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Apple’s HomeView Tries Face Authentication Without FaceID

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Apple’s HomeView Tries Face Authentication Without FaceID

Apple’s FaceID has long provided robust authentication. But for its smart home device, HomeView, the company is betting on new “person recognition” technology that has yet to be challenged in the wild.

Lily Hay Newman

Security Flaws Across UK Government Sites Exposed ‘God-Tier’ Information

Risky Business

Security Flaws Across UK Government Sites Exposed ‘God-Tier’ Information

Isabella Ward

A New AI Tool From Google DeepMind Proved the Signal Protocol Is Secure

Proof Positive

A New AI Tool From Google DeepMind Proved the Signal Protocol Is Secure

Lily Hay Newman

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Hugging Face’s CEO Says His P(Doom) Is ‘Close to Zero’

WIRED World Fair 2026

Hugging Face’s CEO Says His P(Doom) Is ‘Close to Zero’

Will Knight

Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features

Laying Low

Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features

Matt Burgess

A Supply Chain Attack Put Malicious Anthropic Claude Extensions on Thousands of Devices

Near Misses

A Supply Chain Attack Put Malicious Anthropic Claude Extensions on Thousands of Devices

Lily Hay Newman

The $6.3 Billion Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes

Quick Take

The $6.3 Billion Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes

Matt Burgess

A Hacker Targeted High-Stakes Poker Players With Malware That Exposed Their Cards

Tables Turned

A Hacker Targeted High-Stakes Poker Players With Malware That Exposed Their Cards

Ben Dowsett

Bluesky Is Blocking Links to a Major Leak of DHS Employee Records

ICE’d Out

Bluesky Is Blocking Links to a Major Leak of DHS Employee Records

Dhruv Mehrotra, Maddy Varner, and Dell Cameron

Most Servers on the Planet Are Vulnerable to This Firmware Code-Execution Flaw

Bet Your Boots

Most Servers on the Planet Are Vulnerable to This Firmware Code-Execution Flaw

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers—Including Undercover ICE Agents

Going Public

Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers—Including Undercover ICE Agents

Dhruv Mehrotra, Maddy Varner, and Dell Cameron

UK Politician Jess Asato Got Deepfaked. Now She’s Taking xAI to Court

The Big Interview

UK Politician Jess Asato Got Deepfaked. Now She’s Taking xAI to Court

Rosie Swash

The US Government Is Hiding a Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies on Americans

Need to Know

The US Government Is Hiding a Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies on Americans

Dell Cameron

The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable

Kernel Panic

The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable

Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched

Early Access

Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched

Lily Hay Newman

‘This Is Not a Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire

Update Now

‘This Is Not a Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire

Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackers

Acting Dodgy

AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackers

Lily Hay Newman

A Design Flaw in Share Links Exposes Users’ Personal Conversations With Meta’s Muse

Sharing Is Caring

A Design Flaw in Share Links Exposes Users’ Personal Conversations With Meta’s Muse

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

She Was the DEA’s Premier Crypto Detective. The Clues Led Straight to Her Own Family

Moscow Mule

She Was the DEA’s Premier Crypto Detective. The Clues Led Straight to Her Own Family

Joshuah Bearman and Owen Long

WhatsApp Help Pages Leaked Hidden Instructions for a Meta Chatbot

Oops!

WhatsApp Help Pages Leaked Hidden Instructions for a Meta Chatbot

Matt Burgess

Encryption Is Getting Squeezed From All Sides

Kernel Panic

Encryption Is Getting Squeezed From All Sides

Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

‘Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads

Nowhere’s Safe

‘Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads

Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon’s Producer

Overkill

Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon’s Producer

Dhruv Mehrotra

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