Inside the Operation to Bring Down Trump’s Truth Social
Truth Social did not respond to WIRED’s requests for comment about NAFO’s campaign to impact Truth Social’s trending list, why it closed registrations around this…
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The Hundred-Year Battle for India’s Radio Airwaves
Radio has been part of Zareef Ahmad Zareef’s life since childhood. Today, he listens every morning and says it’s “a mandatory indulgence” in the evenings.…
Elon Musk Is Giving QAnon Believers Hope Just in Time for the 2024 Elections
With no new messages from Q in almost three years and former US President Donald Trump facing mounting legal woes, one would think that the…
Telegram’s Bans on Extremist Channels Aren’t Really Bans
For instance, messages sent to an unrestricted channel called OfficialTheCollective, with more than 4,000 members, included tags to restricted channels like SpecialQForces, a QAnon conspiracy…
Section 702 Surveillance Reauthorization May Get Slipped Into ‘Must-Pass’ NDAA
Rumors are rampant on Capitol Hill about an effort said to be underway by congressional leaders to salvage a controversial surveillance program—a plan that sources…
You Don’t Need to Turn Off Apple’s NameDrop Feature in iOS 17
Apple’s NameDrop feature in iOS 17 is having a bit of a viral moment. Across the United States, police departments are warning adults to turn…
Private and Secure Web Search Engines: DuckDuckGo, Brave, Kagi, Startpage
When it comes to looking something up on the web, most of us default to Googling it—the search engine has become so dominant that it’s…
Google’s Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Growing
Google proposed putting restrictions on this API but has relaxed these somewhat in the new version of Manifest V3. It originally planned to allow browser…
Go on a Psychedelic Journey of the Internet’s Growth and Evolution
Security researcher Barrett Lyon, who makes visualizations of the internet’s network infrastructure, is back with a new piece chronicling the rise of the IPv6 protocol.…
It’s Time to Log Off
“When we’re doomscrolling, we’re kind of looking for the resolution to the issue. Read some more posts. Read some more articles. If I get more…
DOJ Charges Binance With Vast Money Laundering Scheme and Sanctions Violations
US prosecutors claim Binance processed around $275 million in both deposits and withdrawals to BestMixer, a cryptocurrency “mixing” service designed to make cryptocurrency transactions harder…
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records
The DAS program echoes multiple dragnet surveillance programs dating back decades, including a Drug Enforcement Agency program launched in 1992 that forced phone companies to…