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Huge Trove of Nude Images Leaked by AI Image Generator Startup’s Exposed Database An AI image generator startup’s database was left accessible to the open internet, revealing more than 1 million images and videos, including photos of real people who had been “nudified.”

NEW: An AI image generator startup left its database exposed online, unsecured and accessible to anyone.

The "overwhelming majority" of the files inside contained nudity, with images appearing to contain children and explicit face-swaps

Warner Bros. Discovery Said to Be in Exclusive Talks With Netflix

Netflix reportedly poised to buy Warner Bros. studios and HBO Max www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...

What's Not Being Said about the Allleged Pipe Bomber - emptywheel The arrest affidavit for Brian Cole, now accused of laying the pipe bombs discovered on January 6, includes only purchase records and location information. It tells us nothing about who Cole is.

What's Not Being Said about the Allleged Pipe Bomber

www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/04/w...

FBI Says DC Pipe Bomb Suspect Brian Cole Kept Buying Bomb Parts After Jan. 6 The 30-year-old Virginia resident evaded capture for years after authorities discovered pipe bombs planted near buildings in Washington, DC, the day before the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack.

NEW: DC pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole allegedly kept buying bomb parts after planting two pipe bombs in DC ahead of January 6. @dell.bsky.social and @davidgilbert.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/fbi-sa...

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Is Detaining People for ICE Louisiana’s hunting and wildlife authority is one of more than 1,000 state and local agencies that have partnered with US immigration authorities this year alone.

NEW: Wildlife authorities in Louisiana are now detaining people for ICE—part of this year's nearly 700% expansion of the 287(g) program that deputizes state and local authorities to conduct immigration enforcement. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social w/ the scoop. No paywall: www.wired.com/story/story/...

Bryan Johnson Has Discovered Shrooms, and He Really Wants You to Know It The longevity entrepreneur’s five-and-a-half-hour livestreamed trip is antithetical to the introspective nature of the drug. But the stunt could reduce stigma around psychedelics.

I literally cannot imagine a worse shrooms scenario than livestreaming myself taking a hero dose and inviting MrBeast to show up www.wired.com/story/bryan-...

Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how.

NEW: A newly enacted NY state law requires retailers to reveal whether it used "surveillance pricing" to decide how much you pay for goods. Target, for example, shows the alert on a pop-up when you try to buy eggs online. @regret.bsky.social—@wired.com's new investigative data reporter!—reports:

DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.

NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”

The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens Practicing good “operations security” is essential to staying safe online. Here's a complete guide for teenagers (and anyone else) who wants to button up their digital lives.

ICYMI: This weekend, we published the @wired.com guide to digital opsec for teens (tho it applies to pretty much everyone!) We hope you and the kids in your life will read it and stay safe out there. No paywall! @lhn.bsky.social and JP Aumasson report: www.wired.com/story/digita...

black and tan german shepherd lays on a blue pillow on a bed with old-timey lady wallpaper in the back

someone’s tired from Thanksgiving

We, in fact, do.

Elon Musk Said Grok’s Roasts Would Be ‘Epic’ at Parties—So I Tried It on My Coworkers It went about as well as you’d expect.

I am one of those coworkers. Grok called me something like a "garbage bin lumberjack" (fair) and criticized my (perfectly normal) posture. Hilarious. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

The Destruction of a Notorious Myanmar Scam Compound Appears to Have Been ‘Performative’ Myanmar’s military has been blowing up parts of the KK Park scam compound. Experts say the actions are likely for show.

NEW: Myanmar made a big deal about a crack down on the notorious KK Park scam compound. Experts say it's mostly propaganda. @mattburgess1.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/myanma...

ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.

NEW: ICE has scrapped a previous $180M pilot program for tracking down immigrants for a no-cap program that offers up to $280M+ to individual surveillance firms, massively expanding its mercenary enforcement efforts. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-bo...

it’s a good face to know

Laying on a couch, a black-and-tan, plush-coat German shepherd takes some face pets in front of a stove.

