Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth
…New York University professor and media critic Scott Galloway has been blunt about the way AI and algorithmic platforms are reshaping truth for Gen Z. He argues that AI-powered platforms like…
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Light Phone Is Making Its Dumb Phone More Useful With Third-Party ‘Tools’
…Other things people have been asking for include two-factor authentication apps and public transit apps. Light is also building new first-party Tools to test the developer kit, including a Signal…
A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool
The new approach is part of a series of measures Meta adopted as part of an AI-based security strategy designed to correct the limitations of traditional methods, which rely heavily on…
This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men
…of fake profiles isn’t new, “AI has made them more believable, and there has perhaps been an amplification of it.” Though many social media platforms, including Instagram, require creators to disclose…
Enclayve Is a Drab Black Box for Your Private Group Chats
…to get people on the platform. The first thing you have to do is the hardest: convince the people you love to download a new app. I hooked up an Enclayve and…
WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private
The idea of Incognito Chat is to create a way for WhatsApp to offer AI chat integration that does not conflict with the communication platform's commitment to end-to-end encryption…
Hackers Are Posting the Claude Code Leak With Bonus Malware
…Using basic Google searches, WIRED discovered flashcards made by users of the online learning platform Quizlet that contained gate codes to CBP facilities and more. In a rare move, Apple this week…
In a Big Reversal, Zohran Mamdani Tells NYC Agencies They Can Use TikTok
…The situation has also changed for the app. In January 2026, TikTok finalized a deal with the Trump administration to form a new US-based version of the company run by American…
A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale
…The group also tainted infrastructure from the web application security firm Checkmarx, hit the development server pgserve, and compromised the web app library TanStack as well as the enterprise AI platform Mistral…
Palantir Demos Show How the Military Could Use AI Chatbots to Generate War Plans
…How Palantir’s AIP Works AIP isn’t a stand-alone Palantir platform. Rather, it’s an application that can be used within an existing off-the-shelf system such as Foundry…