How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE
‘I need to take these rockets to colonize Mars and that’s only going to happen through Trump.’ ” The massive-scale reduction in social services he is enacting through DOGE, Lepore thinks, is tied to this objective. “Although there may be billions of [people] suffering here on planet Earth today, those are miniscule compared to the calculation of the needs of the billions of humans that will one day ever live if we can gain escape velocity from planet Earth. . . . That is, in fact, the math that lies behind DOGE.”
Alito’s Emergency Deportation Dissent Misrepresents the Most Crucial Fact in the Case
The justice wrote that Trump administration lawyers “informed” a federal judge that “no” deportations “were planned to occur” on Friday or Saturday, so there was no need for emergency action. This was false.
An Even Dumber Idea Than Tariffs
If import taxes don’t rebalance the economy, will Trump try a partial default on Treasurys?
History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
Professor and authoritarianism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about dictators and fascism.
Trump-backed 'Olympics on drugs' could become reality
The Enhanced Games, where athletes are encouraged to take banned substances, have struggled to get off the ground. But that all seems to have changed since Trump's win. The latest investor of the Games is Donald Trump Jr., a sign that the Games could finally happen.
The FBI Can't Find ‘Missing’ Records of Its Hacking Tools
The FBI purchased of multiple hacking tools for $250,000 from anti-child abuse charity The Innocent Lives Foundation, founded by Christopher J. Hadnagy.
Tell Congress: No to Internet Blacklists
Congress is once again pushing dangerous website-blocking laws, including the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA). These bills would let copyright holders get court orders to block entire websites, without due process, based on nothing but a hollow promise not to abuse their new power.
Microsoft Recall on Copilot+ PC: testing the security and privacy implications
The local storage is now encrypted, but only with a PIN.
These users should make sure Recall is disabled:
- those in domestic violence and partner control situations
- journalists (and their confidential sources)
- minority at risk groups, e.g. Uyghurs
- politically exposed persons
- companies unless they’ve risk assessed the privacy implications
- people crossing borders into countries hostile to civil liberties, for example the United States of America
Thieves took their iPhones. Apple won’t give their digital lives back.
Thieves have learned they can extract more value from one if they learn their victims’ passcodes.
Once they have unlocked the stolen iPhone, the next step is often to change the password tied to a user’s Apple ID, making it harder to locate. And if a thief is thorough, they may create a "recovery key," disabling Apple’s usual account recovery process. Apple says “you’ll be locked out of your account permanently.”
Elon Musk Cuts Funding for Internet Archive
The nonprofit was halfway through an NEH grant of $345,000 when its funding was abruptly cut.
Fortunately, the Internet Archive has other independent streams of funding that will keep it afloat for now.