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Katie Drummond
about 9 hours ago
Donald Trump is obsessed with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool being "American flag blue" before July 4th. Unfortunately it's full of algae making it a sickening shade of green instead:
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Why the Reflecting Pool Is Full of Algae After Trump's Renovation
Warm weather has fueled a bloom that National Park Service workers are trying to kill using everything from hydrogen peroxide to nanobubbles ahead of July 4 celebrations.
https://www.wired.com/story/reflecting-pool-full-of-algae-climate-change/
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Boone Ashworth
about 11 hours ago
Snap just announced its big, pricey AR Specs
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You Can Finally Buy Snapâs New AR Specsâfor $2,195
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel lays out the companyâs vision for its augmented-reality smart glasses, arriving later this year.
https://www.wired.com/story/snaps-new-ar-specs-cost-2195/
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Shady TikTok sellers are flashing iPhones and other expensive tech for livestream viewers to bid onâbut these âsurprise setsâ are also filled with cheap prizes, like Labubu plushies, not shown on screen. Gambling experts are concerned. Read my latest:
www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
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Scoop from me for
@wired.com
! TikTok changed their livestream policies the day after I reached out for comment, providing examples of viewers feeling scammed by predatory livestreams.
www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
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TikTok Shoppers Thought They Were Bidding on iPhones. Instead, They Won Teddy Bears
Sellers on TikTok used pricey items to lure bidders to âSurprise Setsâ livestreams, but most of the auctions yielded only cheap prizes. Gambling experts are concerned about the potential for harm.
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-surprise-sets-iphones-teddy-bears/
about 15 hours ago
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@wired.com
! TikTok changed their livestream policies the day after I reached out for comment, providing examples of viewers feeling scammed by predatory livestreams.
www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
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TikTok Shoppers Thought They Were Bidding on iPhones. Instead, They Won Teddy Bears
Sellers on TikTok used pricey items to lure bidders to âSurprise Setsâ livestreams, but most of the auctions yielded only cheap prizes. Gambling experts are concerned about the potential for harm.
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-surprise-sets-iphones-teddy-bears/
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WIRED
about 17 hours ago
Sellers on TikTok used pricey items to lure bidders to âSurprise Setsâ livestreams, but most of the auctions yielded only cheap prizes. Gambling experts are concerned about the potential for harm.
www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
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TikTok Shoppers Thought They Were Bidding on iPhones. Instead, They Won Teddy Bears
Sellers on TikTok used pricey items to lure bidders to âSurprise Setsâ livestreams, but most of the auctions yielded only cheap prizes. Gambling experts are concerned about the potential for harm.
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-surprise-sets-iphones-teddy-bears/
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Zeyi Yang æšæłœæŻ
12 days ago
Premiering tonight at the Tribeca Film Festival, TikTok Never Dies is a documentary that chronicles the last 6 years of the app ban drama in the US. Itâs essentially a post mortem, asking viewers to relive the endless drama & decide whether itâs worth it. Hereâs my convo with the filmmaker Hao Wu.
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The TikTok Ban Was Never About TikTok
A new documentary chronicles how the app became a stand-in for American anxieties about social media, China, and political power.
https://www.wired.com/story/made-in-china-tiktok-never-dies/
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
12 days ago
EFFâs Threat Lab confirmed
@WIRED.com
âs finding that Meta has deployed facial recognition code to millions of their always-on surveillance glasses.
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Move Fast, Surveil Things
Meta has deployed facial recognition code to millions of their always-on surveillance glasses, according to new reporting by Wired. EFFâs Threat Lab was able to confirm that the facial recognition cod...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/move-fast-surveil-things
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Miles Klee đŠ
12 days ago
When a follower suggested to him that Guy Fieri doesn't actually eat any of the food he samples on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, streamer Doctor Spaghetti set out to debunk the theory. But after analyzing many hours of the show, he uncovered all kinds of sleight-of-fork that left viewers reeling.
