Captain Obvious prevails once again www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/b...

NEW: Democrat Jim Himes is quietly courting his own caucus to protect Kash Patel's power to access Americans' communications without a warrant, because, he says, things at the FBI seems totally fine! My latest for @wired.com

NEW: The top Democrat on the House Intel committee is pushing other Dems to reauthorize a sweeping spying power because, he claims, he's seen no abuses of the power by Kash Patel's FBI, among other dubious justifications. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/a-top-...

1/ Today, we overwhelmingly voted to authorize a STRIKE as we fight for a fair contract with @propublica.org.

NEW: Uhhhhhhhh....... crap. @mollytaft.com reports: www.wired.com/story/iran-w...

NEW: Meta is killing end-to-end encrypted Instagram DMs, blaming users for poor adoption (after making it opt in, hard to find). Experts worry this will give others permission to abandon E2EE and bow to anti-E2EE gov't pressure. @lhn.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/the-da...

"NPR found five other people in Illinois, Oregon and Minnesota who...said they were arrested, seemingly without provocation, while protesting ICE and then had officers take or try to take what appeared to be a sample of their DNA." www.npr.org/2026/03/18/n...

NEW: The US just took down four major botnets, two of which were involved in a record-breaking attack that clocked more than 30 TB/second of traffic against the target. @agreenberg.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/us-tak...

NEW: The career FCC enforcement officer who oversees the West Coast cheered on Chairman Brendan Carr's political pressure campaign against Disney/ABC over Jimmy Kimmel, emails obtained by @wired.com show. No paywall bc FOIA. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/fcc-en...

NEW: Maybe don't share your most intimate thoughts and moments with a chatbot? @thiccreese.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

EXCLUSIVE: Millions of 'anonymous' crime tips sent to law enforcement, the military and Crime Stoppers have been exposed by hackers. The data—provided to me & @ddosecrets.org by the hackers—contains 8.3 million highly sensitive records spanning from 1987 to 2025. san.com/cc/millions-...

NEW: Moxie Marlinspike, creator of the Signal protocol, is bringing his encrypted AI chatbot tech to Meta AI, which is integrated with WhatsApp. It's the first major effort to encrypt AI chats. @lhn.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/signal...

Here's the devastating statement from civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, who says she had multiple children fathered by her abuser, Chavez—a secret she's kept for many decades. Those children learned the truth "just a few weeks ago." medium.com/@dolores_hue...

NEW: iPhones running iOS 18—there are hundreds of millions of them—are potentially vulnerable to newly discovered hacking tools, capable of stealing troves of data, that were found in use in the wild. Update to iOS 26 now to patch. @agreenberg.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/hundre...

Can someone smart explain the role money plays in politics now? The equations seem off.

Links and clear credit are free, people! You lose literally nothing by crediting someone’s scoop. Journalism is a team sport. And—just to blatantly hijack this for my own selfish gripes—the real plagiarists are reposting your reporting on YouTube/TikTok en masse with little or often no credit.

Oh hi, just a political scientist who studies war, and yes, putting Marines on Kharg Island would, in fact, be "boots on the ground in a combat situation." Thanks for coming to another of my TED talks.

Huge thank you to all *checks notes* 200,000 of you who subscribed in the last year! Extremely proud of my colleagues and to be part of Team @wired.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...

NEW: A whistleblower complaint alleges that a now-ex DOGE operative claims to have loaded sensitive Social Security Administration data on a thumb drive. The operative has remained unnamed—until now. @telliotter.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/john-s...

NEW: A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill requiring warrants for FBI searches of Americans' communications under FISA, aligning federal law w/ a 2025 ruling that found the practice unconstitutional. It would also ban the government from buying Americans' private data from data brokers.

NEW: Confused by the cyberattacks related to the war on Iran? @agreenberg.bsky.social, @mattburgess1.bsky.social, and @lhn.bsky.social have you covered: www.wired.com/story/handal...

Less than two weeks ago, we thought we might lose our pup Truffle due to serious medical issues. Tonight, I think she had the best walk of her life.

