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Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.| WIRED
Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.| WIRED
For years, potential therapies that attack this brain protein have failed to help patients in clinical trials. Now—surprisingly—a new drug shows promise.| WIRED
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Antibody treatments clear amyloid protein from patients’ brains, slowing the progression of their disease but potentially inducing deadly swelling.| WIRED
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An experimental device developed by Cognito Therapeutics seeks to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients using light and sound.| WIRED
Elon Musk's men at HUD come from the real estate sector. They have access to vast stores of personal and financial data—and control over who can access which HUD systems.| WIRED
DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, an IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.| WIRED
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.| WIRED
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After days of chaos at ChatGPT creator OpenAI, the company says it has “in principle” reached an agreement for ousted CEO Sam Altman to return to his post.| WIRED
OpenAI, the independent research lab cofounded by Elon Musk, created a for-profit arm to attract more funding to hire researchers and run computers.| WIRED
A new generation of AI algorithms can feel like they’re reaching artificial general intelligence—but it’s not clear how to measure that.| WIRED
OpenAI wants to give away the 21st century's most transformative technology. In the process, it could remake the way people make tech.| WIRED
Chaos at OpenAI has its root in an unusual corporate structure designed to protect humanity against rogue AI—some investors had expressed fears it could weaken the company.| WIRED
Microsoft has hired OpenAI cofounders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head a new advanced AI team, acquiring one of the most successful management groups in the AI industry.| WIRED
Conversation around generative AI tends to focus on whether its development is open or closed. It's more responsible to envision releases along a gradient.| WIRED
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These three alternatives to the newsletter platform offer just as many—if not more—features, and can be easier on your wallet.| WIRED
Cybersecurity firm Recorded Future counted 44 health-care-related incidents in the month after Change Healthcare’s payment came to light—the most it’s ever seen in a single month.| WIRED
At a White House dinner Thursday night, America’s tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump.| WIRED
The last big barrier to personalized instruction is teacher time. Knewton wants to help.| WIRED
People seeking solidarity and safety in like-minded groups are increasingly looking to secret Facebook groups. They're solipsistic—but that's OK.| WIRED
Fake news may be a scourge, and hardline sites love to court controversy. But online publishing is still just a business.| WIRED
What do the controls for two hydroelectric plants in New York, a generator at a Los Angeles foundry, and an automated feed system at a Pennsylvania pig farm all have in common? What about a Los Angeles pharmacy's prescription system and the surveillance cameras at a casino in Czechoslovakia? They're all exposed on the internet, without so much as a password to block intruders from accessing them.| WIRED
WhatsApp's rise and Twitter's decline converge to send a message about the way we communicate now.| WIRED
Despite some initial confusion, the CIA hasn't undermined Signal and other important end-to-end encrypted apps.| WIRED
The hardest part about leaving the iPhone is leaving iMessage. We're here to make it a little easier.| WIRED
Now that WhatsApp is sharing phone numbers with Facebook, it's no longer the security oasis users relied on.| WIRED
Lorrie Cranor thought she dropped a call. The reality was much worse.| WIRED
As we communicate more digitally, governments encroach more on our privacy. End-to-end encryption cannot be taken for granted.| WIRED
The agency cracked the Pensacola iPhones, but it still views Cupertino as a problem—even though it's easier to break into iPhones than it has been in years.| WIRED
Attorney general William Barr seems eager to reignite the encryption wars, starting with the social media giant.| WIRED
A sustained backlash against a new system to look for child sexual abuse materials on user devices has led the company to hit pause.| WIRED
With a new capability to search for illegal material not just in the cloud but on user devices, the company may have opened up a new front in the encryption wars.| WIRED
From Apple vs FBI to WhatsApp, it was a banner year for end-to-end encryption.| WIRED
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In Whatsapp's footsteps, Google's new apps finally adopt end-to-end encryption.| WIRED
Viber flips on default end-to-end decryption, and there's nothing Congress can do about it.| WIRED
In fact, the Burr-Feinstein bill is so bad for privacy that it may be good for privacy in the long run, say experts.| WIRED
Former Vice President Al Gore accuses the White House of using the Sept. 11 terror attacks to justify a major assault on Americans' civil liberties, and calls for an end to Big Brother-style government.| WIRED
A search bot you converse with could make finding answers easier—if it doesn’t tell fibs. Microsoft, Google, Baidu, and others are working on it.| WIRED
In the five days between Sam Altman’s mysterious firing and rehiring as OpenAI’s CEO, multiple companies dropped new artificial intelligence tools.| WIRED
The second-ranked search engine is getting a new chatbot interface that attempts to synthesize information from sites across the web.| WIRED
Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.| WIRED
Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid computation. They’re just now beginning to understand the implications.| WIRED
Computer security news is usually pretty dismal. But today the web got safer in a very important way.| WIRED
In an industry once known for cushy perks, some founders are now asking staff to commit to a 72-hour weekly schedule. You’re either in or you’re out.| WIRED
Arguments over whether Google’s large language model has a soul distract from the real-world problems that plague artificial intelligence.| WIRED
