New Mac ransomware is even more sinister than it appears

PLUS: A covid plan for women's roller derby, prison TikTok, and nuclear power balls. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 07.02.20   IDEAS Women's Roller Derby Has a Plan for Covid, and It Kicks Ass BY CHRISTIE ASCHWANDEN While baseball, basketball, and other sports struggle to adapt, an international team of skater-experts has figured out a safer way to play.   SOCIAL MEDIA Behind Bars, but Still Posting on TikTok BY LOUISE MATSAKIS The lives of incarcerated people are usually hidden from society. On prison TikTok, they're going viral.   NIX TIKTOK Smartphone Apps Are Now a Weapon in International Disputes BY TOM SIMONITE India bans 59 Chinese apps, weeks after border skirmishes killed 20 Indian soldiers. Russia and Brazil have previously blocked apps for their own reasons.   MAC ATTACK New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears BY LILY HAY NEWMAN The malware known as ThiefQuest or EvilQuest also has spyware capabilities that allow it to grab passwords and credit card numbers.   OPINION You Purged Racists From Your Website? Great, Now Get to Work BY JOAN DONOVAN The Covid-19 infodemic taught social media giants like YouTube and Reddit an important lesson: They can—and must—take action to control the content on their sites.   PRODUCT REVIEW This Smart Mirror Makes Following Makeup Tutorials Easy BY MEDEA GIORDANO The HiMirror Slide is a tablet-mirror hybrid that lets you play YouTube next to the mirror, but it can also analyze your skin and keep track of your skin-care products.   DIGITAL CULTURE The 'Eye Mouth Eye' Debacle Sums Up Tech's Race Issues BY ARIELLE PARDES Last weekend, the stunt aimed to use Silicon Valley's love of shiny new things for charity. The result left people wondering about the meme-ification of movements.   WIRED Q&A If Done Right, Fei-Fei Li Says AI Could Make Policing Fairer BY WILL KNIGHT Stanford's Fei-Fei Li says technology should be developed in an inclusive way that reflects our values.   EXTREME HEAT Nuclear 'Power Balls' May Make Meltdowns a Thing of the Past BY DANIEL OBERHAUS Triso particles are an alien-looking fuel with built-in safety features that will power a new generation of high-temperature reactors.     This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or Manage your newsletter subscriptions