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Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and society.

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8:24

Facebook Says Encrypting Messenger by Default Will...

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2020/01/20

In March of last year, Mark Zuckerberg made a dramatic pledge: Facebook would apply end-to-end encryption to user communications across all of its platforms by default. The move would grant strong new protections to well over a billion users. It's also not happening any time soon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:06

A Facebook Bug Exposed Anonymous Admins of Pages

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2020/01/17

Facebook Pages give public figures, businesses, and other entities a presence on Facebook that isn't tied to an individual profile. The accounts behind those pages are anonymous unless a Page owner opts to make the admins public. You can't see, for example, the names of the people who post to Facebook on WIRED's behalf. But a bug that was live from Thursday evening until Friday morning allowed anyone to easily reveal the accounts running a Page, essentially doxxing anyone who posted to one. Learn

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8:58

The Mandalorian Is the Only Smart Soldier in the Star...

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2020/01/16

After nine Star Wars movies, two Star Wars stories, and countless TV show episodes, The Mandalorian has finally given us something utterly priceless. No, not Baby Yoda—although, yes, I would die for that damn thing. I refer to the Mandalorian himself: a protagonist who finally understands military tactics. He’s an expert at cover and concealment. He actually aims his shots. In the Mandalorian, the Star Wars universe for the first time has a character who engages in believable combat. Learn more

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6:27

Security News This Week: The FBI Wants Apple to...

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2020/01/15

After anxious days awaiting Iran's response to the US assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the country sent missiles flying at two Iraqi military that housed US troops—who knew about it well in advance, thanks to an early warning system that dates back to the Cold War. In a rare reversal from the norm, Donald Trump followed up by using Twitter to defuse tensions rather than escalate them further. Iran's still on a path to developing nuclear capabilities, but they won't get there any time soon. Learn

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11:10

All the Ways Facebook Tracks You—and How to Limit It

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2020/01/14

It won't come as much of a surprise that Facebook tracks you on its platform—that's why it can resurface your birthday photos from five years ago—but you might not yet realize the scope and the depth of its tracking all across the internet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:54

Amazon Takes a Swipe at PayPal's $4 Billion Acquisition

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2020/01/13

Days before Christmas, at the height of the last-minute holiday shopping rush, an ominous message appeared on Amazon.com. It warned shoppers who used a popular browser extension called Honey that the service, which promises to track prices and discount codes, was “a security risk.” “Honey tracks your private shopping behavior, collects data like your order history and items saved, and can read or change any of your data on any website you visit,” the message read. Learn more about your ad choices

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7:30

An Alleged Spy App Puts Apple in a Bind

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2020/01/10

Last month, both Google and Apple removed a popular social messaging app called ToTok from their official app stores. The decisions came after United States intelligence officials told The New York Times that the United Arab Emirates likely uses the app for state surveillance. The report and subsequent research also asserted ties between ToTok developer Breej Holding Ltd. and the Emirati government. But by Saturday, Google had quietly reinstated ToTok in its Play Store for Android. Learn more about

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7:32

Russia Takes a Big Step Toward Internet Isolation

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2020/01/09

Over the holidays, the Russian government said it had completed a multi-day test of a national, internal internet known as RuNet, a bid to show that the country's online infrastructure could survive even if disconnected from the rest of the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:04

How Iran's Hackers Might Strike Back After...

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2020/01/08

For years, US tensions with Iran have held to a kind brinksmanship. But the drone assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, widely understood to be the second most powerful figure in Iran, has dangerously escalated tensions. The world now awaits Iran's response, which seems likely to make new use of a tool that the country has already been deploying for years: its brigades of military hackers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:08

How the US Prepares Its Embassies for Potential Attacks

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2020/01/07

Tuesday’s attack by Iran-backed Shiite militia supporters on the US Embassy in Baghdad, followed by Friday’s US killing of top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, sparked fears of an intense escalation of hostilities in the region. Analysts say US embassies and consulates are prime targets in the wake of these events, and personnel could be in jeopardy. “Iran isn’t going to let this go unanswered,” notes security analyst Brett Bruen, a former US diplomat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:19

TikTok's First Transparency Report Doesn't Tell the...

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2020/01/06

Facing growing scrutiny over censorship and security concerns, TikTok is borrowing a few pages from a playbook now standard at many American tech giants, in an effort to earn the trust of US users and lawmakers. The Chinese-owned video app said in October it would invite outside experts to review some of its content moderation policies, just as Facebook and YouTube have in the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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18:43

The Most Dangerous People on the Internet This Decade

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2020/01/03

When this decade began, the ideal of the internet as a freewheeling intellectual playground remained largely intact: A medium that, after years of bubbly anticipation, had finally reached the mainstream and fulfilled its hype, bringing with it online marketplaces with infinite selection, viral videos, long-lost friends on Facebook, and even the hopes for new forms of protest and dissent against authoritarian regimes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:38

The Decade Big-Money Email Scams Took Over

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2019/12/31

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11:06

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Is a Lesson in...

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2019/12/27

For generations, millions of Star Wars fans have thought they were watching a good ol’ fashioned space opera. In fact, they’ve received a decades-long primer in geopolitics, warfare, and the tenets of leadership. This is on display again in the latest and final movie of the nine-film franchise, The Rise of Skywalker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:21

The Debate Over How to Encrypt the Internet of Things

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2019/12/25

Internet-connected gadgets like lightbulbs and fitness trackers are notorious for poor security. That's partly because they’re often made cheaply and with haste, which leads to careless mistakes and outsourcing of problematic parts. But it’s also partly due to the lack of computing power in the first place; it's not so easy to encrypt all that data with limited resources. Or at least that’s how the conventional wisdom goes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:26

Meet The Mad Scientist Who Wrote the Book on How to...

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2019/12/23

In 1986, Cliff Stoll’s boss at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs tasked him with getting to the bottom of a 75-cent accounting discrepancy in the lab’s computer network, which was rented out to remote users by the minute. Stoll, 36, investigated the source of that minuscule anomaly, pulling on it like a loose thread until it led to a shocking culprit: a hacker in the system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:29

WhatsApp Fixes Yet Another Group Chat Security Gap

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2019/12/19

One of the most popular features of Facebook-owned WhatsApp is group messaging, which turns the app's end-to-end encrypted chats into social groups that can include up to 256 participants. But recent stumbles in group chat security—including a bug that could have let a hacker crash the app entirely—have shown that WhatsApp may need to keep a closer eye on these communal hubs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:56

Chrome Will Automatically Scan Your Passwords Against...

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2019/12/18

Google's password checking feature has slowly been spreading across the Google ecosystem this past year. It started as the "Password Checkup" extension for desktop versions of Chrome, which would audit individual passwords when you entered them, and several months later it was integrated into every Google account as an on-demand audit you can run on all your saved passwords. Now, instead of a Chrome extension, Password Checkup is being integrated into the desktop and mobile versions of Chrome

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8:07

Why Ring Doorbells Perfectly Exemplify the IoT...

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2019/12/17

There's been a lot of creepy and concerning news about how Amazon's Ring smart doorbells are bringing surveillance to suburbia and sparking data-sharing relationships between Amazon and law enforcement. News reports this week are raising a different issue: hackers are breaking into users' Ring accounts, which can also be connected to indoor Ring cameras, to take over the devices and get up to all sorts of invasive shenanigans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:06

So Much For the Deep State Plot Against Donald Trump

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2019/12/16

Maybe, just maybe, there’s no Deep State plot to get Donald Trump after all. For more than a year, Trump’s backers have held out hope that a long-running investigation by the Justice Department’s inspector general would blow the lid off of a government-wide conspiracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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