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September is typically the time when television gets serious again. The summer’s biggest TV shows have aired their finales, the fall schedule is kicking into high gear, and streamers are rolling out everything from high-concept sci-fi to prestige dramas. There’s plenty of familiar IP in…
A set of parents and their children in Illinois and California filed a lawsuit last week in federal court in Chicago alleging that Meta illegally used their Facebook and Instagram photos to build NameTag, an unreleased face-recognition system for its smart glasses, and to train…
The US government launched at least three previously unreported investigations into trading on the prediction market Polymarket, according to documents obtained by WIRED through a Freedom of Information Act request. Voting records from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency that regulates prediction markets,…
It’s a game night for Aliso Niguel High School in Southern California, but this Friday, the booster club’s website posted a stark message about a former club officer indicted on charges of stealing more than $400,000 raised for the team. Smack above photos of players…
The CIA released 71 declassified documents related to the 9/11 attacks on Friday, the 25th anniversary of deadly Al Qaeda terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. The documents, which were posted on the CIA’s website, cover the period from February 1998 to Sept. 12,…
Follow live coverage of 9/11 memorial ceremonies 25 years later as Americans reflect on the attacks. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro urged Americans to be “active” in the effort to educate people who were either too young to remember the terrorist attacks of 9/11 or were…
Here at WIRED we’ve been trying to make sense of at least two incidents in the AI industry this week: First, the major fight over a million-dollar math problem and whether OpenAI surreptitiously borrowed the work of other researchers to solve the problem first. A…
WASHINGTON — When American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon’s western facade at 9:37 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, FBI agent Jack Hess rushed to the scene. His wife, Sandy Hess, also an FBI agent at the time, ran to pick up their 1-year-old son…
Follow live coverage of 9/11 memorial ceremonies 25 years later as Americans reflect on the attacks. Post-9/11 wars have cost lives around the world and far from the battlefield. According to Brown University’s Costs of War project, more than 940,000 people were killed by U.S.…
[Mina] These cyborg cockroaches could save your life. Small robots and drones are already employed by locating victims in locations that are too hard, or dangerous to send humans, like collapsed buildings. But what sets the so-called Paraborg apart is that it’s also designed to…