A January 6 Rioter Is Leading an Armed National Militia From Prison
As the US election approaches, Edward “Jake” Lang says that the militia will focus on potential “civil unrest” around the ...
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Silicon Valley’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico
Bryan Hance was sitting in his basement one Sunday afternoon in June 2020 when he got an email about a secondhand bike for ...
Worried About AI Killing Art? This App Offers a Refuge—If Its Founder Can Keep the Lights On
Artists are fleeing Meta’s platforms over fears their work will be used to train AI. Photographer Jingna Zhang’s Cara ...
Medical-Targeted Ransomware Is Breaking Records After Change Healthcare’s $22M Payout
Cybersecurity firm Recorded Future counted 44 health-care-related incidents in the month after Change Healthcare’s payment ...
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An AI Bot Is (Sort of) Running for Mayor in Wyoming
Wyoming’s secretary of state wants the county to reject its candidacy, but the AI bot’s human “meat puppet” says everything ...
Behind That Viral LA Billboard That Trolled Microsoft and Other Game Companies
As big studios showed up in Los Angeles for Summer Game Fest, they were greeted by a message to recently shuttered developers ...
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The $50 Billion Musk Referendum
Elon Musk is a man comfortable with risky bets. He pledged to send 1 million people to Mars (SpaceX), to fill factories with humanoid workers (Tesla Bot), and to create a network of highways deep ...