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This Streamer Has Convinced the Internet Guy Fieri Never Swallows Food on TV
A video creator known as Doctor Spaghetti has scrutinized hours of âDiners, Drive-Ins and Divesâ to get to the bottom of an explosive culinary conspiracy theory.
https://www.wired.com/story/this-streamer-has-convinced-the-internet-guy-fieri-never-swallows-food-on-diners-driveins-dives/
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Katie Drummond
13 days ago
You deserve all of this and MORE (some great stories running on
@wired.com
tomorrowâŠ)
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dell cameron
12 days ago
NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag â a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses â has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Metaâs smart glasses platform. Itâs designed to identify people via biometric data stored on usersâ phones.
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-nametag-connections/
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Grace đłïžââ§ïž
13 days ago
are you just going to do this for every generation
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molly taft
14 days ago
a little bit of wonky data center news from me this morning: while other tech companies are pretty explicitly moving away from evaporative cooling, google is defending it in specific watersheds as a necessary part of building sustainable data centers
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Data Center Operators Are Trying to Fix Their Water Use Problems
Google, Microsoft, and other hyperscalers have come under scrutiny for their impact on water quality and availability.
https://www.wired.com/story/data-center-operators-fix-water-use-problems/
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Kate Knibbs
16 days ago
Absolutely thrilled to share an excerpt from our first pick for Wired Book Clubâ"The Yahoo Boys" by Carlos BarragĂĄn. Read here:
www.wired.com/story/wired-...
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The Romance Scammer Who Made a Small Fortune Posing as a WWE Superstar
In this excerpt from WIRED Book Club pick âThe Yahoo Boys,â journalist Carlos BarragĂĄn traces one scammerâs journey from flop to fortune.
https://www.wired.com/story/wired-book-club-excerpt-the-yahoo-boys-carlos-barragan/
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maddy varner
18 days ago
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.
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Miles Klee đŠ
19 days ago
very proud to say that my first article in print for
@wired.com
is about how i frew up
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Katie Drummond
18 days ago
I donât know what to say. This is just insane:
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The White Houseâs Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens
The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administrationâs sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there.
https://www.wired.com/story/white-house-aliens-gov-us-citizens-arrested/
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James Ball
18 days ago
"I couldnât get over the irony of it relegating my long-term, live-in boyfriend to just a âclose friend and frequent companion.â What is this, the â80s?"
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đ Shiv
18 days ago
here i go again dot meme
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âEven after I gave the agent everything, I still felt like it barely knew me.â In my Friday blog for
@wired.com
, I tested Googleâs Gemini Spark and STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU DO NOT DO THE SAME.
www.wired.com/story/google...
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I Gave Gemini Spark Access to My Life. Then It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend
Google's new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didnât clock the person most important to me.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-spark-ai-agent-hands-on/
18 days ago
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Manisha Krishnan
18 days ago
The artist behind Cuppy "The Good Advice Cupcake" says BuzzFeed reassured her they wouldn't use the cartoon without her on board. Now they've leased it to Amazon for an AI show. Nightmare fuel for any digital media refugee. by
@milesklee.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/story/...
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Amazon Is Making an AI-Animated âGood Advice Cupcakeâ TV Show. Its Original Creator Is Furious
Loryn Brantz created âThe Good Advice Cupcakeâ for BuzzFeed years ago. The company licensed the character for a new Amazon seriesâmade with AIâwithout her consent.
https://www.wired.com/story/story/amazon-is-making-an-ai-animated-good-advice-cupcake-tv-show-its-original-creator-is-furious/
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Manisha Krishnan
18 days ago
"The dive queer bars are where Iâd probably actually go, sans AI suggestion, so I was curious how Gemini Spark picked these. It felt like I was being profiled and wanted some answers about why this plan was so, well, gay." another banger blog by
@thiccreese.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/google...
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I Gave Gemini Spark Access to My Life. Then It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend
Google's new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didnât clock the person most important to me.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-spark-ai-agent-hands-on/
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Andrew Couts
18 days ago
NEW: Nope. No. Not Happening. Over My Dead Body
@thiccreese.bsky.social
reports
www.wired.com/story/google...
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I Gave Gemini Spark Access to My Life. Then It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend
Google's new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didnât clock the person most important to me.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-spark-ai-agent-hands-on/
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WIRED
18 days ago
Google's new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didnât clock the person most important to me.
www.wired.com/story/google...
