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:

Snap just announced its big, pricey AR Specs www.wired.com/story/snaps-...

Shady TikTok sellers are flashing iPhones and other expensive tech for livestream viewers to bid on—but these “surprise sets” 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...

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...

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...

Sellers on TikTok used pricey items to lure bidders to “Surprise Sets” livestreams, but most of the auctions yielded only cheap prizes. Gambling experts are concerned about the potential for harm. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

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. It’s essentially a post mortem, asking viewers to relive the endless drama & decide whether it’s worth it. Here’s my convo with the filmmaker Hao Wu.

EFF’s Threat Lab confirmed @WIRED.com’s finding that Meta has deployed facial recognition code to millions of their always-on surveillance glasses.

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.

You deserve all of this and MORE (some great stories running on @wired.com tomorrow…)

NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.

are you just going to do this for every generation

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

Absolutely thrilled to share an excerpt from our first pick for Wired Book Club—"The Yahoo Boys" by Carlos Barragán. Read here: www.wired.com/story/wired-...

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.

very proud to say that my first article in print for @wired.com is about how i frew up

I don’t know what to say. This is just insane:

"I couldn’t get over the irony of it relegating my long-term, live-in boyfriend to just a “close friend and frequent companion.” What is this, the ‘80s?"

here i go again dot meme

“Even after I gave the agent everything, I still felt like it barely knew me.” In my Friday blog for @wired.com, I tested Google’s Gemini Spark and STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU DO NOT DO THE SAME. www.wired.com/story/google...

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/...

"The dive queer bars are where I’d 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...

NEW: Nope. No. Not Happening. Over My Dead Body @thiccreese.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/google...

Google's new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didn’t clock the person most important to me. www.wired.com/story/google...

Incredible reporting from @knibbs.bsky.social!! I love writing for @wired.com and that includes, well, actually writing shit!

would like to state definitively for the record that this is not the case on my end

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...

laughed out so many times reading this story. They pay you only $0.55 for recording a five-minute video!!

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-...

Going live in an hour on @wired.com to chat about this piece and the future of work! It’s going to be a lively session, so tune in and drop your questions below!

"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...

MY FIRST “BIG STORY” FOR WIRED!! Spent a week with a camera strapped to my forehead, training robots how to do chores. “Teach the robot how to cook tonight so you can put food on the table tomorrow.” www.wired.com/story/househ...

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...

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 up—sometimes even when you *don't* owe anything: www.wired.com/story/ai-tak...

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

MY FIRST “BIG STORY” FOR WIRED!! Spent a week with a camera strapped to my forehead, training robots how to do chores. “Teach the robot how to cook tonight so you can put food on the table tomorrow.” www.wired.com/story/househ...

I wish I disagreed with @stevenlevy.bsky.social but this column is totally right: People might hate AI, but yes, they will totally use Google’s new search. (To the detriment of many, including publishers.)

this is a REAL, not satire or edited, screenshot from Google Search today

so unnerving that major companies are attempting to sell AI deepfakes as ENTERTAINING and FUN 🫠 my latest for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/i-clon...

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...

I was not prepared for deepfake Reece singing happy birthday to a dinosaur.

so unnerving that major companies are attempting to sell AI deepfakes as ENTERTAINING and FUN 🫠 my latest for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/i-clon...

exciting news! truly living the dream—Wired is launching a book club this summer, hosted by ME! more details to come, and sign up here: www.wired.com/newsletter/b...

Can anyone fucking write anymore? new blog on the latest of many slop scandals from @milesklee.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/common...

really captured the on-the-ground atmosphere at today’s Google event in @wired.com’s liveblog 🫡 check it out: www.wired.com/live/google-...

NEW: Google Search’s 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 🥹) www.wired.com/story/google...

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

“I run WIRED magazine, Tom.” new vocal tick unlocked 😂😂😂

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.

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...