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Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem

Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.

UK public don’t trust Fujitsu, but government does

Computing

Quick poll reveals that the public mistrust Fujitsu two and a half years on from its public shaming

France Had Never Seen a ‘Fire Cloud’ Until This Month’s Record-Smashing Blazes

Science

Extreme fire conditions on the ground have created unprecedented conditions in the atmosphere.

New Firefighting Technologies Could Help Battle Blazes Like Those in France and Spain

Science

Climate change is upping the odds of major wildfires, creating a need for new tools to combat them.

DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’

Security

The outgoing executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics is one of very few federal officials to speak out against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results

Security

The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public.

Inside the Wild Rescue Mission That Took 4 Beluga Whales to Chicago

Science

Beluga whales were in danger of getting euthanized after a Canadian theme park went bust. WIRED spoke with some of the scientists behind the groundbreaking rescue mission.

Bahrain cannot claim sovereign immunity for spyware attack against UK dissidents, top UK court rules

Computing

The UK’s Supreme Court rules that Bahrain cannot claim sovereign immunity for infecting the computers of two UK-based dissidents with German-made FinFisher spyware.

Nvidia pushes ahead with security alliance for AI openness

Computing

Nvidia and several businesses have formed a cross-industry alliance to promote open, secure AI to improve cyber defences

This Is Donald Trump’s AI Brain Trust

Business

“It’s not an argument with two sides, it’s an argument with 10 sides,” one senior administration official tells WIRED about how US AI policy is being shaped.

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