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I Gave Gemini Spark Access to My Life. Then It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend
Google's new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didnât clock the person most important to me.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-spark-ai-agent-hands-on/
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Incredible reporting from
@knibbs.bsky.social
!! I love writing for
@wired.com
and that includes, well, actually writing shit!
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18 days ago
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molly taft
18 days ago
would like to state definitively for the record that this is not the case on my end
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Kate Knibbs
20 days ago
if you haven't read this
@thiccreese.bsky.social
saga yet about the frankly completely psychotic AI-fueled first-person video gig economy, i cannot recommend enough:
www.wired.com/story/househ...
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I Spent a Week Recording Myself Doing Chores for Money. Who's the Robot Now?
Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoidsâif youâre prepared for the consequences.
https://www.wired.com/story/household-chores-training-robots/
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Zeyi Yang æšæłœæŻ
20 days ago
laughed out so many times reading this story. They pay you only $0.55 for recording a five-minute video!!
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jason
21 days ago
user dissatisfaction with dating apps is maybe the worst its ever been, and the thing i've been curious about the most is *how* new apps are thinking about user agency. meetmarket is using a steward ownership model, which gives members voting rights over major decisions
www.wired.com/story/these-...
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These Privacy-Conscious Gay Dating Apps Want to Dethrone Grindr
As public backlash against Big Dating mounts, a batch of new gay hookup apps offer community-powered alternatives.
https://www.wired.com/story/these-privacy-conscious-gay-dating-apps-want-to-dethrone-grindr/
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Going live in an hour on
@wired.com
to chat about this piece and the future of work! Itâs going to be a lively session, so tune in and drop your questions below!
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21 days ago
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Boone Ashworth
21 days ago
"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...
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I Spent a Week Recording Myself Doing Chores for Money. Who's the Robot Now?
Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoidsâif youâre prepared for the consequences.
https://www.wired.com/story/household-chores-training-robots/
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MY FIRST âBIG STORYâ FOR WIRED!! Spent a week with a camera strapped to my forehead, training robots how to do chores. âTeach the robot how to cook tonight so you can put food on the table tomorrow.â
www.wired.com/story/househ...
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I Spent a Week Recording Myself Doing Chores for Money. Who's the Robot Now?
Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoidsâif youâre prepared for the consequences.
https://www.wired.com/story/household-chores-training-robots/
22 days ago
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Before long, many gig workers in the US may start delivering reality to make ends meet, as well as the typical room-temperature takeout. My latest for
@wired.com
www.wired.com/story/househ...
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I Spent a Week Recording Myself Doing Chores for Money. Who's the Robot Now?
Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoidsâif youâre prepared for the consequences.
https://www.wired.com/story/household-chores-training-robots/
22 days ago
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Kate Knibbs
22 days ago
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 upâsometimes even when you *don't* owe anything:
www.wired.com/story/ai-tak...
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AI Is Taking Over the Most Cursed Job in the World
Thereâs a mad dash to automate the worldâs most hated calls. Have an unpaid bill? Youâll hear from an AI debt collector sometime soon.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-takes-over-debt-collection/
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Liz
22 days ago
Training robots for chores is how I want AI to work. Please do not teach the AIs the whimsy of art and music thaaaaank you
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MY FIRST âBIG STORYâ FOR WIRED!! Spent a week with a camera strapped to my forehead, training robots how to do chores. âTeach the robot how to cook tonight so you can put food on the table tomorrow.â
www.wired.com/story/househ...
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I Spent a Week Recording Myself Doing Chores for Money. Who's the Robot Now?
Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoidsâif youâre prepared for the consequences.
https://www.wired.com/story/household-chores-training-robots/
22 days ago
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Katie Drummond
25 days ago
I wish I disagreed with
@stevenlevy.bsky.social
but this column is totally right: People might hate AI, but yes, they will totally use Googleâs new search. (To the detriment of many, including publishers.)
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Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search
The search giantâs AI-crafted answers are so convenient, youâll be sucked inâto the detriment of the web and the artists and thinkers behind it.
https://www.wired.com/story/even-if-you-hate-ai-you-will-use-google-ai-search/
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so unnerving that major companies are attempting to sell AI deepfakes as ENTERTAINING and FUN đ« my latest for
@wired.com
www.wired.com/story/i-clon...
