Inside of me there are two lions. Both have anxiety.

Something beautiful is happening in Brooklyn, New York this week.

For a few hours today, you were able to see a real time map of the San Francisco MTA's parking control officers that showed where they were writing parking tickets. It was a cool use of a public data feed, but then the city killed the feed www.wired.com/story/san-fr...

The serial website builder Riley Walz launched a project that tracked San Francisco parking enforcement in real time—until the public data feed was cut off. www.wired.com/story/san-fr...

"For the first time in its history, WIRED is dedicating an issue to politics, citing concerns about the tech industry's alignment with President Trump. @katie-drummond.bsky.social explains what this shift means for Silicon Valley and for readers."

popping back in from mat leave to say i profiled @katmabu.bsky.social for @wired.com and you should read it! she's running a fascinating campaign: www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...

Kat Abughazaleh, 26, made her name swatting down right-wing talking points on social media. Now she’s hoping internet fame can propel her to Congress. www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...

to the art director at Wired who made this unholy image.... you will not see heaven www.wired.com/politics-iss...

you truly love to see it! 💕 www.adweek.com/media/wired-...

Extremely good art, good project, good reporting. Now plastered on billboards and murals around the country. This is what fearless reporting, well executed looks like: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

Next up from the @wired.com Politics issue: @noahshachtman.bsky.social with the definitive look at Elon Musk's outsize role in the space race. "Even before the election, I had been asking US space officials: ‘You have yoked yourself to a very mercurial personality. Doesn’t that concern you?’"

Big Tech's embrace of President Trump has left many of us wondering: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? In our new politics issue, we're getting into it. Also, we're taking this cover across the US in billboards, posters and a mural. Clues to find us in the 🧵: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

appreciate the affirmations on my new mattress topper

Meta allegedly torrented pornographic videos with names like "ExploitedTeens" and "EuroTeenErotica" in service of training one of its AI models. Is this uhhhh superintelligence? www.wired.com/story/meta-l...

Judge:

"There is so little data and facts right now that it remains challenging to fully understand what is actually happening, why, and to how many people."

Google weaving Gemini further into the popular Chrome browser is an inflection point for AI in our software, although some users will still be looking for the “off” switch.

I covered the protests in London against Trump for @wired.com. Protesters aren't convinced by the AI deal from US tech giants: They want to know what the UK is giving them in exchange for up to $45bn in investment and where the power for data centers will come from www.wired.com/story/climat...

i listened to mtg’s entire weather modification hearing yesterday and tried — for you, dear WIRED readers — to make sense of it:

talked to Bennett Foddy about Baby Steps and watching men struggle unnecessarily www.wired.com/story/baby-s...

Trumpworld officials actually seem to believe the conspiracy theories they've been throwing around about the Charlie Kirk shooting. from @jakelahut.writes.news

Obtaining and using a true burner phone is hard—but not impossible. Here are the steps you need to take to protect your mobile communications based on the risks you face. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

I think the damage might already be done bro

Logging off is an option

Silicon Valley fears AI will replace engineers. For this week's Model Behavior, I went to a hackathon that put this to the test — roughly 100 people were randomly assigned “human” or “AI-supported" projects, and the winner nabbed a $12,500 cash prize. www.wired.com/story/san-fr...

In addition to the presumptuousness, these summations read like notes aliens are taking about the inhabitants of a human zoo

fabulous to see so many members of the @wired.com community in person at tonight’s live podcast!

While Liquid Glass is the splashiest element of iOS 26, there's a smaller feature that might even have a bigger impact on how iPhone owners use their devices: the iPhone is finally getting call screening.

Every Apple event

Every time the Apple event cut back to Tim Cook, I couldn’t help but think about his recent visit to the White House and the utter sycophancy of his demeanor, as well as all the other tech CEOs. www.wired.com/story/tech-c...

meditating on the ancient texts

maybe just do not wear active microphones around your neck www.wired.com/story/i-hate...

Me and @kylierobison.com tried out the Friend AI necklace for @wired.com. It was a bad hang. www.wired.com/story/i-hate...

wearing an ai that mainly insults and fights with you is actually so good for all the wrong reasons. the future is an idiot plot www.wired.com/story/i-hate...

The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy. www.wired.com/story/i-hate...

the year is 2050. you ask AI how to wear a suit. the computer spits out info framed as objective facts, even though these are totally made up rules invented by an asian guy in 2025 while he was sitting on a toilet

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

looking forward to finally collecting the $0.25 owed to me for the "Samurai Penguin" fanfic comics I made in high school

BREAKING: Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors in class action lawsuit for pirating their works www.wired.com/story/anthro...

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a truly harrowing must-read

did u hear Barry White is gonna be in charge of the news

we’re about to see a second wave of teen reddit atheism the world has never seen before

This week, I sat down with @bencollins.bsky.social. He pulled no punches in his assessment of the news business, confessed to a devastating addiction to Balatro (which I will not be downloading), and told me his employees should "pick up hammers and throw them at my head." Why? Click to find out!

This is the energy

Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.

A partnership between xAI and the US government fell apart earlier this summer after Grok praised Hitler. Then the White House apparently got involved, per documents obtained by WIRED.