24 Apr US Special Forces Soldier Arrested for Polymarket Bets on Maduro Raid The master sergeant allegedly used classified intel to profit on the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, marking the first US arrest for insider trading on a prediction market.
24 Apr Rednote Draws a Line Between China and the World As the platform expands abroad, it’s taking steps to separate Chinese users from the international audiences it once brought together.
24 Apr Newly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Program—and Predates Stuxnet Researchers have finally cracked Fast16, mysterious code capable of silently tampering with calculation and simulation software. It was created in 2005—and likely deployed by the US or an ally.
23 Apr Scientists Gave Cocaine to Salmon and You Will Absolutely Believe What Happened Next After scientists exposed wild fish to cocaine and a cocaine metabolite, they observed that, as in the lab, fish on cocaine do not act like normal fish.
23 Apr US Senate Candidate Caught Insider Trading on Kalshi Says He Did It on Purpose Mark Moran, an underdog Senate candidate from Virginia, claims he wanted to get caught violating the prediction market platform’s rules.
23 Apr Sam Altman’s Orb Company Promoted a Bruno Mars Partnership That Doesn’t Exist “To be clear, we were never approached … nor were we in any discussions regarding a partnership or tour access,” a spokesperson for the artist tells WIRED.
22 Apr Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox The Firefox team doesn’t think emerging AI capabilities will upend cybersecurity long term, but they warn that software developers are likely in for a rocky transition.
22 Apr OpenAI Beefs Up ChatGPT’s Image Generation Model The ChatGPT Images 2.0 model is here. Our testing shows it’s better at creating more detailed images and rendering text, but it still struggles with languages other than English.
22 Apr Framework Has a Better, More Take-Apartable Laptop The company announced its new Framework Laptop 13 Pro, along with updates to its 16-inch model.
21 Apr A Humanoid Robot Set a Half-Marathon Record in China An autonomous robot from the company Honor ran a half marathon in 50:26, beating the human record by 7 minutes.
