The FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones
… Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. …
Search
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
… A Western Pensylvania fusion center, for example, claimed that "adversarial actors, including state-sponsored entities, criminal groups, and extremists, such as homegrown violent extremists or environmental extremists, may target US data centers" and that "these actors could also exploit the strate… …
Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors
… The agency’s remit, after all, includes some elements of helping the US government discover and patch security vulnerabilities in the software it uses, as well as sometimes exploiting those vulnerabilities in the NSA’s own operations. …
A Hacker Accidentally Broke Into the FBI’s Epstein Files
… Experts called the mislabeling “illegal.” And a new bill in Congress aims to stop the FBI’s practice of warrantlessly accessing Americans’ private communications, and end the government’s practice of buying people’s data in ways that critics say circumvents Fourth Amendment protections. …
Hackers Are Posting the Claude Code Leak With Bonus Malware
… Discovered in March, DarkSword allows attackers to infect iPhones that simply visit a website loaded with the takeover tools embedded in it. …
Iranian Hackers Breached Kash Patel’s Email—but Not the FBI’s
… In addition to the conflict with Iran, WIRED explored combat from many angles with our War Machine package of coverage, including the saga of one teenager who went missing amid the destruction of Gaza, the Kafkaesque challenges Palestinians face when they’re unable to get a death certificate for a … …
AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos. Here’s Exactly How That Happened
… While other companies courted Steinberger, Anthropic, he says, “never said much to me other than sending me legal threats.” Anthropic says they merely sent a “friendly email.” OpenClaw will continue to be available as an open source GitHub project, with the foundation providing guidance. …
They Built a Legendary Privacy Tool. Now They’re Sworn Enemies
… There are “vendors selling exploits to governments to attack people and literally kill journalists,” Donaldson told me. …
They Made D4vd a Star. Now They Want Him Convicted of Murder
… I got over 550,000 views on it. A bunch of people started DMing me,” May says. “People started sending me information.” May, a research-obsessed paralegal, considers herself a rational person who cares deeply about the truth. …