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Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years
1+ year, 2+ week ago (128+ words) Records of these breaches have been available online for years and are accessible in commercial databases. Science of Identity did not respond to a request for comment. The Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency, the top US government authority on digital…...
People Are Paying to Get Their Chatbots High on "Drugs
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (781+ words) Petter Rudwall knows the idea of AIs becoming sentient and seeking to get high with code-based "drugs" seems "stupid." But the Swedish creative director couldn't get it out of his head. Rudwall's thesis is simple: Chatbots are trained on vast…...
Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1170+ words) On Easter Sunday, US Department of Agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins sent out an email titled "He has risen!" to the entire agency. In the email, Rollins calls the story of Jesus Christ the "greatest story ever told, the foundation of…...
Beer, Titties, Freedom: Inside the Worlds Toughest Off-Road Race
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (145+ words) Welcome to Hammertown, the temporary desert city that springs up every January for 16 days for an off-road race series known as King of the Hammers. Think Burning Man meets Mad Max, but sponsored by Monster Energy. As King of the…...
Unmasking the Paramilitary Agents Behind Trump's Violent Immigration Crackdown
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1382+ words) In the early morning last September 30, hundreds of federal agents swarmed the South Shore Apartments, a beige brick building on Chicago's South Side. As feds in body armor rappelled down from a Black Hawk helicopter overhead, others crashed through the…...
The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (142+ words) USA Today Co. , the publishing conglomerate formerly known as Gannet that runs both its namesake paper and over 200 additional media outlets, bars the Wayback Machine from archiving its work. "They're able to pull together their story research because the Wayback…...
Meet the Man Making Music With His Brain Implant
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (852+ words) Galen Buckwalter didn't hesitate to get a craniotomy in 2024 as part of a brain implant study at Caltech. The 69-year-old research psychologist wanted to contribute to cutting-edge science that could help other people with paralysis. Buckwalter has been a quadriplegic…...
Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (638+ words) Six Democratic lawmakers are pressing the nation's top intelligence official to publicly disclose whether Americans who use commercial VPN services risk being treated as foreigners under United States surveillance law'a classification that would strip them of constitutional protections against warrantless…...
A Billionaire-Backed Startup Wants to Grow 'Organ Sacks' to Replace Animal Testing
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (536+ words) As the Trump administration phases out the use of animal experimentation across the federal government, a biotech startup has a bold idea for an alternative to animal testing: nonsentient "organ sacks." New drugs are often tested in monkeys before they're…...
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here's Where It's Going Next
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (293+ words) Encuentra aqu" el art"culo en espa'ol. DHS, ICE's parent agency, did not reply to requests for comment. Records reviewed by WIRED show that the ICE surge team has successfully found spaces for ICE across the country. In addition to…...