Your Expired Visa Card Could Be ‘Zombified’ to Make Contactless Payments
As the controversial vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety continues to expand, WIRED got the code for the company’s new AI policing tool and reconstructed the…
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China Is Strapping ‘Digital Bombs’ to Civilian Infrastructure—Is the US Ready?
Earlier this year, insurance executives gathered in a Times Square conference room to play out a scenario: a Chinese cyberattack knocks out 5,000 US water…
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
WIRED analyzed the software by examining code Flock served from its own login portals. Loading those pages returned a user interface for screens that would…
Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces
When someone uploads a photo to the people-search tool ClarityCheck, the website has a clear message: “Your reverse image search is private and secure.” New…
The Cop Who Took On Flock
When the article appeared, the first text Pichardo received came from another officer. “I want to congratulate you on your testicular fortitude,” it read. The…
OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue
OpenAI announced Tuesday that it has halted “a significant number” of training workloads and evaluations for its forthcoming frontier artificial intelligence model—codenamed Astra—while it implements…
Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians
Meta platforms recently ran ads for an AI porn-generation tool that seemingly encouraged users to create deepfaked videos resembling female US politicians, despite the company’s…
Can AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton’s Andy Yen Says It Will Have To
And through using this secure execution environment, you can have a cryptographic guarantee that nobody else along the pipeline could look at what was sent…
New York City Lawmakers Push to ‘Ban the Scan’ at MSG
Privacy advocates and musicians rallied outside Madison Square Garden on Friday, pushing for new legislation to prevent facial-recognition technology at the venue and other public…
CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues
Internal records obtained by WIRED reveal how, for years, United States Customs and Border Protection employees and contractors were accused of abusing sensitive government databases…
‘The Worst I’ve Ever Seen’: Cargo Thefts Have Turned Violent in Pursuit of AI Hardware
During the 25 years Gerardo Pachuca has spent investigating thieves who steal cargo from semitrucks, he says he’s never seen behavior this brazen. The consultant…
This Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737
The researchers aren’t revealing which port they targeted on the 737, nor are they releasing some details of how their hacking device is able to…