New vulnerabilities expose 100 million IoT devices worldwide

PLUS: AI car repair, a drone on Mount Everest, and microplastics in the sky. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 04.13.21   CRUNCH | 5-MINUTE READ AI Comes to Car Repair, and Body Shop Owners Aren't Happy BY AARIAN MARSHALL During the pandemic, insurers accelerated the use of automated tools to estimate repair costs. Garage operators say the numbers can be wildly inaccurate.   SEARCH AND RESCUE | 11-MINUTE READ Here's What It Takes to Fly a Drone on Mount Everest BY MARK SYNNOTT If you're heading to the top of the iconic mountain to look for a dead man and a 100-year-old camera, you want to start by running some tests on your device.   SYNTHETIC RAIN | 5-MINUTE READ Plastic Is Falling From the Sky. But Where's It Coming From? BY MATT SIMON At any given time, 1,100 tons of microplastic are floating over the western US. New modeling shows the surprising sources of the nefarious pollutant.   NAME:WRECK | 4-MINUTE READ 100 Million More IoT Devices Are Exposed—and They Won't Be the Last BY LILY HAY NEWMAN The Name:Wreck flaws in TCP/IP are the latest in a series of vulnerabilities with global implications. GET WIRED Save 66% on your subscription to WIRED. Get 1 year of WIRED for less than $1 per month, plus, get a free tote! You can't see into the future, but you can subscribe to WIRED. Subscribe now.   LISTEN CLOSE | 4-MINUTE READ Surround Sound Is the Most Surprising Gaming Upgrade I've Made BY WHITSON GORDON New mouse? New monitor? New keyboard? Maybe consider some new speakers, instead.   DOCTOR, DOCTOR | 3-MINUTE READ Microsoft Makes a $16 Billion Entry Into Health Care AI BY WILL KNIGHT The company plans to buy Nuance, a speech-recognition firm that grasps the specialized language of medicine—tech that won't be easy for others to replicate.   PRODUCT REVIEW | 6-MINUTE READ The OnePlus Watch Is Buggy—and That's Not the Worst of It BY JULIAN CHOKKATTU Inconsistent tracking is just about the worst problem for a fitness tracker. Here, that issue is compounded by myriad other bugs.   DOT PHYSICS | 3-MINUTE READ How Many Homes Could You Power With Free Doughnuts? BY RHETT ALLAIN Krispy Kreme is offering a year of treats to anyone who gets the Covid-19 vaccine. What if they worked off the energy on pedal-powered bike generators?   OPINION | 4-MINUTE READ Data Brokers Are a Threat to Democracy BY JUSTIN SHERMAN Unless the federal government steps up, the unchecked middlemen of surveillance capitalism will continue to harm our civil rights and national security.     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   Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.