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Global Editorial Director at WIRED. Board member
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Speaker at UTA
This is amazing. A recent experiment found that overworked AI agents tend to start calling for collective bargaining rights.
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Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights.
https://www.wired.com/story/overworked-ai-agents-turn-marxist-study/
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Thereās a strange and under-discussed side effect of the AI boom: what itās doing to family dynamics. By which we mean: how itās potentially destroying family dynamics.
www.wired.com/story/meet-t...
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Meet the Sad Wives of AI
Men are obsessed with AI. Many of their wives absolutely hate itāand them.
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-sad-wives-of-ai/
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So glad everyone involved in this trial continues to behave like a totally normal grown-up:
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OpenAI Brings Its Ass to Court
In Musk v. Altman, the company sought to show the jury a remarkable trophy as physical proof of Elon Muskās concerning behavior.
https://www.wired.com/story/musk-altman-trial-ass-statue-evidence/
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A single man's bizarre, conspiratorial campaign against QR codes on ballots has thrown Georgia's midterm elections into absolute chaos:
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A Conspiracy Theory About QR Codes Has Led to Chaos Ahead of Georgiaās Midterms
The state of Georgia banned the use of QR codes for elections, based in part on the assertions of a man whoās boosted false claims about Israel and 9/11. Now no one knows how ballots will be counted.
https://www.wired.com/story/conspiracy-theory-qr-codes-georgia-midterms/
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āI believe we might be the only lab in the nation that has this test available at the moment."
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Inside the Race to Develop a Test for the Rare Andes Hantavirus
A University of Nebraska lab has developed a test that can detect the virus before symptoms become severe. Now, it's ready to start testing those returning to the US after a cruise outbreak.
https://www.wired.com/story/race-to-develop-andes-hantavirus-test/
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Trump has been doing "snap polls" asking people who they'd like to see as the Republican nominee for 2028 -- while White House aides start to panic about the next presidential election.
@hugolowell.bsky.social
reports for this week's Inner Loop:
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Trump's Inner Circle Is Already Scrambling Over the 2028 Presidential Ticket
Republicans still have the midterms to get through, but administration officials have already set their sights on the next election.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-inner-circle-2028-presidential-ticket/
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Just want to correct the record here and note that Conde Nast's bathrooms are entirely average. Normal bathrooms.
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Thereās only one lab in the US that can test for hantavirus in the earliest stages. Itās in Nebraska. from
@emilymullin.bsky.social
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Inside the Race to Develop a Test for the Rare Andes Hantavirus
A University of Nebraska lab has developed a test that can detect the virus before symptoms become severe. Now, it's ready to start testing those returning to the US after a cruise outbreak.
https://www.wired.com/story/race-to-develop-andes-hantavirus-test/
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Say a prayer for the women married to the men who canāt stop talking about AI. (This story is spectacular and, speaking from personal experience with all due respect to my spouse, spot-on.)
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Meet the Sad Wives of AI
Men are obsessed with AI. Many of their wives absolutely hate itāand them.
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-sad-wives-of-ai/
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Looking forward to going On Background in June w/
@bencollins.bsky.social
. We'll be talking about what's working in media (and what's broken). Join us!
luma.com/vmi7d5t3
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On Background with The Onion Ā· Luma
Fireside chats with Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion, and Zoe Schiffer,Ā Director of Business and Industry at WIRED The current discourse about communications isā¦
https://luma.com/vmi7d5t3
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All the questions you're desperate to ask an infectious disease expert about hantavirus -- answered by an infectious disease expert:
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All Your Hantavirus Questions, Answered by an Infectious Disease Expert
Hereās what you need to know, from why the cruise ship outbreak wonāt spark the next pandemic to how hantavirus spreads.
https://www.wired.com/story/all-your-hantavirus-questions-answered-by-an-infectious-disease-expert/
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there are already tons of conspiracy theories (and grifts!) out there about the hantavirus and
@davidgilbert.bsky.social
explains them best:
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Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories Are Already Spreading Online
From claims of an Israeli false flag to efforts to sell ivermectin, influencers and grifters are using lessons learned from Covid-19 to push their baseless conspiracy theories.
https://www.wired.com/story/hantavirus-conspiracy-theories-are-already-spreading-online/
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For this week's Big Interview, I talked to the co-creators of Hacks as the series approaches its finale. They were hilarious, love
@wired.com
, and hate AI with passion. "We personally won't work with people who use it. We are completely anti-AI in the creative process in any possible way."
