On Chinese social media, people have also reported experiencing variations of the scam involving other corporate software apps, including Webex, a video conferencing platform owned by Cisco, and Cliq, a workplace communication app owned by…
You may have noticed that Flock Safety’s automatic license plate reader cameras—and the cops who misuse them—are getting a lot of coverage lately. This week, WIRED found a particularly wild case: A cop in Alpharetta,…
Visualization of broadband flow stabilization by a super-resonant coiled phononic subsurface. Credit: Hussein et al./ CU Boulder New phononic subsurface designs could help control aircraft turbulence more broadly and predictably without reshaping the vehicle. At…
In recent months, there has been a surge in reports of police officers misusing automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) sold by Flock Safety to stalk former romantic partners—but details about these incidents are often scarce….
Alpharetta, a prosperous suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, is home to about 67,000 people, served by about 120 local police officers. It also hosts several dozen cameras sold by Flock Safety, the increasingly controversial surveillance company…
A new “markup” feature lets users “visually communicate” edits to Firefly by drawing onto an image, indicating areas to recolor, for instance. This makes it easier to direct the AI model compared to text prompts….
The newly created SiC junction transistor and its electrical characteristics from room temperature to 600°C. Credit: Science Graphics A new bottom gate design takes advantage of the intrinsic properties of SiC. For more than 20…
For years, China’s military and intelligence agencies, which carry out hacking campaigns against targets around the globe, have grown increasingly reliant on a vast web of proxy devices that enable and obfuscate their targeting. Now…
Watching the Watchers Months before the Hugging Face hack, OpenAI says, employees noticed that its agents had created a covert message board in the package manager Artifactory, which they would later use to coordinate their…
Perhaps seeking to grab the limelight from the Department of Justice’s ludicrously articulated antitrust suit against Apple, the European Commission this morning confirmed it will investigate the company, along with Google, Amazon, and Meta, for…
