-
Severn Trent spared Ofwat fine after ‘serious’ waterwaste and sewage failures
Regulator found ‘unacceptable’ breaches in water company’s handling of drainage and sewage networkBusiness live – latest updatesThe water company Severn Trent has been spared a fine by the industry regulator despite “serious and unacceptable breaches” in its handling of wastewater and sewage.The watchdog, Ofwat, which has been investigating how wastewater and sewage networks are managed…
-
OnlyFans Models Are Accidentally Making Hacked Government Websites Disappear
Adult content creators fighting the piracy of their material are inadvertently helping to clean up hacked government and university websites, according to new research from cybersecurity firm UpGuard shared with WIRED. For years, scammers have hijacked authoritative .gov and .edu domains — which rank highly in Google searches — to host malicious pages using the…
-
What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out
A WIRED journalist observed a private role-playing “war game” held in a Times Square office tower, in which a former US cybersecurity official, Joshua Corman, walked dozens of insurance executives through a simulated Chinese cyberattack on American water utilities set in July 2027. The exercise matters because it dramatises a scenario that security experts increasingly…
-
Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets
“HalluSquatting” weaponizes LLMs’ inability to say “I don’t know.”
-
Sheffield man caught with 2,000 indecent images of children avoids prison
“I can fairly confidently predict that if you breach your terms, you will go to prison”
-
Two Legends Collide as Cyberpunk Comes to Apex Legends
Apex Legends is set to receive a time-limited crossover event with CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk universe, tying into the broader surge of interest around Cyberpunk Edgerunners Season 2. The collaboration brings a range of themed cosmetics, a reworked map and new gameplay mechanics inspired by Cyberpunk 2077 and Edgerunners, following a similar tie-in already introduced…
-
The wild hacking and bugging claims that were dismissed one by one in a calm, forensic judgment
Mr Justice Nicklin has dismissed in full the phone-hacking case brought against the Daily Mail’s publisher by Prince Harry, Baroness Lawrence and other claimants, ruling their allegations of hacking, burglary and bugging were entirely without merit. The judgment matters because it represents a significant legal defeat for high-profile figures who had accused Associated Newspapers of…
-
Hacked, leaked, and held for ransom: The worst breaches of 2026 so far
From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are the most damaging security incidents and data breaches of 2026.
-
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender finally has a trailer and a July 25 release date
If you want to (legally) watch Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender, it finally has a trailer and a July 25 release date.