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Articles from www.wired.com

OpenAI releases a research paper by its recently disbanded “superalignment” team on a method for reverse engineering the workings of AI models (www.wired.com)
2024-6-7 AI

An investigation based on 22M+ flight coordinates reveals how the US' first police drone program, in Chula Vista, CA, impacts residents amid privacy concerns (www.wired.com)
2024-6-6 Drone

An excerpt from the book Dark Wire, which details how the biggest FBI sting operation ran the Anøm encrypted phone network to catch criminals like “Microsoft” (www.wired.com)
2024-6-5 Microsoft FBI

YouTube, the only major US platform available in Russia, has become a primary source of entertainment for many Russians, making a ban tricky for the Kremlin (www.wired.com)
2024-6-5 Russia YouTube Ban

An interview with Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on the Ace headphones, the controversial ground-up app redesign, expanding beyond speakers, and more (www.wired.com)
2024-6-4 Interview

A look at the “world's first beauty pageant for AI creators”, launched in April 2024 by creator platform Fanvue, after 10 semifinalists were announced on June 3 (www.wired.com)
2024-6-4 AI

Hands-on with Sightful's Spacetop G1, an AR laptop that pairs with XREAL glasses to offer a 100-inch virtual display, shipping in October 2024 for $1,900 (www.wired.com)
2024-5-30 AR

How the Integrity Institute, a nonprofit founded by two ex-Facebook staff to help tech companies create more welcoming spaces, lost control of its own culture (www.wired.com)
2024-5-30 Facebook

How researchers recovered access to ~$2M worth of bitcoin stored in a software wallet, using a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager (www.wired.com)
2024-5-29 Bitcoin

How SLMs like Microsoft's Phi-3, which can run locally on phones or PCs without big compromises, open up new AI use cases by being more responsive and private (www.wired.com)
2024-5-26 Microsoft AI

A profile of Lin Rui-siang, a 23-year-old Taiwanese accused by the US DOJ of running a $100M+ dark-web drug market who had an alter ego as a crypto crime expert (www.wired.com)
2024-5-24 Taiwan Darknet

Chinese automotive cybersecurity firm GoGoByte demonstrates a cheap and simple relay attack to unlock a Tesla Model 3 despite an ultra-wideband keyless system (www.wired.com)
2024-5-23 China Tesla

A review of privacy-focused /e/OS, a fully “deGoogled” OS based on the Android Open Source Project, that combines Micro G, to handle Google APIs, and LineageOS (www.wired.com)
2024-5-22 Android Google Open Source

An investigation into online ticketing service Eventbrite found 7.4K+ illicit listings, including illegal drug sales, some of which its algorithm recommended (www.wired.com)
2024-5-22 Algorithm

Google is rolling out a new AI-powered ad format that shows shoppers how items of clothing would look on different skin tones and body types (www.wired.com)
2024-5-22 Google AI

Anthropic researchers detail their attempts to peer inside the “black box” of LLMs, to find associations for a given prompt, which has largely been a mystery (www.wired.com)
2024-5-22

Google plans to test search and shopping ads in its AI Overviews, drawing from advertisers' existing campaigns; AI Overviews rolled out to US users last week (www.wired.com)
2024-5-22 Google AI

How Indian politicians are using deepfakes for voter outreach; an estimated 50M+ AI voice calls were made in the two months before the elections in April 2024 (www.wired.com)
2024-5-21 India AI

Despite some skeptics claiming that AI is an industry-wide delusion, last week's demos from OpenAI and Google show that the rate of AI progress is not slowing (www.wired.com)
2024-5-19 Google AI

OpenAI's entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups (www.wired.com)
2024-5-18 AI

A look at Maven, a new social network backed by Ev Williams, Sam Altman, and others, where users follow interests and topics instead of accounts (www.wired.com)
2024-5-17

An undercover investigation details working as a rotating cast of low-wage workers hired to pretend to be influencer girlfriends on OnlyFans (www.wired.com)
2024-5-16

Google says Circle to Search can now solve physics and math problems, and will expand later this year to diagrams and graphs, powered by LearnLM models (www.wired.com)
2024-5-15 Google Mathematics

Internal emails show how Evolv's gun-detection AI system made its way to NYC subway stations, despite the company saying it's not designed for that environment (www.wired.com)
2024-5-14 AI

As crypto flows into Tornado Cash despite sanctions, a look at the trial against its co-founder, who says he cannot prevent abuse of a system beyond his control (www.wired.com)
2024-5-14

Inside the Cult of the Haskell Programmer (www.wired.com)
2024-5-14 Haskell Programmer

Google unveils Pixel 8a with the Tensor G3 chip, a 6.1" 120Hz OLED with up to 2K nits brightness, and Gemini Nano access, shipping May 14 for $499+ (www.wired.com)
2024-5-8 Google

Amazon's hexacopter drones, planned for use in Tolleson, Arizona, can't operate when temperatures top 104°F, less than the average summer highs in the city (www.wired.com)
2024-5-8 Amazon Drone

Q&A with Ethereum co-founder and Consensys CEO Joe Lubin on Consensys' lawsuit against the SEC, implications of SEC classifying ETH as a security, and more (www.wired.com)
2024-5-7 Ethereum ETH

Q&A with Nick Bostrom on his book Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World, which considers a future in which AI solves all of humanity's problems (www.wired.com)
2024-5-4 AI

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