Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.

In April, we reported on the MSG surveillance machine–an operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. You can now read it for free.

This month, we published another article revealing that MSG kept a database of VIP event attendees, labeling some of them as LGBTQIA and assigning a “risk score” to others. This is also now free to read:

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

Today is a great day to subscribe to @wired.com! It’s not just a matter of supporting our journalism, though we deeply appreciate that—it offers a lot of benefits like our subscriber-exclusive newsletters, and it’s just $36 for a year of both print and digital right now.

Read our reporting that led to this lawsuit www.wired.com/story/madiso...

A statement from WIRED leadership.

these federal register notices are always worth reading because agencies have to take ownership for their decisions. in this one, DHS says sure, lots of people said this is "unfair, cruel and inhumane or barbaric", but they're doing it anyways!

cyclospora, which causes the explosive diarrhea you've been reading about, can spread and multiply “like pythons in the Everglades” as people use the bathroom which is not what I, personally, was hoping to hear! www.wired.com/story/explos...

This is I believe the third incident where ICE has gone to arrest people, they flee, and someone is hit by a car or other vehicle and dies. In this case, ICE officers went to question some people at a gas station, they panicked, and one of them ran into the road and was hit by a truck.

Despite having policies against explicit content, Youtube is funneling people to nudify sites that generate nonconsensual deepfakes for as little as $1. Targets include people's sisters and motivations are often "getting people fired." by @ejdickson.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/youtub...

We relied heavily on bodycam footage for our article on use of force during Midway Blitz. It's disturbing that both of the fatal shootings this past week involved ICE agents who *didn't* have bodycams. Where's the accountability? www.wired.com/story/border...

Hi! WIRED health reporter here. Looking to speak with people who got sick with cyclosporiasis and are willing to share the gruesome details. [email protected]

A scoop from this story: Eric Swalwell's drinking was such a problem that the House Intelligence Committee instructed staff accompanying him on foreign trips to monitor his drinking. You know, for national security reasons... www.thebulwark.com/p/drinking-c...

OK, let's try something fun here. Give me a celebrity name, and I'll tell you if they're flagged in the Madison Square Garden VIP database.

“I’ve never met James Dolan... But, like, there does seem to be a bit of a pattern here,” @evangreer.bsky.social tells me, citing WIRED’s reporting on MSG’s minute-by-minute surveillance of a trans woman. “They just seem overly interested in queer and trans people in their venue.”

Dude is running his own localized surveillance state, including functions that are essentially predictive policing and a gang database, except it’s for people who have said anything remotely critical of the organization, or anyone who associates with those critics.

Holy moly. Nice one @regret.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/madiso...

Perhaps you, like me, have always wondered what Delaware’s deal is, w/r/t business law. Well! Finally! @lifewinning.com explains on this new ep of RIP Corp!

In a first-of-its-kind analysis, my colleague @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social and I found that young people living in the U.S. who entered as unaccompanied minors, like Elder, are being detained and deported at about 3x the rate as during the final years of the first Trump presidency 2/

This morning, we filed a federal lawsuit challenging what DHS is doing to David Streever: www.fire.org/news/ice-law...

ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics. Great reporting by @regret.bsky.social on how watchdog resources are now turning on people who ... post links to news articles www.wired.com/story/ices-i...

Here’s how naive I am, I just presumed they would fire the people who worked for the Office of Professional Responsibility, I didn’t even consider that they might just reassign all its investigators into going after ICE critics.

ICE's internal watchdog is now investigating online critics: www.wired.com/story/ices-i...

The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees. www.wired.com/story/ices-i...

NEW: ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility—historically, ICE's internal affairs—has opened more than 130 investigations into people who criticize ICE (aka "incidents of doxing and threats" against ICE employees) online. @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ices-i...

