jack Jack, I’m a WIRED writer who wrote a book about the cypherpunk movement and also wrote the 22,000-word cover story on a group of hackers we published less than six months ago: wired.com/story/mirai-un… Steven Levy, who wrote HACKERS in 1984 and WIRED's #2 issue cover story on the…

jack I encourage you to take just a little more time to keep reading beyond our (helpful) service journalism, Jack. On our home page right now:

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jack Thanks for your comments jack !

Here's our latest from our security team: A Vast New Dataset Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering: wired.com/story/ai-crypt…

But yes, if you are looking for suggestions on what to watch, we'll have those too!

Experts say Spamouflage Dragon, China's yearslong disinformation campaign targeting the US, has largely failed due to China missing cultural context and more (David Gilbert / Wired)

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Here are some of the AI-generated images China's state disinformation campaign has been spreading to trying and stoke division ahead of the up-coming US election.

Like all CCP influence operations over the last 7 years no real people have seen them...

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According to experts: It’s not the size that counts, it’s how you use it.

On Saturday night, this was painted 5 minutes walk from my house.

I will not be intimidated.

I will continue to oppose those who try to divide ordinary people and spread hate.

We need to unite against those who are actually responsible for housing, health and climate crises.

I think it's important that we take the potential threat of Chinese influence operations seriously... but the truth is (as far as we know) to date they mostly have been just a waste of Chinese taxpayers' money.

If you want to know why, read David Gilbert's story

Breaking my X hiatus yet again, this time to welcome Tim Marchman to WIRED where he is our new director of science, politics & security. An incredible journalist and our kind of nerd! To say I am excited about this is an UNDERSTATEMENT!

I had the great honour of speaking the immortal words 'May the deep dish bless you and keep you' on this week's episode of QAA Podcast where I spoke to Travis View and Daryl Carol Carl and Merle for 'Fear and Sheriffs in Las Vegas'

Give it a listen...

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Despite running for over seven years with millions of accounts on dozens of platforms, China's state-run disinformation campaign has been an utter failure.

I spoke to Elise Thomas and Clint Watts to try and figure out why.

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You may have recently seen headlines warning about the threat posed by China's disinformation campaign — which is now using AI.

But the reality is that AI or not, China has been historically terrible at influence operations like this

Here's why:

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Misinformation has created an alternative world for some Americans cnn.com/2024/04/28/pol…

I don't 'post on X' often, but dropping by to say that WIRED is hiring a Senior Reporter to cover China. More details at the link, please apply, please share:

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I know it's not really important, but I really want to know why this woman was dressed as if she was just out of bed?

This is just so deeply depressing....

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Want to come work at WIRED? We're hiring a reporter to cover China

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