Europe Gets Serious About Age Verification Online
…In short, Europe could become the first major policy laboratory where age verification stops being a formality and becomes a real infrastructure, with all the promise and—not to be overlooked—all…
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It Sure Seems Like These Instagram Ads Want You to Do Cocaine
…TikTok has a policy against marketing prohibited goods, and the accounts were removed after WIRED contacted the company for comment. Because Meta’s ad guidelines prohibit the encouragement of “the consumption of…
Here’s How Much San Francisco Tech Companies Pay for Police Protection
Airbnb and Salesforce are among businesses that for years have contracted San Francisco police to protect their offices on a regular basis, according to public records obtained by WIRED. Airbnb, for example…
AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics
…The new rules would have affected researchers at Chinese companies like Tencent and Huawei who regularly present work at NeurIPS. The database also includes entities from other countries such as Russia and…
When Satellite Data Becomes a Weapon
…What exists instead is a patchwork of commercial contracts, self-regulation, and individual judgment calls. Impact Reached the Cockpit The consequences of that vacuum don’t stay abstract for long. Flightradar24, a…
How Trump Helped China Make America’s Cheapest EV
…The industry’s pivot to more affordable batteries "is partly due to market forces and what consumers are requesting, as well as some of the regulatory and policy changes with the Trump…
Anthropic Confidentially Files for What Could Be the Largest IPO Ever
…But it spent more money on cloud computing and thousands of staff, leading to losses. Monday’s filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission allows regulators to give feedback on the…
I’m a Normie. Can Normies Really Vibe Code?
…Over the past couple years I’ve grown particularly fixated, personally and professionally, on what the policy world calls sludge: the rising tide of tiny administrative obligations that increasingly seems to define…
I Was Scammed Buying GLP-1s Online. I’m Not Alone
…drugs prescribed and shipped without patient consent, credit cards charged without direct authorization, inscrutable cancellation policies, and other automatic opt-ins that seem to typify telehealth frustrations. “It is an issue that…
Hasan Piker Built His Twitch Empire With Shure Microphones, Lumix Cameras, and Lots of Zyns
…I have a remote desktop setup, a remote IRL roaming setup, and the regular main studio I'm speaking from right now. With my regular main studio, I have four cameras and…