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Articles from www.wired.com

How a hacker breached the Signal knockoff app TeleMessage in about 20 minutes thanks to a basic misconfiguration, leading to sensitive data spilling out (www.wired.com)
2025-5-19 Hacker

A look at EA's attempts to shut down “anti-DEI” mods for The Sims 4, including one that changes LGBT and Black NPCs to straight and white (www.wired.com)
2025-5-18

Wallets of ~100 of 220 TRUMP coin dinner attendees, and ~17 of 25 VIPs, have parted with nearly all their TRUMP after being chosen based on holdings to May 12 (www.wired.com)
2025-5-17 Trump

US immigration attorneys: since January 2025, USCIS has significantly increased requests for evidence on tech-related visa petitions, including H-1B and O-1 (www.wired.com)
2025-5-16 Immigration H1B

Huione Guarantee, a Telegram-based black market for crypto scammers and money launderers that enabled $27B+ in transactions, shuts down after mass account bans (www.wired.com)
2025-5-15

Microsoft plans to shut down Bing Search APIs on August 11; a source says the largest customers will retain access, and DuckDuckGo confirms it won't be affected (www.wired.com)
2025-5-15 Microsoft

The CFPB withdraws its proposal for new rules to more tightly regulate US data brokers and their ability to sell sensitive information about Americans (www.wired.com)
2025-5-15 U.S.

A look at Brian Chesky's efforts to turn Airbnb into a storefront for real-world services, after struggling with previous experiments to expand beyond vacations (www.wired.com)
2025-5-14 Airbnb

Elliptic: a US-registered firm ran a Telegram black market for Chinese crypto scammers with $8.4B in sales since 2022; Telegram has now banned many accounts (www.wired.com)
2025-5-14 China

In the age of deepfakes, some are using tactics like asking rapid-fire questions or sharing code words with each other to verify identity online (www.wired.com)
2025-5-13

Singapore unveils a blueprint for global collaboration on AI safety, developed in consensus with researchers and experts from the US, China, and other countries (www.wired.com)
2025-5-12 China AI Singapore

As the consumer metaverse falters, the World Economic Forum projects the industrial metaverse will reach $100B by 2030, led by platforms like Nvidia Omniverse (www.wired.com)
2025-5-12 Nvidia

A look at Silence Speaks, a British startup that has built an AI-powered sign language avatar capable of accurately translating text to British Sign Language (www.wired.com)
2025-5-8 U.K. Startup AI

Sources: OpenAI staffers met with the FDA and two DOGE associates multiple times in recent weeks to discuss a project called cderGPT, likely for drug evaluation (www.wired.com)
2025-5-8

Researchers: open source serialization tool easyjson, developed by Russia's VK Group and widely used by the US DOD and others, poses a national security risk (www.wired.com)
2025-5-5 Russia

Advocacy groups push California's AG to ensure that OpenAI's becoming a for-profit adheres to the law; OpenAI formed an advisory commission in response (www.wired.com)
2025-5-3 California

An investigation finds 70+ content-farm YouTube channels using AI to produce cartoon content featuring gore and child abuse, featuring characters like minions (www.wired.com)
2025-5-3 AI YouTube Child Abuse

Temu appears to have removed all products in the US version of its online store that ship directly from China to US consumers, confusing suppliers and customers (www.wired.com)
2025-5-2 China

WhatsApp plans to add cloud-based AI features like message summarization and composition, utilizing a system called Private Processing to maintain data privacy (www.wired.com)
2025-4-30 AI WhatsApp

Oligo researchers detail AirBorne, a set of vulnerabilities in Apple's AirPlay SDK that may affect 10M+ third-party devices; Apple patched its own devices (www.wired.com)
2025-4-29 Apple

OpenAI announces that it will start showing product recommendations in ChatGPT, even for logged-out users, with buy buttons that link to merchants' sites (www.wired.com)
2025-4-29

On the Apple Watch's 10th anniversary, a look at how Apple reshaped the watch industry and ushered in a new age of fitness tracking (www.wired.com)
2025-4-25 Apple

Q&A with Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, on a dataset called SHADES designed to test AI models for bias in languages beyond English (www.wired.com)
2025-4-24 AI

A week after a hack, 4chan remains down, apparently pushed off the internet by rival hackers; its toxic legacy carries on across social platforms and culture (www.wired.com)
2025-4-23

Several VCs say they fear Trump's tariffs could slow down tech investments, further decelerate the market for IPOs, and put some tech startups out of business (www.wired.com)
2025-4-23 Trump IPO Startup

A look at the tactile devices from OneCourt, Field of Vision, and Touch2See that help visually impaired spectators follow live sports with their fingers (www.wired.com)
2025-4-21

Sources: the CFPB terminated more than 1,400 workers, leaving about 200 employees and effectively gutting the agency that Elon Musk previously said to “delete” (www.wired.com)
2025-4-18 Elon Musk

New Jersey's AG sues Discord, alleging the platform's features to keep children under 13 safe from sexual predators and harmful content are inadequate (www.wired.com)
2025-4-18

Hugging Face acquires French startup Pollen Robotics, which makes the bug-eyed, two-armed, humanoid robot called Reachy 2, and plans to sell the robot (www.wired.com)
2025-4-15 France Startup Robot

Sources: Palantir is helping DOGE build an API layer above all IRS databases; DOGE wants Palantir's Foundry software to be the “read center of all IRS systems” (www.wired.com)
2025-4-12

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