Emily Dreyfuss
WIRED
San Francisco, CA, United States
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This app cancels your free trials before you have to pay anything
The DoNotPay app's latest feature gives you a crafty digital credit card number you can use to sign up for free trials around the web and never get charged → Read More
Browser Extensions Scraped Data From Millions of People
Slack passwords, NSO spyware, and more of the week's top security news. → Read More
Palantir Manual Shows How Law Enforcement Tracks Families
An Apple Watch bug, a hackable hair straightener, and more security news this week. → Read More
In Defense of Mayonnaise
The internet's most hated condiment is entirely misunderstood. → Read More
The Mueller Report, Live: How Hollywood Tried to Save America
If only a staged performance were the answer to the country's problems. → Read More
Hackers Used Two Firefox Zero Days to Hit a Crypto Exchange
A ransomware haul, a border security leak, and more of the week's top security news. → Read More
What the Google-Genius Copyright Dispute Is Really About
Genius says it caught Google red-handed. Then the evidence disappeared. The real story is even more complicated. → Read More
Security News This Week: Telegram Says China Is Behind DDoS
Voting machine security gets a boost, Have I Been Pwned is for sale, and more of the week's top security news. → Read More
Security News This Week: A Teen Waltzed Into Mar-a-Lago
Google's ad-blocking backlash, a privacy lawsuit against Apple, and more of the week's top security news. → Read More
Snapchat Employees Reportedly Spied on Private Snaps
Baltimore ransomware, a Trump golf hack, and more of the week's top security news. → Read More
I'm Mad as Hell About Square's Shady Automatic Emails
Once you give your email to any Square vendor, you are defaulted into receiving automated receipts and promotions from every participating Square vendor you visit. → Read More
Melinda Gates Wants Tech to Wake Up to Women's Empowerment
The co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation talks to WIRED about what international aid can teach Silicon Valley, and why you should put down your phone. → Read More
Putin Will Put Russia Behind an Internet Curtain
Hacking big companies, building a better voting machine, and more security news this week. → Read More
'Game of Thrones': A Case Against Watching the Series Finale
How could anything matter now? → Read More
Hackers Found a Freaky New Way to Kill Your Car
Mueller report fallout, a biometrics database, and more of the week's top security news. → Read More
The Plan to Grab the World's Carbon With Supercharged Plants
Joanne Chory is tackling climate change as a biologist: by engineering plants to grab much more carbon from the air than they already do. → Read More
Scientists Need to Talk More About Failure
The most radical talk at TED 2019 wasn't about a miracle cure or a moon shot. It was about a balloon that popped. → Read More
You’re Not Getting Enough Sleep—and It’s Killing You
At TED 2019, neuroscientist Matthew Walker argued that sleep deprivation is having a catastrophic effect on our health and safety—here are all the ways. → Read More
A Wild Plan to Crowdsource the Fight Against Misinformation
One of the leading misinformation experts in the world has a few ideas for how everyone can help stop the spread of inaccuracies online. → Read More
TED 2019: Jack Dorsey Is Captain of the Twittanic
Twitter’s CEO continued his mea culpa tour at TED as the company announced it had finally started blocking abuse with AI. → Read More