The Cop Who Took On Flock
…The woman later spoke with a sergeant, asking for the incident to be documented, and Pichardo was directed to write a report. According to the department's records, the delivery driver was…
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Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time
…The incidents revived a long-running debate over safety risks tied to proprietary, closed-weight models, whose inner-workings are a closely guarded secret. Mistral frames itself as the antidote: a Europe…
The Catastrophic Swatch x Audemars Piguet Launch Was Entirely Predictable and Utterly Avoidable
…threatening safety. “We are not animals,” crowd members were caught shouting on Instagram clips. London stores shut, and police dogs were deployed. Elsewhere in the UK, in Birmingham, news reports spoke of…
Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School
…As WIRED has previously reported, Alpha employs “guides” to oversee the classroom. These adults don’t teach academics themselves; they are meant to motivate students to complete lessons in personalized learning software…
What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out
…One player disagrees, arguing that the usual insurance model is that it’s the client who first reports an incident to the insurer along with a claim—not the other way around…
The ‘Manosphere’ Isn’t a Movement. It’s a Multibillion-Dollar Grievance Industry
…How Young Men Are Being Sold Fake Belonging and Fake Wealth Online,” researchers from the digital safety organization Reset Tech and the nonprofit Equimundo map how men are “algorithmically routed into paid…
Streamers Like Clavicular Are Humiliating OnlyFans Girls For Clout
…According to Ryder and Austin King, a reporter at the industry website Porn Crush who attended the party, a fight broke out, with partygoers screaming and running in various directions after someone…
San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores
…Previous reporting by WIRED and Indicator Media has uncovered incidents in at least 90 schools where deepfake sexual abuse images have been created of minors. “These images are used to bully, humiliate…
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
…official, or Flock Safety employee who wants to talk about the company? We’d like to hear from you. Using a nonwork phone or computer, contact the reporters securely on Signal at…
Her Brain Was Broken. It Was Fixed With Sound—Not a Scalpel
…The incident brought the trial to a halt for eight months while Rezai and the team consulted with their data safety monitoring board, the FDA, outside researchers, and the manufacturer of the…