Plus: Iran shuts down its internet amid sweeping protests, an alleged scam boss gets extradited to China, and more. After a federal agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday, WIRED surfaced December federal court testimony from the reported ICE shooter, Jonathan Ross. In it, he said he was a firearms trainer and that he has had "hundreds" of encounters with drivers in a professional capacity during enforcement actions. Separately, we looked at how the tactics behind protest policing are moving toward intentional antagonism . If you haven't seen it, here's our guide to protesting safely in the age of surveillance .

Where Are All the New Cars? New cars were scant at CES this year, largely because the center of gravity for the auto world has moved--technologically and geographically--to China. This robotaxi built by Uber, Lucid, and Nuro was one of the few cars announced at CES, and it's not even one you can buy. Some years ago now, a very senior Mercedes executive in the US confided in me that CES was "the second-most important car show in the world, after Detroit." Before the auto world's full-on EV boom, this was quite the thing to admit--shocking, in fact--but it marked the subsequent carmaker takeover of the world's largest tech show. This year in Las Vegas, however, the cars were almost nowhere to be seen.

Musk says X outcry is'excuse for censorship' Elon Musk has said that critics of his social media site X are looking for any excuse for censorship, amid reports that X's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok was creating non-consensual sexualised images of people, including children. Ofcom says it is conducting an urgent assessment of X in response, which has been backed by Technology Secretary Liz Kendall. She described the sexual manipulation of images of women and children as despicable and abhorrent, adding that she would expect to see an update from Ofcom in days. X has now limited the use of AI image function to those who pay a monthly fee, a change dubbed by Downing Street as insulting to victims of sexual violence. The BBC has seen several examples of the free AI tool undressing women and putting them in sexual situations without their consent.

A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing. Among the vast and growing library of nonconsensual sexualized edits that Grok has generated on request over the past week, many perpetrators have asked xAI's bot to put on or take off a hijab, a saree, a nun's habit, or another kind of modest religious or cultural type of clothing. In a review of 500 Grok images generated between January 6 and January 9, WIRED found around 5 percent of the output featured an image of a woman who was, as the result of prompts from users, either stripped from or made to wear religious or cultural clothing. Indian sarees and modest Islamic wear were the most common examples in the output, which also featured Japanese school uniforms, burqas, and early 20th century-style bathing suits with long sleeves. "Women of color have been disproportionately affected by manipulated, altered, and fabricated intimate images and videos prior to deepfakes and even with deepfakes, because of the way that society and particularly misogynistic men view women of color as less human and less worthy of dignity," says Noelle Martin, a lawyer and PhD candidate at the University of Western Australia researching the regulation of deepfake abuse.

Romance and parenthood feel remote in Ukraine: 'I haven't had a date since before the war' Sitting in a wine bar in Kyiv on a Saturday night, Daria, 34, opens a dating app, scrolls, then puts her phone away. After spending more than a decade in committed relationships she's been single for a long time. I haven't had a proper date since before the war, she says. Four years of war have forced Ukrainians to rethink nearly every aspect of daily life. Increasingly that includes decisions about relationships and parenthood - and these choices are, in turn, shaping the future of a country in which both marriage and birth rates are falling.

Meta will finance Oklo's purchase of uranium for its reactors. It's a massive vote of confidence for both the startup and nuclear power, but challenges remain. There are two ways for tech companies to invest in nuclear power right now. One is to buy power from traditional reactors that are already built, either by purchasing electricity from the plants directly or financing the reconstruction of decommissioned units. The other is to invest in one of the dozens of reactor startups promising to commercialize designs and technologies never before used in the American market to generate electricity.

With great biological havoc comes great opportunity. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. About 445 million years ago, our planet completely changed. Massive glaciers formed over the supercontinent Gondwana, sucking up sea water like an icy sponge. Now called the Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME), Earth's first major mass extinction wiped out about 85 percent of all marine species as the ocean chemistry radically changed and Earth's climate turned bitter cold. However, with great biological havoc also comes opportunity.

Travel chaos warning as hazardous'radiation fog' alert is issued in three states Real reason Bill Hader and Ali Wong's two-year relationship ended: Insiders reveal open secret about him in Hollywood... his cruel nickname... and his month from hell after Reiner murders horror It's madness NOT to annex Greenland: SCOTT JENNINGS spells out, as only he can, why America must act... before its enemies strike Kendall Jenner finally breaks silence on the rumors she's secretly a lesbian Real reason ICE refused to let medics rush to aid of Renee Nicole Good after she was shot dead in her car... as shocking video spread like wildfire The foods that actually block the body from gaining weight... even in people who eat high-fat diets Shocking study linking covid jabs and cancer'censored' by mysterious cyberattack Peppers will help protect you from the'super flu'... but which color you eat matters I gave up a middle-class family life at 40 to become an escort. Years later I discovered a common condition that affects so many women was to blame. Painful cause of death revealed for adorable child, 4, found dead in the woods two miles from dad's home Insiders reveal how the Reiner family decided to ax'despicable' Nick's legal fund: 'He's on his own' No nonsense uncle humiliates rude women for singing and talking during Broadway performance of Mamma Mia! - then has them thrown out of theater The REAL Princess Catherine: On her birthday, an intimate portrait of her marriage, how she finally solved the Meghan problem, her brave cancer fight... and a thrilling new rumor about her in America'Best medical drama ever' rockets up the Netflix charts as'broken' fans left sobbing by'perfect' ending after binge-watching every episode Inside NASA's high-stakes plan to evacuate astronauts from the ISS after medical emergency NASA is preparing to conduct its first-ever medical evacuation from the International Space Station (ISS), activating a contingency plan to return a crew to Earth months ahead of schedule. The plan, developed decades ago for medical emergencies in space, has never before been implemented during an ISS mission, agency officials said Thursday. Under the program, the returning astronauts will seal themselves inside the capsule, undock from the ISS, perform a controlled departure and reenter Earth's atmosphere for a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast.

The tiny blooms of Dendrobium eruciforme, known as the caterpillar orchid due to its creeping habit and small size. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. It's easy to forget how much we still don't know about our planet's ecosystems . Every year, researchers identify thousands of plant and fungi species that were previously unknown to science. While it can be tough to highlight the most striking examples, an international team of scientists led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew) in London, have offered their personal picks for 2025.

Russia used its hypersonic Oreshnik missile in an attack on Ukrainian infrastructure. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for an international response.