An indictment from the US Department of Justice may have solved the mystery of how disgraced cryptocurrency exchange FTX lost over $400 million in crypto. The indictment, filed last week, alleges that three individuals used a SIM-swapping attack to steal hundreds of millions in virtual currency from an unnamed company. The timing and the amount… Continue reading China’s Hackers Keep Targeting US Water and Electricity Supplies
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The Hulu and Disney+ Password Crackdown Is Coming. Here’s What You Need to Know
Hulu and Disney+ subscribers have until March 14 to stop sharing their login information with people outside of their household. Disney-owned streaming services are the next to adopt the password-crackdown strategy that has helped Netflix add millions of subscribers. An email sent from “The Hulu Team” to subscribers this week and viewed by Ars Technica… Continue reading The Hulu and Disney+ Password Crackdown Is Coming. Here’s What You Need to Know
Apple Quadrupled Its Autonomous Driving Testing Miles Last Year
Apple’s secretive vehicle project doesn’t have much to show for its six years of work, at least publicly. But records submitted by the company to a California agency show that Apple went on an autonomous testing jag last year, almost quadrupling the number of miles it tested on public roads compared to 2022 and jumping… Continue reading Apple Quadrupled Its Autonomous Driving Testing Miles Last Year
FTX Says It Expects to Repay Customers in Full. Some Are Suing for More
A group of former customers of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX are rebelling against a proposed plan that would return the entirety of the money they lost. In a lawsuit filed this week, the customers argue they are due a whole lot more. The plan laid out by FTX in December to return customer funds does… Continue reading FTX Says It Expects to Repay Customers in Full. Some Are Suing for More
The Border Convoy Is Nearing Its Final Destination—With Vigilantes and Far-Right Extremists in Tow
Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and the late senator John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign running mate, introduced musician Ted Nugent, who called President Biden a “piece of shit.” Elected officials were also present: Republican Texas state representative Carrie Isaac repeated the conspiracy about “terrorists at the border.” She was introduced onstage by Chris… Continue reading The Border Convoy Is Nearing Its Final Destination—With Vigilantes and Far-Right Extremists in Tow
You Can’t Buy Lab-Grown Meat Even If You Wanted To
“The restaurant dinners we held at China Chilcano in Washington, DC, last summer went extremely well,” wrote Eat Just’s director of global communications, Carrie Kabat, in an emailed statement to WIRED. “We plan to resume these dinners this year.” Good Meat/Eat Just’s chicken had also previously been on sale in Singapore, but sales there have… Continue reading You Can’t Buy Lab-Grown Meat Even If You Wanted To
TikTok’s Missing Music Is Making Users Very Upset
#SwiftTok had a rough day. Early Thursday, after Universal Music Group and TikTok failed to reach an agreement on licensing music from UMG artists on the app, sounds from those artists—including Taylor Swift, Drake, and others—went silent. “Some of my most viewed videos are ones talking about Taylor Swift that have Taylor Swift songs in… Continue reading TikTok’s Missing Music Is Making Users Very Upset
The Mystery of the $400 Million FTX Heist May Have Been Solved
When more than $400 million worth of crypto was mysteriously pulled out of the coffers of what was once the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, on the very day that it declared bankruptcy in November of 2022, many initially suspected insiders at the company—including, potentially, then CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, now convicted of fraud. But clues… Continue reading The Mystery of the $400 Million FTX Heist May Have Been Solved
A Startup Allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then Came the Censorship—and Now the Backlash
Even so, a little more than two weeks after publishing its investigation into Appin Technology, on December 5, Reuters complied with the Indian court’s injunction, removing its story. Soon, in a kind of domino effect of censorship, others began to take down their own reports about Appin Technology after receiving legal threats based on the… Continue reading A Startup Allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then Came the Censorship—and Now the Backlash
I Tested a Next-Gen AI Assistant. It Will Blow You Away
The most famous virtual valets around today—Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant—are a lot less impressive than the latest AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT or Google Bard. When the fruits of the recent generative AI boom get properly integrated into those legacy assistant bots, they will surely get much more interesting. To get a preview of what’s… Continue reading I Tested a Next-Gen AI Assistant. It Will Blow You Away