do you think some lobbyist just dumped a bunch of bernie sanders speeches into an LLM to identify what AI expansion talking points would resonate with him

In January, WIRED interviewed an activist at Delaney Hall, the NJ detention center that is currently on hunger strike, about the work they were doing to support detainees and the families trying to visit them: www.wired.com/story/what-t...

“Several” is doing a lot of work here. TWELVE. Noem bought 12 planes! Two of those sales continued under Markwayne. DHS paid way more than market value for at least seven of those planes, per a source at Avelo (see link next post). We won’t recoup those public funds even if we offload them now.

FTC has a website for reporting TAKE IT DOWN violations by platforms: takeitdown.ftc.gov

Wired said the data had been silently updated today, and yup: 270,214 fewer arrests (−57%). The repo is updated with a side-by-side comparison github.com/katelynsills... Possible reasons: removing custody locations such as prisons + deduplication of double entries (arrest + booking?)

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.

UPDATE: WH says that the site pulls "data directly from DHS" and accidentally included "a handful of non-immigration HSI arrests." WIRED reviewed the updated data and found there are now 270,214 fewer arrests listed.

Unfortunately, thinking that this was going to be a fun site about UFOs, I set up a bot that would slack me and a few colleagues when it went live. Last night we found something VERY different. NEW w/ @dell.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/white-...

The Trump administration’s workforce cuts and increasing number of FOIA requests have deepened challenges for already strained federal offices charged with overseeing FOIA processing.

New Flock stalking case just came to light -- Winnebago County, Ill. deputy used license plate readers to monitor the locations of his ex and her new partner dozens of times over several months. www.wifr.com/2026/05/08/f...

Exclusive: Unionized tech workers at the New York Times have filed grievances accusing management of using AI-powered performance tools to track and discipline staff. The Tech Guild says recent disciplinary notices appear to be generated using one of the tools. 🎁 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

NEW: “Anti-tech extremism” is now actively being monitored by US law enforcement as frustration over AI and data centers percolate across the country, according to records obtained by @wired.com. @drboguslaw.bsky.social has the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA www.wired.com/story/us-law...

The eagle-eyed @seamushughes.bsky.social at @courtwatch.bsky.social has spotted a newly-filed TAKE IT DOWN Act criminal case in S.D. Texas: www.courtlistener.com/docket/73367...

NEW: In 2023, @404media.co reported on a marking firm claiming to sell "Active Listening" tech that would eavesdrop on people's phones and other devices for targeting ads. The FTC announced a settlement today that adds a new twist. @regret.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/creepy...

NEW: the FTC has settled with three marketing firms that touted a "creepy" advertising service that let companies target ads based on audio from people's smart devices. FTC alleges that was misleading and that it's actually expensive email lists www.wired.com/story/creepy...

BREAKING: the Zuckerbergs are hiring a lifeguard, but are choosing to make the job title "Beach Water Person" for whatever reason www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

Link to FTC site to report platform’s failure to remove nonconsensual intimate images here www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

this was an interesting experience btw

Starting today, platforms are now required to offer a way for you to file takedown requests to get nonconsensual nudes removed under the Take It Down Act. WIRED reached out to 14 companies that spent lobbying money on the act to find out how to do that! Read more here: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

NEW: 🏖️💧🤸 @carolinehaskins.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

Holy balls, this opinion: "As citizens, we trust that federal prosecutors . . . will play fair and be honest with its counterparts and the judiciary. DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case." (via @chrisgeidner.bsky.social) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

1/ Last fall, as we were interviewing immigrants detained during a dramatic immigration raid at an apartment complex in Chicago, we kept hearing about a Nigerian man whose leg was mauled by a police dog. 🧵:

NEW from @dell.bsky.social and I: DHS and Canada are planning on holding a "multi-day experiment" to test out how well drones and autonomous vehicles can operate along the border, including how well they can transmit "real-time battlefield intelligence." www.wired.com/story/dhs-pl...

btw, regulators confirmed to us this morning that the 19 new turbines (and the 27 already on site) are not part of an air permit granted in March, meaning xAI has more than 1 GW of unpermitted gas power at Colossus 2 right now

NYT reports that David Venturella will be the new head of ICE. He’s a former GEO exec and was one of the ICE officials who edited the “Detention Reengineering Initiative” plan to build mega centers across the country— www.wired.com/story/metada...

