Approximately 500 NIST staffers, including at least three lab directors, are expected to lose their jobs at the standards agency as part of the ongoing DOGE purge, sources tell WIRED.
A new document shows the Department of Homeland Security is concerned that Chinese investment in lithium batteries to power energy grids will make them a threat to US supply chain security.
Moldova is facing a tide of disinformation unprecedented in complexity and aggression, the head of a new center meant to combat it tells WIRED. And platforms like Facebook, TikTok, Telegram and YouTube could do more.
In an attempt to wrest control from raucous far-right hardliners amid the fight for a new House speaker, Republican Party leaders are instituting phone bans to keep backroom deals secret.
A βfriendlierβ front for racist extremism has spread rapidly across the US in recent months, as active club channels network on Telegram's encrypted messaging app.
Egged on by a far-reaching conservative media ecosystem, right-wing hardliners are forcing Washington to bend to their reality as the federal government careens toward a possible shutdown.
Social normsβnot lawsβare the underlying fabric of democracy. The Georgia indictment against Donald Trump is the last tool remaining to repair that which heβs torn apart.
The social media giant filed a lawsuit against a nonprofit that researches hate speech online. Itβs the latest effort to cut off the data needed to expose online platformsβ failings.
The US Congress is trying to tame the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. But senatorsβ failure to tackle privacy reform is making the task a nightmare.
Generative AI won't just flood the internet with more liesβit may also create convincing disinformation that's targeted at groups or even individuals.
Fresh claims from a former US intelligence officer about an βintactβ alien craft may get traction on Capitol Hill, where some lawmakers want to believe.
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