The Alleged LockBit Ransomware Mastermind Has Been Identified

Matt Burgess

Law enforcement officials say they’ve identified, sanctioned, and indicted the person behind LockBitSupp, the administrator at the heart of LockBit’s $500 million hacking rampage.

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Top FBI Official Urges Agents to Use Warrantless Wiretaps on US Soil

Dell Cameron and William Turton

An internal email from FBI deputy director Paul Abbate, obtained by WIRED, tells employees to search for “US persons” in a controversial spy program’s database that investigators have repeatedly misused.

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OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn

Kate Knibbs

OpenAI released draft guidelines for how it wants the AI technology inside ChatGPT to behave—and revealed that it’s exploring how to ‘responsibly’ generate explicit content.

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How Not to Get Brain-Eating Worms and Mercury Poisoning

David Cox

Are you experiencing unexplained memory lapses or brain fog? Ever considered that you may have mercury poisoning? For RFK Jr. it was worse—he also had a brain parasite. Here’s how to avoid both (extremely rare) predicaments.

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Google’s New $500 Pixel 8A Smartphone Will Get 7 Years of Software Updates

Julian Chokkattu

While the price of these handsets has slightly increased since the first Pixel 3A in 2019, the new Google Pixel 8A seems to have everything you’d want in a smartphone at a palatable price of $499.

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The US Is Cracking Down on Synthetic DNA

Emily Mullin

Synthetic DNA could be used to spark a pandemic. A move by President Biden aims to create new standards for the safety and security of mail-order genetic material.

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