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The Creators of āHacksā Really, Really, Really Hate AI
Ahead of the hit showās finale, cocreators Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello talk about media consolidation, the perils of censorship, and why they find AI ādeeply disturbing.ā
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-hacks-cocreators-paul-w-downs-lucia-aniello/
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Thanks to
@maddow.bsky.social
for covering my report on the decimation of the voting section of the Justice Department and the dangerously inexperienced lawyers who now work at what was once call the "crown jewel" of the DOJ You can read it here:
www.wired.com/story/the-ju...
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The former OpenAI chief scientist may be estranged from the company, but he still came to its defense as he testified on Monday.
www.wired.com/story/ilya-s...
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Ilya Sutskever Stands by His Role in Sam Altmanās OpenAI Ouster: āI Didnāt Want It to Be Destroyedā
The former OpenAI chief scientist may be estranged from the company, but he still came to its defense as he testified on Monday.
https://www.wired.com/story/ilya-sutskever-testifies-musk-v-altman-trial/
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One TV writerās descent into the gig economy powering AI: endless Slacks, overnight āsprints,ā disappearing contracts, and manic gruntwork meant to teach machines to replace human creativity. All while her own industry collapses. Come because it's important. Stay because the writing is hilarious.
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I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
For screenwriters like meāand job seekers all overāAI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, Iāve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. Itās bad.
https://www.wired.com/story/i-work-in-hollywood-everyone-who-used-to-make-tv-now-training-ai/
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āDancers engaged in perreo-intense grinding, hip thrusting, and twerking...Cameras captured close-ups of suggestive contact and pelvic motions, amplifying the explicit nature."
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The FCC Received Hundreds of Complaints About Bad Bunnyās āVulgarā Super Bowl Performance
The complaints, obtained by WIRED, described Bad Bunnyās performance as being overly sexual and protested that the show was in Spanish.
https://www.wired.com/story/bad-bunny-super-bowl-fcc-complaints/
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Some thrilling news: I am very excited to be welcoming the brilliant
@dmehro.bsky.social
back to
@wired.com
! He starts on Monday ā watch this space, and WATCH OUT, WORLD.
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2 days ago
Apologies to whatever you were planning on doing this afternoon. from
@makenakelly.bsky.social
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There's an Unhinged New Video Game About Trump and the Iran War
The game, developed by the group of anonymous artists known as Secret Handshake, is available online and in person in Washington, DC.
https://www.wired.com/story/video-game-trump-iran-war/
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Keep this man away from journalists, journalism, the internet, and other peopleās money.
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Vice News Is Being Resuscitated With Fresh Ambitions
Shane Smith's hard-hitting news brand, which covered global current affairs for a Millennial audience, is back, now equal parts creator-driven news outlet and brand partnership vehicle.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/vice-news-returns-shane-smith-1236587574/
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5 days ago
Feel like cocaine infused salmon is an NYC omakase dish waiting to happen
www.wired.com/story/cocain...
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Scientists Gave Cocaine to Salmon and You Will Absolutely Believe What Happened Next
After scientists exposed wild fish to cocaine and a cocaine metabolite, they observed that, as in the lab, fish on cocaine do not act like normal fish.
https://www.wired.com/story/cocaine-fueled-wild-salmon-swam-twice-as-far-as-sober-ones/?_bhlid=c7182a9259e6563ee8180ab9ef552985f26791cc
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So excited to have Brian running the
@wired.com
Science shipā¦wonderful things ahead!
