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NEW: Last year, a whistleblower alleged that members of DOGE had accessed, and potentially exfiltrated data from the National Labor Relations Board. The claims spurred an investigation from the Government Accountability Office, which published a report in April... www.wired.com/story/federa...

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Next Friday will be my last day as the director of business & industry @wired.com. I’m transitioning to contributing editor in order to have more time to freelance & write. This was far and away the best job I’ve had in media and I’ll sincerely miss leading the biz desk!

welcome to @wired.com's walking tour of donald trump's dizzying DC makeover! there are too many banners + construction projects + algae pools going on in the city to keep track of- so we created a handy list and tour explaining them all. send to your aunt going to dc!! take a date! endless fun!

NEW: The Trump Administration Is Lifting Its Export Controls on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable AI Models read @hugolowell.bsky.social:

For decades, Hunter Biden was the black sheep of the Democratic party, a wayward son in need of rehabilitation. Now? He's the internet's latest darling...even sparking speculation of a run for office. @wired.com spent months talking to Biden as he plotted his return to public life. A must-read:

WIRED spent months talking to America’s favorite failson as he plotted his return to public life. Now he’s feeding the trolls—and everyone else. www.wired.com/story/how-hu...

NEW from me: the US is about to deport a retired pastor, Edward Nalwamba, back to Uganda. Not only is Uganda in the midst of an Ebola outbreak, but Nalwamba says he was the target of the country's security forces before coming to the US. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-us...

NEW: The US is about to deport a 78-year-old retired and sick pastor to Uganda - a country near the center of the Ebola crisis, where the CDC has recommended against travel. This is horrific, plain and simple. read @telliotter.bsky.social

PSA: @timmarchman.bsky.social is just the best, and the brilliance behind so much fantastic @wired.com reporting. Listen to him talk all about it!

So proud that @wired.com has won the Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis from the National Press Club Journalism Awards!

At high-stakes meetings with the White House, Anthropic's CEO—a "weirdo," per one official—has been replaced by cofounder Tom Brown. www.wired.com/story/the-tr...

NEW from me: Last month, the White House announced that its new app would be put on the work phones of millions of government workers, despite the concerns of security experts. Now, federal employees say they can't get if off. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/story/...

“I deleted it as a test and it came immediately back,” says one government employee. www.wired.com/story/story/...

NEW In 2025 Meta relaxed its rules around abusive content on its platforms. The reaction was instant. In the six months after the rules came into force violent threats and harrassment against US lawmakers—including Trump—TRIPLED, research from @counterhate.com shows www.wired.com/story/threat...

When I asked Meta about the sharp rise in threats against US lawmakers following it policy changes, it claimed those threats had actually fallen. But quietly, it then deleted the examples I shared, which included multiple threats against Trump www.wired.com/story/threat...

NEW: Days after WIRED revealed that Meta had embedded an unreleased facial-recognition system in software distributed to more than 50 million users, the company appears to have removed it. www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech. www.wired.com/story/all-th...

Former DOGE members and Elon Musk allies are backing a startup aimed at using AI to apply "learnings" from DOGE to the private sector. www.wired.com/story/the-do...

NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.

NEW: A @wired.com analysis of Meta's app for its smart glasses found that the company has been adding code for face recognition since January, while saying that it is still "thinking through" whether to deploy it. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...

from @hugolowell.bsky.social and @mzeff.bsky.social, on how the executive order on AI all came together!!

NEW: A secretive conference aimed at increasing collaboration on racist immigration policies across continents was attended by....none other than former Trump official Greg Bovino, the man who headed Trump's invasions of US cities, @davidgilbert.bsky.social reports -- this is really a must read:

SCOOP Greg Bovino was the headline speaker at last weekend's Remigration Summit in Portugal. But no one else seemed to notice that also in attendance were at least half a dozen members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front www.wired.com/story/greg-b...

NEW: A man filed a whistleblower complaint against DOGE, and Elon Musk boosted a post calling it false. Then, the man's brake lines were cut. Now he's filed a defamation suit against Musk, which was just unsealed. read @telliotter.bsky.social:

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...

