NEW: The Pentagon is probing the exposure of an active-duty special operations officer whose personal information was revealed in the Dialog data. A White House National Security Council official was also exposed. @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/the-pe...

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Please read and call. Flood the zone.

Qualcomm making a biiiig move: www.wired.com/story/qualco... by @laurengoode.bsky.social

This whole thread. Even if you think that USAID was bad (and there are real and legitimate critiques), withdrawing USAID without an alternative or a plan is just straight-up murder.

Sources tell me there’s a post circulating around Meta in which a worker has created a mock SEV, but instead of it being about a software outage, it’s about Meta’s internal morale…

@laurengoode.bsky.social I really enjoyed this story, good lunchtime read about ARM and its history to date.

Late Monday, Meta VP told staff that the issue had been found June 18 and addressed within four hours. But the initial fix didn’t stick and access to the data had to be further locked down. The issue made “some MCI-derived data” accessible to more people than intended. www.wired.com/story/meta-p...

NEW: Insane screwup inside Meta. The company exposed worker keystroke data that was being used to train AI — making it potentially accessible to anyone at the company. The data included personnel and performance info, private convos, full transcriptions…imagine your coworkers seeing all of that.

Here’s the thing: as we showed with DataWorkLandscape.org, Meta is a Mercor customer. Mercor had a massive data breach that potentially exposed similar workplace monitoring data on the company’s contract AI trainer workforce to cyber criminals. techequity.us/2026/05/21/d...

Aaaaaand the latest, from @peard33.bsky.social: Meta has now paused its controversial employee-tracking and AI-training program, following an internal security breach we reported on earlier today www.wired.com/story/meta-p...

"the key question from the U.S. government’s perspective would be whether China-based investors got access to nonpublic information about SpaceX’s technology or strategies"

NEW, from me and @peard33.bsky.social: As some employees feared might happen, Meta exposed data internally from its controversial employee-tracking and data-training program, MCI (model capability initiative) www.wired.com/story/meta-a...

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

Personal/work news...I'm going to be contributing regularly to WIRED's flagship newsletter, Backchannel. Pls sign up k thx nhttps://bsky.app/profile/stevenlevy.bsky.social/post/3mol6nquwtc2i

Hot IPO Summer is here and @laurengoode.bsky.social has gleaned insights from private wealth managers for @wired.com, so dip your toes...

Officially welcoming the great @laurengoode.bsky.social to Backchannel. She'll be doing the newsletter once a month, writing great essays like this one. The other three weeks you're stuck with me. www.wired.com/story/silico...

NEW from @lmatsakis.bsky.social @mzeff.bsky.social: The Trump administration's move to impose export controls on Anthropic followed a spat over the company granting telecom giant SK Telecom access to its Claude Mythos model, according to ppl familiar with the matter www.wired.com/story/sk-tel...

The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...

“Rent is crazy right now, and housing prices are even worse,” Colón says. “We just wanted to get out of the rat race, and we wanted stability.”

Unaffordability, climate adaptation, and the death of the homeowner dream: the new era of US housing www.wired.com/story/home-s...

Architectural Digest is my go-to soothing content to read/watch at night when I cannot handle any more hard news and I'm so so excited WIRED has teamed up with AD for this issue bsky.app/profile/wire...

"Roughly 300 companies addressed questions or concerns about AI tokens during their earnings calls or in public discussions with financial analysts in April or May, according to a WIRED review of transcripts." www.wired.com/story/claude... from @peard33.bsky.social

NEW: In the wake of unrest over mass layoffs and worker surveillance, Meta is promising its employees better snacks. By @laurengoode.bsky.social & @peard33.bsky.social

NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xAI in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security lots of wild stuff in the filing:

NEW from me & @peard33.bsky.social: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told staff that Meta did an “atrocious” job of explaining its vision for its new AI division, and will aim to “rekindle” a more cheerful internal culture through better communication, career growth, and snacks www.wired.com/story/andrew...

In response to the morale crisis at Meta, one of its most prominent executives has promised improved snacks. from @laurengoode.bsky.social and @peard33.bsky.social

NEW: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth is doing damage control after what he called an "atrocious" rollout of the company's AI division, according to an internal memo viewed by @wired.com. @laurengoode.bsky.social and @peard33.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/andrew...

