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Interviews with 50+ current and ex-staffers reveal Google's two-year race to catch up with OpenAI, including through layoffs and lowering some guardrails (www.wired.com)
2025-3-22 Google Layoffs

Sources: Nvidia acquires Gretel, which offers synthetic data tools, for more than its most recent $320M valuation; Pitchbook: Gretel had previously raised $67M+ (www.wired.com)
2025-3-20 Nvidia

Current and former employees say the FTC removed 300+ business guidance blogs from the Biden era, including info on AI consumer protection and Big Tech lawsuits (www.wired.com)
2025-3-19 AI

Meta's effort to neutralize Sarah Wynn-Williams' book, filled with gossipy anecdotes, feels less about defending its reputation than a need to punish a defector (www.wired.com)
2025-3-15

The NIST's new directive to AI Safety Institute partners scrubs mentions of “AI safety” and “AI fairness” and prioritizes “reducing ideological bias” in models (www.wired.com)
2025-3-15 AI

Interviews with seven CISA employees describe how mass layoffs and weak leadership are taking a severe toll on the US government's cyber defense agency (www.wired.com)
2025-3-13 Layoffs

Jim Sanborn, creator of the Kryptos sculpture at CIA HQ, says he's frustrated with amateurs falsely claiming they cracked the 35-year unsolved code using AI (www.wired.com)
2025-3-8 AI

The DOJ charges 12 Chinese nationals, including PRC staff, alleging an espionage campaign hit US state and federal agencies, like the Treasury, and other orgs (www.wired.com)
2025-3-6 China

Human Security: 1M+ Android TV streaming boxes, tablets, projectors, and car infotainment systems are infected with malware that conscripts them into a botnet (www.wired.com)
2025-3-6 Android

Xiaomi launches the 6.36" Xiaomi 15 and 6.73" Xiaomi 15 Ultra in the EU and UK, offering the Snapdragon 8 Elite, 120Hz displays, and more, for €999+ and €1,499+ (www.wired.com)
2025-3-3 Xiaomi

Taara, a project under Alphabet's moonshot X lab, unveils a new silicon photonic chip that uses light to transmit high-speed data through the air (www.wired.com)
2025-3-1 Alphabet

How the NYC subway used Google's experimental, AI-based TrackInspect tool to identify 92% of defect locations on subway tracks later found by human inspectors (www.wired.com)
2025-2-28 Google AI

GPT-4.5, internally called Orion, is available via the $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro subscription; OpenAI researchers say it is huge and compute-intensive (www.wired.com)
2025-2-28

Investigation: criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar, where tens of thousands of people are enslaved, are using Starlink to get online (www.wired.com)
2025-2-28

An investigation identifies a dozen Telegram groups targeting women who joined “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” Facebook groups with doxxing, harassment, and more (www.wired.com)
2025-2-27 Facebook

A profile of Vladislav Klyushin, a Russian tech executive involved in a $93M insider trading scheme and released by the US in a 2024 prisoner swap with Russia (www.wired.com)
2025-2-26 Russia

A deep look at “The Zizians”, a cult-like group of young tech people exiled from Silicon Valley's rationalist community and allegedly linked to a killing spree (www.wired.com)
2025-2-23

How Breeze Liu, an advocate for digital abuse victims, got Microsoft to scrub 142 nonconsensual explicit images of her hosted on Azure after months of struggle (www.wired.com)
2025-2-21 Microsoft

Investigation: Google's Display & Video 360 ad platform lets users target Americans' sensitive personal data, despite Google's rules against such practices (www.wired.com)
2025-2-21 U.S. Google

Source: 19-year-old Edward Coristine and Kyle Schutt, both DOGE engineers, are now on staff at the CISA; Coristine was briefly an intern for Neuralink (www.wired.com)
2025-2-20

Signal updates its apps to add phishing protections after Google warned Russia-linked hackers are using fake QR codes to target Ukrainian soldiers (www.wired.com)
2025-2-19 Russia Google Ukraine

In a breakthrough, University of Oxford scientists sent the first quantum algorithm wirelessly between two separate quantum processors via particle entanglement (www.wired.com)
2025-2-19 Algorithm Quantum

Romance scams may rise as isolation grows and generative AI helps scammers scale; FBI says US victims lost ~$4.5B to such scams over the past decade (www.wired.com)
2025-2-16 AI FBI

A profile of Watch Duty creator John Clarke Mills, who wants the fire-tracking app to become a one-stop shop for information during any disaster (www.wired.com)
2025-2-15

Memo: CISA halts election security work and reviews related activities conducted since 2017, to comply with Trump's January 20 EO on “ending federal censorship” (www.wired.com)
2025-2-15 Trump

DOGE's Tom Krause, the US Treasury's new Fiscal Assistant Secretary, is still the CEO of Cloud Software Group; critics say it may be a conflict of interest (www.wired.com)
2025-2-15

Recorded Future: Salt Typhoon breached five more telcos and ISPs worldwide, including two US telcos, and 12+ universities in Dec-Jan by exploiting Cisco routers (www.wired.com)
2025-2-13 Cisco

Microsoft details BadPilot, an “initial access” team within the Russian hacking group Sandworm that targeted the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia in 2024 (www.wired.com)
2025-2-13 Russia Australia Microsoft Canada

In the past few weeks, the Trump administration replaced the CIOs of the OMB, OPM, and Department of Energy with Elon Musk- and Peter Thiel-aligned executives (www.wired.com)
2025-2-13 Trump Energy Elon Musk

Q&A with Binance CEO Richard Teng on Changpeng Zhao remaining the exchange's biggest shareholder, evolving Binance, external oversight, finding an HQ, and more (www.wired.com)
2025-2-12

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