Deepfakes, Cheapfakes, and Twitter Censorship Mar Turkey’s Elections | WIRED
On the evening of Turkey’s most significant elections of the past two decades, Can Semercioğlu went to bed early. For…
Humanoid Robots Are Coming of Age
Eight years ago, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency organized a painful-to-watch contest that involved robots slowly struggling (and often…
Pegasus Spyware Is Detected in a War Zone for the First Time
On November 10, 2021, Varuzhan Geghamyan, an assistant professor at Yerevan State University in Armenia, received a notification from Apple…
Internal Report Suggests Security Lapses at Hacked Crypto Exchange Bitfinex
Bitfinex told OCCRP the analysis was “incomplete” and “incorrect” and that there was “evidence of negligence…on the part of other…
You’re Allergic to the Modern World | WIRED
It is allergy season once again. If you are one of the 81 million Americans with hay fever, spring is a…
AI Is Steeped in Big Tech’s ‘Digital Colonialism’
Artificial intelligence continues to be fed racist and sexist training materials and then distributed around the world.
The Trillion-Dollar Auction to Save the World
Seagrass is the “ugly duckling of conservation,” Carlos Duarte says. He calculated that the plant may put away carbon at…
Ron DeSantis Pushed Elon Musk’s Twitter to Its Breaking Point
Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, surely hoped to trend on Twitter after announcing his run for president in…
Sam Altman’s World Tour Hopes to Reassure AI Doomers | WIRED
The excitement around the London arrival of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was palpable from the queue that snaked its way around…
New Alzheimer’s Drugs Offer Subtle Benefits—With Real Risks
Nearly 30 years ago, when the first effective Alzheimer’s drugs were approved, optimism was in the air. True, the drugs didn’t…