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A group of tech-savvy Ukrainian soldiers is making drones and explosives to be used at the front line of the conflict in the country's Donbas region. JUAN BARRETO/AFP via Getty Images A team of young soldiers in Ukraine is building drones and explosives to be used on the front lines. They are creating drones loaded […]
Plus: An AI artist exposes surveillance of Instagram users, the US charges Iranians over a ransomware campaign, and more. https://media.wired.com/photos/6324fc19c9bb1af7ef2497da/master/pass/US-Border-Patrol-Data-Security-GettyImages-1083178844.jpg
Plus: Brazil and Apple face off, Google expands its eco-friendly Maps directions, and social sites start prepping for the US midterm elections. https://media.wired.com/photos/631bcb398990652479ff383f/master/pass/iOS-Android-Messages-Roundup-Gear-GettyImages-1399057481.jpg
Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell. Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters Goldman Sachs raised its forecasts for the size of Fed rate hikes at the September and November meetings. The investment bank late Wednesday said it now sees a September increase of 75 basis points and a November increase of 50 basis points. Fed officials have delivered hawkish […]
It’s a small but important change as Facebook is trying to make it easier for businesses to toggle between the company’s various apps.Read More
The Trudeau government is reaching out to popular YouTube hosts and bloggers to get its messages across to audiences that traditional communications strategies sometimes miss.
You no longer have to strike up a live conversation if you want voice chats on Instagram — the social network has launched walkie-talkie style voice messaging feature for direct messages. If you want to speak your mind, you only have to hold down a microphone button to record a message that your recipients (either […]
MediaPunch /IPX via AP Florida’s midterm elections have descended into chaos. The secretary of state ordered recounts in three races Saturday. A top election official said Sunday it would be “impossible” to meet the Thursday deadline. Political tensions have reached a fever pitch amid baseless claims of voter fraud from Republicans including President Donald Trump. […]
Enlarge (credit: Brian Smithson / Flickr) Police in the Netherlands said they decrypted more than 258,000 messages sent using IronChat, an app billed as providing end-to-end encryption that was endorsed by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. In a statement published Tuesday, Dutch police said officers achieved a “breakthrough in the interception and decryption of […]
The data appears to have been stolen with malicious browser extensions, and not by exploiting an issue with Facebook’s platform. https://media.wired.com/photos/5bdc96becacf35399586ee94/master/pass/fb_hack_browser_extension-FINAL.jpg
