WIRED Awake August 1: Home Secretary demands encrypted messaging backdoors

Home Secretary demands encrypted messaging backdoors Newly instated Home Secretary Priti Patel has taken to The Daily Telegraph to call for the elimination of encrypted messaging (The Register). Commenting on Facebook's plans for secure encrypted messaging across its platforms, Patel said that "where systems are deliberately designed using end-to-end encryption, which prevents any form of access to content, no matter what crimes that may enable, we must act." Read More Russian military to combat Arctic wildfires Russian military forces have been sent to Siberia to help fight the wildfires consuming forests and peat in the country's Arctic regions following an extremely hot in summer the far north (BBC News). An estimated three million hectares are currently burning and over 700,000 people petitioned for action to be taken. Despite officials saying that there were no plans to tackle the fires, president Vladimir Putin ordered defence ministry service personnel to engage in firefighting efforts, along with 10 planes and 10 helicopters equipped to help control the blazes. Read More Revolut's adding stock trading to its app to get millennials investing Revolut, the most popular of this crop of digital darlings, has launched a new trading feature today, offering European customers commission free trading from the palm of their hands on shares from 300 US listed stocks on the New York Exchange and the NASDAQ – such as Amazon and Tesla (WIRED). The new capability will be first rolled out to Revolut's metal card customers – its high-end banking service – before being made available to the rest of the bank's EU-based customers in the coming weeks. Read More The design secrets Nasa's using to keep astronauts happy in space DeepMind's new AI predicts kidney injury two days before it happens India's government is betting on hyperloop transport tech The Indian state of Maharashtra has classed hyperloop tech – a public transport system in which passenger capsules are propelled through vacuum tubes at up to 1,200kph – as a "public infrastructure project" with the intention of constructing a high-speed connection between Mumbai and Pune (TechCrunch). The Pune Metropolitan Regional Development Authority will accept proposals from mid-August, with a consortium between Virgin Hyperloop One and DP World currently placing itself as the front-runner to construct a 35-minute hyperloop route to replace a three-hour road journey. Read More This little security key from Google can stop you getting hacked Google is finally bringing its Titan security key to the UK, available to order now from the web giant's online store (WIRED). Costing £50, the Titan hardware set comes with two devices: a key-shaped USB stick and a Bluetooth key fob. Both pieces of kit serve the same purpose. They act as physical two-factor authentication tokens that prove you are who you say when you're trying to login. Read More Don't miss out on the future. Get WIRED. Subscribe now and save WIRED Podcast: Why you're so grumpy when it's hot LISTEN SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS ADD TO ITUNES FOLLOW WIRED Unsubscribe   |   View this email in your browser Condé Nast Digital 1 Hanover Square, London W1S 1JU © The Condé Nast Publications Ltd Our Privacy Policy