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Dippy, a startup that offers “uncensored” AI companions, lets you peer into their thought process—sometimes revealing hidden motives.

The new frontier in large language models is the ability to “reason” their way through problems. New research from Apple says it's not quite what it's cracked up to be.

Global Intelligence claims its Cybercheck technology can help cops find key evidence to nail a case. But a WIRED investigation reveals the smoking gun often appears far less solid.

Bots that “remove clothes” from images have run rampant on the messaging app, allowing people to create nonconsensual deepfake images even as lawmakers and tech companies try to crack down.

Brazil’s Supreme Court has lifted its ban on X after the company paid a $5.1 million fine and blocked accounts accused of breaking the law.

Privacy activist Max Schrems has won another legal fight against Meta, this time limiting how the company can use off-platform activity—and public statements—to target ads.

After Telegram founder Pavel Durov’s arrest in France, the platform has made several changes that seemingly make it friendlier to authorities.

In the first half of 2024, the report says, X received nearly 67 million reports of hateful conduct, and took action on more than 2,000 accounts.

John Graham-Cumming, who happens to be Cloudflare's CTO, cracked a 30-year-old encrypted file that had a role in rewriting South Africa’s history.

She was the 20th hire at Google, then the head of Yahoo, and now the CEO of Sunshine. For Mayer, geekery supersedes gender.

The Irish capital's embrace of Big Tech is filtering through to its startups, who are building better tools for IT teams, AI content moderation tools, and RNA screening for herds of cattle.

The Spanish capital is drawing talent from Latin America, and its eye-catching startups are working on smarter payments, eldercare, and an AI-powered virtual nurse.

The ambitious identity-verification project Worldcoin, now called World, wants a future where humans are “orb-verified.”

Investors scooped up only a small number of the Trump family's new World Liberty Financial crypto tokens after website reliability issues interfered with a launch event.

The $4.4 billion in crypto is set to be the largest pile of criminal proceeds ever sold off by the US. The former IRS agent who seized the record-breaking sum, meanwhile, languishes in a Nigerian jail cell.

A new HBO documentary takes a swing at uncovering the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin. But without incontrovertible proof, the myth lives on.

Elon Musk's satellite internet company told the FCC that a few tweaks to its “orbital configuration and operational parameters” could result in nearly 10 times faster downloads.

As Israel intensifies its attacks on Lebanon, eerie messages have been arriving on the phones of civilians on both sides of the border, with authorities in each country accusing the other of psychological warfare.

For the past five years, Big Tech has faced a flurry of new rules and reprimands from Brussels. Now with a new team taking over the European Commission, relations may be entering a new era.

A US judge has overturned a moratorium that stopped gambling companies from letting people bet on election results.

At Meta’s Connect developer conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off Orion, a futuristic pair of smart glasses that the company hopes will lead the next foundational shift in personal computing.

The language Go hails from an era when programmers had smaller egos and fewer commercial ambitions. My generation of strivers has a lot to learn.

Some Apple analysts believe AI will spur a boom in iPhone sales. But not everyone’s buying the hype.

The Epic Games Store gives iPhone users in the EU an alternative to Apple’s App Store for the first time.

So much jamming is taking place in northeastern Norway, regulators no longer want to know.

Tesla’s troubled electric pickup is illegal in Europe, yet somehow a barely modified model has found a way to get licensed. A group of European transport organizations claim this ride could spell disaster.

As it becomes clear that climate change devastation can hit anywhere, engineers are considering how best to protect vital thoroughfares from intense storms.

Some owners of Tesla’s electric pickup truck paid for the feature when they purchased it last fall—and now it’s starting to kick in.