Inside the Microsoft team tracking the world’s most dangerous hackers
From Russian Olympic cyberattacks to billion-dollar North Korean malware, how one tech giant monitors nation-sponsored hackers everywhere on earth.
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Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation
The decision to block an “expert” level cyberattack has caused controversy inside Google after it emerged that the hackers in question were working for a US ally.
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The US is worried that hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade
The US government is starting a generation-long battle against the threat next-generation computers pose to encryption.
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This is how your brain makes your mind
Your mind is in fact an ongoing construction of your brain, your body, and the surrounding world.
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The hacker-for-hire industry is now too big to fail
This is a big moment of turbulence and change for the hacking business. But the demand is here to stay.
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“A grim outlook”: How cyber surveillance is booming on a global scale
New data paints a detailed picture of the ways Western companies are selling cyber weapons and surveillance technology to NATO’s enemies.
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Inside NSO, Israel’s billion-dollar spyware giant
The world’s most notorious surveillance company says it wants to clean up its act. Go on, we’re listening.
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The man who built a spyware empire says it’s time to come out of the shadows
Shalev Hulio, co-founder and CEO of NSO, says his industry is full of companies trying to avoid scrutiny.
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Inside the FBI, Russia, and Ukraine’s failed cybercrime investigation
Russia and Ukraine promised to cooperate and help catch the world’s most successful hackers. But things didn’t quite go to plan.
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Inside the machine that saved Moore’s Law
The Dutch firm ASML spent $9 billion and 17 years developing a way to keep making denser computer chips.
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The great chip crisis threatens the promise of Moore’s Law
A shortage of microchips threatens to slow the decades of innovation fueled by the promise of ever faster, cheaper computing power.
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Where computing might go next
The future of computing depends in part on how we reckon with its past.
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The Artificial Intelligence Database
The Artificial Intelligence Database: Explore the technology like never before with [WIRED’s] new database, which collects all of our stories on artificial intelligence and filters them by sector, source data, end user, company, and more.
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Quantum-Safe Trust for Vehicles: The Race Is Already On
Now that it seems quantum-computing capabilities could become commercially available within the next decade or two—likely in the form of cloud-based services—security professionals have turned with an intensified sense of urgency to the challenge of how to respond to the threat of quantum-powered attacks. One domain where this is particularly true is in the automotive industry, where cars now coming off assembly lines are sometimes referred to as “rolling datacenters” in acknowledgment of all the entertainment and communications capabilities they contain.
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The Complex Path to Quantum Resistance
This article provides a series of recommendations for [ICT executive] decision-makers, including what they need to know and do today. It will help them in devising an effective quantum transition plan [to quantum-resistance] with a holistic lens that considers the affected assets in people, process, and technology.
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AI Ethics: A Call to Faculty
To say that AI, today, is a technical discipline is entirely naive: it is a social, worldwide experiment. Our tools have teeth that cut into the everyday lives of all, and this leaves a collection of engineers and scientists in the awkward position of having far more impact on the future than is their due.
…But AI ethics is not the science of ethics, but rather shorthand for the notion of applying ethical considerations to issues surfaced by AI technologies: surveillance, information ownership, privacy, emotional manipulation, agency, autonomous military operations, and so forth.
Women’s Lives in Code
Like Ullman’s memoir, “Halt and Catch Fire” rebuts the technology field’s chronic sexism by allowing its female characters to be as interesting, talented, and flawed as any male antihero.
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The Lithium Mine Versus the Wildflower
The deposit could power millions of clean-energy car batteries. There’s just one roadblock: a rare, fragile species of buckwheat, for which a mine might mean extinction.
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Windows 11 Security — Our Hacker-in-Chief Runs Attacks and Shows Solutions
Many of the optional or high-end security controls from Windows 10 are now on by default and required on new machines with Windows 11.
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Amazon’s Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data
Voyeurs. Sabotaged accounts. Backdoor schemes. For years, the retail giant has handled your information less carefully than it handles your packages.
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