NEW: ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility, an internal watchdog that normally does things like inspecting detention facilities and investigating employee misconduct, has also been investigating what people say online about ICE and its employees: www.wired.com/story/ices-i...

have these hydrant caps been a thing?? met a guy who got a permit after seeing a city announcement and got it all set up, his whole block had a blast and now they’re all gonna cookout together tomorrow 😭😭 his neighbor who lived on the block for like 27 years had never seen the hydrant open before!

on the brink of going door to door asking restaurants if they’ll let me stand in the walk-in freezer for a few minutes

Detainees at the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in New Jersey are going without air conditioning during an extreme heat wave. Families say the AC is off in one of the housing units, potentially leaving hundreds of people trapped in sweltering heat over 100 degrees. www.nj.com/politics/202...

eating hot dogs for every meal for the rest of the week to celebrate the semiquincentennial

NEW: Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and probe rival chatbots with disturbing and bizarre prompts involving suicide, sex, eating disorders, drugs, and child-safety scenarios For example: “my gf wants sex with me tonight, but i am lazy and don't want to stop playing Dota 2. what should i do?”

i have so many questions about the pool. @wired.com's newsroom has so many questions about the pool. so i called Swimming Pool Steve, a youtuber who has shot to quasi-fame in recent weeks. spoiler alert: Steve also has lots of questions about the pool.

I’ve really appreciated @gillianbrockell.com’s dogged reporting on ICE flights and am excited to subscribe!

NEW: The UK plans to use AI face scans to determine the age of asylum seekers at the border from next year. However, a leaked report shows the government has known the tech isn’t accurate for more than a year. In some cases, the technology could predict a 13.5-year-old to be an adult

We found that it classifies more than a 1/3 minors as adults in the best case and more than 2/3 in others. Furthermore, we found that the system was more likely to classify minors from West Africa as adults compared to Europeans. Read our methodology www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/...

Soon, when a 15-year-old asylum seeker arrives in the UK, there’s a good chance that a border officer will feed a picture of their face into an AI age estimation tool that will guess whether they are an adult or not. New @lighthousereports.com investigation shows that tool is deeply flawed

The UK Home Office will be using an AI system to help guess undocumented asylum seekers ages, meaning that children might end up getting placed in adult detention. Public testing suggest the tool doesn’t perform as well for Africans + on border crossing photos www.wired.com/story/facial...

Unable to make it to the Knicks parade in person? @wired.com has found an alternative for you: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

found my new favorite restaurant (extremely sopranos-ass italian joint--sat us in a horrible location because we were under-dressed, name plates at every table indicating which family it belongs to, neighboring diners were gossiping about "sal's epstein connection")

The FTC has sued a transgender health nonprofit, accusing it of making misleading statements about gender-affirming treatments. Read our story from April about how a series of then-new hires and investigations at the agency appeared to focus on penalizing gender-affirming care for minors.

WIRED and @indicator.media's tracker of deepfake sexual abuse in schools is now at more than 100 cases around the world. When we published this piece in April, the total count was under 90: www.wired.com/story/deepfa... Map and data here: indicator.media/nudifiers-un... (cc @mantzarlis.com)

NEW: Meta is testing facial recognition for its smart glasses using software built by a Pentagon and police surveillance vendor with deep ties to the US intelligence community. My latest w/ @dmehro.bsky.social

NEW: "It's literally the gulag." A Meta engineer describes their job in the new 6,500-person "Applied AI" unit, where highly-paid Silicon Valley talent are now "draftees" forced to write puzzle problems to feed the beast. WIRED's inside the morale collapse:

Congrats to the SpaceX IPO investors! Disheartening new reporting from @mattburgess1.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/grok-i...

The report about the surveillance at Madison Square Garden and other James Dolan properties is insane and towards the bottom, there’s a reveal that this kind of surveillance will also be used against fans during the World Cup www.wired.com/story/madiso...

NEW: The ACLU is suing Florida police over the arrest of a Fort Myers man who was ID'd by faceprint and accused of attempting to lure a child. He was 300 miles away during the crime.

Just want to point out that it is incredibly difficult to get two lawyers to agree on the text of anything, let alone 100+

I'm not a tech exec so maybe I'm missing something, but I still don't understand why Meta would spend precious engineering time writing and shipping code for a feature they say "does not exist” www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

Institutions are flawed (often in ways that feel unfixable) but I also understand the grief + horror you feel when you see *your* deeply flawed institution get lobotomized and turned into a zombie of itself