🚨BREAKING: As the Trump administration moves to relitigate past elections, the investigative branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is probing Arizona’s 2020 election results, Arizona’s attorney general Kris Mayes told Democracy Docket Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

NEW: Grammarly got hit with a class-action lawsuit this afternoon over its AI "expert review" feature that uses real experts' likenesses without their consent. @juliaangwin.com is the only named plaintiff. @milesklee.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/gramma...

for the record, i won't work for people like this. i don't give a shit about money. i will thoreau myself. i'll eat soup everyday. i will get a job at wingstop.

Excellent reporting here by @raphae.li about a hacker who breached an FBI server, apparently without knowing it was the FBI, and accessed the Epstein files. The hacker allegedly threatened to report the server's owner TO THE FBI bc of disgust over CSAM on the server, www.reuters.com/world/us/for...

Judge finds ‘compelling and troubling’ evidence of racial profiling by federal agents in Minnesota minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/11/j...

Breaking News: The U.S. was responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people, most of them children — was the result of a targeting mistake.

Thomson Reuters is best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, but it is also a huge data broker that provides investigative tools to the government, including ICE. Its Minneapolis workers aren't happy about that: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/t...

NEW: After CBP's FOIA office released a "Privacy Threat Analysis" of the face recognition app Mobile Fortify, 2 staffers were reassigned and leaders order PTAs to be mislabeled to prevent their release. @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/cbp-pr...

Good reporting by @lorenzofb.bsky.social to confirm what we reported as a theory last week: That the highly sophisticated iPhone hacking toolkit known as Coruna, found in the hands of Russian spies and now criminal hackers, is an out-of-control US-government-funded creation.

EXCLUSIVE: Jay Graber stepping down as CEO of Bluesky www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

Stay safe out there, folks

New: A Mysterious Code Is Being Broadcast on Shortwave Radio. Is It Iran? www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... I take a look at the "V32" Farsi numbers station that aired on Feb. 28. Also proxy and cyber attacks, as well as other asymmetric measures Iran might use.

Conversations w Jack Dorsey are always illuminating. Here he argues how massive Block layoffs signal how companies must drastically transform in the AI age. He also comments on Twitter, Bluesky, politics and journalism. And WIRED! .https://www.wired.com/story/jack-dorsey-explains-block-layoffs/

it continues to shock me that people with all the money spend their days posting

NEW: When asked if top aide Corey Lewandowski has “a role in approving contracts,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem replied, “No.” But internal DHS records contradict her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. By @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @justinelliott.bsky.social

NEW: Researchers at Google and @iverify.bsky.social discovered a set of iPhone-hacking techniques that has the characteristics of hacking tools made for the US gov't. Apple patched the 23 vulnerabilities in its latest version of iOS. @agreenberg.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/coruna...

NEW (altho I'm dumb and forgot to post this morning): @carolinehaskins.bsky.social took a deep dive into US government procurement records to uncover who ICE and CBP use Palantir, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google products: www.wired.com/story/how-bi...

The DA in Minneapolis is investigating Bovino and others.

NEW: More than 1,000 ships have been impacted by GPS jamming and spoofing attacks since the US and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday. @mattburgess1.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/gps-at...

today’s like

NEW: Iranians received a message saying "help is on the way" and promising amnesty if they surrender via a hacked prayer-timer app called "BadeSaba Calendar." Reporting by @wired.com Middle East: www.wired.com/story/hacked...

Iran confirms targeting US bases across the Middle East.

Here’s the latest on the US/Israeli strikes on Iran. @mattburgess1.bsky.social & @lhn.bsky.social report www.wired.com/story/us-ira...

btw Congress could settle this by better defining “lawful uses” of AI in a military context any time it wants.

NEW: The DoD vs Anthropic drama launches a million takes, lawsuits, interpersonal spats, and unintended consequences. Maxwell Zeff, @willknight.bsky.social, @laurengoode.bsky.social & @peard33.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/anthro...

can someone smarter than me calculate how much the Staples Baddie should be worth

officially have a shoulder cat

I used this tool, which the Trump administration is killing, to find and help write this story: