Category: Wired

The Shitposting Cartoon Dogs Sending Trucks, Drones, and Weapons to Ukraine’s Front Lines
22
Oct
2024

The Shitposting Cartoon Dogs Sending Trucks, Drones, and Weapons to Ukraine’s Front Lines

The fundraising drives are organized on Discord, Signal, and Telegram—but not on X, the platform that the NAFO movement has…

ICE's $2 Million Contract With a Spyware Vendor Is Under White House Review
21
Oct
2024

ICE’s $2 Million Contract With a Spyware Vendor Is Under White House Review

A $2 million contract that United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement signed with Israeli commercial spyware vendor Paragon Solutions has…

US Government Says Relying on Chinese Lithium Batteries Is Too Risky
21
Oct
2024

US Government Says Relying on Chinese Lithium Batteries Is Too Risky

Analysts at the US Department of Homeland Security shared an internal report to local agencies in August, warning them about…

How a Trump Win Could Unleash Dangerous AI
21
Oct
2024

How a Trump Win Could Unleash Dangerous AI

The reporting requirements are essential for alerting the government to potentially dangerous new capabilities in increasingly powerful AI models, says…

Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin Purge Has Begun
19
Oct
2024

Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin Purge Has Begun

And that’s not all. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves….

The Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of Europe
19
Oct
2024

The Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of Europe

A TikTok video of actor Brian Baumgartner, from the American version of The Office, calling for the overthrow of the…

What the US Army’s 1959 ‘Soldier of Tomorrow’ Got Right About the Future of Warfare
18
Oct
2024

What the US Army’s 1959 ‘Soldier of Tomorrow’ Got Right About the Future of Warfare

Then there’s the matter of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), the Army’s futuristic “smart” goggles. Currently based on a…

This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats
17
Oct
2024

This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats

The researchers say that if the attack were carried out in the real world, people could be socially engineered into…

GPS Jamming Is Screwing With Norwegian Planes
17
Oct
2024

GPS Jamming Is Screwing With Norwegian Planes

From the ground, northeastern Norway might look like fjord country, peppered with neat red houses and dissected by snowmobile tours…

Hacker Charged With Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals
16
Oct
2024

Hacker Charged With Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals

“We will continue targeting ChatGPT until the genocide supporter, Tal Broda, is fired and ChatGPT stops having dehumanizing views of…

It Seemed Like an AI Crime-Fighting Super Tool. Then Defense Attorneys Started Asking Questions
15
Oct
2024

It Seemed Like an AI Crime-Fighting Super Tool. Then Defense Attorneys Started Asking Questions

In 2017, then 9-year-old Kayla Unbehaun was abducted. For years, the South Elgin, Illinois police department searched for Unbehaun and…

Millions of People Are Using Abusive AI ‘Nudify’ Bots on Telegram
15
Oct
2024

Millions of People Are Using Abusive AI ‘Nudify’ Bots on Telegram

Kate Ruane, director of the Center for Democracy and Technology’s free expression project, says most major technology platforms now have…