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6 days ago
NEW: Using basic search techniques, researchers discovered some 5,000 vibe-coded apps left exposed to the open internet.
@agreenberg.bsky.social
has the scoop:
www.wired.com/story/thousa...
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Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web
Companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify use AI to let anyone build a web app in secondsāand in thousands of cases, spill highly sensitive data onto the public internet.
https://www.wired.com/story/thousands-of-vibe-coded-apps-expose-corporate-and-personal-data-on-the-open-web/
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Leah Feiger
6 days ago
NEW: DOGE's Ethan Shaotran is now running a defense tech startup. In an email viewed by WIRED, Shaotran describes Blitz Industries as āa defense company backed by big names.ā read
@telliotter.bsky.social
with the latest on what DOGE's early operatives are up to:
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DOGE's Ethan Shaotran Is Now Running a Defense Tech Startup
In an email viewed by WIRED, Shaotran describes Blitz Industries as āa defense company backed by big names.ā
https://www.wired.com/story/doges-ethan-shaotran-is-now-running-a-defense-tech-startup/
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go listen to the pod this week if you want to hear me panic slightly about hantavirus while
@brbarrett.bsky.social
@zoeschiffer.bsky.social
and (special guest!)
@emilymullin.bsky.social
make fun of me!!
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Trump Pivots On AI Regulation; What Is Hantavirus?; Worker Ousted by DOGE Runs for Office
Podcast Episode Ā· Uncanny Valley | WIRED Ā· May 7 Ā· 27m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trump-pivots-on-ai-regulation-what-is-hantavirus-worker/id266391367?i=1000766606868
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Agree/can confirm:
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Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows
New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on peopleās ability to think and problem solve.
https://wrd.cm/4tkbZZY
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NEW: For the last decade, nothing has been able to unite left and right in America.....until now. In recent weeks, the far-right and the woke left have come together to boost baseless conspiracy theories that Trump is staging his own assassination attempts
www.wired.com/story/there-...
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There Is No Evidence the Trump Assassination Attempts Were Staged. People Still Believe They Were
Elements of the right and the left are united in the baseless belief that two attempts on Donald Trump's life were staged.
https://www.wired.com/story/there-is-no-evidence-the-trump-assassination-attempts-were-staged-people-still-believe-they-were/
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A scoopy first edition of
@hugolowell.bsky.social
's new
@wired.com
newsletter: Trump's closest advisors are pushing him to accept an Iran deal that he rejected just a month ago. Subscribe to Inner Loop if you don't already!
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Trumpās Team Wants Him to Accept an Iran Deal Heās Already Rejected
As chaotic negotiations over the end of the Iran war continue, US negotiators think they have the framework for a deal in place. Now theyĀ just have to sell the president on it.
https://www.wired.com/story/trumps-team-wants-him-to-accept-an-iran-deal-hes-already-rejected/
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"Iām ready to draw the line right here, right now: No more generative AI features with names that rip off human cognitive processes." Sing it
@thiccreese.bsky.social
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I Am Begging AI Companies to Stop Naming Features After Human Processes
Anthropic announced ādreamingā for AI agents to sort through āmemoriesā at its developer conference. Can we not?
https://www.wired.com/story/i-am-begging-ai-companies-to-stop-naming-features-after-human-processes/
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7 days ago
Cybercriminals hate AI slop as much as you do. Maybe more! from
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Cybercriminals Are Complaining About AI Slop Flooding Their Forums
It's not just you. Hackers and other cybercriminals are complaining about āAI shitā flooding platforms where they discuss cyberattacks and other illegal activity.
https://www.wired.com/story/cybercriminals-are-complaining-about-ai-slop-flooding-their-forums/
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"As the Ayatollah of Woke, I have to make sure that I'm on the front line. I'm fighting the battle in the trenches directly in enemy territory." Hasan Piker's online diet is...a lot. From the new and very fun
@wired.com
series, User Behavior.
