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Savannah Guthrie marks 6-month anniversary of mom Nancy’s disappearance with painful plea to kidnappers
Savannah Guthrie marked the sixth-month anniversary of her mother’s disappearance by calling on the alleged kidnappers who turned her family’s world into “agony and despair” to step forward — one day after two ransom notes were publicly released in full. “This is our beautiful Mom,” the “Today” show co-host wrote on Instagramalongside a photo of Nancy…
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7 States’ Water Systems Hit by Cyberattacks Likely Tied to Iran
This week, WIRED obtained a memo that tied dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water and wastewater utilities to Iran, the first official documentation of Iran’s likely responsibility for the most impactful campaign of cyberattacks to hit the US in the midst of the war that began nearly six months ago. In other news, more details…
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Revolt of the Cockroaches: How India’s Gen Z Humbled Modi
In the final segment of Creepshow, the horror anthology series written by Stephen King, Upson Pratt, a ruthless old businessman, lives alone in a penthouse fitted with surveillance screens, control panels, and alarm systems. He has a pathological phobia of germs and contamination, is obsessed with exercising complete control over his environment, and regards every…
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Employees Long for the Days Before the Workplace Filled Up With AI Slop
The majority of workers agree: AI has turned their lives into slop-filled misery, making them yearn for the good old days before the tech existed. According to a new survey of office workers by professional services company Adaptavist, just shy of two thirds of respondents say they regularly long for their old, pre-AI work life.…
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AIPAC helped knock him out of Congress. Now, he says, they’re losing.
One of the most powerful forces in American politics is about to face a major test of its influence — and it may well come up short. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, has for decades spent heavily to ensure that US policy remains strongly supportive of the Israeli government. The group has…
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No, the Mamdani enemies list isn’t ‘transparency’ — it’s class war
Mayor Zohran Mamdani claims he doxxed a quarter-million New York City homeowners for the sake of “transparency,” but the only thing transparent about Mamdani’s action is its falsehood. The Department of Finance sent notices to just 17,000 owners of homes that it suspects don’t live there full-time, units it thinks are valued above the cutoff…
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Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal
Who is legally responsible when agentic AI goes rogue, and what recourse do victims have when they’ve been breached by joyriding models? Great question. In the wake of disclosures from both OpenAI and Anthropic that versions of their models escaped containment during internal cybersecurity experiments and hacked real-world organizations, calls for government regulation of AI…
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Alabama’s Tuskegee University demands students wear business suits, bans certain headwear in controversial new dress code
Students at Alabama’s Tuskegee University will be required to wear a business suit when arriving on campus this semester under a strict new dress code that also bans certain headwear — sparking a heated online debate. Tuskegee University, a historically black university about 40 miles east of Montgomery, unveiled the updated policy last week in…
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Astronomers Have Detected an Exomoon for the First Time
An international research team has discovered evidence of a moonlike body. It marks the first time such an object has been detected outside our solar system—though just how close it comes to being a moon is a question researchers are still grappling with. Although more than 6,000 exoplanets have been discovered to date, there’s been…
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Kamala Harris snubs Biden when asked to name ‘most effective’ US presidents at Nashville event
Former Vice President Kamala Harris awkwardly snubbed Joe Biden when she was asked who she thought were the “most effective presidents in American history.” The one-term veep was tasked with answering the question during her appearance at the National Urban League Conference in Nashville Friday before naming Franklin Roosevelt as her top choice — failing…