Concerns raised over Ring's relationship with law enforcement and potential for racial profiling (www.wired.com)
They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.
Unity CEO John Riccitiello Steps Down After Pricing Blowup (www.wired.com)
The Cheap Radio Hack That Disrupted Poland's Railway System (www.wired.com)
US Spies Are Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance ‘Loophole’ (www.wired.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/795503...
We should not let the open web die a quiet death (www.wired.com)
Inside the Operation to Bring Down Trump’s Truth Social (www.wired.com)
The North Atlantic Fella Organization is trying to shut down Trump’s flailing social media platform before the 2024 election—by shitposting.
How Telegram Became a Terrifying Weapon in the Israel-Hamas War | WIRED (www.wired.com)
How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet (www.wired.com)
Say you search for “children’s clothing.” Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for “NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,” making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different query that just happens to generate more money for the company, and will generate results you weren’t searching...
Insiders Reveal Major Problems at Lab-Grown-Meat Startup Upside Foods (www.wired.com)
Billion-dollar cultivated-meat startup Upside Foods wants you to think the breakthrough chicken fillets it sells are made in a futuristic factory. A WIRED investigation tells a different story. On July 1, five diners sat down at the counter of the Michelin-starred Bar Crenn in San Francisco for an unusual meal. They had won a...
AI Is Building Highly Effective Antibodies That Humans Can’t Even Imagine (www.wired.com)
machine learning algorithm designs antibodies to target specific diseases, then automated robotic systems build and grow them in lab, run tests, and feed data back into algorithm, all with limited human supervision.
Did Anyone Ever Really Need a Smart Display? (www.wired.com)
It turns out, the perfect stand is what we’ve really been waiting for.
Prominent Women in Tech Say They Don't Want to Join OpenAI's All-Male Board (www.wired.com)
non-paywall archived version here: archive.is/ztech
Inside the Operation to Bring Down Trump’s Truth Social (www.wired.com)
The North Atlantic Fella Organization is trying to shut down Trump’s flailing social media platform before the 2024 election—by shitposting.
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records (www.wired.com)
A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.
Here’s How Bad Climate Change Will Get in the US—and Why There’s Still Hope (www.wired.com)
Millions of Workers Are Training AI Models for Pennies (www.wired.com)
Amazon Let Its Drivers’ Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink (www.wired.com)
A Chatbot Encouraged Him to Kill the Queen. It’s Just the Beginning (www.wired.com)
Need your suggestions to this. (www.wired.com)
I know its not the first day they starts doing this,...
The Myth of ‘Open Source’ AI (www.wired.com)
Meta’s Open Source Llama Upsets the AI Horse Race (www.wired.com)
#Meta is giving its answer to OpenAI’s GPT-4 away for free. The move could intensify the generative AI boom by making it easier for entrepreneurs to build powerful new AI systems....
Microsoft’s AI Chatbot Replies to Election Questions With Conspiracies, Fake Scandals, and Lies (www.wired.com)
Research shared exclusively with WIRED shows that Copilot, Microsoft’s AI chatbot, often responds to questions about elections with lies and conspiracy theories.