Scoop: www.wired.com/story/opal-e...

SCOOP: Last year, Dan Berulis filed a whistleblower complaint against DOGE at the NLRB. Elon Musk boosted a post calling it false. The next day, Berulis' brake lines were cut. Now he's filed a defamation suit against Musk. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/he-ble...

If you have a tip, you can reach me on signal: dell.3030 anonymity offered.

For nearly a decade, the Pentagon was warned—by its own contractors, analysts, and intelligence agencies—that anyone with a credit card could buy a map of where American troops sleep, work, and store nuclear weapons. Now the bill has come due in a war zone. My latest at @wired.com

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...

"My smartphone was essentially glued to my forehead all evening as I completed AI tasks on Waffle." Nobody makes the AI fever dream we're all living through feel as whimsical as it is stupefying like @thiccreese.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/househ...

really captured the on-the-ground atmosphere at today’s Google event in @wired.com’s liveblog 🫡 check it out: www.wired.com/live/google-...

Apologies to whatever you were planning on doing this afternoon. from @makenakelly.bsky.social

“Dancers engaged in perreo-intense grinding, hip thrusting, and twerking...Cameras captured close-ups of suggestive contact and pelvic motions, amplifying the explicit nature."

What if news organization and advocacy group had their own constellations of satellites? www.wired.com/story/welcom...

Are you eligible for a payout? Probably, but it might take a while and will likely be pretty small. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

I'm consistently impressed that Wired and Ars Technica continue to do great tech reporting despite being owned by Conde Naste. The duo's reporting basically killed the tech industry's covert effort to neuter a popular Colorado law making it easier and cheaper to repair your own tech:

I listened to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new HHS podcast so you don't have to: www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

very sorry, you cannot actually join the polycule www.wired.com/story/the-pe...

One emergency responder said the technology is "backsliding" www.wired.com/story/emerge...

probably ok if the vehicles are keeping your city's head of emergency management "awake at night" right? via @aarianmarshall.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/emerge...

NO GOBLINS

My colleague @davidgilbert.bsky.social wrote a banger newsletter this week about about the gutting of the DOJ's voting rights section.

This story is a DELIGHT and I want even more pics of these incredible devices

you know a state bill is probably important when multinational tech companies are lobbying hard against it

Here come the brain scanners: www.wired.com/story/get-re...

NEW: Musk’s recently released encrypted messaging app, XChat, is nothing like Signal… and exactly like Facebook Messenger. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

"There’s another, much less sexy, chat app it reminds me of: Facebook's Messenger. That app you may have on your phone out of an obligation to message your grandma occasionally? Exactly." @thiccreese.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Here's the internal reaction to Palantir's 22-point manifesto earlier this week. “It’s like we taped a ‘kick me’ sign on our own backs... I hope no one who decided to put this out is surprised that we are, in fact, getting kicked.” www.wired.com/story/palant...

Scoop: Rednote (aka 小红书/Xiaohongshu) is taking steps to separate its Chinese and international users. Users report being redirected to new intl web domain, whose separate privacy policy, updated in late March, says intl user data will be stored in Singapore. www.wired.com/story/rednot...

new patch in this game and are you fuckin kidding me

I sometimes say that Tim Cook is the world’s greatest glue salesman. Here’s why www.wired.com/story/apple-...

The pasta-sauce company has partnered with the nonprofit StoryCorps on a device designed to record family conversations around the table and save them for all time. www.wired.com/story/prego-...

Schematik is a program that aims to help people vibe code for physical devices. Hopefully, it won’t blow anything up. www.wired.com/story/schema...

Our shoe company did not work out but our GPU-as-a-Service company is for sure going to!

Starlink might have an actual competitor now. If only that competition was as nice for the sky as it was for consumers www.wired.com/story/why-am...

The price increases range from $200 to $300, and Microsoft doesn't sell a sub-$1,000 Surface anymore. The rising cost of consumer tech is a common theme in 2026. www.wired.com/story/micros...

"Coachella put out a similar vertical feed last year, which got rave reviews like, 'it’s too vertical,' and 'so glad this video is squished up and limiting my view of the stage.'" @boone.bsky.social really took one for the team with this one. www.wired.com/story/i-watc...

sometimes when people ask why you'd even want to do such a thing it's ok to say there ain't no rule that says I can't

New from me: across federal agencies, workers say religion—specifically Christianity—is showing up their workplace. “The vibes are bad and people don’t like it.” @wired.com www.wired.com/story/govern...

NEW: A large swath of civil society is warning Meta against rolling out a face recognition service that will predictably be used by sexual predators.

look if your game lets me hold two (2) cats at the same time that's an 11/10 from me www.wired.com/story/crimso...

I got 99 million but a wrench ain't one www.wired.com/story/john-d...

“We're not asking for the moon here, despite what management keeps trying to tell us. We need a fair and transparent disciplinary system that we can trust so that we can keep speaking truth to power, whether in the Oval Office or inside our newsroom.” — Jeff Ernsthausen, senior data reporter

Before I was a journalist, I repaired smartphones for a living! It’s so true that Apple makes phones that are quite difficult to fix. Great @boone.bsky.social piece for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/the-ip...

What other software stunts do you think I should attempt for @wired.com? Do you have a tip about an under-covered trend or community? I want to hear from you! My email is [email protected]

For one week, I proudly joined the growing tribe of Do Not Disturb maximalists who have their notifications silenced 24/7. My experience as part of the DND crew felt transcendent, albeit a bit annoying for everyone trying to get in touch with me. www.wired.com/story/my-bli...

I mean it's not the worst possible score www.wired.com/story/the-ip...

let him keep it

Advanced chip packaging is suddenly at the center of the AI boom. I took a deep dive into Intel's approach, how it's going all in on packaging, and how the co (along with the PM of Malaysia) has been signaling that it's ramping up packaging www.wired.com/story/why-ch...

The Paint a Street gang are funding this with an auction to change the name of the street. Whoever bids highest gets to name it. The bids got to over $100k in an hour paintastreet.com/auction

According to new dietary guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services under RFK Jr., I need 138 grams of protein a day. So I slammed all the trendy new protein products for a week, from protein Pop-Tarts to protein water to protein slop bowls from Chipotle and Jack in the Box.

Manufacturers are coming for state right-to-repair laws www.wired.com/story/tech-c...

off to a good start with the meme quilt!