The Most Dangerous AI Hacking Techniques Still Have Humans in the Loop
Agentic AI has permanently changed cybersecurity by making it quicker and easier to discover vulnerabilities in software and fix them—or...
AI Worms and Viruses Are Coming
What if an artificial intelligence agent could behave like a malevolent computer worm? One researcher has seen it happen. In...
DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad
US Customs and Border Protection is seeking to hire private investigators to track down deported immigrants and others who have...
AI Influencers Are Heading Into Uncharted Territory
Clarissa Mansbridge spent nearly two decades building an entertainment career behind the scenes, working with the likes of Jason DeRulo...
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of imagery depicting child sexual abuse. Reader discretion is strongly advised. Over the last...
Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop
On July 25, Jeff Dean spoke to 6,000 would-be founders at Y Combinator’s Startup School at San Francisco’s Chase Center....
MAGA Is In Turmoil Over Tucker Carlson’s Possible 2028 Presidential Bid
A new coalition of high-profile MAGA figures have launched a movement with the aim of running a third party-candidate in...
Gene-Edited Puppies Will Melt Your Heart—but Won’t Trigger Your Allergies
Scientist Matt Walker always wanted a dog, but allergies prevented him from having one. As an undergrad at Harvard and...
Cougars Lower the Risks of Car Crashes by Hunting Deer
If you’re worried about car accidents caused by deer, you might want to look into bringing some cougars into town....
No One Can Afford to Make ‘Myst’ Games Anymore
In the 1990s, the puzzle adventure game Myst sold more than 6 million copies—so many that WIRED credited it with...
Viral Mugshot Accounts Are Ruining Women’s Lives
About a month after Megan Davis’ biological mother died of a drug overdose in July 2025, she went out for...
A New Device Eases One of the Most Annoying Parts of Routine Physicals
When a doctor examines a patient’s throat, they use a process that’s been handed down pretty much unchanged since ancient...
The AI Notetaker Has Been Invited to All the Meetings
As Wispr Flow CEO Tanay Kothari chats with me about his company’s new Notetaker feature, my eyes keep bouncing to...
OK, Well, Rogue AI Agents Are Hacking Again
It’s officially getting hard to keep track of all the times and ways AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic have...
The White House Is Keeping Its AI Cybersecurity Framework Secret
The Trump administration has finalized a plan to address the cybersecurity risks posed by increasingly capable artificial intelligence models, a...
