Category: Wired

Your Cheap Android TV Streaming Box May Have a Dangerous Backdoor
04
Oct
2023

Your Cheap Android TV Streaming Box May Have a Dangerous Backdoor

When you buy a TV streaming box, there are certain things you wouldn’t expect it to do. It shouldn’t secretly…

How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret
04
Oct
2023

How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret

Davis has released hundreds of pages of emails, contractual documents, memos, and other veterinary records detailing the public university’s work…

The Biggest Hack of 2023 Keeps Getting Bigger
02
Oct
2023

The Biggest Hack of 2023 Keeps Getting Bigger

The MOVEit incident eclipses them, though, both in the number of victim organizations and individuals whose data was compromised. Antivirus…

Predictive Policing Software Terrible at Predicting Crimes
02
Oct
2023

Predictive Policing Software Terrible at Predicting Crimes

In her 2019 master’s thesis for the Naval Postgraduate School, Ana Lalley, police chief of Elgin, Illinois, wrote critically about…

How to Stop Google Bard From Storing Your Data and Location
01
Oct
2023

How to Stop Google Bard From Storing Your Data and Location

With its most recent update, Google Bard can now sort through your trove of Google Docs, rediscover ancient Gmail messages,…

How to Tell When Your Phone Will Stop Getting Security Updates
01
Oct
2023

How to Tell When Your Phone Will Stop Getting Security Updates

If you’re struggling to find out this information about a particular gadget, the web can help—and specifically the endoflife.date site,…

Chinese Hackers Are Hiding in Routers in the US and Japan
30
Sep
2023

Chinese Hackers Are Hiding in Routers in the US and Japan

WIRED broke the news on Wednesday that SoundThinking, the company behind the gunshot-detection system ShotSpotter, is acquiring some assets—including patents,…

Apple, Microsoft, and Google Just Fixed Multiple Zero-Day Flaws
30
Sep
2023

Apple, Microsoft, and Google Just Fixed Multiple Zero-Day Flaws

Earlier in the month, Google fixed another zero-day flaw, a heap buffer overflow issue initially tracked as CVE-2023-4863, which it…

US Justice Department Urged to Investigate Gunshot Detector Purchases
28
Sep
2023

US Justice Department Urged to Investigate Gunshot Detector Purchases

The United States Justice Department (DOJ) is being asked to investigate whether a gunshot-detection system widely in use across the…

SoundThinking, Maker of ShotSpotter, Is Buying Parts of PredPol Creator Geolitica
27
Sep
2023

SoundThinking, Maker of ShotSpotter, Is Buying Parts of PredPol Creator Geolitica

SoundThinking, the company behind the gunshot-detection system ShotSpotter, is quietly acquiring staff, patents, and customers of the firm that created…

Risk of a US Government Shutdown Is Fueled by Very Online Republicans
26
Sep
2023

Risk of a US Government Shutdown Is Fueled by Very Online Republicans

“Congress is in charge of money and everything for the government, and Congress should be in charge of funding special…

A Tricky New Way to Sneak Past Repressive Internet Censorship
25
Sep
2023

A Tricky New Way to Sneak Past Repressive Internet Censorship

All over the world, walls are going up around the internet. For years, autocratic regimes have been in a race…