Credit to Author: Joe Tidy| Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000
On Christmas Day in 2014 hackers knocked out the Xbox and PlayStation gaming networks, impacting how video game companies handled cybersecurity for years.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Dell Cameron| Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:24:17 +0000
A requirement that ICE agents ensure courthouse arrests don’t clash with state and local laws has been rescinded by the agency. ICE declined to explain what that means for future enforcement.
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Credit to Author: Caroline Haskins| Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:30:00 +0000
President Donald Trump has proposed building a massive antimissile system in space that could enrich Elon Musk if it materializes. But experts say the project’s feasibility remains unclear.
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Credit to Author: Matthew Gault| Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000
In the very near future, victory will belong to the savvy blackhat hacker who uses AI to generate code at scale.
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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Everyone knows what it’s like to lose cell service. A burgeoning open source project called Meshtastic is filling the gap for when you’re in the middle of nowhere—or when disaster strikes.
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Credit to Author: Jules Roscoe| Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000
The easy access that scammers have to sophisticated AI tools means everything from emails to video calls can’t be trusted.
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Seems bad out there. Unfortunately, it can always get worse. From evil hacker AI to world-changing cyberattacks, WIRED envisions the future you haven’t prepared for.
Credit to Author: Justin Ling| Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000
A major cyberattack on the US electrical grid has long worried security experts. Such an attack wouldn’t be easy. But if an adversary pulled it off, it’d be lights out in more ways than one.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000
GPS jamming and spoofing attacks are on the rise. If the global navigation system the US relies on were to go down entirely, it would send the world into unprecedented chaos.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000
A quantum computer will likely one day be able to break the encryption protecting the world’s secrets. See how much faster such a machine could decrypt a password compared to a present-day supercomputer.
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