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Hasan Piker, Self-Described āAyatollah of Woke,ā Wants AI to Die
The far-left Twitch streamer says AI is rotting our brains. Heās also addicted to Twitter and listens to at least eight podcasts.
https://www.wired.com/story/hasan-piker-user-behavior/
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7 days ago
The Institute for Primary Facts has compiled more than 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files for public display at the newly opened Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room.
www.wired.com/story/a-libr...
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A Library Dedicated Solely to the Epstein Files Is Opening in New York
The Institute for Primary Facts has compiled more than 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files for public display at the newly opened Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-library-dedicated-solely-to-the-epstein-files-is-opening-in-new-york/
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It was an honor to accept the 2026 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism last night with
@leahfeiger.bsky.social
and
@timmarchman.bsky.social
. The WIRED team's DOGE coverage was unmatched -- fight me, nobody did it better -- and we're grateful to the
@sidneyhillman.bsky.social
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Dolan's lawyers tried in court to dismiss the lawsuit that triggered our investigation. That attempt just failed. The suit continues.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71458...
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Greg Brockman spent the day in court trying to defend his stake in OpenAI -- which he says is worth around $30B. Yes, B for Billion. āWhy not donate that $29 billion to the OpenAI nonprofit? Why didnāt you do that?ā
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Greg Brockman Defends $30B OpenAI Stake: āBlood, Sweat, and Tearsā
OpenAIās cofounder and president revealed in federal court on Monday that heās one of the largest individual stakeholders in the AI lab.
https://www.wired.com/story/greg-brockman-testifies-musk-v-altman-trial/
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This week on the
@wired.com
Big Interview podcast, I sat down with Amelia Dimoldenberg -- the host of Chicken Shop Date, a red carpet fixture...and a real control freak, it turns out. (Takes one to know one!) She was delightful, smart, and of course hilarious. Read and listen at the link:
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The Secret to Amelia Dimoldenbergās Online Superstardom? Control
The host of āChicken Shop Dateā joined WIREDās āBig Interviewā podcast to talk about turning down bad deals, beating the algorithm, and the importance of being over-prepared.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-amelia-dimoldenberg/
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Google DeepMind employees in London have voted to unionize, in a bid to prevent the lab from providing its tech to American and Israeli militaries:
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Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals
UK staff of Google's AI research lab hope to block the use of the company's artificial intelligence models in military settings.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-workers-vote-to-unionize-over-military-ai-deals/
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There's a lot of talk about AI taking jobs -- but less about automation potentially, and quietly, deciding who never gets a shot in the first place. A wild story about one would-be doctor vs. the algorithm that may have screwed him:
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He Couldnāt Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm trashed his job application.
https://www.wired.com/story/he-couldnt-land-a-job-interview-was-ai-to-blame/
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NEW: DHS subpoenaed Google for a Canadian man's location and account activity after he criticized ICE. The man hasn't been in the US in 10+ years, and DHS used an import law from the 1930s to try to get his data. ACLU is fighting it.
@regret.bsky.social
w/ the scoop:
www.wired.com/story/dhs-de...
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DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian's Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts
Using a 1930s trade law, Homeland Security targeted the manāwho hasn't entered the US in more than a decadeāfollowing posts on X condemning the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-demanded-google-surrender-data-on-canadians-activity-location-over-anti-ice-posts/
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11 days ago
On TikTok, young women are going viral for crafting whimsical homemade computers inside purses.
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The Hottest Anti-AI Gadget Is a Cyberdeck
On TikTok, young women are going viral for crafting whimsical homemade computers inside purses.
https://wrd.cm/4ud6L2Q
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The best part of this excellent
@mzeff.bsky.social
caper is Evan Spiegelās reaction to the entire thing:
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Why Does Wikipedia Think Iām Evan Spiegel?
