Surveillance video shows the suspect in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a bicycle near West 85th Street in Manhattan after the killing. The speculation regarding the shooting of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson continues to run rampant. While this can be interesting, the truth is that the on-the-ground investigation will be far more prosaic than glamorous. It can be a daunting amount of information. As such, let's look at some hard data points that are likely jumping-off points for investigators who have to play the percentages (and some that are not): The idea that someone off the street can walk into a social club or call-a-guy-who-knows-a-guy who kills for a living is essentially a myth – I cannot recall one in my experience.

"This work represents a significant step forward in strengthening our information advantage as we combat sophisticated disinformation campaigns and synthetic-media threats," says Bustamante. Hive was chosen out of a pool of 36 companies to test its deepfake detection and attribution technology with the DOD. The contract could enable the department to detect and counter AI deception at scale. "This is the evolution of cyberwarfare." Hive's technology has been trained on a large amount of content, some AI-generated and some not.

Google is always developing fun, experimental AI use cases and letting users explore them on its Google Labs platform. Its latest experiment allows users to reimagine chess using Google's text-to-image generation technology. Last week, Google launched GenChess, a Labs web experiment that enables users to transform traditional chess pieces into anything they imagine using a text prompt, powered by a combination of Gemini Flash and Google's latest AI model, Imagen 3. Like all of the Google Labs experiments, GenChess is free to use. The custom chess pieces can be as elaborate or as simple as users want, with Google examples including a cactus, poodle, egg, tennis ball, rubber ducky, cactus, fuzzy pieces, and more, as seen below. Users can then use the newly designed chess pieces to play against virtual opponents.

As the sun sets on the Black Friday weekend there are still bargains to be found. Whether you are gift shopping for the holidays or treating yourself, we have all the best Cyber Monday deals for you. We worked tirelessly to filter the noise and tune into the sales worth your attention. So kick back and get ready to bag a bargain. Bringing decades of product testing experience, tempered by price-tracking tools, the WIRED team has cross-referenced our buying guide recommendations with the latest discounts to find only the very best Cyber Monday deals. Someone from the WIRED Reviews team has tested every product we list in our deals coverage, and we don't recommend anything we don't like. We always strive to find deals at their best price ever, or very close to it (some match previous discounts, but we have never seen them lower unless stated). We test products year-round and handpicked these Cyber Monday deals. To find you the best deals, we use a proprietary tool that scans prices on ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has built a sprawling security system to prevent violent forces from destabilizing society. A new wave of deadly attacks is putting pressure on officials to expand that surveillance state. China was stunned this month by its deadliest act of public violence since a string of terrorism strikes rocked the remote Xinjiang region in 2014. Dozens were hospitalized and 35 killed by the bloody car-ramming in Zhuhai city that was the culmination of a spate of violence this year -- mostly stabbings -- which have sparked nationwide anxiety. Xi responded to spouts of ethnic violence a decade ago by installing a network of facial recognition cameras, tightening Internet controls and expanding a national resident database.

We humans are simply too dumb to use passwords. A recent study from password manager NordPass found that "secret" was the most commonly used password in 2024. That was followed by "123456" and "password". So let's all give praise that the password is dying. Yes, we know that we should be using 20-letter passwords with weird symbols and numbers, but our minds can't cope.

Don't wait for Black Friday! Pre-Black Friday sales are already in full swing, and you can find deals on everything from home goods to home security systems. Maybe it's because people are becoming more privacy-conscious these days, but everyone seems to be doubling down on surveillance systems for their homes and vehicles. If you haven't seen that dash cam video of the staged car crash scam, you really should -- it's definitely a wake-up call for the need to document everything. These gadgets also make great gifts for the security-conscious folks in your life.

Most AI image generators have guardrails to prevent people from creating harmful images. However, BlackForestLabs's FLUX.1 platform does not, and -- combined with its realistic image generations -- has inspired viral image creations. Now, the model is getting a massive upgrade. On Thursday, the company announced FLUX.1 Tools, a suite of models that can help users modify images created with its FLUX text-to-image model, offering more options for image control and manipulation. The four features of this suite include Fill, Depth, Canny, and Redux.

SAVE 46%: The Google Nest Video Doorbell (Wired, 2nd Gen, Snow) is just 98 during the Amazon Black Friday event, down from the typical price of 179.99. That's a savings of 81.99 and the best price we've seen at Amazon. Ready or not, it's time to shop for the holidays. Black Friday sales are well underway at Amazon and Best Buy, offering some of the best prices we've seen all year on some holiday must-haves. If you've been thinking about getting a video doorbell, there's a great deal in store at Amazon.

And soon enough, if Clear has its way, it may also be in your favorite retailer, bank, and even doctor's office--or anywhere else that you currently have to pull out a wallet (or, of course, wait in line). The company that has helped millions of vetted members skip airport security lines is now working to expand its "frictionless," "face-first" line-cutting service from the airport to just about everywhere, online and off, by promising to verify that you are who you say you are and you are where you are supposed to be. In doing so, CEO Caryn Seidman Becker told investors in an earnings call earlier this year, it has designs on being no less than the "identity layer of the internet," as well as the "universal identity platform" of the physical world. All you have to do is show up--and show your face. This is enabled by biometric technology, but Clear is far more than just a biometrics company.