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US Government Says Relying on Chinese Lithium Batteries Is Too Risky

US Government Says Relying on Chinese Lithium Batteries Is Too Risky

A new document shows the Department of Homeland Security is concerned that Chinese investment in lithium batteries to power energy...

Protesters Say Uber and Lyft Are Still Failing Their Blind Passengers

Protesters Say Uber and Lyft Are Still Failing Their Blind Passengers

At a protest in San Francisco, blind Uber and Lyft users claim that the ride-hailing companies aren’t doing enough to prevent driv...

I Made a Wholesome OnlyFans to Try to Make Ends Meet

I Made a Wholesome OnlyFans to Try to Make Ends Meet

A cohort of content creators say it's possible to make money on OnlyFans without stripping. I put that claim to the test.

The Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of Europe

The Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of Europe

Moldova is facing a tide of disinformation unprecedented in complexity and aggression, the head of a new center meant to combat it...

You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid

You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid

John Graham-Cumming, who happens to be Cloudflare's CTO, cracked a 30-year-old encrypted file that had a role in rewriting South A...

Sam Altman's Eye-Scanning Orb Has a New Look—and Will Come Right to Your Door

Sam Altman's Eye-Scanning Orb Has a New Look—and Will Come Right to Your Door

The ambitious identity-verification project Worldcoin, now called ‘World,’ wants a future where humans are ‘orb-verified.’

SpaceX Has a Plan for Starlink to Hit Gigabit Speeds

SpaceX Has a Plan for Starlink to Hit Gigabit Speeds

Elon Musk's satellite internet company told the FCC that a few tweaks to its “orbital configuration and operational parameters” co...

GPS Jamming Is Screwing With Norwegian Planes

GPS Jamming Is Screwing With Norwegian Planes

So much jamming is taking place in northeastern Norway, regulators no longer want to know.

Marissa Mayer: I Am Not a Feminist. I Am Not Neurodivergent. I Am a Software Girl

Marissa Mayer: I Am Not a Feminist. I Am Not Neurodivergent. I Am a Software Girl

She was the 20th hire at Google, then the head of Yahoo, and now the CEO of Sunshine. For Mayer, geekery supersedes gender.

Inside the Mind of an AI Girlfriend (or Boyfriend)

Inside the Mind of an AI Girlfriend (or Boyfriend)

Dippy, a startup that offers “uncensored” AI companions, lets you peer into their thought process—sometimes revealing hidden motiv...

Trumpcoin Launches With a Whimper

Trumpcoin Launches With a Whimper

Investors scooped up only a small number of the Trump family's new World Liberty Financial crypto tokens after website reliability...

Algorithms Policed Welfare Systems For Years. Now They're Under Fire for Bias

Algorithms Policed Welfare Systems For Years. Now They're Under Fire for Bias

Human rights groups have launched a new legal challenge against the use of algorithms to detect error and fraud in France's welfar...

Apple Engineers Show How Flimsy AI ‘Reasoning’ Can Be

Apple Engineers Show How Flimsy AI ‘Reasoning’ Can Be

The new frontier in large language models is the ability to “reason” their way through problems. New research from Apple says it's...

A Rubberized Cybertruck Is Ploughing Through European Pedestrian Safety Rules

A Rubberized Cybertruck Is Ploughing Through European Pedestrian Safety Rules

Tesla’s troubled electric pickup is illegal in Europe, yet somehow a barely modified model has found a way to get licensed. A grou...

The Doctor Behind the ‘Suicide Pod’ Wants AI to Assist at the End of Life

The Doctor Behind the ‘Suicide Pod’ Wants AI to Assist at the End of Life

The death of an American woman inside Philip Nitschke’s latest invention reveals the next frontier in the right-to-die debate.

It Seemed Like an AI Crime-Fighting Super Tool. Then Defense Attorneys Started Asking Questions

It Seemed Like an AI Crime-Fighting Super Tool. Then Defense Attorneys Started Asking Questions

Global Intelligence claims its Cybercheck technology can help cops find key evidence to nail a case. But a WIRED investigation rev...

Millions of People Are Using Abusive AI ‘Nudify’ Bots on Telegram

Millions of People Are Using Abusive AI ‘Nudify’ Bots on Telegram

Bots that “remove clothes” from images have run rampant on the messaging app, allowing people to create nonconsensual deepfake ima...

The Hottest Startups in Berlin in 2024

The Hottest Startups in Berlin in 2024

The German capital attracts talent from all over the world, and its startups are building endless AI-generated audio apps, virtual...

Jimmy Carter becomes first president to turn 100

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Jimmy Carter becomes first president to turn 100

Georgia doctors speak out to challenge misinformation on sta...

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Georgia doctors speak out to challenge misinformation on state's abortion law, death of Amber Thurman

After Shaq, Jay-Z, Beyonce And Others, Tesla Cybertruck Join...

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After Shaq, Jay-Z, Beyonce And Others, Tesla Cybertruck Joins Joins Irvine Police Department's Fleet, Will Be Used For Community Outreach Efforts

Pentagon sending a ‘few thousand’ personnel to Middle East d...

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Pentagon sending a ‘few thousand’ personnel to Middle East day after Biden said he wouldn’t add combat troops

Scandals, failed assassinations and political rhetoric: Both...

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Scandals, failed assassinations and political rhetoric: Both sides go high and low

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