Credit to Author: Emily Mullin, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 20:51:59 +0000
DNA-testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy, which means the future of the company’s vast trove of customer data is unknown. Here’s what that means for your genetic data.
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Credit to Author: Will Knight, Paresh Dave, Leah Feiger| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:19:27 +0000
Approximately 500 NIST staffers, including at least three lab directors, are expected to lose their jobs at the standards agency as part of the ongoing DOGE purge, sources tell WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Paresh Dave, Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Breeze Liu has been a prominent advocate for victims. But even she struggled to scrub nonconsensual intimate images and videos of herself from the web.
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Credit to Author: Lydia Morrish| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:02:58 +0000
Over a dozen programs used by creators of nonconsensual explicit images have evaded detection on the developer platform, WIRED has found.
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Credit to Author: Paresh Dave| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:02:36 +0000
Texas has become a leading enforcer of internet rules. Its latest probe includes some platforms that privacy experts describe as unusual suspects.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:46:27 +0000
The fate of TikTok now rests in the hands of the US Supreme Court. If a law banning the social video app this month is upheld, it won’t disappear from your phone—but it will get messy fast.
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Credit to Author: Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000
AI risks arise not from AI acting on its own, but because of what people do with it.
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Credit to Author: Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000
AI creates what it’s told to, from plucking fanciful evidence from thin air, to arbitrarily removing people’s rights, to sowing doubt over public misdeeds.
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Credit to Author: Zeyi Yang| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000
A new document shows the Department of Homeland Security is concerned that Chinese investment in lithium batteries to power energy grids will make them a threat to US supply chain security.
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