Masayoshi Son Bets Billions on iPhone—3 Years Before It Happened
Ellison's home is actually more like a village, an elaborate compound of wooden houses modeled after Japanese imperial palaces. The 23-hectare estate took nearly a decade to design and build, including a lake and waterfall operated by an on-off switch. All buildings are constructed without nails and the mud plaster walls are designed to withstand a 7.3 Richter earthquake....
The first Bitcoin president? Trace Trump’s Crypto Connection
President Trump has surrounded himself with crypto enthusiasts. That is no coincidence. In 2024, the cryptocurrency industry is spending millions on friendly congressional candidates, many of whom are Republicans, and many crypto executives are endorsing Trump. Here, we've mapped the crypto-craziest members of the president's inner circle and the biggest donors to three pro-crypto super PACs: Fairshake, Defend American...
How Much Is Donald Trump’s Truth Social Stock Worth?
Over the decades, Donald Trump's literal fortune has ebbed and flowed. (Remember, six of his hotels and companies have filed for bankruptcy protection over the years.) But as he prepares to enter the White House for the second time, Trump has never been rich. His net worth, Forbes estimates, reached $7 billion this week, a meteoric rise largely thanks...
GitHub Deepfake Porno Crackdown Still Not Working
"When we see the abuse of intimate images, most of the private and weaponized use has come from the open source space," says Ajder. But it often starts with good developers, he said. "Someone creates something they think is interesting or cool and someone with bad intentions recognizes the potential for evil and uses it as a weapon." Some,...
Mira Murati’s AI Startup Makes First Hiring, Including Former OpenAI Executive
Jonathan Lachman, the previous head of special projects at OpenAI, recently left for a new artificial intelligence research lab founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, according to two people familiar with the discussions. It is the most high-profile hire Murati has made since leaving OpenAI in September last year to start a much-hyped venture, which focuses on the...
Xiaohongshu Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators
Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu—better known as RedNote—has been scrambling to improve its ability to moderate English-language content after hundreds of thousands of American users suddenly joined the platform in anticipation of TikTok's potential ban in the United States on Sunday. WIRED identified several job listings posted to recruitment platforms by tech outsourcing companies in China this week for...
Hackers Could Steal FBI Call Logs From AT&T That Could Damage Informants
US telecommunications giant AT&T announced a breach in July that involved phone and text messaging logs from six months into 2022 from "almost all" of its more than 100 million customers. In addition to exposing details of personal communications for several Americans, the FBI has been alerted that the agent's phone and text records were also included in the...
They went after Hawk Luck Crypto Promoters. Now They’re Suing Pump.Fun
Crypto investors have brought a class action lawsuit against Pump.Fun, a platform for launching and investing in meme-inspired cryptocurrencies, after suffering trading losses. by investors in December through memecoin opened by the web personality Haliey Welch, better known as Hawk Luck girl, which fell in value immediately after trading started. (Welch was not named as a defendant in the...
Nintendo Switch 2 Play Safely. That’s a Smart Choice
We also see an extra button on the right side of the Joy-Con, below the Home button. While this is unlabeled in the teaser, we can see some form of function "C-key", which Nintendo used in various forms in the N64 and GameCube in the past. It's also worth noting that the thumb is focused on the left side...
An Entire Book Is Written with DNA—and You Can Buy It for $60
As the rate of human data creation increases exponentially with the rise of AI, scientists have become interested in DNA as a way to store digital information. After all, DNA is nature's way of storing data. It encodes genetic information and defines the blueprint of every living thing on earth. And DNA is at least 1,000 times more compact...
