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04.14.24
SECURITY ROUNDUP | 4-MINUTE READ Roku Breach Hits 567,000 Users
BY ANDY GREENBERG AND ANDREW COUTS
Plus: Apple warns iPhone users about spyware attacks, CISA issues an emergency directive about a Microsoft breach, and a ransomware hacker tangles with an unimpressed HR manager named Beth.
CLIMATE CHANGE | 3-MINUTE READToronto Wants to Manage Storms and Floods—With a Rain Tax
BY ABDUL MATIN SARFRAZ
Outcry reached such a crescendo last week that the city canceled public hearings on the tax, which is intended to help offset the hundreds of millions spent managing stormwater and basement flooding.
FOIA | 5-MINUTE READElection Workers Are Drowning in Records Requests. AI Chatbots Could Make It Worse
BY VITTORIA ELLIOTT
Experts worry that election deniers could weaponize chatbots to overwhelm and slow down local officials.
DEEP DIVE | 8-MINUTE READThe Quest to Map the Inside of the Proton
BY CHARLIE WOOD
Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energies, forces, and pressures inside a subatomic particle for the first time.
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PRODUCT REVIEW | 5-MINUTE READReview: Range Rover Evoque Plug-In Hybrid
BY OLIVER HAZELWOOD
It's not as fuel-efficient as we'd hope for a hybrid, and there's an annoying lack of buttons inside—but the pluses outweigh the minuses for this fun luxury urban SUV.
GHOSTWRITER IN THE MACHINE | 3-MINUTE READStudents Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI
BY AMANDA HOOVER
Turnitin, a service that checks papers for plagiarism, says its detection tool found millions of papers that may have a significant amount of AI-generated content.
WRIST-Y BUSINESS | 2-MINUTE READOur Favorite Smartwatches Do Much More Than Just Tell Time
BY JULIAN CHOKKATTU
These WIRED-tested wearables reduce your reliance on a phone while keeping you connected.
BACKCHANNEL | 22-MINUTE READHe Emptied an Entire Crypto Exchange Onto a Thumb Drive. Then He Disappeared
BY JENNA SCATENA
Faruk Özer just started a 11,196-year prison sentence. Did he almost get away with the biggest heist in Turkey's history, or was it all just a big misunderstanding?
FICTION Six-Word Sci-Fi: Stories Written by You
BY WIRED READERS
Here's this month's prompt, how to submit, and an illustrated archive of past favorites.
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