McDonald's uses an AI bot called "Olivia" for hiring. A pair of hackers found they could access every conversation job applicants had with it—including all the personal info they shared—by exploiting security flaws as basic as using the password "123456". wired.com/story/mcdonald…

“Pretty uniquely dystopian compared to a normal hiring process, right? And that's what made me want to look into it more,” says Ian Carroll. “After 30 minutes, we had full access to virtually every application that's ever been made to McDonald's going back years.”

I have roughly zero interest in polo and related wealthy people drama, but this final feature by Matt Reynolds for WIRED about polo horse cloning is just extremely enjoyable and fascinating magazine writing.

On the one-year anniversary of CrowdStrike's disastrous crashes that took down millions of computers worldwide, a new study finds 750-plus hospital networks in the US were disrupted, and 200-plus appear to have had outages of patient medical services. wired.com/story/at-least…

Maybe you read our story about Akasha Song, who produced huge quantities of the psychedelic DMT, arguably helping to pave the way for legalization. Akasha has since been in a car crash and is fighting for his life. Those who want to help can give here: gofundme.com/f/help-akasha-…

AFP Journalists’ Association on reporters in Gaza: ‘Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can remember seeing a colleague die of hunger. We refuse to see them die’

Basic web bugs exposed virtually all user data held by Airportr, a premium luggage pickup service used by 10 airlines. Data included flight records, passports and much more. Samples I reviewed showed passports for US, UK and Swiss government officials. wired.com/story/luggage-…

Microsoft found Turla, Russia's elite FSB cyberespionage group, hacking foreign embassies' staff in Moscow by directly meddling with ISP traffic to infect targets with spyware that silently stripped away encryption on their communications and credentials. wired.com/story/russia-f…