For the past week, a photo of me has been plastered on the CEO of Snapās Wikipedia page. No one, not even Spiegel, seems to care.
https://www.wired.com/story/why-does-wikipedia-think-im-evan-spiegel/
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12 days ago
NEW: A dark-money group, a super PAC with Silicon Valley billionaire backing, and a pro-AI campaign that paints Chinese AI as a threat.
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
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@wired.com
www.wired.com/story/super-...
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A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.
https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-backed-by-openai-and-palantir-is-paying-tiktok-influencers-to-fear-monger-about-china/
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Iām sorry but WHO is throwing their unsupervised kid in a Waymo! Enough people that the company needs to crack down on it, apparently:
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Waymo Is Trying to Crack Down on Solo Kids in Driverless Cars
As adult riders report new age-verification checks, the self-driving car company says itās continuing to ārefineā its system in places where kids arenāt allowed to ride alone.
https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-trying-to-crack-down-on-solo-kids-in-driverless-cars/
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12 days ago
Bit of news: As (fresh-faced?) adults report mid-ride age checks, Waymo says it's working on its "system and processes" to ID unaccompanied kids where they're not allowed to ride alone. Waymo has said it uses in-car cameras to check that riders aren't violating rules
www.wired.com/story/waymo-...
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Waymo Is Trying to Crack Down on Solo Kids in Driverless Cars
As adult riders report new age-verification checks, the self-driving car company says itās continuing to ārefineā its system in places where kids arenāt allowed to ride alone.
https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-trying-to-crack-down-on-solo-kids-in-driverless-cars/
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"When WIRED called the Zambian embassy in Washington, a member of the staff answered the phone and transferred the call to another staff member who then picked up for several seconds before hanging up. A follow-up call went unanswered."
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The Chinese Government Just Got the Worldās Largest Digital Rights Conference Canceled
Access Now, the group that organizes RightsCon, says Zambian officials asked it to exclude Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-chinese-government-pressured-zambia-to-cancel-the-worlds-largest-digital-rights-conference/
12 days ago
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13 days ago
A real nightmare scenario for stalkerware... an unnamed celebrity had 90,000 screenshots of their phone (including nude selfies, dms, etc). from
@mattburgess1.bsky.social
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@lhn.bsky.social
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90,000 Screenshots of One Celebrity's Phone Were Exposed Online
Spyware appears to have captured everything from intimate photos to private messages from the smartphone of European celebrity. They were publicly accessible until a researcher flagged the exposure.
https://www.wired.com/story/exposed-data-illustrates-the-nightmare-scenario-for-a-stalkerware-victim/
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14 days ago
The thing about suing someone is they can drag up old emails you sent and read them out loud in front of everybody which tbh sounds like a GREAT reason never to sue anybody ever at all. from
@mzeff.bsky.social
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How Elon Musk Squeezed OpenAI: They 'Are Gonna Want to Kill Meā
Tensions flared on the third day of trial in Musk v. Altman as OpenAIās lawyers cross-examined Musk.
https://www.wired.com/story/model-behavior-elon-musk-cross-examined-sam-altman/
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One emergency responder said the technology is "backsliding"
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Emergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse
āI believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasnāt really ready,ā one police official told federal regulators last month.
https://www.wired.com/story/emergency-first-responders-say-waymos-are-getting-worse/
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NEW: This is the inside story of how Trump's Justice Department destroyed the once-storied Voting Section, and forced out the team of lawyers responsible for upholding the Voting Rights Act. this is must read from
@davidgilbert.bsky.social
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āThe Damage Is Massiveā: How the Justice Department Dismantled Its Voting Rights Section
There were around 30 attorneys in the DOJās Voting Section on the day of Donald Trumpās second inauguration. Three months later, all but two were gone. Now the election deniers are in control.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-justice-department-has-destroyed-its-voting-rights-section/
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