The U.S. government is surreptitiously collecting the DNA of world leaders, and is reportedly protecting that of Barack Obama. Decoded, these genetic blueprints could provide compromising information. In the not-too-distant future, they may provide something more as well—the basis for the creation of personalized bioweapons that could take down a president and leave no trace… […]
This article was taken from The WIRED World in 2016 — our fourth annual trends report, a standalone magazine in which our network of expert writers and influencers predicts what’s coming next. When most people think of cybercrime, they think of hackers raiding bank accounts, stealing identities and pilfering credit-card numbers. Ah, the good old […]
In the not so distant future, every object in your life will be online and talking to one another. It’ll transform the way we live and work – but will the benefits outweigh the dangers? If we think of today’s internet metaphorically as about the size of a golf ball, tomorrow’s will be the size […]
Remote-controlled aircraft and robot technology can be used for bad just as easily as for good. Americans know their government uses unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, on military and intelligence missions from surveillance to assassination. But drones are no longer the sole domain of the military, and just as with many new technologies, they […]
Criminals deftly exploit the data deluge. While businesses around the world struggle to understand the how to profit from the information revolution, one class of enterprise has successfully mastered the challenge—international organised crime. Though the recent theft and hacking of tens of millions of customer accounts at Sony has garnered much attention, the attack is […]
You thought you knew the Internet. But sites such as Facebook, Amazon, and Instagram are just the surface. There’s a whole other world out there: the Deep Web… It’s a place where online information is password protected, trapped behind paywalls, or requires special software to access—and it’s massive. By some estimates, it is 500 times […]
Crowdsourcing began as a legitimate tool to leverage the wisdom of the crowds to solve complex business and scientific challenges. This post originally appeared on O’Reilly Radar (“From crowdsourcing to crime-sourcing: The rise of distributed criminality“). It’s republished with permission. Crowdsourcing began as a legitimate tool to leverage the wisdom of the crowds to […]
Man or machine? The question is becoming harder to answer. Rapid advances in medicine are increasingly enabling the integration of information technology with biology. Each year, 300,000 Americans receive wireless medical medical devices including implantable medical devices (IMDs) such as cardiac pacemakers, defibrillators, cochlear implants, neuro-stimulators, as well as drug delivery systems such as insulin […]