centers are responsible for running many of the services that underpin the systems we interact with every day. Transportation, logistics, energy,…

Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification
26
Sep
2025

Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, the Republican policy apparatus went immediately to work. The Heritage Foundation, which published…

‘SIM Farms’ Are a Spam Plague. A Giant One in New York Threatened US Infrastructure, Feds Say
23
Sep
2025

‘SIM Farms’ Are a Spam Plague. A Giant One in New York Threatened US Infrastructure, Feds Say

The phenomenon of SIM farms, even at the scale found in this instance around New York, is far from new….

23
Sep
2025

‘SIM Farms’ Are a Spam Plague. A Giant One in New York Threatened US Infrastructure, Feds Say

The phenomenon of SIM farms, even at the scale found in this instance around New York, is far from new….

DHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens’ DNA for Years
23
Sep
2025

DHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens’ DNA for Years

The expansion has been driven by specific legal and bureaucratic levers. Foremost was an April 2020 Justice Department rule that…