Apple’s revamped Siri is more than a voice assistant; it’s now the backbone of the iPhone user experience. You can try it now through the iOS 27 public beta.
- Plus: Russian cyberspies turn to infrastructure hacking, DHS repeatedly fails to realize it’d been hacked, a breach exposes an AI music generator’s scraping ways, and more.
- This year’s World Cup has faced sweltering heat and humidity. Now it may need to deal with wildfire smoke.
- Now that Google has changed how its usage quotas are tallied, you might not get as many AI responses as you did before.
- “Context bombing” tricks malicious AI agents into shutting down before they can do harm.
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Amid DOGE, the CDC lab that responds to outbreaks of the parasite cyclospora was downsized from 11 people to just 3, the team's former leader tells @emilylmullin - WIRED reposted
NEW "The deep state is shitting a brick right now" - Alex Jones Election deniers are ignoring the lack of proof released during Trump's speech last night and claiming instead it paves the way for him to declare the Insurrection Act - WIRED reposted
Lyft's David Risher insists that his company is better and cheaper than "the other guy." Check out his plans to turn around Lyft's also-ran status. - WIRED reposted
NEW w/ @telliotter: ICE renewed its contract to buy data from Thomson Reuters at an upped rate of $25 million/year Now, ICE says, it has an urgent, “multiplied” need for data to ID “unaccompanied minors” and anyone involved with “fraud of government funds." Link in reply. - WIRED repostedOops!!! AWS's billing console had a glitch last night, causing tons of customers to get emails claiming that they owed the world’s 5th most valuable company billions upon billions of dollars : )
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NEW: Polymarket's Panama-based spin-off was created to adhere to the 2022 settlement it made w/ the government that banned it from the US. Weirdly, though, this Panamanian spin-off had employees in the US:
