Category: Wired

Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year
16
Nov
2023

Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year

The encrypted messaging and calling app Signal has become a one-of-a-kind phenomenon in the tech world: It has grown from…

How to Opt Out of Facebook’s Latest Two-Factor Authentication Change
16
Nov
2023

How to Opt Out of Facebook’s Latest Two-Factor Authentication Change

Meta recently changed how two-factor authentication works for Facebook and Instagram. You might have received a notification about this, but…

A Spy Agency Leaked People's Data Online—Then the Data Was Stolen
16
Nov
2023

A Spy Agency Leaked People’s Data Online—Then the Data Was Stolen

The list of data is long. Names, professions, blood groups, parents’ names, phone numbers, the length of calls, vehicle registrations,…

Google’s New Titan Security Key Adds Another Piece to the Password-Killing Puzzle
15
Nov
2023

Google’s New Titan Security Key Adds Another Piece to the Password-Killing Puzzle

Passwords are a woefully insecure—and frustrating—authentication technology, but after decades of digital use, they’re ubiquitous. Recently, though, the global tech…

The QAnon Shaman Isn’t Even the Most Extreme Candidate in His Race for Congress
15
Nov
2023

The QAnon Shaman Isn’t Even the Most Extreme Candidate in His Race for Congress

“The race in general is gonna be wild,” one independent researcher who tracks the far-right in Arizona under the moniker…

Social Media Sleuths, Armed With AI, Are Identifying Dead Bodies
15
Nov
2023

Social Media Sleuths, Armed With AI, Are Identifying Dead Bodies

For all of the challenges presented by volunteer online communities, the reality is that they exist in a vacuum left…

Asian Americans Raise Alarm Over ‘Chilling Effects’ of Section 702 Surveillance Program
14
Nov
2023

Asian Americans Raise Alarm Over ‘Chilling Effects’ of Section 702 Surveillance Program

Dozens of prominent Asian American groups are asking United States lawmakers this morning to hold fast in the face of…

CISA Has a New Road Map for Handling Weaponized AI
14
Nov
2023

CISA Has a New Road Map for Handling Weaponized AI

Last month, a 120-page United States executive order laid out the Biden administration’s plans to oversee companies that develop artificial…

Fermi’s Paradox Proves There’s No Government Alien Conspiracy Around Roswell
14
Nov
2023

Fermi’s Paradox Proves There’s No Government Alien Conspiracy Around Roswell

Across the 75 years since something—something—crashed outside Roswell in early July 1947, the very name itself has taken on a…

The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story
14
Nov
2023

The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story

Josiah’s father would take him along to their church’s “car ministry,” where they’d repair congregants’ cars for free and refurbish…

US Privacy Groups Urge Senate Not to Ram Through NSA Spying Powers
13
Nov
2023

US Privacy Groups Urge Senate Not to Ram Through NSA Spying Powers

Some of the United States’ largest civil liberties groups are urging Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer not to pursue a…

Signal Is Finally Testing Usernames
11
Nov
2023

Signal Is Finally Testing Usernames

Plus: A DDoS attack shuts down ChatGPT, Lockbit shuts down a bank, and a communications breakdown between politicians and Big…