NEW: The Manhattan Institute, which led the anti-DEI push, is now trying to get states to pass laws against "civil terrorism"—upgrading minor crimes committed during political demonstrations to more serious offenses. @awinston.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/the-ma...

NEW: The Trump admin is facing internal strife over resurrecting an AI exec order Susie Wiles and Scott Bessent are pushing for an EO, because Treasury needs that before any talks with China. But David Sacks remains opposed @WIRED.com latest w @mzeff.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/the-wh...

Pulte’s “powers include briefing the president on the most sensitive U.S. secrets, exercising authority over the $100 billion annual U.S. spy budget and holding sway over which secrets to declassify.” Also, he can serve for 7 months without Senate confirmation www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Donald Trump killed an executive order to regulate AI. Now, administration officials and AI executives are trying to figure out if there’s anything left to piece back together. read @hugolowell.bsky.social and @mzeff.bsky.social:

world ocean day is next week and this is how the Trump administration is celebrating

Update: The White House got back to us after publication to say it had updated the website to exclude a "handful" of arrests by Homeland Security Investigations. A review of the updated aliens.gov data shows they deleted 270,214 arrests.

NEW: A @wired.com analysis of the data pub'd by the White House's Aliens.gov and the site's code shows ICE arrested hundreds of US citizens and includes what appears to be a pirated version of the X-Files theme song. @regret.bsky.social & @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/white-...

Republicans launched their offensive against Texas State Rep. James Talarico as his Senate race against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton got underway—misgendering him, falsely claiming that he's vegan, and calling him "low-T." In other words, their messaging comes from the online manosphere.

NEW: White House officials view the $1B Trump ballroom funding package a must-pass bill for Republicans, in order to avoid having a presidential bunker financed by private donors @WIRED.com www.wired.com/story/drone-...

"Lawmakers have privately grumbled that the reason the White House is now in need of money for a bunker is because Trump ripped out the existing one when he bulldozed the East Wing last year without first securing funding from Congress."

SCOOPLET: Just before the holiday weekend, DOL employees received an email instructing them how to file complaints against colleagues for engaging in DEI. One employee told me that it was like a reminder to "narc on your colleagues." @wired.com www.wired.com/story/depart...

NEW: Drone Ports and Funding Mayhem: Trump's Ballroom Has Turned Toxic “Republicans are just going to have to suck it up and get it done,” says one Trump aide about the funding melee over the ballroom construction. don't miss @hugolowell.bsky.social's latest for @wired.com:

EXCLUSIVE A year ago, the Trump administration announced it was creating an Office or Remigration—named for a racist plan to expel immigrants, popularized by European far-right groups It has since said nothing about it. But @wired.com found out what it's doing... www.wired.com/story/the-st...

NEW: The Office of Remigration, housed in the State Dept and seemingly named for a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations, has been a black box since it was created a year ago. But @davidgilbert.bsky.social has figured out what's going on:

NEW: The Department of Labor told employees to report anyone using DEI, in an email reminding workers that they can even report behavior that predates Donald Trump’s second term. One employee tells @wired.com it felt like a “reminder to narc on your coworkers.” read @telliotter.bsky.social:

🎇New package! We know you are confused, angry, invigorated or maybe paralyzed by corporate America's embrace of AI. So we wrote a bunch of stories, made a bunch of videos, added quizzes and made a whole mandatory AI training www.wired.com/story/ai-or-...

Debt is rising in the United States. Now, when you owe money, you're likely to get a phone call from an AI collector asking you to pay up—sometimes even when you *don't* owe anything: www.wired.com/story/ai-tak...

The U.S. Has Murdered More Than 190 Civilian in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All. SOUTHCOM is now counting the survivor of the last strike, on May 8, as another death. We have the running tally of strikes and deaths on our tracker @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

Really interesting to see this op-ed calling for the French gov to invest in alternative platforms to ones like X. Just another way in which EU countries, but particularly France, are starting to talk with increasing seriousness about moving away from US tech products www.wired.com/story/the-eu...

Great news, just in time for summer reading season! @wired.com is launching a book club, helmed by the inimitable @knibbs.bsky.social. Sign up here before the fun gets started:

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