TOMORROW! Join me and my @wired.com colleagues @stevenlevy.bsky.social and @supson.bsky.social for a discussion about the increasing entanglements between Trump and the tech industry. 11 AM ET! www.wired.com/story/livest...

Big Tech's embrace of President Trump has left many of us wondering: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? In our new politics issue, we're getting into it. Also, we're taking this cover across the US in billboards, posters and a mural. Clues to find us in the 🧵: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

Terrifying stuff. Read this by @makenakelly.bsky.social ‼️

"There is a pendulum swing toward something approaching cancel culture and actual, government-backed censorship on big social media platforms." @jakelahut.writes.news

Susan Monarez told a Senate committee that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. demanded she dismiss career officials without cause—and accept vaccine recommendations regardless of whether science backed them up.

NEW: "War is here" With no suspect in custody and no known motive, far-right influencers, right-wing commentators, extremists, militia leaders, conspiracists, and Republican lawmakers all responded to the assassination of #CharlieKirk by blaming the left. www.wired.com/story/far-ri...

JUST IN: Three people are in critical condition after a shooting at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to St. Anthony’s Hospital. https://cnn.it/46fImzg

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The same MAGA influencers who helped get Trump elected are now acting as something like foreign policy emissaries, giving governments abroad the chance to speak directly to US voters online:

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Feminist author Laura Bates argues AI assistants and girlfriends are entrenching attitudes about the subjugation of women and indoctrinating misogyny into kids in her new book The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny: www.wired.com/story/is-ai-...

NEW: i took a look at new research from @oilchange.bsky.social which finds that taxpayers are on the hook for an additional $4 billion per year in fossil fuel subsidies thanks to the one big beautiful bill:

Still not over this story by @eminietfeld.bsky.social –– absolute must read not least for the fact that... "The situation reveals one of the fundamental imbalances of surrogacy: When a surrogate breaks contract, her IPs can stop paying her and stop paying the medical bills for her pregnancy."

@brbarrett.bsky.social serving all the need-to-knows on Trump's cozy White House dinner with "a baker’s dozen or so" of SV's biggest tech bros🍴

"Intended parents and gestational carriers—IPs and GCs, as they’re somewhat dehumanizingly known—are often uninformed about the dearth of regulation and completely unprepared for what can go wrong."

We obtained emails that appear to show the White House ordered government officials to put Grok back on the list of approved vendors “ASAP” www.wired.com/story/white-...

This is cozy @makenakelly.bsky.social 🫠

“Disaster money is just sitting,” one FEMA employee tells WIRED. “Every single day applicants are asking their FEMA contact ‘where’s my money?’ And we are ordered to just say nothing and redirect.” Must-read by @mollytaft.com

Hurricane Katrina resulted in nearly 1,400 deaths, according to revised statistics from the National Hurricane Center, and remains the costliest storm in U.S. history at around $200 billion in today's dollars.

Good morning New York, while you were sleeping this was our most read story. on.ft.com/464GsBQ

Indian rupee tumbles to new low on Trump tariff concerns on.ft.com/4n6AWp5

Breaking News: President Trump revoked Kamala Harris’s Secret Service protection. President Biden had extended her protection before he left office.

SCOOP: DOGE ops join Airbnb cofounder + DOGE member Joe Gebbia’s new National Design Studio. Gebbia was possibly going to join USDS, but now he has his own office and is bringing DOGE folks from the General Services Administration along with him. www.wired.com/story/doge-o...

SCOOP I spoke to the leader of the 764-linked swatting group that is behind the recent spare of hoax active shooter calls at university campuses across the US. He claims to have earned $100,000 in the space of just six days www.wired.com/story/purgat...

He had his coffee! Read and listen to @wired.com's @katie-drummond.bsky.social in conversation with @alexisohanian.bsky.social for: • The incredible origin story • The Reddit backstory • The latest on Digg • The 💥 round of Control-Alt-Delete

They are trying to erase trans people and doing it in the open....

An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content. www.wired.com/story/dark-m...

"Body farms" are a thing >

IN WITH THE NEW‼️ @carolinehaskins.bsky.social

SCOOP The White House said EJ Antoni—Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics—went to the Capitol on Jan 6th after seeing it on the news But a now-deleted Twitter account bearing his name shows someone deeply enmeshed in far-right election conspiracies www.wired.com/story/twitte...

To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another. n.pr/4fKcjw3

Handwriting IS life @waterslicer.bsky.social @wired.com

TOO COOL FOR SKOOL @wired.com 🎒

A very good listen > @karaswisher.bsky.social @katie-drummond.bsky.social @wired.com @oliverdarcy.bsky.social @davejorgenson.bsky.social

"Just a couple of daily sachets can lead to a 10 percent weight gain over six weeks, sustaining recovery from severe acute malnutrition for less than $60 per child. Saving a life, it turns out, literally costs peanuts: just 71 cents a serving." @wired.com

"To the shame of the technology and science communities, a voracious sexual predator managed to buy his way into relationships with some of the most prominent and influential figures in the field." @stevenlevy.bsky.social @wired.com

The poach is real @kylierobison.com 💸

LLMs are basically terrifying users by force-feeding them niche fanfic texts without context. There's a reason why fandoms congregate on small forums to talk out their inside jokes because they don't want innocent people to stumble into their space and freak out without knowing the context!!!

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More on *that* @wired.com Big Interview with Bryan Johnson (ask @katie-drummond.bsky.social all about it), MORE reason to subscribe and get WIRED direct to your inbox > this live Q&A. Come say hi :)

"But perhaps the most convincing piece of evidence suggesting that ChatGPT regurgitated the language of Warhammer 40,000 is that it kept asking if The Atlantic was interested in PDFs." Amazing blog from @lmatsakis.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

Amid national euphoria in Israel over its military triumph in Iran, a question lurks: what is the country becoming? David Remnick reports.

Today US senator Margaret Wood Hassan has written to Elon Musk—citing WIRED's investigation below—demanding answers about why Starlink is still being used in huge scam compounds in Southeast Asia Letter from Hassan here: www.hassan.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

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"Something, it seems, is rotten in the estate of Johnson." @katie-drummond.bsky.social @wired.com

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Read it for the regimen, the detail on Bryan AI (you better believe he has one), his two cents on RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement and more fascinating intricacies. This is @wired.com's @katie-drummond.bsky.social with the og longevity guy...