Category: Wired

The US Senate Wants to Reign In AI. Good Luck With That
26
Jun
2023

The US Senate Wants to Reign In AI. Good Luck With That

While negotiations started with Young and Schumer, they didn’t end there. Rather, the pair heard input from other congressional committees…

5 Ways to Make Your Instant Messaging More Secure
25
Jun
2023

5 Ways to Make Your Instant Messaging More Secure

The actual number of chat messages sent each day is hard to come by, but with WhatsApp alone accounting for…

Update Your iPhone Right Now to Fix 2 Apple Zero Days
24
Jun
2023

Update Your iPhone Right Now to Fix 2 Apple Zero Days

Apple says the patches fix a memory corruption that allowed an app to execute arbitrary code and a WebKit vulnerability…

Inside the Illicit Market for Abortion Pills on Telegram
23
Jun
2023

Inside the Illicit Market for Abortion Pills on Telegram

Hundreds of messages from the data that contained pricing information indicate that the average cost of purchasing a purported pack…

Docs Show FBI Pressures Cops to Keep Phone Surveillance Secrets
22
Jun
2023

Docs Show FBI Pressures Cops to Keep Phone Surveillance Secrets

Documents obtained by the ACLU show devices of this type—the police use of which is authorized by the Federal Communications…

How the Most Popular Cars in the US Track Drivers
21
Jun
2023

How the Most Popular Cars in the US Track Drivers

Privacy4Cars results say it is unclear how Honda uses biometric data, which is information about your body. Honda’s Martin says…

Humans Aren’t Mentally Ready for an AI-Saturated ‘Post-Truth World’
18
Jun
2023

Humans Aren’t Mentally Ready for an AI-Saturated ‘Post-Truth World’

Artificial intelligence is arguably the most rapidly advancing technology humans have ever developed. A year ago you wouldn’t often hear…

A Newly Named Group of GRU Hackers is Wreaking Havoc in Ukraine
17
Jun
2023

A Newly Named Group of GRU Hackers is Wreaking Havoc in Ukraine

Finally, the Russia-based ransomware gang Clop went on a hacking spree that hit US government agencies and international companies including…

Clop Hacking Rampage Hits US Agencies and Exposes Data of Millions
16
Jun
2023

Clop Hacking Rampage Hits US Agencies and Exposes Data of Millions

United States cybersecurity officials said yesterday that a “small number” of government agencies have suffered data breaches as part of…

How Shady Chinese Encryption Chips Got Into the Navy, NATO, and NASA
15
Jun
2023

How Shady Chinese Encryption Chips Got Into the Navy, NATO, and NASA

When WIRED reached out to the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, a spokesperson responded that the BIS is…

UFO Whistleblower, Meet a Conspiracy-Loving Congress
13
Jun
2023

UFO Whistleblower, Meet a Conspiracy-Loving Congress

Gillibrand is sponsoring an amendment she hopes to attach to this year’s must-pass National Defense Authorization Act to mandate that…

The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens
12
Jun
2023

The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens

The United States government has been secretly amassing a “large amount” of “sensitive and intimate information” on its own citizens,…