Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates
…This week, the company is letting go of roughly 10 percent of its workforce, which is about 8,000 employees total. It's the latest round of job cuts, adding to the…
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You Probably Won’t Get Rich Off the SpaceX IPO
…Here’s how it works—and who it works for. The Inside Track Typically, the vast majority of retail investors wouldn’t be able to get in on an IPO at all…
‘Uncanny Valley’: Iran’s Threats on US Tech, Trump’s Plans for Midterms, and Polymarket’s Pop-up Flop
…I was pretty struck by parts of this where, you know, calling on employees of these tech firms in the region to distance themselves from workplaces, for residents living near offices of…
Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own
…Palantir, though, has a long track record of working with ICE, I think going back to 2011, so walk me through that moment for you. What was the moment where you sort…
Why You Might Already Own SpaceX Shares, Siri’s AI Makeover, and Knicks Owner’s Surveillance Machine
…It tracked when she bought a beverage. It tracked when she said hello to a Madison Square Garden employee. It tracked when she sat down. It tracked when she got up to…
Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild
…While the Coruna iOS hacking toolkit exposed earlier this month works against iOS versions 13 through 17, DarkSword works against most versions of iOS 18, the previous version of Apple's mobile…
A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale
…They really care about getting big attention,” says Philipp Burckhardt, who leads research at Socket and has tracked TeamPCP for months. “They like to toot their own horn.” A dark-web site…
Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now
But as the dust has settled, it’s clear that DOGE’s efforts have caused lasting damage in both large and small ways—from the more than 300,000 federal workers fired…
A Top Democrat Is Urging Colleagues to Support Trump’s Spy Machine
…In the letter, Himes claims these changes are “working as intended” to prevent domestic misuse, citing a compliance rate “exceeding 99 percent” over the past two years. The structural foundations of that…
Iranian Hackers Breached Kash Patel’s Email—but Not the FBI’s
…Also this week, WIRED published an excerpt from author Andrew Guthrie Ferguson’s new book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You, about the ways in which fitness trackers and biometric surveillance…