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Congressman Jim Himes claims a sweeping surveillance authority should stay intact because he hasn't seen abuses by Kash Patel's FBI, according to internal messaging obtained by WIRED. wired.com/story/a-top-de…

As Silicon Valley obsesses over a new wave of AI coding agents, Google and other AI labs are shifting their bets. wired.com/story/google-s…

One expert says that the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz would be not recessionary, but depressionary. wired.com/story/iran-war…

While the United States and Europe are moving cautiously forward with clinical trials, China is racing toward the commercialization of brain implants. wired.com/story/china-ap…

When social media is constantly exhorting people to use AI, what is the point of not letting AI agents participate? wired.com/story/linkedin…

Meta blamed users for not opting into the privacy-protecting feature. Experts fear the move could be the first major domino to fall for end-to-end encryption tech worldwide. wired.com/story/the-dang…

The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had used clever techniques to worm into home networks, infecting more than 3 million devices in total, according to the US Justice Department. wired.com/story/us-takes…

As Silicon Valley obsesses over a new wave of AI coding agents, Google and other AI labs are shifting their bets. wired.com/story/google-s…

Moxie Marlinspike says the technology powering his encrypted AI chatbot, Confer, will be integrated into Meta AI. The move could help protect the AI conversations of millions of people. wired.com/story/signals-…

After a series of suicides allegedly linked to AI chatbots, one lawyer is trying to hold companies like OpenAI accountable. wired.com/story/how-ai-c…

A massive Western heat wave and a potential El Niño event raise concerns about a long stretch of unpredictable and extreme weather. wired.com/story/get-read…

After OpenAI’s Instant Checkout feature fell short, Walmart is instead embedding its Sparky chatbot directly into ChatGPT and Google Gemini. wired.com/story/ai-lab-w…

A powerful iPhone-hacking technique known as DarkSword has been discovered in use by Russian hackers. It can take over devices running iOS 18 that simply visit infected websites. wired.com/story/hundreds…

On March 26, a panel of WIRED experts will dissect the defense tech industry’s impact on modern warfare. Submit your questions now. wired.com/story/livestre…

The data engineer started as a casual reader of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Then he became obsessed, and built the most extensive network graph of the sexual predator’s shadowy world. wired.com/story/he-built…

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science. wired.com/story/a-quantu…

In response to Anthropic’s lawsuit, the government said it lawfully penalized the company for trying to limit how its Claude AI models could be used by the military. wired.com/story/departme…

Customer conversations with chatbots can include contact information and personal details that make it easier for scammers to launch phishing attacks and commit fraud. wired.com/story/sears-ex…

In 2019, two Canadian brothers blew into Detroit with an irresistible pitch: For $50, almost anyone could become a property owner. When houses decayed and the city intervened, the blame games began. wired.com/story/crypto-b…

Dozens of Telegram channels reviewed by WIRED include job listings for “AI face models.” The (mostly) women who land these gigs are likely being used to dupe victims out of their money. wired.com/story/models-a…