A look at the 2025 AI Film Festival, backed by Runway AI and screened by Imax; some cinephiles deride it while others say it's part of a natural tech evolution
From a POV butterfly larvae doc to something that resembled a perfume commercial, Runway AI's film festival selections did little to convince me of AI's artistry. Bluesky: @johnsemley3000 and @manisha...
An investigation identifies a dozen Telegram groups targeting women who joined “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” Facebook groups with doxxing, harassment, and more
A WIRED investigation goes inside the Telegram groups targeting women who joined “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” … Mastodon: @tansy@wandering.shop . X: @wired , @sarahjcamm , @sarahjcamm , and @sarahjca...
Investigation: criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar, where tens of thousands of people are enslaved, are using Starlink to get online
A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online. Bluesky: @malwarejake , @...
Signal President Meredith Whittaker says the company plans to support encrypted backups in 2025, and it costs ~$50M per year to run the encrypted messaging app
www.wired.com/story/big-in... Gloria / @gloriarheagrante : 🛰📶 “Signal knows who we are. Signal will continue being Signal. Signal has one thing we do, and we do it really well. And we do it pretty ...
A profile of ZachXBT, a twentysomething X user with 650K+ followers who tracks down crypto scams and thefts, and has received $1.3M+ in donations since 2021
He just untangled a $243 million bitcoin theft, what may be the biggest-ever crypto heist to target a single victim. And he has never shown his face. X: @a_greenberg and @zachxbt X: Andy Greenberg / ...
A profile of the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency, set up in February 2022 with an £800M budget for high-risk, high-reward science and tech projects
The Advanced Research and Invention Agency—ARIA—is the UK's answer to Darpa. But can it put the country back on the scientific map? X: @aria_research . LinkedIn: Clara Zabludowsky X: Aria / @aria_res...
A profile of Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, as the service fights existential battles over copyright, including from music labels like UMG
the crunchy side, before it got all tech bro. It's utopian, it's idealistic.” 🔗 https://www.wired.com/... Mastodon: Pete Ashton / @pete@social.coop : I am occasionally asked why I download and save ...
The former CEO of Everyday Robots, Alphabet's AI robotics moonshot that was shut down in January 2023, reflects on its start and efforts to give AI a robot body
As the head of Alphabet's AI-powered robotics moonshot, I came to believe many things. For one, robots can't come soon enough. X: @seankinneyrcr , @wired , @wired , @ieeefuturedir , @seankirmani , an...
Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the app's 10th anniversary, its EU focus, being a nonprofit, Pavel Durov's arrest, X, the US election, and more
On its 10th anniversary, Signal's president wants to remind you that the world's most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. Mastodon: @KathyReid@aus.social and @baldur@toot.cafe X: @a_greenbe...
IOActive researchers detail “Sinkclose”, a vulnerability in almost all AMD chips dating back to 2006 that allows attackers to run code in System Management Mode
Researchers warn that a bug in AMD's chips would allow attackers to root into some of the most privileged portions of a computer … X: @ioactive , @notolymp1a , and @a_greenberg Forums: r/hardware and ...