lord, give me the strength to not argue at people who basically agree with me

I’m so proud of the 2025 that WIRED had, and already can’t wait to publish so many of the stories and videos we’ve got in the works…stay tuned!

every seat in a movie theater should have an "I have to pee" button and if enough people press it they should be able to pause the movie

this one is called goose horse

New with @regret.bsky.social: Grok’s creation of harmful “undress” images is relentless. Even today, after days of scrutiny, Grok was churning out ‘bikini’ and underwear images of women every few seconds. Researchers estimate that Grok has become the biggest creator of sexualized deepfake images

This week for the @wired.com Big interview podcast: the one and only Margaret Atwood, who kept the zingers coming as she talked about tech barons, her hope for the U.S., doomscrolling, AI, and why she wants to control every atomic bomb in the world (and if you ask me, she SHOULD!):

I know it sounds crazy but it's possible that the Trump administration has not thought this Venezuela oil situation all the way through. from @mollytaft.com

NEW: Nvidia says its next-generation AI chips, Vera Rubin, are in "full production." Company seems eager to reassure partners and investors that there isn't a slip on this one... www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

last month, @wired.com broke the news about ai image generators being used to undress photos of women. my reporting resulted in a 200K+ subreddit getting banned for nonconsensual deepfakes. doing more software accountability reporting this year. reach out to me on Signal with tips! reece_rogers.01

last month, @wired.com broke the news about ai image generators being used to undress photos of women. my reporting resulted in a 200K+ subreddit getting banned for nonconsensual deepfakes. doing more software accountability reporting this year. reach out to me on Signal with tips! reece_rogers.01

hey did you hear there's gonna be this thing called AI at CES this year www.wired.com/story/ces-20...

Merry Christmas, may all those cool gifts you got be fixable far into the future www.wired.com/story/expire...

six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO

as a result of my reporting, Reddit fully banned the 200K+ member sub where users generated nonconsensual bikini deepfakes and shared tips for stripping women using AI last investigation of the year for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/google...

Users of AI image generators are offering each other instructions on how to use the tech to alter pictures of women into realistic, revealing deepfakes. www.wired.com/story/google...

in which I reveal myself to be a rabid Avatar dork for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-av...

A last minute holiday gift? @sloanecrosley.bsky.social on why her phone seems to no longer be working www.wired.com/story/phone-...

Don't take my word for it! Here's @thiccreese.bsky.social:

You owe it to yourself to do this at least for the holidays.

The developers of a browser tool that changes AI-centric LinkedIn posts to Allen Iverson facts want to help “take back control of your experience of the internet.” www.wired.com/story/chrome...

EXCLUSIVE: the Working Families Party is putting out a recruitment call for people opposed to data centers in their communities to run for local office the recruitment effort comes just 2 days after Bernie Sanders called for a moratorium on data center construction

Stay safe out there y'all

Federal records show CBP is moving from testing small drones to making them standard surveillance tools, expanding a network that can follow activity in real time and extend well beyond the border. www.wired.com/story/border...

I misspoke, it appears the priciest option is a cocaine module for $75, which is not that much less than the street price of a gram of actual cocaine.

could not be more true!!

“Was I a DEI hire?” It’s a question that WIRED senior writer Jason Parham sometimes asks. In an industry perpetually on the verge of extinction, Parham jokes that the only reason he’s survived so long is because he’s Black. www.wired.com/story/dei-di...

New: OpenAI quietly rolled back ChatGPT's model router for free users last week. The router—which was costly for the company to serve, but aimed to improve answer quality—was thought to be hurting engagement, one person familiar with the matter told WIRED.

counting down five fav articles from my year of reporting at @wired.com, starting with number five… the Monday afternoon blog that Elon Musk hated so much he posted about it www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Bellingcat’s @koltai.bsky.social uncovers the Hungarian national behind two deepfake porn websites. The key figure rakes in profits and vacations in luxury hotels in Dubai and Bali, whilst website visitors create sexually explicit images and videos. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted

looking great, sir

We have reached the “begging us to come back” stage of X’s decline

Hate when companies put DRM in your air filters? Maybe you can get paid for fixing that www.wired.com/story/fulu-r...

new from me: are data centers going to wipe out water supplies? how much water does ChatGPT really use? and what's going on with that big correction in Empire of AI? i went long on the conversation around AI and water, and how it's actually about what we want resources to be used for:

looking to expand my software coverage for @wired.com further next year! if you’re a developer, academic, app designer or anyone else with inside knowledge of consumer tech, i would love to connect. happy to chat off the record signal.me#eu/-nUwtfyy0...

Tell this man all your secrets

looking to expand my software coverage for @wired.com further next year! if you’re a developer, academic, app designer or anyone else with inside knowledge of consumer tech, i would love to connect. happy to chat off the record signal.me#eu/-nUwtfyy0...

Loved this piece about Taiwan’s public transit keychains from @lmatsakis.bsky.social, and especially this one collector: “Later, I had a lunchbox-shaped one, but looking at it too long would make me hungry, so I never really used it. I just kept it as a toy.” www.wired.com/story/icash-...

Democratic-led states are standing up to RFK Jr.'s ACIP and say they will continue recommending the universal birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/many-s...

This is like those kids’ chemistry kits from the 50s that had poisons and radioactive elements in them.

Congratulations to TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year: The Box of Miscellaneous USB and Firewire Cables You Started Collecting in 2007

Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism

Our anniversary sale is officially over, but great news! We smashed through our 5,000 goal; we're now at 5,050 paid subscribers. Thanks to everyone who joined our community over the course of the past month. We'll do our best to make it with your while (with blogs)

Again, apologizing to all videogame environment artists who knocked up satirical posters for their games, I should not have rolled my eyes, yes, even you Cyberpunk billboard team, I am sorry

going full Gregor Samsa mode until the new year

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

An OpenAI staffer has quit, claiming that the company has backed off from publishing negative economic research about AI. scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/openai...

NEW: Four sources tell @mzeff.bsky.social that OpenAI has become reluctant to publish research on the negative economic impacts of AI, including job displacement. At least two members of OpenAI's economic research team have recently quit over that perceived pullback.