The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
…Employees who fell out of favor might get a “write-up”; at one point, WIRED was told, an employee was written up for being a few minutes late for work. People were…
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I Use Bluetooth Trackers Because I Never Know When I'll Have to Fly In a Prop Plane
…AirTags (and every other Bluetooth tracker) work by pinging devices that are on their respective networks. (Most Bluetooth trackers have a range of about 30 feet.) Airports are places that are generally…
Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School
…While Trilogy employees and contractors were working to bring the school up to code, more issues emerged. One of the school’s guides requested that sound-dampening privacy pods be installed in…
The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are
…Video 360 that singled out US government employees deemed “decisionmakers” working “specifically in the field of national security,” alongside lists targeting people who work for companies licensed to build missiles, space-launch…
Welcome to the Great American Satellite Age
…The goal is for the company’s Pulsar system to work with existing, everyday devices. Xona has announced deals already with governments and companies supporting farms and power plants with precision tracking…
Meta Is Shutting Down Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest
…VR efforts to be more competitive with companies working on VR. There is the Steam Frame headset, which Valve says is still on track to release this year; the Samsung Galaxy XR…
Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code
…including current OpenAI leaders and employees who participated with the company’s approval and others who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the inner workings of private companies. Their accounts…
Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI
…But Moxie knows what he's doing and has a solid track record.” The complexity of developing encryption schemes for AI platforms is a major hurdle, and much of the privacy work…
Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates
…This week, the company is letting go of roughly 10 percent of its workforce, which is about 8,000 employees total. It's the latest round of job cuts, adding to the…
You Probably Won’t Get Rich Off the SpaceX IPO
…Here’s how it works—and who it works for. The Inside Track Typically, the vast majority of retail investors wouldn’t be able to get in on an IPO at all…