How to take a quarantine getaway road trip

PLUS: Emperor penguin spottings, a pro-Trump hack, and how to keep your phone from tracking you. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 08.09.20   HAPPY FEAT A Satellite Spots 11 New Emperor Penguin Colonies BY DAMIAN CARRINGTON Good news! An orbiter saw signs of almost a dozen previously uncounted colonies in Antarctica, boosting known numbers for a threatened species.   MODS! Hackers Flood Reddit With Pro-Trump Takeovers BY BRIAN BARRETT By apparently compromising moderator accounts, the attackers were able to plaster MAGA materials all over at least 70 popular subreddits.   SECURITY ROUNDUP The NSA's Tips to Keep Your Phone From Tracking You BY BRIAN BARRETT Plus: A Canon ransomware hack, a nasty Twitter bug, and more of the week's top security news.   HIT THE ROAD, JACK How to Take a Quarantine Getaway Road Trip BY MEDEA GIORDANO You might have had to cancel your trip to Hawaii, but you can still go on an end-of-summer expedition.   LEAKED Intel Is Investigating How Confidential Data Ended Up Online BY JIM SALTER, ARS TECHNICA AND DAN GOODIN, ARS TECHNICA The leak contains information that the company makes available to partners and customers under NDA. A researcher says it came from a breach.   DROID DROP How to Use Android's Nearby Share to Send Photos and Files BY JULIAN CHOKKATTU Just like AirDrop on Apple devices, you're now able to send almost anything to your contacts close by.   ESCALATION Trump's Executive Orders Hurt More Than TikTok and WeChat BY LOUISE MATSAKIS AND WILL KNIGHT The president's latest actions against China may affect US tech firms, and Americans who communicate overseas through the social apps.   A British AI Tool to Predict Violent Crime Is Too Flawed to Use BY MATT BURGESS, WIRED UK A government-funded system known as Most Serious Violence was built to predict first offenses, but turned out to be wildly inaccurate.   WORLD WITHOUT END What If the 'Big Bang' Was Actually a 'Big Bounce'? BY CHARLIE WOOD New computer simulations model an alternate way of thinking about the cosmos: as a cyclic universe that has no beginning or end.     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