The Latest Push to Extend Key US Spy Powers Is Still a Mess
2026-04-24T20:52:15Z•9030615aac1ac9b89b1b75ad986fd2a0d8afb103dee59db7879d9feb175193ba
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What happened
This Wired security roundup covers a wide set of high-impact cyber, privacy, and policy stories: a fraught US debate over renewing warrantless surveillance (Section 702) and its recent legislative failure; researchers decrypting Fast16, a 2005 sabotage-capable malware that predates Stuxnet and likely targeted Iran; AI-fueled criminal abuse (North Korean groups using AI to scale thefts); and the arrival of Anthropic’s Mythos prompting new cyber strategies (Mozilla used it to find 271 Firefox bugs and OpenAI announced a GPT-5.4-Cyber model). It also highlights acute consumer-privacy and platform
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