Articles from www.wired.com

Articles from www.wired.com

A look at Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz's self-interested Trump support, including the “final straw”, a Biden proposal to tax unrealized capital gains at 25% (www.wired.com)
2024-7-21 Trump Tax

Twitch streamer Ibai Llanos' fourth boxing tournament in Madrid, with matches between influencers, set a record 3.85M+ concurrent viewers at its peak on July 13 (www.wired.com)
2024-7-16

A look at Trump VP pick JD Vance's tech ties, including working at Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital and investing in Rumble; Vance advocated repealing Section 230 (www.wired.com)
2024-7-16 Trump

Q&A with Imran Ahmed, founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, on Elon Musk's lawsuit, election disinformation, social media harms, AI, and more (www.wired.com)
2024-7-15 AI Elon Musk

AT&T appears to have paid a member of ShinyHunters $370K+ to delete call records stolen from AT&T's Snowflake account that exposed “nearly all” of its customers (www.wired.com)
2024-7-15 AT&T

A look at MetaFilter, which turns 25 on July 14; owner Jessamyn West, who helped stabilize it after near death, doesn't plan to license its archives to AI (www.wired.com)
2024-7-13 AI

A look at challenges indie video game devs face, as they struggle to survive due to lack of funding and studio closures, leading to talent loss in the industry (www.wired.com)
2024-7-13

Arab and Muslim workers at Meta detail frustrations over Meta's handling of internal discussions on the Israel-Hamas war, worrying it led to bad product choices (www.wired.com)
2024-7-12 Israel Muslim

A US judge sentences Ukrainian Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, who helped lead the prolific Zeus malware gang, to 18 years in jail and orders payment of $73M+ (www.wired.com)
2024-7-12 Ukraine

A profile of Priscila Barbosa, who defrauded Uber and other apps by building a $10K per month business renting fake accounts to undocumented workers in the US (www.wired.com)
2024-7-11 Uber

Elliptic finds a Cambodian online market offering the crypto scam industry products and services, including money laundering and victim data, with $11B in sales (www.wired.com)
2024-7-10

Dark mode is not as good for your eyes as you believe (www.wired.com)
2024-7-8

Nothing unveils the $199 CMF Phone 1, with swappable parts, a 6.67" display, MediaTek SoC, and Nothing OS, alongside the $69 CMF Watch Pro 2 and $59 Buds Pro 2 (www.wired.com)
2024-7-8

Mt. Gox starts repaying customers, who will receive only ~15% of their lost bitcoins, but now worth many times more than their total 2014 holdings (www.wired.com)
2024-7-6 Bitcoin

A look at a16z's Crypto Startup Accelerator, a Y Combinator-style program that provides $500K in funding and 10 weeks of coaching, most recently in London (www.wired.com)
2024-7-4 Startup London Y Combinator

A look at a US State Department program to train diplomats in cybersecurity, privacy, and other tech issues, allowing them to spot threats and advance US policy (www.wired.com)
2024-7-3

Some YouTube employees detail internal deliberations about content relating to the Israel-Hamas war and accuse the company of inconsistent moderation (www.wired.com)
2024-7-2 Israel YouTube

An interview with Illia Polosukhin, a co-author of Google's Attention Is All You Need paper, on open-source AI, his Web3 company Near, “user-owned AI”, and more (www.wired.com)
2024-6-30 Google Interview AI

Filings and DOJ officials describe how a gang threatened, assaulted, and tortured 11 victims in likely the worst crypto-focused serial extortion case in the US (www.wired.com)
2024-6-29

Quora-owned AI chatbot platform Poe is providing users with downloadable HTML files of paywalled articles from outlets including NYT, Forbes, and The Atlantic (www.wired.com)
2024-6-29 AI chatbot

Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so (www.wired.com)
2024-6-28 Amazon Startup AI

OpenAI details CriticGPT, a model based on GPT-4 to catch errors in ChatGPT's code output, assisting human trainers in assessing and spotting errors (www.wired.com)
2024-6-28

Telegram, used by half of Russia's 140M residents, has become a refuge for LGBTQ+ citizens, who routinely create new channels to avoid government surveillance (www.wired.com)
2024-6-27 Russia

Hands-on with Ray-Ban Meta's new AI translation feature, which is too rudimentary and buggy to be anything more than a novelty (www.wired.com)
2024-6-27 AI Ban

A look at pre-smartphone services like GOOG-411 and AQA, which used to employ humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge (www.wired.com)
2024-6-23

Analysis: Perplexity seems to scrape sites using surreptitious methods, ignoring robots.txt, with a Perplexity-tied machine doing so on Wired and other sites (www.wired.com)
2024-6-20 Robot

A look at Rebind, a mysterious startup that turns Margaret Atwood and other authors' voices into AI reading companions, and an interview with CEO John Dubuque (www.wired.com)
2024-6-19 Interview Startup AI

FOI documents: eight UK train stations scanned passenger faces for two years as part of AI trials; Amazon software was used to predict age, gender, and emotions (www.wired.com)
2024-6-19 Amazon AI

Hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have breached contractor EPAM Systems to steal data from Ticketmaster and ~165 other Snowflake users; EPAM denies the claim (www.wired.com)
2024-6-17

Apple may not be bringing Apple Intelligence to iPhone 15, which has 6GB of RAM vs. iPhone 15 Pro's 8GB, due to RAM requirements for on-device AI processing (www.wired.com)
2024-6-16 iPhone AI Apple Intelligence

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