#wired.com. × China’s Salt Typhoon Spies Are Still Hacking Telecoms—Now by Exploiting Cisco Routers. Despite high-profile attention and even US sanctions, the group hasn’t stopped or even slowed its operation, including the breach of two more US telecoms.
#Feb.13.2025
#wired.com. × DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency. At least dozens of workers at the Technology Transformation Service were fired on Wednesday, a day after similar sudden cuts at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
#Feb.12.2025
#wired.com. × Revenge of the Covid Conspiracy Theorists. After years of GOP attacks on US health agencies, Trump appointees are poised to bring Covid-19 conspiracies to their leadership of US agencies. Federal workers are scared of what comes next.
#Feb.12.2025
#wired.com. × The GSA Plans to Sell Hundreds of Its Federal Government Buildings. The General Services Administration, staffed at its upper levels by Elon Musk associates, plans to sell 500-plus buildings—some of which house government agencies and the offices of US senators.
#Feb.12.2025
#wired.com. × A Hacker Group Within Russia’s Notorious Sandworm Unit Is Breaching Western Networks. A team Microsoft calls BadPilot is acting as Sandworm's “initial access operation,” the company says. And over the last year it's trained its sights on the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia.
#Feb.12.2025
#wired.com. × This Ad-Tech Company Is Powering Surveillance of US Military Personnel. In a letter to a US senator, a Florida-based data broker says it obtained sensitive data on US military members in Germany from a Lithuanian firm, revealing the global nature of online ad surveillance.
#Feb.12.2025
#wired.com. × Here's How All Online Maps Are Handling the ‘Gulf of Mexico’ Name Change. Google is among the first companies to change the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on its maps. Other sources for online maps have not yet followed Donald Trump's executive order.
#Feb.11.2025
#wired.com. × Federal Workers Launch New Lawsuit to Fight DOGE’s Data Access. The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed the complaint on behalf of US federal workers, arguing that DOGE’s data access is illegal and should be cut off.
#Feb.11.2025
#wired.com. × Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US. The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rights holders.
#Feb.11.2025
#wired.com. × NIH Funding Cuts Appear to Draw on Heritage Foundation Report That Blasts ‘DEI Staff’. In its notice outlining the large cut in university funding, the US National Institutes of Health seems to draw on a report from a conservative think tank that denounces the “political left.”
#Feb.10.2025
#wired.com. × US Funding Cuts Are Helping Criminals Get Away With Child Abuse and Human Trafficking. Services supporting victims of online child exploitation and trafficking around the world have faced USAID and State Department cuts—and children are suffering as a result, sources tell WIRED.
#Feb.10.2025
#wired.com. × The Untold Story of a Crypto Crimefighter’s Descent Into Nigerian Prison. As a US federal agent, Tigran Gambaryan pioneered modern crypto investigations. Then at Binance, he got trapped between the world’s biggest crypto exchange and a government determined to make it pay.
#Feb.10.2025
#wired.com. × The Rise of the Drone Boats. Swarms of weaponized unmanned surface vessels have proven formidable weapons in the Black and Red Seas. Can the US military learn the right lessons from it?
#Feb.10.2025
#wired.com. × A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
#Feb.07.2025
#wired.com. × The US Government Is Not a Startup. Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.
#Feb.07.2025
#wired.com. × Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi. The chatbot is part of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s ambitions to use AI and other technologies to cut costs and modernize the US government.
#Feb.07.2025
#wired.com. × The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did. Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.
#Feb.06.2025
#wired.com. × Feds Halt the National Electric Vehicle Charging Program. The US government has ordered states to retract their plans to build hundreds of federally funded EV charging stations, according to a memo obtained by WIRED.
#Feb.06.2025
#wired.com. × USAID Workforce Slashed From 10,000 to Under 300 as Elon Musk’s DOGE Decimates Agency. The US government’s primary foreign aid organization is losing the vast majority of its staff, forcing the agency’s lifesaving work to screech to a halt.
#Feb.06.2025
#wired.com. × The Untold Winners of the Trump Memecoin Frenzy. When US president Donald Trump launched his own cryptocurrency, he sparked a trading frenzy. A constellation of little-known crypto platforms quietly profited.
#Feb.06.2025
#wired.com. × More Than Mezcal: A Dive Into Oaxaca’s High-End Cocktail Scene. Using local ingredients like hoja santa, huitlacoche, insects, and a variety of mercurial spirits, bartenders in the Mexican city are testing the boundaries of flavor and presentation.
#Feb.06.2025
#wired.com. × Tariff Uncertainty Taxes the Auto Industry. For some in the car industry, the uncertainty surrounding a US-border trade war is almost worse than the tariffs themselves. If the tariffs go through, the costs might get passed down to buyers.
#Feb.06.2025
#wired.com. × DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers. Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
#Feb.06.2025
#wired.com. × US Shoppers Face Fees of Up to $50 or More to Get Packages From China. Consumers and small businesses are already feeling the impact of President Donald Trump's new tariffs, which eliminated a key trade exemption for parcels worth less than $800.
#Feb.05.2025
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