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An old Verizon demo app lurking deep in stock Android creates exposure for almost all Pixel phones. A fix from Google is coming but hasn't been pushed yet. And Palantir says it is concerned enough about the situation to ban all corporate Android devices wired.com/story/google-a…

Tigran Gambaryan is still in Nigerian jail as the country's courts adjourn for the summer. He has a herniated disc, can't walk, is on blood thinners for clots because he's bedridden. Also needs his tonsils removed due to throat infections. This can't go on. Bring Tigran home.

2. Veterinary medicine. Again, biased here--I have two elderly cats whose health I take very seriously. But I think there is room for a LOT of good writing on the veterinary industry, both when it comes to pets and to the food chain, pharma, etc.

Today marks six months that Tigran has been detained by the Nigerian government, now with his health failing in a notorious prison. His wife Yuki has released this video statement: youtube.com/watch?v=-rCDKY… Bring Tigran home.

Impressive that Apple's Private Cloud Compute rips out a lot of what makes web services reliable/functional/profitable in the name of security and just says we'll do it live 🤘 Spoke with Craig Federighi about how it's going and his dog's recent birthday wired.com/story/apple-pr…

Hackers showed me (there's video) how a web bug let them locate, unlock, honk the horn, start ignition of any of millions Kias in seconds, just by reading a car's license plate. They found similar bugs for a dozen carmakers over the last two years. wired.com/story/kia-web-…

Pig butchering scam operations, which often rely on human trafficking and forced labor, have broken out of SE Asia (Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos etc) and emerged in numerous other regions including the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America and West Africa wired.com/story/pig-butc…

NEW: In the wake of #Terrorgram charges and Pavel Durov's arrest, neo-Nazi groups are fleeing Telegram and have found a new home on an unknown, privacy-focused app called SimpleX. One of its investors is Jack Dorsey wired.com/story/neo-nazi…

thumbs down wired.com/story/internet…

"passkeys can make a real difference both for the digital security of individual people and for internet security overall. “There are a lot of vulnerable systems out there. ... You need to make it a lot harder for bad actors to defeat password schemes. You need to make

NEW: For the last 6 months I have been investigating the #constitutionalsheriffs and their growing links to the election denial movement. This is a warning that, 10 days out from the election, this group will to do anything to make sure Trump wins wired.com/story/constitu…

The DHS quietly warned this month that cybercriminals—particularly ransomware actors—are more likely than state-sponsored hackers to actually disrupt election infrastructure. A pretty disturbing benchmark from Lily Hay Newman and @dell.bsky.social wired.com/story/cybercri…

SCOOP: America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump. WILD story from Jake Lahut: wired.com/story/elon-mus…

Sophos detailed to me its 5-year cat-and-mouse game with Chinese hackers repeatedly exploiting its firewalls. The company resorted to installing spy "implants" on devices the hackers were testing on—tracing them to a university and contractor in Chengdu. wired.com/story/sophos-c…

Dutch researchers Midnight Blue found critical zero-click vuln in photo app enabled by default on Synology storage devices, putting millions of systems at risk of being hacked. They found Synology systems owned by police/law firms/critical infrastructure contractors all vuln

NEW: Black canvassers Elon Musk’s America PAC were tricked, threatened, and driven in seatless U-Haul vans. They were then fired after WIRED reported on their plight—without full pay or a way back home. scoop from Jake Lahut: wired.com/story/canvasse…

if you, like me, are sending good vibes out into the universe for Peanut (RIP) but also wondering what the FUCK is up with this fucking squirrel, Tori Elliott has you covered wired.com/story/elon-mus…

Sorry, but you’re gonna need this (no paywall) wired.com/story/the-wire…

Days before she resigned, Jen Easterly was steadfastly manifesting the future she wanted for CISA. But she was also clear: "Any stepping back of what we've put in place will be to the detriment of the safety and security of the American people" wired.com/story/big-inte…

Security flaws in a Subaru web portal let hackers unlock, start ignition or access a year of detailed location history for millions of cars. The flaws are now patched. But they revealed powerful tracking abilities that Subaru employees can still access. wired.com/story/subaru-l…