Smiling Friends is going out on its own terms, without turning into another Rick & Morty.

TikTok refuses to confirm or deny that ICE is obtaining detailed information about its users via private data brokers.

A delivery driver posted a TikTok alleging she had been sexually assaulted by a customer. The deepfakes that followed reveal a growing digital blackface problem.

A delivery driver posted a TikTok alleging she had been sexually assaulted by a customer. The deepfakes that followed reveal a growing digital blackface problem.

Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.

Customs and Border Protection is asking companies to pitch tools for performing deep analysis on the contents of devices seized at the US border.

Research exposes how racial disparities in policing have created a pathway from routine life to permanent family separation for Black migrants.

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The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in a state...

“I turned on my camera and began recording. I didn’t know yet that the fire was burning the bodies of my neighbors’ children.”

As immigrants face threats under Trump 2.0, a scrappy movement of techies is creating real-time tools to resist.

Hearing scheduled for Friday as residents receive anonymous leaflets that downplay pollution dangers

Thousands of kids are stuck in immigration facilities—with no end in sight.

Organizers say they have less of a chance at making environmental reforms in the majority Black city than Musk and xAI do at causing harm

A document viewed by 404 Media describes ICE's plans to incorporate data from the Department of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) ...

Columbia University refused to retract its statement calling pro-Palestine protests “intimidation.” Now, the Trump administration is using it against Mohsen Mahdawi.

The necropolitics of Trump's attack on immigrants like Mahmoud Khalil: Death is the point.

Machine-made YouTube videos are racking up views while fooling the MAGA faithful.

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administrati...

Bluesky has been a safe haven for users fleeing X and Threads. But while there’s less hate, there’s also fewer lolz.

In Africa’s migration economy, women’s labor fuels households abroad while their own needs are sidelined at home. What does freedom look like when care itself becomes a form of exile?

New York City's law enforcement officials were some of the first to push the narrative that a mysterious and deadly Venezuelan gang was running amok, despite little evidence to back it up.

Donald Trump has ushered in his second term with a full-fledged assault on DEI programs and advocates for Palestinian rights. Both attacks should be understood within the long history of White…

WIRED has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in an infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji.

The FCC received 125 complaints about Kendrick Lamar’s concert, according to public records obtained by WIRED, with many focusing on the lack of white performers.

Western companies' one-size-fits-all AI strategies don't serve many of the world's populations. These African researchers are working to change that.

AI chatbots have their benefits, but only time (and more research) will reveal their full impacts on users.

Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Patrol accessing your data.

Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans could face deportation from April 24.

It's an AI privacy showdown. How much data does your favorite chatbot collect?

One lawyer called it a ‘feedback loop’ of surveillance.

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