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Researchers: cybercriminals are increasingly turning from “bulletproof” hosts to “residential proxies” that disguise malicious traffic as normal online activity (www.wired.com)
2025-6-7

How AI-assisted “vibe hacking”, which often relies on jailbroken versions of mainstream AI models, is leading to a cybersecurity “arms race” (www.wired.com)
2025-6-5 AI

Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on “a 50% chance” of AGI in the next five to 10 years, bad actors and technical risks, AI regulation, jobs, and more (www.wired.com)
2025-6-4 Google AI

Paradromics implanted and removed its Connexus brain implant in a patient for ~10 minutes during epilepsy surgery on May 14, a first for the Neuralink rival (www.wired.com)
2025-6-2

German police identify TrickBot and Conti ransomware leader “Stern” as Vitaly Nikolaevich Kovalev, believed to be in Russia and shielded from extradition (www.wired.com)
2025-5-31 Russia Germany

Meta says it has cut US content removal mistakes by half since its January policy changes, without broadly exposing users to more offensive content than before (www.wired.com)
2025-5-30

A look at Anthropic's first developer conference, where CPO Mike Krieger said 70%+ of Anthropic's code pull requests are now written by their AI model Claude (www.wired.com)
2025-5-24 AI

The US DOJ charges 16 individuals allegedly linked to a Russia-based malware operation known as DanaBot that infected 300,000+ machines globally (www.wired.com)
2025-5-23 Russia

Interviews with Anthropic executives about Claude Opus 4, which they say was able to play Pokémon agentically for 24 hours, up from 45 minutes previously (www.wired.com)
2025-5-23

A security researcher finds an exposed Elastic database with 184M records, including login credentials for Apple, Meta, Google, and others; its owner is unknown (www.wired.com)
2025-5-22 Database Google Apple

Book excerpt: a profile of AI-obsessed autodidact Eliezer Yudkowsky, who introduced the DeepMind founders to Peter Thiel and inspired DeepMind's Shane Legg (www.wired.com)
2025-5-21 AI

A profile of nonprofit Psst, launched in September 2024 to offer a “digital safe” for tech whistleblowers; its legal team manually reviews encrypted submissions (www.wired.com)
2025-5-19

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

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