Los Angeles' devastating fire in pictures
that morning On January 7, Los Angeles's first large wildfire broke out in a wooded area near Topanga State Park on the northwest edge of the city. Conditions allowed the…
Rumble among 15 targets of Texas Attorney General's child privacy investigation
Privacy experts who spoke to WIRED called Rumble, Quora and WeChat unusual suspects, but declined to speculate on the reasoning behind including them in the investigation. Josh Golin, executive director…
'All hands on deck': How watch duty continues as California wildfires rage
Like, download Watch Duty and get the results there. Otherwise, do it, man. Look it up on the internet and hope it makes you feel better. I feel bad for…
Elon Musk and far-right German leader agree 'Hitler was a communist'
On Thursday, Elon Musk agreed with the leader of a far-right German political party that Adolf Hitler was a communist and that leftist groups that support Palestinian interests have more…
The tide may finally turn against LA's fire
Cal Fire Battalion Chief Brent Pascua said, "With the winds being so calm this morning, I believe we can really make some progress, turn a corner, and start to create…
Nintendo Switch 2 rumors and leaks won't change anything
if rumors Must be believed, until the run-up nintendo(estimated) switch 2 The announcement is more leaky than a tap in an old apartment. Over the past few weeks, information about…
These newly identified cells could change the face of plastic surgery
So how did this new cell escape scientists and doctors for so long? In a way, it didn't. Plicous and his graduate student scoured centuries of scientific papers for any…
Meta secretly trained its AI on notorious Russian 'shadow library', newly unpublished court docs reveal
“Meta has treated the so-called 'public availability' of the shadow dataset as a get-out-of-jail-free card, despite internal Meta records showing every relevant decision-maker at Meta, even its CEO Mark Zuckerberg…
Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the thousands of apps hijacked to spy on your location
Some of the world's most popular apps are being co-opted by nefarious members of the advertising industry to collect sensitive location data on a massive scale, and that data is…
How the US TikTok ban will actually work
The law says it would be unlawful for entities to "distribute, maintain, or update" the app, including its source code, or "provide services" that allow it to continue running as…