During a meeting this week open to all employees at Instagram, Meta chief product officer Chris Cox addressed the “difficult” and “brutal” environment created by the “insanity of this company” in the past few months www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

“The government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or ‘jailbreaking’ Fable 5,” the company said in a blog post. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Musk is now more than 3x richer than his closest competition, the founders of Google. The potential upcoming IPOs of OpenAI and Anthropic will cement at least several additional billionaires, but they won’t bring anyone close to Musk’s orbit. www.wired.com/story/elon-m... from @peard33.bsky.social

"You’re unlikely to get in on the SpaceX IPO. Even if you do, you’re probably only getting a handful of shares. And those shares are already priced based on SpaceX being worth $1.75 trillion, which Kennedy says 'looks a little ridiculous.'" from @brbarrett.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/you-pr...

All because Elon Musk illegally put USAID "in the woodchipper" based on conspiratorial lies.

It’s always been my dream to wait in line to see @caseynewton.bsky.social @kevinroose.com crush it on Hard Fork Live in the health insurance branded theater where Casey met his wife, LFG 🚀

scoop: a former Meta employee who lost their job in the company’s recent layoffs was detained by ICE in El Paso, Texas, sources tell WIRED. It’s unclear whether they remain in custody. w/ @laurengoode.bsky.social & @peard33.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-l...

NEW from me, @peard33.bsky.social, and @lmatsakis.bsky.social: Immigration agents have detained a Meta worker who recently lost their job in a massive round of layoffs, according to documents we viewed www.wired.com/story/meta-l...

Immigration agents have detained a Meta worker who recently lost their job in a massive round of layoffs. from @laurengoode.bsky.social and @peard33.bsky.social

"“It's very obvious to me that the choices that are being made are going to throw many people into poverty, and they’re going to be trapped there because they won't be able to sell their land, and people who are benefiting from this are going to move on.'" www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

This, from @zamosta.bsky.social, is very good www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/o...

Hot IPO summer begins www.wired.com/story/openai... from @peard33.bsky.social @mzeff.bsky.social

These random network topologies that Amazon is using are giving brain connection patterns 🧠 🤖📈 1/2

NEW: Amazon just achieved a significant breakthrough in data center networking. It's very nerdy, but very relevant. And, while data centers are a big point of contention for *reasons* these days, this new approach to networking does appear to save energy www.wired.com/story/amazon...

"Donald Trump this week became the most unpopular president since our poll started in 2009. His net approval rating is -24. The war in Iran has hurt Mr Trump’s standing: his net approval rating for foreign policy is -20." 75% think the economy is at "fair" or "poor." oops.

MY FIRST “BIG STORY” FOR WIRED!! Spent a week with a camera strapped to my forehead, training robots how to do chores. “Teach the robot how to cook tonight so you can put food on the table tomorrow.” www.wired.com/story/househ...

Anthropic employs at least four philosophers. Google DeepMind employs at least TEN. When journalism fully implodes, at least my B.A. in philosophy will be put to good use. (Love this story from @joelkhalili.bsky.social about the murky motives of AI companies and their Aristotles)

Our new @wired.com AI package includes an employee training module and it is absolutely unhinged, I encourage all of you to take the quiz 😇 www.wired.com/story/ai-or-...

Recently postulated to my partner that companies should be begging for single-payer to reduce their own costs. Partner reminded me that, if we don’t need jobs to afford healthcare, corporations have no control over us. This is both correct and a sad as fuck commentary on American society.

For @wired.com's Backchannel newsletter this week, I wrote about shrinking benefits in the corporate world and what this signals about power shifts in the workforce. It's maddening—but so is the rising cost of healthcare and the total lack of social safety net in the US www.wired.com/story/compan...

"Everyone is unhappy; the only people who are not unhappy are, literally, executives." Excellent reporting about the doom mood inside ever-profitable Meta by @peard33.bsky.social, @laurengoode.bsky.social, @stevenlevy.bsky.social, and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-l...

NEW, from @peard33.bsky.social @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @stevenlevy.bsky.social and me: Morale at Meta is sinking, with layoffs pending, exorbitant spending on AI, a new initiative to track employee computer movements, mandatory role changes, courtroom losses, and more www.wired.com/story/meta-l...