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Six local police and eight HSI agents surveilled an April 2 Chicago talk by Minnesota activists, according to defense documents WIRED reviewed. The defense team for 15 activists facing federal felony charges released the four-page report in their case.
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WIRED identified eight comics whose viral stand-up clips were replicated by AI-generated women on Instagram. The platform's guidelines prohibit impersonation but do not extend to copied content that is not copyrighted, according to WIRED.
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MIT researchers found the best models they tested solved about 35% of theory problems in mid-2026, up from 2% in mid-2024. The study covers only theory fields that need no lab work, and one author says answers still need verifying.
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Formlabs now sells its first consumer resin printer, the $699 Form Studio 1, against $2,300 for its last affordable model, WIRED reported. It takes third-party resin, but the failure rate and certification Formlabs cites cover only its own.
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WIRED's reviewer says Nothing's Headphone (1) Pro belongs among the best from Sony, Bose and Apple after nearly a month of testing. The verdict is one reviewer's and comes with stated limits, so it fits some buyers better than others.
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Wired's reviewer says the $249 Friend 2 pendant spoke out of turn on a Zoom call and needed repeated deliberate taps to go quiet. The same review calls the new model milder than the original, so the off step is the part to test first.
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Delft University of Technology researchers fitted a palm-sized drone with two whiskers and flew it along transparent walls, Wired reported. False detections reportedly fell from about 38 percent to 0, in an arena far tidier than rubble.
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Princeton University's study found about 5% of nearly 3,000 new English Wikipedia articles from August 2024 contained substantial AI-generated text. Wikipedia had banned writing with large language models by March 2026, a Wired book excerpt reports.
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Super PACs in the Leading the Future network paid two Nevada LLCs about $33 million, according to WIRED's review of federal filings. The Campaign Legal Center alleges the LLCs hide the real payees, and the FEC has lacked a quorum to hear its complaint since May 2025.
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Judges in two states signed cell-site simulator warrants to locate a 21-year-old who helped produce Don Lemon's coverage, Wired reported. The records it reviewed do not establish that agents ever deployed one.
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Wired says Amazon's Kindle Aluminum has 32 GB, double the plastic model, but no warm light and no auto-adjusting light. The reviewer loves the color yet calls the upgrade hard to justify. The choice turns on which missing features you would use.
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At least one ICE agent fired seven rounds into a car holding a 5-year-old in Marble Hill, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. WIRED names the supervisor on scene as Brenden Cuni and cites federal rulings that found arrests involving him unlawful.
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At least 20 governor candidates have promised data center moratoriums, according to Multistate research cited by Wired. For teams counting on capacity that has not been built yet, where a site goes and who pays for its power are now campaign questions in several states.
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Australian company Apate runs about 350,000 AI bots that pose as scam victims for banks, its founder told Wired. Every scale figure comes from the company, so a fraud team weighing it should judge the bots on what their harvested data lets it block.
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Hinge is testing screenshot blocking in India on profile screens including Discover, Likes You and Standouts. Reactions Wired gathered split between relief at fewer profile dunks and worry for women who vet matches with friends.
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Meta's Muse agent refreshes dossiers on its users and the people they know every hour, TIME found in a review of the agent's internal instructions. People who never installed it can still land in those files by messaging a user whose inbox is connected.
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Tristan Harris's Center for Humane Technology is cutting about half its 16 non-founder staff and ending policy research and litigation work, Wired reported. Teams that build feeds and chatbots lose one of the groups that helped plaintiffs turn design critiques into court evidence.
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Otherlab has put the Lightfoot, a solar scooter that tops out at 20 mph, on sale for $4,495, with a $100 reservation. Founder Saul Griffith built it deliberately spare, betting that short-trip riders want fewer features.
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Bose's second-generation QuietComfort Headphones run 24 hours with noise cancelling, 11 fewer than Nothing and Sonos rivals, Wired's review found. For travellers who take calls on the road, that gap and poor call audio now offset a lighter, quieter headset.
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Apple says it will require 'very explicit user action' before a Mac app gets Full Disk Access, after Meta's Muse was told to map relationships hourly. The new control comes at the moment a user grants access, so backup tools and AI agents that rely on the permission should plan for a harder setup step.
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