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I Cloned Myself With Geminiâs AI Avatar Tool. The Result Was Unnervingly Me
I used the Gemini app to generate lifelike videos featuring a digital clone of myself. Google sees this as the future of creation. Iâm still creeped out.
https://www.wired.com/story/i-cloned-myself-with-geminis-ai-avatar-tool-the-result-was-unnervingly-me/
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Manisha Krishnan
27 days ago
4chan users are asking "wizards" to nudify women they know and praising them, enforcing a power structure and bonding ritual built on shared misogyny. by
@milesklee.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/4chans...
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4chanâs Misogynist âWizardsâ Are Nudifying Women by Request
As nonconsensual explicit deepfakes continue to proliferate online, entire communities are now collaborating on this digital form of sexual abuse.
https://www.wired.com/story/4chans-misogynist-wizards-are-nudifying-women-by-request/
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Brian Barrett
26 days ago
I was not prepared for deepfake Reece singing happy birthday to a dinosaur.
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so unnerving that major companies are attempting to sell AI deepfakes as ENTERTAINING and FUN đ« my latest for
@wired.com
www.wired.com/story/i-clon...
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I Cloned Myself With Geminiâs AI Avatar Tool. The Result Was Unnervingly Me
I used the Gemini app to generate lifelike videos featuring a digital clone of myself. Google sees this as the future of creation. Iâm still creeped out.
https://www.wired.com/story/i-cloned-myself-with-geminis-ai-avatar-tool-the-result-was-unnervingly-me/
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Kate Knibbs
27 days ago
exciting news! truly living the dreamâWired is launching a book club this summer, hosted by ME! more details to come, and sign up here:
www.wired.com/newsletter/b...
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Manisha Krishnan
28 days ago
Can anyone fucking write anymore? new blog on the latest of many slop scandals from
@milesklee.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/common...
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Literary Prizewinners Are Facing AI Allegations. It Feels Like the New Normal
Three of five regional winners of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize are suspected of relying on chatbots. They're certainly not alone.
https://www.wired.com/story/commonwealth-short-story-prize-ai-allegations/
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really captured the on-the-ground atmosphere at todayâs Google event in
@wired.com
âs liveblog 𫥠check it out:
www.wired.com/live/google-...
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NEW: Google Searchâs big play over the past few years has been to insert AI and push users further away from actually visiting websites. Maybe, just maybe, I want to visit a website firsthand? (like
@wired.com
đ„č)
www.wired.com/story/google...
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Google Search Goes Agenticâand Doesnât Need You Anymore
Vibe-coded results! Super widgets! Bots that never sleep! Googleâs vision for the future of Search is hyper-personalized, automated, and extremely AI.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-goes-agentic-and-doesnt-need-you-anymore/
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Brian Barrett
28 days ago
Google's vision for the future of search is that you don't even really go to websites anymore, ai agents do it for you. (other than wired dot com which you will of course continue to visit obsessively, thank you, please) from
@thiccreese.bsky.social
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Google Search Goes Agenticâand Doesnât Need You Anymore
Vibe-coded results! Super widgets! Bots that never sleep! Googleâs vision for the future of Search is hyper-personalized, automated, and extremely AI.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-goes-agentic-and-doesnt-need-you-anymore/
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29 days ago
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Katie Drummond
29 days ago
For the @wired.com Big Interview this week, I interviewed California gubernatorial hopeful and billionaire Tom Steyer. It was a tough hang for many reasons, but particularly because he didn't know who he was talking to.
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Andrew Couts
30 days ago
NEW: A former Phoenix PD officer whose company trained an ICE paramilitary unit was involved in six shootings while on duty, four of which resulted in death.
@awinston.bsky.social
has the scoop:
www.wired.com/story/an-ice...
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An ICE Firearms Trainer Was Involved in At Least 4 Deadly Shootings
David Norman, a former Phoenix police officer whoâs described himself as âa f***ing savage,â now runs a company that provided training to Homeland Securityâs Special Response Teams.
https://www.wired.com/story/an-ice-firearms-trainer-was-involved-in-at-least-4-deadly-shootings/
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