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Cybersecurity Protects Food, Agriculture
Protecting the U.S. food supply from cyberattack.
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Algorithms Should’ve Made Courts More Fair. What Went Wrong?
A 2011 Kentucky law requires judges to consult an algorithm when deciding whether defendants must post cash bail. More whites were allowed to go home, but not blacks...
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Mysterious iOS Attack Changes Everything We Know About iPhone Hacking
Google researchers discovered thousands of iPhones have been compromised with sophisticated spyware over the last two years, contradicting assumptions about the...
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The WIRED Guide to Cyberwar
The threat of cyberwar looms over the future: a new dimension of conflict capable of leapfrogging borders and teleporting the chaos of war to civilians thousands...
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Waze Data Can Help Predict Car Crashes, Cut Response Time
City leaders, academic researchers, and the U.S. Department of Transportation are working to predict car crashes and reduce emergency response times using data...
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Intel Flaw Lets Hackers Siphon Secrets From Millions of PCs
Intel and a coalition of security researchers have identified a new vulnerability in Intel's chips which could permit the theft of sensitive data from central processing...
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Machine Learning Can se Tweets to Spot Critical Security Flaws
At the endless booths of this week's RSA security trade show in San Francisco, an overflowing industry of vendors will offer any visitor an ad nauseam array of...
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Quantum Physics Could Protect the Grid From Hackers, Maybe
Cybersecurity experts have sounded the alarm for years: Hackers are ogling the U.S. power grid.
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How Russian Trolls sed Meme Warfare to Divide America
There's a meme on Instagram, circulated by a group called "Born Liberal." A fist holds a cluster of strings, reaching down into people with television sets for...
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Here's How Much Bots Drive Conversation During News Events
Last week, as thousands of Central American migrants made their way northward through Mexico, walking a treacherous route toward the US border, talk of "the caravan...
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Google Wants China. Will Chinese sers Want Google?
Google CEO Sundar Pichai was upbeat Monday when he told WIRED about internal tests of a censored search engine designed to win approval from Chinese officials....
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These New Tricks Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos, for Now
For weeks, computer scientist Siwei Lyu had watched his team's deepfake videos with a gnawing sense of unease.
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The Ick of AI That Impersonates Humans
Philip K. Dick was living a few miles north of San Francisco when he wrote Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which envisioned a world where artificially intelligent...
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How Russian Spies Infiltrated Hotel Wi-Fi to Hack Victims p Close
For years, the Kremlin's increasingly aggressive hackers have reached across the globe to hit targets with everything from simple phishing schemes to worms built...
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Mobile Websites Can Tap Into Your Phone's Sensors Without Asking
When apps want to access data from your smartphone's motion or light sensors, they often make that capability clear.
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Crispr's Epic Patent Fight Changed the Course of Biology
After three bitter years and tens of millions of dollars in legal fees, the epic battle over who owns one of the most common methods for editing the DNA in any...
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Hackers Can Steal a Tesla Model S in Seconds by Cloning Its Key Fob
Tesla has taken plenty of innovative steps to protect the driving systems of its kitted-out cars against digital attacks. It's hired top-notch security engineers...
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The Serious Security Problem Looming Over Robotics
They call it Herb2. It's a dapper robot, wearing a bowtie even while it sits at home in its lab at the University of Washington.
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How Hacked Water Heaters Could Trigger Mass Blackouts
When the cybersecurity industry warns about the nightmare of hackers causing blackouts, the scenario they describe typically entails an elite team of hackers ...
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This Bomb-Simulating S Supercomputer Broke a World Record
Brad Settlemyer had a supercomputing solution in search of a problem.
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