The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
…Employees who fell out of favor might get a “write-up”; at one point, WIRED was told, an employee was written up for being a few minutes late for work. People were…
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I Use Bluetooth Trackers Because I Never Know When I'll Have to Fly In a Prop Plane
…AirTags (and every other Bluetooth tracker) work by pinging devices that are on their respective networks. (Most Bluetooth trackers have a range of about 30 feet.) Airports are places that are generally…
Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School
…While Trilogy employees and contractors were working to bring the school up to code, more issues emerged. One of the school’s guides requested that sound-dampening privacy pods be installed in…
Qobuz Is the Anti-Spotify Music Streamer You’ve Been Waiting For
…The first winds of change arrived with Liz Pelly’s January 2025 book Mood Machine, which criticized Spotify’s business practices, featuring interviews with former employees and artists calling for fairer industry…
Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie, Data Center Workers Fight Back, and Meta Leaks Employee Data
…We've talked before about how Meta installed software on employee devices to track every keystroke, all the screen activity, basically full surveillance on its employees to help train AI. This week…
The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are
…Video 360 that singled out US government employees deemed “decisionmakers” working “specifically in the field of national security,” alongside lists targeting people who work for companies licensed to build missiles, space-launch…
Welcome to the Great American Satellite Age
…The goal is for the company’s Pulsar system to work with existing, everyday devices. Xona has announced deals already with governments and companies supporting farms and power plants with precision tracking…
Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code
…including current OpenAI leaders and employees who participated with the company’s approval and others who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the inner workings of private companies. Their accounts…
Meta Is Shutting Down Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest
…VR efforts to be more competitive with companies working on VR. There is the Steam Frame headset, which Valve says is still on track to release this year; the Samsung Galaxy XR…
Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI
…But Moxie knows what he's doing and has a solid track record.” The complexity of developing encryption schemes for AI platforms is a major hurdle, and much of the privacy work…