NEW: Trump's attacks on the 20206 midterms are well underway, from 2020 election deniers in positions of power to FBI raids. @davidgilbert.bsky.social gets into the nitty gritty: www.wired.com/story/this-i...

DHS has purged all of Gregory Bovino’s social media accounts.

heads up, Gen Z: I just injured myself with a toilet seat. So buckle up for that.

1) This rules for @wired.com. 2) It's staggering how many incredible journalists worked at the Daily Dot at the same time circa 2014.

Given the news that Iranian hacker group Handala breached FBI director Kash Patel's personal email, here's our profile from earlier this month of the group, which despite its hacktivist rhetoric is widely believed to be a front for Iranian intelligence. www.wired.com/story/handal...

Wanna know if your school uses Flock? Through records requests and audit logs, FOIAball found over 75 universities that have surveillance cameras installed on campus. There's almost certainly many, many more. www.foiaball.com/p/flock-came...

NEW: Trump wants troops to go in and take Iran's enriched uranium. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social dove into how that would work—or, more likely, turn into a disaster: www.wired.com/story/us-ira...

NEW: Last October, Border Patrol agents gassed Chicagoans after agents caused a major car crash on the southeast side. I analyzed body cam videos that show agents Benito Nunez, Oscar Guillen, and Carlos Chavira ignored orders to end the pursuit—moments before they blew a tire and crashed.

"Kevin Roose, a technology columnist with The New York Times, is using AI to help him produce a book about the race to build artificial intelligence. He claims AI tools have helped him shave two or three years off the process." www.wired.com/story/tech-r...

Single mothers, many of whom are commuting to work and shuttling their kids around, are among the hardest hit by rising gas prices due to the Iran war. As a single mom, “you’re already underwater, and it’s almost like the gas puts weights on your feet.” 19thnews.org/2026/03/iran...

🚨 Livestream in 1 hour! At noon ET today, a panel of WIRED experts will dissect the defense tech industry’s impact on modern warfare. Make sure you tune in! www.wired.com/story/livest...

NEW: The hard-to-kill black market Xinbi Guarantee, which experts estimate has processed nearly $20B in illicit sales, faces new sanctions in the UK, part of an ongoing international effort to knock it offline for good. @mattburgess1.bsky.social/@lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/20-bil...

For years my readers have told me that they wished it was possible for them to have one place to sign up for all the newsletters they read, with one payment for everything. I'm pleased to announce that is now possible! trustfnd.com/katelynburns...

NEW: This one's for anybody who has been subjected to the infernal nightmare that is MyMove. @toddfeathers.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/the-go...

Huge public safety threat. Civilian cooperation is the single most critical variable in whether crimes get solved. It is firmly established that perceptions of legitimacy drive cooperation. Milwaukee lost tens of thousands of 911 calls after just a single case of police violence in 2004.

NEW: If you use a VPN that connects to overseas servers—which is often the whole point—it may, ironically, subject you to warrantless surveillance under US law. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/using-...

NEW: Yes, ICE can lie to you and to other law enforcement—and they've been doing it for decades. @telliotter.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/why-ic...

A letter by 17 state attorneys general urging Congress to close the data broker loophole enabling warrantless federal mass surveillance, citing an investigation into Google adtech last year by me & @dmehro.bsky.social (among other reporting): oag.ca.gov/system/files...

why is everything like this

Here’s a good article about Meta’s very frustrating decision to pull encryption out of Instagram. www.wired.com/story/the-da...

🔔 Section 702 of FISA, which enables spying on Americans while harming press freedom and source protection, is up for renewal in Congress. Join our conversation with @seanvitka.bsky.social, @dell.bsky.social, and John Dickas for more. 🗓️ March 26, 1:30 p.m. ET RSVP: freedom.press/section-702

Excellent reporting here for @wired.com by Maddy Crowell: www.wired.com/story/get-do...

NEW: Documents obtained by @wired.com show that the salaries of a small NH town’s while police department are paid by ICE as part of its 287(g) program. @sammysussman.bsky.social has the scoop. No paywall: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

If you're at an airport today, we'd LOVE to know what it's like interacting with ICE instead of TSA. You can DM me or find me on Signal at Vittoria89.82.

rolling into the weekend like

it was such a rip-roaring week in the prediction market world, i had to blog it... i'm not in DC or i'd be grabbing a drink at that polymarket bar to cap it off! www.wired.com/story/why-th...

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/...