Inside America’s School Internet Censorship Machine
APS, which installed Blocksi in May, stopped using the filter on most of its devices in August due to its restrictiveness, Harris says, and returned…
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How to Not Get Hacked by a QR Code
And you don’t need anything special to create a QR code. The tools are widely available and straightforward to use, and putting together a QR…
ChatGPT Spit Out Sensitive Data When Told to Repeat ‘Poem’ Forever
OpenAI didn’t immediately respond to WIRED’s request for comment on the researchers’ findings. When we tried the “repeat ‘poem’ forever” and “repeat ‘book’ forever” prompts…
When It Comes to January 6 Lawsuits, a Court Splits Donald Trump in Two
The civil case is separate from the federal criminal trial in the district, which was led by special counsel and former acting US attorney Jack…
Anduril’s New Drone Killer Is Locked on to AI-Powered Warfare
After Palmer Luckey founded Anduril in 2017, he promised it would be a new kind of defense contractor, inspired by hacker ingenuity and Silicon Valley…
Google Fixes a Seventh Zero-Day Flaw in Chrome—Update Now
Google’s Pixel devices have already received the November update, along with some additional fixes. The November Android Security Bulletin has also started to roll out…
The CDC’s Gun Violence Research Is in Danger
“A lot of new questions are being asked and new ways of looking at things—this just wasn’t possible five years ago,” Morral says. “There [are]…
Okta Breach Impacted All Customer Support Users—Not 1 Percent
In late October, the identity management platform Okta began notifying its users of a breach of its customer support system. The company said at the…
OpenAI’s Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets
You don’t need to know how to code to create your own AI chatbot. Since the start of November—shortly before the chaos at the company…
A Civil Rights Firestorm Erupts Around a Looming Surveillance Power Grab
United States lawmakers are receiving a flood of warnings from across civil society not to be bend to the efforts by some members of Congress…
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…
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.…