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The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom

ZOË SCHIFFER

WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to “solve midlife problems using frontier tools.”

The Google Home Speaker Has Been Secretly Eating My Wi-Fi Data

NENA FARRELL

My Google Home Speaker had been burning through more data than all the rest of my devices combined. As I looked into it further, I found other smart home devices that had the same problem.

Disgraced eMudhra drops out of TLS business after using cert private key of 4

DAN GOODIN

Flubbed key signing "ceremony" allowed minting of web credentials for any site.

Leaked Mass Effect: Universe trailer gives a taste of what we're all missing

KYLE ORLAND

We can't have nice things, but at least we can get trailers for them.

Rivian buys world model startup to accelerate self-driving ambitions

KIRSTEN KOROSEC

Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO

JULIE BORT

Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the mostly highly valued private company ever.

What to Know About Shamonda Virus Following the First Reported Human Infection

FERNANDA GONZÁLEZ

Although the case is considered exceptional, investigators are working to determine how the infection occurred and whether the pathogen played a role in the patient’s death.

As blockchain investing falls out of vogue, a16z Crypto rebrands as a16z Frontier

MARINA TEMKIN

The digital asset unit, helmed by Chris Dixon, broadens its scope.

Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear

DOMINIC-MADORI DAVIS

Warhound, the brain child of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement.

Palmer Luckey Made a Genetically Modified Military Dog Startup

KATE KNIBBS

Warhound came out of stealth on Wednesday with $200 million in funding and a mission to create "elite working dogs" equipped with "advanced body armor."

Mark Zuckerberg’s creative plan to pay California’s proposed billionaire tax without losing control of Meta

LUCAS ROPEK

A newly launched stock class being offered was partially engineered to help Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pay the "billionaire's tax," should the measure be voted into law.

Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%

BETH MOLE

Markers released top-line results today after previously reporting the trial succeeded.

Comcast loses more customers, claims other ISPs' cheap prices are "irrational"

JON BRODKIN

Comcast plans job cuts and more AI agents for its shrinking cable customer base.

Switch 2 security takes a hit as hackers unlock homebrew access

KYLE ORLAND

"Userland" exploit relies on integer overflow found in "SmileBasic" interpreter.

Latest estimate for Starship launches required to support a Moon landing? 22.

ERIC BERGER

"We need to keep our eyes on numerous required fuelings for the lander."