Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: The Department of Homeland Security begins surveilling immigrants’ social media, President Donald Trump targets former CISA director who refuted his claims of 2020 election fraud, and more.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Some misconfigured AI chatbots are pushing people’s chats to the open web—revealing sexual prompts and conversations that include descriptions of child sexual abuse.
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Credit to Author: Vas Panagiotopoulos| Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:19:55 +0000
The Israeli spyware maker, still on the US Commerce Department’s “blacklist,” has hired a new lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration, a WIRED investigation has found.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: Another DOGE operative allegedly has a history in the hacking world, and Donald Trump’s national security adviser apparently had way more Signal chats than previously known.
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Credit to Author: Zeyi Yang, Louise Matsakis, Caroline Haskins| Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:31:26 +0000
A lawyer for Xiaofeng Wang and his wife says they are “safe” after FBI searches of their homes and Wang’s sudden dismissal from Indiana University, where he taught for over 20 years.
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Credit to Author: Dan Goodin, Ars Technica| Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:42:00 +0000
Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school’s website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
An unsecured database used by a generative AI app revealed prompts and tens of thousands of explicit images—some of which are likely illegal. The company deleted its websites after WIRED reached out.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: Alleged Snowflake hacker will be extradited to US, internet restrictions create an information vacuum in Myanmar, and London gets its first permanent face recognition cameras.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Tim Marchman| Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:47:31 +0000
WIRED has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in an infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:31:30 +0000
Scandal surrounding the Trump administration’s Signal group chat has led to a landmark week for the encrypted messaging app’s adoption—its “largest US growth moment by a massive margin.”
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