WIRED Roundup: DHS’s Privacy Breach, AI Romantic Affairs, and Google Sues Text Scammers

Zoë Schiffer: So shifting gears, our next story deals with another inescapable fact of modern life, which is scam text messages. Brian, how many scam texts or calls would you say you receive in a given week these days?

Brian Barrett: I mean, how many have I received during this recording? It is incessant, and that’s not even counting the political ones, which are legit but annoying. No, they are constant, Zoë. It is the most consistent communication I have in my life is from scammers.

Zoë Schiffer:…