NEW: xAI appears to have added more than 500 MW (!) of unpermitted gas turbines to its Colossus 2 campus in a matter of weeks, according to internal emails between the company and regulators

im so happy the hantavirus cruise guy finally got starbucks in the national quarantine unit

what confuses me about the electronic shelf label hate is that they are pitched as a way for retailers to improve their pricing accuracy (vs. sending an employee throughout the store to manually update prices)

more Hugging Face content moderation challenges — the model marketplace finds itself hosting infostealers disguised as legitimate models www.heise.de/en/news/Info...

California reached first state settlement with GM over sale of car owners’ driving behavior which I reported on back in 2024. Cost is $12.75 million. Sale of data only netted GM around double that. With more of these to come, it’s now clear risks outweighed the benefits. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

Hundreds of people complained to the FCC that Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance was too horny, including people who admitted they had to look up translations of the lyrics in order to be upset. via FOIA and @waterslicer.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...

Great to see Cal DOJ settle with General Motors over its privacy practices, netting the largest CCPA penalty to date (!) along with injunctive relief oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

SCOOP! DOGE’s Ethan Shaotran, one of the young engineers first identified by WIRED, is starting a post-government second act: defense tech startup that appears to be gearing up to get government contracts. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/doges-...

Today, we sued the federal government to stop Google from handing over personal information on a Canadian citizen who criticized Trump online. Under Trump 2.0, social media platforms have received hundreds of similar demands designed to chill speech the government doesn’t like.

DHS used an admin subpoena to try to get a Canadian mans data after he criticized the government online. We’ve seen this before. In 2023 WIRED obtained a database showing DHS extensively used summonses to seek records. Even sent one to a lawyer over a blog post. great @regret.bsky.social scoop

NEW: DHS is using a legal tool called a 1509 customs summons to try to obtain info from Google about a Canadian after he criticized the Trump admin online. He says he hasn't been to the US in 10+ years and didn't ship anything during the time period DHS asked about: www.wired.com/story/dhs-de...

The best part of this excellent @mzeff.bsky.social caper is Evan Spiegel’s reaction to the entire thing:

Updated my tracker of European orgs—governments, companies, etc—ditching US tech. It's now up to 20 entries, with the latest including a couple of media entities, the Dutch National Bank (reportedly), and open source sewing software Spreadsheet here: drive.proton.me/urls/EG60KWH...

Cole Allen, who was charged with attempting to assassinate the president at the WHCA, was "forced to sit inside of a locked cage in full, five-point restraints, and speak over a phone" in order to communicate with his lawyers, per a new filing: www.courtlistener.com/docket/73248...

There were around 30 attorneys in the DOJ’s Voting Section on the day of Donald Trump’s second inauguration. Three months later, all but two were gone. Now the election deniers are in control. www.wired.com/story/the-ju...

NEW: Turns Out, You Can’t Do That @knibbs.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/us-spe...

Okay, last one for now, sorry, but scientists gave cocaine to some salmon and you will absolutely believe what happened next

when @mollytaft.com showed me the permit estimates and was like "but also, take look at the numbers for these ENTIRE COUNTRIES" my jaw dropped. a must read: www.wired.com/story/new-ga...

"Now a powerful new capability has arrived—and as we’ve seen repeatedly in tech, there’s the risk that organizations with resources will receive it first and learn to protect themselves, while others are left vulnerable."

Really curious to see if this leads to the curtailing of the agency's investigative power overall.

NEW: Based on Mozilla's tests, the Anthropic Mythos Preview security hype is real. @lhn.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/mozill...

bad news for people whose jobs are their identity...are we in for a new era of work product-based sloppelgangers?

NEW: The Consumer Federation of America is suing Meta, alleging that the company misled consumers about its efforts to combat scam advertisements and violated Washington DC's consumer protection laws. www.wired.com/story/meta-i...