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Ad trackers are out of control. Use a browser that reins them in. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While some states have made data privacy gains, the US has so far been unable implement protections at a federal level. A new bipartisan proposal called APRA could break the impasse. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AI tools are getting better at cloning people's voices, and scammers are using these new capabilities to commit fraud. Avoid getting swindled by following these expert tips. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Millions lost internet service after three cables in the Red Sea were damaged. Houthi rebels deny targeting the cables, but their missile attack on a cargo ship, left adrift for months, is likely to blame. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As ?P4x,? Alejandro Caceres single-handedly disrupted the internet of an entire country. Then he tried to show the US military how it can?and should?adopt his methods. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The thwarted XZ Utils supply chain attack was years in the making. Now, clues suggest nation-state hackers were behind the persona that inserted the malicious code. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To settle a years-long lawsuit, Google has agreed to delete ?billions of data records? collected from users of ?Incognito mode,? illuminating the pitfalls of relying on Chrome to protect your privacy. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vice President Kamala Harris says new rules for government AI deployments, including a requirement that algorithms are checked for bias, will ?put the public interest first.? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors to an island once owned by Epstein, the notorious sex offender. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The company behind the Saflok-brand door locks is offering a fix, but it may take months or years to reach some hotels. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Multiple university departments linked to the Clinical School Computing Service have been inaccessible for a month. The university has not yet revealed the nature of the ?malicious activity.? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A high court in London says the WikiLeaks founder won?t be extradited ?immediately? and the US must provide more ?assurances? about any extradition. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

US and UK officials hit Chinese hacking group APT31 with sanctions and criminal charges after they targeted thousands of businesses, politicians, and critics of China. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Privacy and security are an Apple selling point. But the DOJ's new antitrust lawsuit argues that Apple selectively embraces privacy and security features in ways that hurt competition?and users. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cookie pop-ups now show the number of ?partners? that websites may share data with. Here's how many of these third-party companies may get your data from some of the most popular sites online. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anonymous, candid reviews made Glassdoor a powerful place to research potential employers. A policy shift requiring users to privately verify their real names is raising privacy concerns. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For months, US lawmakers have examined every side of a historic surveillance debate. With the introduction of the SAFE Act, all that's left to do now is vote. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Pentagon says it?s not hiding aliens, but it stops notably short of saying what it is hiding. Here are the key questions that remain unanswered?some answers could be weirder than UFOs. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every US president has the ability to invoke ?emergency powers? that could give an authoritarian leader the ability to censor the internet, restrict travel, and more. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Meta?s updated 2FA process, the company now automatically trusts devices you often use. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tigran Gambaryan, a former crypto-focused US federal agent, and a second Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held in Abuja without passports for two weeks. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Content creators are using copyright laws to get nonconsensual deepfakes removed from the web. With the complaints covering nearly 30,000 URLs, experts say Google should do more to help. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The transaction, visible on Bitcoin's blockchain, suggests the victim of one of the worst ransomware attacks in years may have paid a very large ransom. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A coalition of 41 state attorneys general says Meta is failing to assist Facebook and Instagram users whose accounts have been hacked?and they want the company to take ?immediate action.? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canada-based Sandvine has long sold its web-monitoring tech to authoritarian regimes. This week, the US sanctioned the company, severely limiting its ability to do business with American firms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The UK?s privacy regulator says the government did not take into account the intrusiveness of ankle tags that continuously monitor a person?s location. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The White House issued an executive order on Wednesday that aims to prevent the sale of Americans' data to ?countries of concern,? including China and Russia. Its effectiveness may vary. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Several of the strikes occurred far from the front lines of the conflict, indicating possible war crimes. Researchers say the attacks likely had devastating impacts on civilians. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Chinese automakers prepare to launch in the US, the White House is investigating whether cars made in China could pose a national security threat. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two months ago, the FBI ?disrupted? the BlackCat ransomware group. They're already back?and their latest attack is causing delays at pharmacies across the US. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When two former Meta employees dug into why the website of Iowa?s Clayton County Register was spewing dubious posts about stocks, they uncovered a network of sites slinging seemingly AI-made content. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Useful quantum computers aren?t a reality?yet. But in one of the biggest deployments of post-quantum encryption so far, Apple is bringing the technology to iMessage. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The US Congress was preparing to vote on a key foreign surveillance program. Then a wild Russian threat appeared. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Google is still mostly supported by ads but its new subscription-only chatbot, Gemini Advanced, is a major new addition to the company's burgeoning services business. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In an interview with WIRED, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the biggest breakthroughs in AI are yet to come?and will take more than just chips. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LockBit?s website, infrastructure, and data have been seized by law enforcement?striking a huge blow against one of the world's most prolific ransomware groups. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A surprise disclosure of a national security threat by the House Intelligence chair was part of an effort to block legislation that aimed to limit cops and spies from buying Americans' private data. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cyberattacks and criminal scams can impact anyone. But communities of color and other marginalized groups are often disproportionately impacted and lack the support to better protect themselves. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prominent advocates for the rights of pregnant people are urging members of Congress to support legislation that would ban warrantless access to sensitive data as the White House fights against it. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Romantic chatbots collect huge amounts of data, provide vague information about how they use it, use weak password protections, and aren?t transparent, new research from Mozilla says. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Top congressional lawmakers are meeting in private to discuss the future of a widely unpopular surveillance program, worrying members devoted to reforming Section 702. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New research finds that Israel?s attacks on Gaza damaged hospitals and other medical facilities at the same rate as other buildings, potentially in violation of international law. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a test at one station, Transport for London used a computer vision system to try and detect crime and weapons, people falling on the tracks, and fare dodgers, documents obtained by WIRED show. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Passkeys are here to replace passwords. When they work, it?s a seamless vision of the future. But don?t ditch your old logins just yet. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After a slowdown in payments to ransomware gangs in 2022, last year saw total ransom payouts jump to their highest level yet, according to a new report from crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New EU rules mean WhatsApp and Messenger must be interoperable with other chat apps. Here?s how that will work. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A UK High Court will settle a long-running debate over whether Craig Wright really is Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin. Monday?s opening arguments laid the groundwork for both sides. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An indictment against three Americans suggests that at least some of the culprits behind the theft of an FTX crypto fortune may be in custody. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For nearly two years, police have been tracking down the culprit behind a wave of hoax threats. A digital trail took them to the door of a 17-year-old in California. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices