Until now, NASA has paid Boeing roughly $2.7 billion of the $4.6 billion total potential value of its commercial crew contract, according to Finch. The Starliner contract NASA awarded Boeing in 2014 originally had a maximum value of $4.2 billion, but contract modifications since 2014 have added $400 million to the deal. Most of the… Continue reading Boeing Starliner Returns Home to an Uncertain Future
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What Cancún’s Tourists Don’t See Is a Sprawling Concrete Jungle
This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish. The wide mowed lawns and leafy trees, the sports fields shining under their illuminated lights, the bouncy castles in the children’s play areas—especially the bouncy castles—are what Celia Pérez Godínez envies. These are the trappings of the wealthy neighborhood she travels… Continue reading What Cancún’s Tourists Don’t See Is a Sprawling Concrete Jungle
Here’s What Right-Wing Influencers Actually Talked About in Tenet Media Videos Allegedly Financed by Russia
In hundreds of videos since taken down by YouTube, right-wing influencers working for Tenet Media—a company the US Department of Justice alleges was financed and guided by a state-backed Russian news network—showed interest in a highly specific set of topics, according to a WIRED analysis. Using closed captioning of the videos we downloaded before the… Continue reading Here’s What Right-Wing Influencers Actually Talked About in Tenet Media Videos Allegedly Financed by Russia
Best Overlanding Gear (2024): Tried and Tested Storage, Shovels, and Coolers
Overlanding, off-road touring, four-wheeling—whatever you call it, traveling America’s back roads, the real back roads, the ones that aren’t paved and are rarely maintained, is an almost guaranteed adventure. Overlanding will take you out there, whether it’s Arizona’s famed Senator Highway, remote beaches in Mexico’s Baja peninsula, or rolling across the Australian outback. However you… Continue reading Best Overlanding Gear (2024): Tried and Tested Storage, Shovels, and Coolers
Why Super Typhoons Like Yagi Are More Common Than You’d Think
The year’s first super typhoon erupted over the steamy waters of the western Pacific Ocean on Thursday as Yagi churned toward an eventual landfall in southern China. Having formed as a tropical cyclone in the Philippine Sea on Sunday, the powerful storm peaked on Thursday afternoon local time with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph,… Continue reading Why Super Typhoons Like Yagi Are More Common Than You’d Think
YubiKeys Are a Security Gold Standard—but They Can Be Cloned
The YubiKey 5, the most widely used hardware token for two-factor authentication based on the FIDO standard, contains a cryptographic flaw that makes the finger-sized device vulnerable to cloning when an attacker gains temporary physical access to it, researchers said Tuesday. The cryptographic flaw, known as a side channel, resides in a small microcontroller used… Continue reading YubiKeys Are a Security Gold Standard—but They Can Be Cloned
DOJ: Russia Aimed Propaganda at Gamers, Minorities to Swing 2024 Election
The documents show that the orchestrators of the campaign targeted existing divisions within US society, using racist stereotypes and far-right conspiracies to target supporters of former President Donald Trump. ”They are afraid of losing the American way of life and the ‘American dream,’” Gambashidze writes in one document outlining his “guerilla media” plan. “It is… Continue reading DOJ: Russia Aimed Propaganda at Gamers, Minorities to Swing 2024 Election
Russia’s Most Notorious Special Forces Unit Now Has Its Own Cyber Warfare Team
Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, has long had a reputation as one of the world’s most aggressive practitioners of sabotage, assassination, and cyber warfare, with hackers who take pride in working under the same banner as violent special forces operators. But one new group within that agency shows how the GRU may be intertwining… Continue reading Russia’s Most Notorious Special Forces Unit Now Has Its Own Cyber Warfare Team
The Best Paper Notebooks and Journals, Tested and Reviewed (2024): Leuchttherm, Moleskine, Midori
Is there such a thing as the best notebook? Probably not. Notebooks are not a one-size-fits all commodity. If none of these quite tilt your pen, here are some general things to look for in a paper notebook. Paper quality: High-quality paper will improve your writing experience. That said, what constitutes high-quality paper depends a… Continue reading The Best Paper Notebooks and Journals, Tested and Reviewed (2024): Leuchttherm, Moleskine, Midori
Right-Wing Influencer Network Tenet Media Allegedly Spread Russian Disinformation
A Tennessee-based media network that produces shows for high-profile right-wing influencers such as Benny Johnson and Tim Pool was largely funded by Russian state-backed news network RT, according to a federal indictment against two RT employees that the US Department of Justice unsealed on Wednesday. The DOJ claims the US company—which WIRED, along with other… Continue reading Right-Wing Influencer Network Tenet Media Allegedly Spread Russian Disinformation