Planning a big night out at Madison Square Garden? Have fun—but don’t say we didn’t warn you. A WIRED investigation this week revealed new details about the private surveillance state instituted by MSG owner Jim Dolan and his head of security, John Eversole. According to court records and WIRED sources, visitors to the Garden and some other Dolan-owned venues have been subjected to face recognition, social media monitoring, in-person surveillance, and more. The US government’s warrantless wiretap powers hit a roadblock this week. Despite a push from President Donald Trump for a long-term reauthorization of the so-called Section 702 spy program, 20 Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives voted against a full reauthorization, forcing Speaker Mike Johnson to merely extend the program for an additional 10 days. Nonconsensual deepfake nudes are a scourge at schools around the world, according to an analysis by WIRED and Indicator. By tracking publicly reported incidents of deepfake “nudify” tech used against middle- and high-school-aged girls, we were able to identify more than 600 victims in 28 countries around the world. You might think banning a $20 billion black market for scammers from your platform would be a no-brainer. But not if you’re Telegram. A WIRED investigation found that the messaging app continued to host Xinbi Guarantee despite the UK government’s designating it a facilitator of human trafficking and sanctioning the largest-ever online marketplace of its kind. Crypto-tracing firm Elliptic says that Xinbi carried out another $505 million in transactions in the 19 days after the UK issued its sanction. The AI race has finally entered the cybersecurity lap. After Anthropic revealed its new model, Mythos, as a unique risk to the security status quo, OpenAI announced that it, too, has a new cybersecurity strategy, and a new model to go with it—GPT-5.4-Cyber. The European Commission this week released its free, open source app for verifying