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Articles from www.wired.com

Ahead of a likely TikTok ban in the US, users are fleeing to Chinese apps Xiaohongshu and ByteDance-owned Lemon8, currently the top two apps in the US App Store (www.wired.com)
2025-1-14 China Ban

The US' chip export rules enter a 120-day consultation period, requiring the Trump administration to consider input, potentially modify, and enforce the rules (www.wired.com)
2025-1-13 Trump

Sources: Rumble, Quora, and WeChat are among 15 companies from which Texas has demanded answers about their collection and use of data of under-18-year-olds (www.wired.com)
2025-1-11 WeChat Texas

Live blog: The US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in TikTok's appeal against the divest-or-ban law (www.wired.com)
2025-1-11 Ban

The CFPB proposes new rules to give consumers the same rights when using virtual currencies used in Roblox and some other video games as when they use USD (www.wired.com)
2025-1-11

A hack of location data firm Gravy reveals Candy Crush, Tinder, and thousands of other apps are being used to steal user location data; apps may not even know (www.wired.com)
2025-1-10

A look at AI-enabled wearables like Bee AI and Omi, with embedded always-on microphones to record conversations around users and provide actionable insights (www.wired.com)
2025-1-9 AI

Meta's fact-checking partners, including USA Today, say they were blindsided by Meta's decision to drop them and reject claims of being “too politically biased” (www.wired.com)
2025-1-8 U.S.

Lenovo announces the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable AI PC, a laptop featuring a 14-inch screen that can extend vertically to 16.7 inches, coming in Q1 for $3,499 (www.wired.com)
2025-1-8 AI Lenovo

Jensen Huang says Nvidia's Cosmos models for humanoids were trained on 20M hours of real footage of “humans walking, hands moving, manipulating things” (www.wired.com)
2025-1-7 Nvidia

US politicians fully embraced influencers in 2024, blurring lines between punditry and journalism and paving the way for lawmakers to become creators themselves (www.wired.com)
2024-12-30

Finland, Canada, the US, and other countries are testing tech for passport-free travel, including facial recognition and a “digital travel credential” (www.wired.com)
2024-12-29 Canada Finland Facial Recognition

A look at Toontown Rewritten, an unofficial recreation of Disney's Toontown Online game that shut down in 2013; Toontown Rewritten now has 10K DAUs and 50K MAUs (www.wired.com)
2024-12-26

West Bank residents, who have long complained of missing and outdated data on Google Maps, say the Israel-Hamas war has made the app even worse for navigation (www.wired.com)
2024-12-25 Israel Google

As part of its remedies proposal, Google says it won't require device makers and other partners to distribute Gemini to US users for three years (www.wired.com)
2024-12-22 Google

A look at Truth Terminal, an AI bot on X that was created to spark debate about AI alignment, as its crypto wallet swells to ~$40M after boosting memecoins (www.wired.com)
2024-12-19 AI

Interpol says calling online scams “pig butchering”, a widely used phrase, is unhelpful as gangs “appear to have” created the phrase to describe victims (www.wired.com)
2024-12-18

A researcher details a “jailbreak” of Reviver's digital license plates, which are legal in some US states, and rewrite its firmware to enable Bluetooth commands (www.wired.com)
2024-12-16

A look at Blacksky, the Bluesky custom feed run by a team of six moderators, which is slowly turning into the main avenue for many Black users on the service (www.wired.com)
2024-12-16

Ex-ByteDance intern Keyu Tian, who was allegedly dismissed for “serious misconduct”, is a co-author of one of two papers chosen for the NeurIPS Best Paper Award (www.wired.com)
2024-12-14

Harvard says it's releasing a high-quality dataset of ~1M public-domain books, created with funding from Microsoft and OpenAI, to help train LLMs and AI tools (www.wired.com)
2024-12-12 Microsoft AI

Amazon launches Amazon Autos, letting US users buy a Hyundai with plans to add dealerships and manufacturers in 2025, after announcing it in November 2023 (www.wired.com)
2024-12-11 Amazon

A look at the opportunities India provides for smartphone companies, including its growing market for premium phones and as a manufacturing hub outside of China (www.wired.com)
2024-12-9 China India Manufacturing

MLCommons, a nonprofit that helps companies measure the performance of their AI systems, announces the AILuminate benchmark to measure the safety of LLMs (www.wired.com)
2024-12-7 AI

Apple's John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak on the company's work on transformer-based AI models after GPT-3, building Apple Intelligence, more (www.wired.com)
2024-12-7 AI Apple Intelligence

A US teen faces backlash for making ~$50K via a “soft rug pull” on Pump.Fun, which made $250M+ in less than a year and is struggling to protect users from scams (www.wired.com)
2024-12-7

iVerify says its Mobile Threat Hunting tool, launched in May, found seven Pegasus infections after scanning 2,500 devices, including targeting business leaders (www.wired.com)
2024-12-5 Mobile

Q&A with Tim Cook on generative AI, Apple Intelligence, the OpenAI partnership, why Apple's biggest contribution will be in health, ARM, Vision Pro, and more (www.wired.com)
2024-12-4 AI Apple Intelligence Tim Cook

Signal President Meredith Whittaker says Signal plans to add support for encrypted backups in 2025, and it costs ~$50M/year to run the encrypted messaging app (www.wired.com)
2024-12-4

Malwarebytes: 77% of ad accounts used for “malvertising” are used just once, and 90% of malicious ads in search results come from Pakistan and Vietnam (www.wired.com)
2024-12-4 Vietnam

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