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Boone Ashworth / Wired: A profile of Watch Duty creator John Clarke Mills, who wants the fire-tracking app to become a one-stop shop for information during any disaster  —  Watch Duty proved indispensable during the recent LA wildfires.  John Mills, the app’s creator, wants it to be the one place to go for tracking disasters.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years, WIRED has learned. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud …

The board of OpenAI unanimously rejected an unsolicited bid for the company launched by Elon Musk, saying it was a legal tactic not a serious offer.

Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube | iHeartRadio Kevin reports back from the A.I. Action Summit in Paris, where it was full speed ahead toward artificial general intelligence, with a conspicuous lack of action on the safety front. Also, Happy Valentine’s Day! We’re taking a look at A.I. on dating apps. First, our producer …

Rushil Agrawal / Android Authority TL;DR OnePlus and OPPO are reportedly dropping the alert slider from future flagships in favor of a customizable action button. A new leak has revealed that it may be called the “Magic Cube Key.” In addition to putting your phone in silent mode, this button will let you trigger the flashlight, take a screenshot, capture …

PYMNTS.com: London-based OneID, which provides bank-verified digital ID services, raised £16M led by ACF Investors, with participation from over 200 angel investors  —  United Kingdom-based OneID raised over 16 million pounds (about $20 million) to grow its bank-verified digital identity service.

So far the array has been tested in rats, with a version for dogs coming later, Lavella says. In a demo video viewed exclusively by WIRED, a Canaery scientist uses a wand to capture an air sample from four different petri dishes, each containing a different odorant. The wand beeps and sends the odor molecules through a tube to a …

The layoffs come even as the spaceflight company tries to scale up its operations to compete with SpaceX.

President Trump’s rapid-fire policy actions are reshaping the federal government, and to Fox News, they are simply pursuing “common sense.” Enacting “bold and sometimes painful measures” is worth it, one Fox News host said, to arrive at “common sense.” Mr. Trump’s term so far, another Fox pundit concluded, could be summed up with that simple catchphrase: It’s a “restoration of …

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR Some Samsung Galaxy S25 series owners have noticed that face unlock is much improved compared to previous phones. Our own brief testing shows that the Galaxy S25 face unlock was as fast as the Galaxy S24 Ultra’s solution. We’ve asked Samsung about this apparently improved face unlock. The Samsung Galaxy S25 series finally made …