Lucio wants you to know, it’s totally okay to go to bed early.

Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.

NEW: A copy of a letter from the Senate homeland security committee reviewed by @wired.com asks for documents linked to 300+ terms, including “mask mandates,” “origins of Covid-19,” “Trump voter," "red hat,” “sedition,” and much more. @awinston.bsky.social has the scoop www.wired.com/story/senato...

The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack Ever The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation.

The SEC just let SolarWinds off the hook for allegedly hiding vulnerabilities that were exploited in a major 2020 hack: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Read @kimzetter.bsky.social's deep dive for @wired.com on the SolarWinds breach here: www.wired.com/story/the-un...

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

"The new guidance says that if a 'potentially divisive' symbol is reported, supervisors should inquire about it. After consulting their legal office they may order the symbol’s removal but there’s no further guidance requiring that it be taken down." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I’ll have more on Tisch’s appointment in part III of my Mamdani & the NYPD trilogy but here’s a salient bit from part II (for @wired.com)

www.wired.com/story/welcom...

A screenshot of the Dallas Police incident report

A screenshot of the FBI report

Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.

CISA, eyeing China, plans hiring spree to rebuild its depleted ranks The agency will also change some of its workforce policies to avoid driving away talented staff.

Scoop: CISA plans to embark on a hiring spree and change some workforce policies in an effort to rebuild its depleted ranks ahead of a possible conflict with China, according to a memo from its acting director that I obtained.

www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-hi...

IRS Accessed Massive Database of Americans Flights Without a Warrant A bipartisan letter reveals the IRS searched a database of hundreds of millions of travel records without first conducting a legal review. Airlines like Delta, United, American, and Southwest are sell...

NEW: the IRS accessed a massive database of Americans flights without a warrant. Includes where and when someone flew, credit card used. Usually when the government gets this data from an airline it needs approval. IRS accessed a database it just paid for access to
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A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more.

NEW: Your phone number was probably exposed because of this WhatsApp flaw. @agreenberg.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/a-simp...

DHS Kept Chicago Police Records for Months in Violation of Domestic Espionage Rules The Department of Homeland Security collected data on Chicago residents accused of gang ties to test if police files could feed an FBI watchlist. Months passed before anyone noticed it wasn’t deleted.

NEW: DHS secretly obtained Chicago police data on 900 residents accused of gang ties. It was quietly deleted after intelligence officers violated rules against domestic spying.

The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.

This DOGE Whistleblower Is Running for Office WIRED spoke with Chuck Borges, the former SSA data chief turned DOGE whistleblower, who is running to represent southern Maryland in the state’s senate.

NEW: @wired.com spoke with Chuck Borges, the former SSA data chief turned DOGE whistleblower, who is running to represent southern Maryland in the state’s senate. @makenakelly.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/doge-w...

The Government Shutdown Is a Ticking Cybersecurity Time Bomb Many critical systems are still being maintained, and the cloud provides some security cover. But experts say that any lapses in protections like patching and monitoring could expose government system...

NEW: Experts say that any lags in protections like security updates and network monitoring caused by the government shutdown could lay the groundwork for future breaches. @lhn.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/the-go...

Social Security Employees Grill Management During Tense Shutdown Meeting WIRED obtained notes from a Social Security Administration management meeting, where employees pressed leadership on plans for the agency.

NEW: SSA employees are getting extremely worried about how the agency will continue to provide benefits to some 70 million Americans, according to meeting minutes obtained by @wired.com. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/social...

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Auburn University apologizes for accidentally sending shooter, tornado, hazmat alerts | Alabama Reflector Auburn University apologized Thursday afternoon for accidentally sending three emergency alerts to students and employees...

Via Anna Barrett: Auburn University apologized for accidentally sending three emergency alerts to students and employees about an active shooter, a tornado and a hazardous waste spill within the space of minutes early Thursday afternoon.