There's a new Surface Laptop and Surface Pro, plus a host of AI-powered tricks for Windows.| WIRED
The Trump administration claims it is allowing “lifesaving” foreign aid to continue, but in reality, DOGE is preventing vital work on HIV and AIDS from saving lives.| WIRED
The toughest export restrictions yet cut off AI hardware and chipmaking tools crucial to China’s commercial and military ambitions.| WIRED
As the US and China meet for the APEC summit in San Francisco this week, American officials are pushing for talks on the risks posed by military use of AI.| WIRED
Jason Matheny, CEO of the influential think tank Rand Corporation, says advances in AI are making it easier to learn how to build biological weapons and other tools of destruction.| WIRED
In northwest China, the government is cracking down on the minority Muslim Uyghur population, keeping them under constant surveillance and throwing more than a million people into concentration camps.| WIRED
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The latest iPadOS makes Apple’s tablet behave more like a Mac than ever. Can an iPad now finally replace a Mac for everyone? We find out.| WIRED
Liquid Glass, iPad multitasking, and call screening—take a look at Apple’s latest features coming to your iPhone and iPad later this year.| WIRED
What really motivated the US government to ban Nvidia from selling powerful computer chips to China?| WIRED
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Cupertino has done the thing it swore it never would: turn its tablet into a full-blown window-wrangling, compromise-abandoning computer. Yes, it’s better, but lurking deep in the settings the ghost of Jobs remains.| WIRED
A growing number of US government websites have gone offline as of Saturday, including several related to USAID and others focused on youth programs, Africa, and more.| WIRED
Chinese hacks, rampant ransomware, and Donald Trump’s budget cuts all threaten US security. In an exit interview with WIRED, former CISA head Jen Easterly argues for her agency’s survival.| WIRED
A former USDS employee called the repurposing of the Digital Service into DOGE an “A+ bureaucratic jiujitsu move.” It will give Musk and his associates access to unclassified data in every government agency.| WIRED
A new version of Google’s flagship AI model shows how the company sees AI transforming personal computing, web search, and perhaps the way people interact with the physical world.| WIRED
The US Office of Personnel Management is telling federal workers to get in line—or get out.| WIRED
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Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE’s Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn’t exist.| WIRED
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.| WIRED
Sources tell WIRED that NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk’s DOGE task force access to all of the agency’s Google sites by the end of business on Wednesday.| WIRED
Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.| WIRED
A new analysis shows that “open source” AI tools like Llama 2 are still controlled by big tech companies in a number of ways.| WIRED
A new study suggests that sudden jumps in LLMs’ abilities are neither surprising nor unpredictable, but are actually the consequence of how we measure ability in AI.| WIRED
Earlier this month Elon Musk sued OpenAI for keeping its technology secret. Today he promised to give away his own “truth-seeking” chatbot Grok for free.| WIRED
These WIRED-tested indoor and outdoor air-quality monitors have been teaching us things about our air quality we can never unsee.| WIRED
There are already countless songs on Spotify, Apple Music, and SoundCloud. And as tunes become easier to create, anyone can add to the copyright din.| WIRED
Elon Musk isn't the only Silicon Valley billionaire to line up behind Donald Trump's presidential campaign. See how his donations, which total more than $281 million, make everyone else look tiny in comparison.| WIRED
A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.| WIRED
The move reportedly comes after US attorney general Pam Bondi reassured Apple and Google they would not be fined for hosting TikTok.| WIRED
When humans over-exploit underground water supplies, the ground collapses like a huge empty water bottle. It's called subsidence, and it could affect 1.6 billion people by 2040.| WIRED
I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.| WIRED
We all want our personal big-screen experience to feel as close to the real thing as possible. Here’s how to optimize your system—popcorn not included.| WIRED
Indoor-air experts think: Sure, maybe. Why the hell not? We convinced the CEO of an air filter company to give it a try.| WIRED
People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.| WIRED
For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned.| WIRED
In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting.| WIRED
Palantir has become one of the few winners in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, offering other contractors a lifeline while consolidating its own reach and power.| WIRED
A bill with bipartisan support might finally give the US a strong federal data protection law.| WIRED
The blockbuster antitrust case begins Monday. Its outcome could impact how Big Tech companies grow—but the government has a long way to go to prove its case.| WIRED
More than just cute pictures, these digital icons are a lingua franca for the digital age.| WIRED
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Developed to boost productivity and operational readiness, the AI is now being used to “review” diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies to align them with President Trump’s orders.| WIRED
She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism. Google brought her in. Then it forced her out. Can Big Tech take criticism from within?| WIRED
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As public spaces reopen, scientists are racing to understand the mysterious and turbulent way the disease spreads through air—from person to person, and place to place.| WIRED
How readily can playing instruments transmit the virus? As researchers investigate, musical ensembles prepare for the show to go on.| WIRED
Public health messaging and science have to work hard to stay in sync during a crisis. During the Covid-19 pandemic, they haven’t always succeeded.| WIRED
It’s harder to make fire than you might think. But the Pixar team was determined to do the impossible.| WIRED
