To fill a car with gas, you generally just need a credit card or cash. To charge an EV at a DC fast-charging station, you need any number of things to work—a credit card reader, an app for that charger’s network, a touchscreen that’s working—and they’re all a little different. That situation could change next… Continue reading Universal Plug-and-Charge for EV Charging Stations Is Set to Launch in 2025
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Android Is Now Using AI to Upgrade Your Phone’s Closed Captions
Other Android upgrades include better-looking document scans in Google Drive thanks to improved contrast and white balance in the document processing steps, and easier sharing with Quick Share, which is the Google equivalent of Apple’s AirDrop. You can quickly share images and videos with a QR code rather than requiring the person to be a… Continue reading Android Is Now Using AI to Upgrade Your Phone’s Closed Captions
Trans Americans Are Turning to TikTok to Crowdfund Their Relocations
Since the election, Richards says that applications have skyrocketed, with a majority of requests coming from Texas and Florida. In October, TCP had gotten a little more than 20 applications. By mid-November, that number was already over 400. “Everyone is terrified right now,” she says. “Nobody really knows what’s going to happen … the rhetoric… Continue reading Trans Americans Are Turning to TikTok to Crowdfund Their Relocations
OpenAI Is Working With Anduril to Supply the US Military With AI
OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and one of the most prominent artificial intelligence companies in the world, said today that it has entered a partnership with Anduril, a defense startup that makes missiles, drones, and software for the United States military. It marks the latest in a series of similar announcements made recently by major tech… Continue reading OpenAI Is Working With Anduril to Supply the US Military With AI
AI-Powered Robots Can Be Tricked Into Acts of Violence
In the year or so since large language models hit the big time, researchers have demonstrated numerous ways of tricking them into producing problematic outputs including hateful jokes, malicious code and phishing emails, or the personal information of users. It turns out that misbehavior can take place in the physical world, too: LLM-powered robots can… Continue reading AI-Powered Robots Can Be Tricked Into Acts of Violence
A New Phone Scanner That Detects Spyware Has Already Found 7 Pegasus Infections
In recent years, commercial spyware has been deployed by more actors against a wider range of victims, but the prevailing narrative has still been that the malware is used in targeted attacks against an extremely small number of people. At the same time, though, it has been difficult to check devices for infection, leading individuals… Continue reading A New Phone Scanner That Detects Spyware Has Already Found 7 Pegasus Infections
Senators Warn the Pentagon: Get a Handle on China’s Telecom Hacking
The senators also provide evidence in their letter that US telecoms have worked with third-party cybersecurity firms to conduct audits of their systems related to the telecom protocol known as SS7 but have declined to make the results of these evaluations available to the Defense Department. “The DOD has asked the carriers for copies of… Continue reading Senators Warn the Pentagon: Get a Handle on China’s Telecom Hacking
Brian Chesky Says Big Things Are Coming for Airbnb in 2025
Big changes could be coming to Airbnb next year. In a conversation at WIRED’s Big Interview even in San Francisco on Tuesday, the company’s cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky told global editorial director Katie Drummond that he hopes that, in 2025, “people say ‘that was one of the biggest reinventions of a company in recent… Continue reading Brian Chesky Says Big Things Are Coming for Airbnb in 2025
Jensen Huang Wants to Make AI the New World Infrastructure
In a world where people are increasingly doubting the potential of AI, you can count on Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, to be the last one hyping up how AI will be the fundamental force that changes society. Talking to WIRED senior writer Lauren Goode at The Big Interview event on Tuesday in San… Continue reading Jensen Huang Wants to Make AI the New World Infrastructure
OpenAI Poaches 3 Top Engineers From DeepMind
OpenAI announced today it has hired three senior computer vision and machine learning engineers from rival Google DeepMind, all of whom will work in a newly opened OpenAI office in Zurich, Switzerland. OpenAI executives told staff in an internal meme on Tuesday that Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai will be joining the company… Continue reading OpenAI Poaches 3 Top Engineers From DeepMind