Your Cheap Android TV Streaming Box May Have a Dangerous Backdoor
When you buy a TV streaming box, there are certain things you wouldn’t expect it to do. It shouldn’t secretly be laced with malware or…
Category: Wired
How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret
Davis has released hundreds of pages of emails, contractual documents, memos, and other veterinary records detailing the public university’s work for Neuralink between 2018 and…
The Biggest Hack of 2023 Keeps Getting Bigger
The MOVEit incident eclipses them, though, both in the number of victim organizations and individuals whose data was compromised. Antivirus company Emsisoft has been tracking…
Predictive Policing Software Terrible at Predicting Crimes
In her 2019 master’s thesis for the Naval Postgraduate School, Ana Lalley, police chief of Elgin, Illinois, wrote critically about her department’s experience with the…
How to Stop Google Bard From Storing Your Data and Location
With its most recent update, Google Bard can now sort through your trove of Google Docs, rediscover ancient Gmail messages, and search through every video…
How to Tell When Your Phone Will Stop Getting Security Updates
If you’re struggling to find out this information about a particular gadget, the web can help—and specifically the endoflife.date site, which lists a whole host…
Chinese Hackers Are Hiding in Routers in the US and Japan
WIRED broke the news on Wednesday that SoundThinking, the company behind the gunshot-detection system ShotSpotter, is acquiring some assets—including patents, customers, and employees—from the firm…
Apple, Microsoft, and Google Just Fixed Multiple Zero-Day Flaws
Earlier in the month, Google fixed another zero-day flaw, a heap buffer overflow issue initially tracked as CVE-2023-4863, which it thought impacted only the Chrome…
US Justice Department Urged to Investigate Gunshot Detector Purchases
The United States Justice Department (DOJ) is being asked to investigate whether a gunshot-detection system widely in use across the US is being selectively deployed…
SoundThinking, Maker of ShotSpotter, Is Buying Parts of PredPol Creator Geolitica
SoundThinking, the company behind the gunshot-detection system ShotSpotter, is quietly acquiring staff, patents, and customers of the firm that created the notorious predictive policing software…
Risk of a US Government Shutdown Is Fueled by Very Online Republicans
“Congress is in charge of money and everything for the government, and Congress should be in charge of funding special counsels. Those are my red…
A Tricky New Way to Sneak Past Repressive Internet Censorship
All over the world, walls are going up around the internet. For years, autocratic regimes have been in a race to heighten those walls, as…