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Lily Hay Newman

@lhn.bsky.social

Security reporter for WIRED Magazine. she/her/my man. Signal +1 (347) 722-1347

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Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 3h ago

NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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Leah Feiger@leahfeiger.bsky.social · 3w ago

There is no way that "278,000 noncitizens" are voting in US elections, as Trump claims in his speech. Its just not physically possible, as WIRED and other outlets have consistently reported. This is a scare tactic, and it's working. And the repercussions are endless:

Election Officials Are Getting Ready for ICE to Show Up at the Polls

The Trump administration keeps threatening to send federal agents to oversee elections. State and local officials are preparing, and even gaming out what happens if they're arrested.

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Andy Greenberg@agreenberg.bsky.social · 3w ago

San Francisco police accidentally livestreamed their drones’ video and data on the open web. The hours of footage—including several apparent arrests—should never have been made public, but now offer a glimpse of modern aerial urban surveillance. www.wired.com/story/sfpd-d... w/ @dmehro.bsky.social

A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance

The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos@vaspanagiotopoulos.com · last mo.

⚠️ @citizenlab.ca notes that whoever perpetrated the #spyware attacks on MEP Stelios Kouloglou would have potentially gotten access to internal information about 🇪🇺PEGA's activities & findings. ✍️ @lhn.bsky.social @mattburgess1.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/eu-pol...

EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones

“It is a direct attack on the rule of law,” says one European Parliament member of the new findings from Citizen Lab.

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Lily Hay Newman@lhn.bsky.social · last mo.

Amazing, but deeply sobering, insight into an AI predictive policing program and its impacts thanks to records requests and a full investigation by @mattburgess1.bsky.social and Mark Wilding www.wired.com/story/britis...

British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics.

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Lily Hay Newman@lhn.bsky.social · last mo.

OpenAI and Trail of Bits founding essentially an all hands on deck security consulting effort to give open source maintainers (who want it) some help preparing for The AI Cyber Reckoning www.wired.com/story/openai...

OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos

Amid concerns about AI models’ cybersecurity capabilities, OpenAI revealed an improved version of GPT-5.5-Cyber and its “Patch the Planet” initiative to fix open-source software bugs.

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Lily Hay Newman@lhn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The same data lays out a program of off-the-record sessions, including: 'Money (Does?) Buy Happiness,' 'Bring Back Nuclear,' 'Navigating WWIII,' 'Battlefield Technologies,' and 'How’s Your Sex Life?' Other talks include 'Build-a-Cult'" www.wired.com/story/leak-e...

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.

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molly taft@mollytaft.com · 2mo ago

NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xAI in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security lots of wild stuff in the filing:

DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit

In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI's polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.

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Lily Hay Newman@lhn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"WIRED reviewed hundreds of public Grok Imagine links hosted on Grok.com and found dozens led to sexualized AI images and videos, including those created without the subject’s consent." really difficult but important work from @mattburgess1.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/grok-i...

Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women

A WIRED investigation found dozens of “nudified” deepfake images and videos on Grok's website, including nonconsensual depictions of celebrities and at least one prominent US politician.

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Amy Maxmen, PhD@amymaxmen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pediatricians in Utah are trying to adjust to this sad, new reality. One doctor teared up talking about an unvaccinated toddler who died in her care from whooping cough. “It’s hard,” she said, “because I also see how much grief these parents are holding.” www.wired.com/story/anguis...

Anguished Parents, Crying Doctors: Life Amid Utah’s Measles Outbreak

The state’s outbreak means adapting to America’s new reality, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again.

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dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For nearly a decade, the Pentagon was warned—by its own contractors, analysts, and intelligence agencies—that anyone with a credit card could buy a map of where American troops sleep, work, and store nuclear weapons. Now the bill has come due in a war zone. My latest at @wired.com

The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are

The US military has long known that cheap fixes could stop location data from exposing its troops. It adopted almost none—and now says adversaries are using the data to target soldiers during a war.

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Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: As Trump continues to threaten Europe and Nato allies, no country has arguably done more to get off of US technology than France. The gov is building a full Office/Docs alternative. Lyon has moved 70% of staff away from Office. And open source is key. Story by me and @telliotter.bsky.social

The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech

France is already moving on from Zoom and Microsoft Teams in favor of homegrown alternatives. Other countries are quickly following suit.

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Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 3mo ago

For this.weekinsecurity.com, these are the most urgent threats facing the internet in 2026. From restricting access to abusing it for hacking and spying, these are the top six issues that everyone should think about. (And yes, one is Trump, but perhaps not for the reasons you might think.)

The most dangerous threats to the internet in 2026

From surveillance and choking online access to governments going rogue, these are the most pressing threats to face the internet and its billions of users today.

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Erin Vanderhoof@vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm really proud of this profile of A'ja Wilson I've been working on this spring!!!! She's *really* funny and I hadn't really seen that reflected in the other stuff I read about her, so I tried to capture it in here www.vanityfair.com/news/story/a...

A’ja Wilson Is Going for GOAT Status: “I Want to Prove That I’m the Best”

Whether she’s lobbing three-pointers or walking the red carpet, the WNBA’s four-time MVP doesn’t miss. We catch up with the queen of the court—and her king, fellow superstar Bam Adebayo.

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