Month: March 2015

About 5 billion people are mostly or entirely disconnected from the Internet. So to capitalize on this opportunity, Google and Facebook have begun high-profile campaigns to connect the unconnected.

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Nearly 18 months after the Silk Road online drug market was busted by law enforcement, the criminal charges rippling out from the case have now come full circle.

The post DEA Agent Charged With Acting as a Paid Mole for Silk Road appeared first on WIRED.

Over the last year, Reddit’s “dark net markets” discussion forum has grown into one of the central fixtures of the online drug scene.

The post Feds Demand Reddit Identify Users of a Dark-Web Drug Forum appeared first on WIRED.

On Friday Slack announced on its corporate blog that it was hacked over the course of four days in February.

The post Slack Says It Was Hacked, Enables Two-Factor Authentication appeared first on WIRED.

Michael Schroepfer, Facebook’s vice president of engineering, told developers that the company’s Oculus VR unit would get its PC-based virtual reality headset to consumers this year. That puts a lot of pressure on Oculus, which has also promised a smartphone-based version of its headset in the fall.

Over the last month, privacy advocates have slammed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, arguing that it’s surveillance legislation hidden in a security bill’s clothing. But those protests didn’t stop a Senate committee from passing the bill by a vote of 14-1. And now they haven’t stopped the House’s intelligence committee from following in the Senate’s […]

The post Privacy Critics Go 0-2 With Congress’ Cybersecurity Bills appeared first on WIRED.

The head of Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Lab foresees a day when we all have artificial helpers that understand us, all of the information in the world, and what we need to know next.

Another plane crash has many in aviation asking whether commercial flights should be required to transmit live data in real time.