It’s no secret that the US Securities and Exchange Commission has been investigating Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange—which has no head office or formal address but processes $12 billion worth of cryptocurrency transactions per day. But the charge sheet filed today by the SEC in the District of Columbia contains a list of 13 alleged violations of securities laws,… Continue reading SEC’s ‘Scathing’ Charges Against Binance Deal a Big Blow to US Crypto
Author: Wired Magazine
Smartphone Giveaway: Samsung Galaxy S23 and Two Speck Cases
Samsung makes some of the best Android phones around, and the Galaxy S23 is one of our favorites. Good news! We’re giving a 256-gigabyte model away, along with two cases from Speck (usually worth around $940). The Galaxy S23 does not come with a phone plan, so you’ll need to supply your own. The Galaxy… Continue reading Smartphone Giveaway: Samsung Galaxy S23 and Two Speck Cases
Hacks Against Ukraine’s Emergency Response Services Rise During Bombings
internet infrastructure company Cloudflare has offered the free web security service Project Galileo for nearly a decade, giving human rights and public interest organizations around the world access to defenses against DDoS attacks and other common online hacking techniques. More than 2,271 websites in 111 countries now use the service, including 81 Ukrainian organizations, the… Continue reading Hacks Against Ukraine’s Emergency Response Services Rise During Bombings
When Not to Treat Cancer
In January 2021, mathematician Hannah Fry was diagnosed with cervical cancer. When she received her diagnosis, the oncologist told her there was still uncertainty whether the cancer was already at stage three and had spread to the lymph nodes. If it hadn’t, Fry’s chances of survival were 90 percent. If it had spread, however, those… Continue reading When Not to Treat Cancer
Audi Q8 E-tron 2023: Review, Prices, Specs
Maybe it’s the nature of the technology and the pressure of change, but EVs seem to age more rapidly than their now doomed ICE forebears. Can it really be five years since WIRED first tried the Audi E-tron? Almost. So it’s time for a major refresh, something this big Audi could really use as key… Continue reading Audi Q8 E-tron 2023: Review, Prices, Specs
The Messy US Influence That’s Helping Iranians Stay Online
Digital rights activists working outside the country to support Iran say the US government’s support of circumvention tools has been valuable. “It’s certainly true that they are by far providing the highest amount of support for the main VPNs used in Iran,” says Reza Ghazinouri, a strategic adviser at United for Iran, a San Francisco–based… Continue reading The Messy US Influence That’s Helping Iranians Stay Online
Let’s Make a Deal—With Python!
Our first task is to randomly choose a door for the prize. I’m going to use a random integer between 0 and 2. That’s three numbers: 0, 1, 2. (Like many programming languages, Python starts counting from zero.) After that, I need to randomly pick a number to represent the door the contestant chooses. Again… Continue reading Let’s Make a Deal—With Python!
Kaspersky Says New Zero-Day Malware Hit iPhones—Including Its Own
“The security of iOS, once breached, makes it really challenging to detect these attacks,” says Wardle, who was formerly an NSA staffer. At the same time, he adds that attackers would need to assume any brazen campaign to target Kaspersky would eventually be discovered. “In my opinion, this would be sloppy for an NSA attack,”… Continue reading Kaspersky Says New Zero-Day Malware Hit iPhones—Including Its Own
Meta Quest 3 VR Headset: Price, Specs, Release Date
If you’re in the business of selling VR or mixed reality headsets, the time to announce your new product is … now. Especially if you’re Meta. This morning the company showed off the Meta Quest 3, which is 40 percent thinner than the previous headset and contains twice the processing power, thanks to a new Snapdragon chipset… Continue reading Meta Quest 3 VR Headset: Price, Specs, Release Date
Do Sheep Dream of Electric Androids?
These two issues combined make some angles of exploring the question of human uniqueness in mental time travel a nonstarter. Even in the 2007 issue of Behavioral Brain Science, Suddendorf and coauthor Michael C. Corbalis got pushback, with some arguing that “searching for a yes or no answer to a question about human uniqueness is not a… Continue reading Do Sheep Dream of Electric Androids?