Lily Hay Newman

Articles by Lily Hay Newman

A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices on a Call - WIRED

Technology August 12, 2026

As AI models gain advanced capabilities to find vulnerabilities in software, develop ways to exploit them, and even carry out autonomous hacking sprees, researchers offered a sobering new example on οΏ½...

OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree - WIRED

Business August 7, 2026

In a talk that was a last-minute addition to the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, employees from OpenAI presented new details about a recent, high-profile incident of rogue AIοΏ½...

You Can Disable Gemini in Chrome if It’s Freaking You Out - WIRED

Technology May 8, 2026

If you useGoogle's Chrome browser for desktop, there's probably a Gemini Nano AI model running on your computer right now and taking up about 4 GB of space. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but ifοΏ½...

Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 151 Bugs in Firefox - WIRED

Technology April 22, 2026

Amid a ragingdebate over the impact that new AI models will have on cybersecurity, Mozilla said on Tuesday that its Firefox 150 browser release this week includes protections for 271 vulnerabilities οΏ½...

149 Million Usernames and Passwords Exposed by Unsecured Database - WIRED

Technology January 24, 2026

A database containing 149 million account usernames and passwordsincluding 48 million for Gmail, 17 million for Facebook, and 420,000 for the cryptocurrency platform Binancehas been removed after a rοΏ½...

149 Million Usernames and Passwords Exposed by Unsecured Database

Crypto January 24, 2026

A database containing 149 million account usernames and passwordsincluding 48 million for Gmail, 17 million for Facebook, and 420,000 for the cryptocurrency platform Binancehas been removed after a rοΏ½...