Apple and Google They have been ordered to remove apps that can “undress” or “undress” people and told they must stop profiting from harmful technology, according to cease-and-desist letters sent to the companies seen by WIRED. On Thursday, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu sent legal notices to Apple and Google demanding that they remove
The city of San Francisco has ordered Apple and Google to remove dozens of “nudification” apps (software programs that can digitally alter images to undress the people in them) from their app stores. California law criminalizes any activity that “knowingly facilitates” or “recklessly aids or abets” the creation of non-consensual deepfake pornography. In 2025, California
When Senra CEO Jordan Black was an engineer at SpaceX, he took on the task of expanding the company’s wiring harnesses to support production of Starship, the company’s next-generation rocket. Wiring harnesses are what they sound like: the internal electrical wiring that runs through a rocket, car, plane or tractor and becomes increasingly important the
The Hungarian parliament voted to remove President Tamás Sulyok, who was widely seen as a loyalist to former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who lost power in April after 16 years. Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s Tisza party used its two-thirds majority to approve the 17th amendment to the Constitution, ending the mandate of Sulyok and Constitutional
The UK has signed a new trade deal with Switzerland that will allow British travelers to move through airports faster using electronic gates for the first time. Described by Trade Secretary Peter Kyle as “the most important services trade deal the UK has ever negotiated”, the deal will also scrap mobile roaming charges for tourists
Hungary’s main public television channel has suspended news broadcasts, while a state radio station has been suspended entirely, in a bid to make its media “independent and trustworthy”. The country’s former prime minister, Viktor Orbán, who was ousted in April after 16 years in power, had tightly controlled state media. Media reforms were a key