A Virginia startup calling itself Operation Bluebird announced this week that it has filed a formal petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office, asking the federal agency to cancel X Corporation’s trademarks of the words “Twitter” and “tweet” since X has allegedly abandoned them.“The TWITTER and TWEET brands have been eradicated from X Corp.’s products, services, and marketing, effectively abandoning the storied brand, with no intention to resume use of the mark,” the petition states. “The TWITTER bird was grounded.”If successful, two leaders of the group tell Ars, Operation Bluebird would launch a social network under the name Twitter.new,…
MITRE doesn’t crown winners. It doesn’t score products. And it doesn’t endorse vendors. That hasn’t stopped a familiar ritual from playing out each year when the MITRE ATT&CK® Enterprise Evaluation results are released: every vendor with a recognizable name finds a way to claim victory.Some highlight specific phases of the…
One afternoon in June 2024, I stood up against the fence of a sprawling industrial facility a few miles outside of Corsicana, Texas. Over a metal gate, I watched a bright yellow excavator claw at the dirt and flatbed trucks shuttle to and fro. A hangar-like structure with a gleaming…
Updated on Dec. 9 with another message attack now targeting users.America’s cyber defense agency now warns Google, Microsoft and Apple users to secure their accounts — change passwords, remove SMS two-factor authentication and add passkeys. But hackers are quickly evolving their attacks. Even a message from Google, Apple or Microsoft…
Alex Komoroske has always been at odds with Big Tech’s darker side. Though he cut his product-management teeth at Google and Stripe, he was never comfortable with the industry’s increasing prioritization of profits over people. Once during his time at Google, he extolled the societal benefits of a project only…
Unlike the impressive base iPhone 17, Apple’s iPhone Air has faced some early struggles with limited demand from buyers. But a new report suggests that lack of interest has translated into a historically low resale value for the ultra slim phone.Smartphone price comparison website, SellCell, has compiled resale data from…
The Trump administration may think regulation is crippling the AI industry, but one of the industry’s biggest players doesn’t agree.At WIRED’s Big Interview event on Thursday, Anthropic president and cofounder Daniela Amodei told WIRED editor at large Steven Levy that even though Trump’s AI and crypto czar, David Sacks, may…
Every year I conduct a year end review to understand the patterns that shaped our cybersecurity landscape. 2025 was very different. Things broke. Critical systems failed. Government oversight shifted in real time. Most importantly, Washington introduced a true enforcement mechanism for cybersecurity with meaningful financial consequences. The Department of Defense,…
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a cleaner way to make ammonia, some of the brightest young scientists in North America, magnetically charging your care, and more. To get The Prototype in your inbox, sign up here.Ammonia is a crucial ingredient for the planet’s food supply—more…
My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its parent, embryonic programmers form ineradicable attachments to the patterns and quiddities of their first formative language.For…
Updated Dec. 4 with more details of release date and pricing. The next Samsung smartphone has been revealed. The Galaxy Z TriFold is a folding phone with two hinges so its internal screen opens out to be the size of a 10-inch tablet. Here’s when it will arrive and how…
The alarm hasn’t yet reached the general public, but tension is beginning to build in the corridors of the aerospace industry, in microchip laboratories, and in government offices. For months, an element almost invisible to the world—yttrium—has become the silent center of a new global dispute. Supplies are thinning, prices…
The end of Thunderbolts revealed that Sam Wilson, the new Captain America, was assembling his own Avengers team in the wake of the old one disbanding, conflicting with the declaration that it was the Thunderbolts who were the new Avengers. But who exactly was going to be on Sam’s team…
Flock, the automatic license plate reader and AI-powered camera company, uses overseas workers from Upwork to train its machine learning algorithms, with training material telling workers how to review and categorize footage including images people and vehicles in the United States, according to material reviewed by 404 Media that was…
Cyber Monday 2025 just became the biggest online shopping day of all time in the U.S. as consumers spent a total of $14.25 billion, up 7.1% year over year, according to Adobe’s e-commerce analytics. At peak between 8AM to 10PM, Americans were spending $16 million per minute.The caps an also…
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