here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

Actual Tolkien nerd @johnsemley3000.bsky.social went deep on how poorly Elon Musk, MAGA, and other right-wing tech bros understand the Lord of the Rings. And can we all just admire this art by @anjalinair.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

NEW: I had a very interesting talk with Guillermo del Toro about Frankenstein, AI, tech bros, and whether Mary Shelley really kept Percy Bysshe Shelley's charred heart after he died. Also, GDT says he hopes to start shooting 'The Buried Giant' next year. (!!!) www.wired.com/story/guille...

New with @lhn.bsky.social: Thousands of people who applied for jobs with the Democrats in the US House of Representatives have had their data exposed online—including hundreds with "top secret" clearance Officials say they have launched an investigation into the data exposure

I wrote some words for this.weekinsecurity.com about the security and privacy risks with AI browsers, like Perplexity's Comet and OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas, and why they should really come with enormous warning labels: "⚠️ Use at your own risk! ⚠️"

NEW: DHS is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4x4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowers—combining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand. by me @ wired:

Next week, five teens from Palestine will head to Panama to compete in one of the world’s largest youth robotics competitions. The goal? To win—and then teach STEM to their peers displaced by the Israel-Hamas war.

Incredibly, the Justice Department today charged a group of alleged Cosa Nostra mobsters with using a version of the exact card shuffler hacking technique we demonstrated in the video below to rig poker games with an NBA player and coach, stealing millions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: The U.S. govt accused Peter Williams, ex general manager of hacking tool maker L3Harris Trenchant, of stealing trade secrets and selling them to buyer in Russia. As we reported earlier, Trenchant investigated a leak of internal tools this year. It's unclear if that investigation is related.

ZIPPERS GET ZIPPIER: for more than a century, the zipper has stayed more or less the same. Now, after a 100 years of stasis, the company that makes half the world’s zippers has completely rethought the mechanism that holds much of modern clothing together. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-zi...

An extremely important story about the ways that facial recognition tech is failing people with facial differences, by @mattburgess1.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/when-f...

NEW: In the most significant action against brutal scam compounds in Southeast Asia to date, US and UK officials have sanctioned the alleged operators of more than 10 scam centers in Cambodia. 146 entities linked to the Prince Group have been sanctioned—and $15 billion of crypto seized

New from @agreenberg.bsky.social and me: For three years, security researchers pointed a satellite at the sky and found highly sensitive data being sent unencrypted They found: calls and texts on T-Mobile’s network; military info from the US and Mexico; in-flight Wi-Fi browsing, and a lot more

As Apple expands its bug bounty, I spoke with VP Ivan Krstić about the significance + recent big swings like Memory Integrity Enforcement. These steps protect all users, but particularly those targeted by spyware: “We feel a great moral obligation to defend those users” www.wired.com/story/apple-...

Today's the day: DARK WIRE, my book on how the FBI secretly ran a tech company for criminals and wiretapped the world, coming to paperback. Updated with many more details. An Economist and FT book of the year. 404 Media subs: you just got 20% to your email www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/josep...

Apple has removed at least three ICE-tracking apps from the App Store. WIRED spoke with the developers about where they go from here. from @thiccreese.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/apple-...

Tile location-finding tags, unlike Apple/Google tags, broadcast MAC address/unique ID unencrypted, letting stalkers, Tile or LE track people/items. Anti-theft feature also undoes anti-stalking feature - any tag in anti-theft mode is invisible to scans looking for stalkers. My story for @wired.com

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Speaking over a radio, the federal agent who told police that Villegas González tried to use his car as a weapon said his partner had suffered “a left knee injury and some lacerations to his hands.” “Nothing major,” the injured agent said. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

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...

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...

Spent some time with Jensen Huang this morning and let's just say some stuff came up a lot www.wired.com/story/jensen...

important to understand that it takes a lot of work and planning to aquire and use a true burner phone, but luckily you don’t need a full on burner phone in most situations to enhance your digital privacy www.wired.com/story/how-to...

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

Exclusive: Cindy Cohn, longtime director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is leaving the group after 25 years. The decision was announced at a meeting this afternoon. I sat down w/ Cohn to discuss her victories, unfinished battles, and the future of privacy, encryption, and corporate power.

Can Baltimore break its reliance on police as mental health responders? baltimorebeat.com/can-baltimor...

*taps sign* www.wired.com/story/trump-...

CYBERWARCON is coming!!! Registration and CFP are now open for this year's #CYBERWARCON! This year's keynote speaker will be @dmitri.silverado.org!! We are back in Arlington, VA this year on November 19th. www.cyberwarcon.com

EXCLUSIVE WIRED has learned that law firms across the country are working together to file hundreds of lawsuits against Roblox in the coming weeks on behalf of parents who are accusing the company of facilitating the sexual exploitation and grooming of their kids. www.wired.com/story/is-rob...

Young people entering classrooms this fall need a totally different tool set than the generations before them.

Palantir is in the news a lot lately. However, the public discourse about the company often misconstrues it as a data broker, a data miner, a single centralized database, etc. But what does Palantir actually do? I wrote a piece to firmly & clearly answer that question: www.wired.com/story/palant...

Today @defcon.bsky.social the Quantum Village co-founders will present a fully open source quantum sensor that anyone can build for under $150. And it's all possible because of a Very Specific Diamond 💎💅 www.wired.com/story/fully-...

Me, the UK colleague waking up and trying to make sense of all this.

Edward "Big Balls" Coristine was beaten up in an attempted carjacking over the weekend. WIRED obtained the police report that gives more details about the incident that has Donald Trump threatening to "federalize" Washington, DC. from @carolinehaskins.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social

The UK introduced “robust” age checks for porn and other online content today Also related: VPN interest massively up in the UK, according to Google Trends Story with @lhn.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/the-ag...

On the one-year anniversary of CrowdStrike's disastrous crashes that took down millions of computers worldwide, a new study finds 750-plus hospital networks in the US were disrupted, and 200-plus appear to have had outages of patient medical services. www.wired.com/story/at-lea...

You've heard of Elon Musk's Neuralink. But there's another company that's allowing paralyzed people to control computers with their thoughts without the need for invasive brain surgery. Read my deep dive on Synchron for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/synchr...

“I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service for mental health.”

Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms: www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

NEW: A WIRED investigation of 911 calls placed from ICE detention sites across the US show a system inundated by life-threatening crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:

Never made a zine? Haven’t made one since 1999? We made one, and so can you. www.wired.com/story/downlo...

ICYMI mainstream data broker services allegedly played a role in accused gunman Vance Boelter's target research www.wired.com/story/minnes...

NEW: Data broker sites were allegedly used by the Minnesota shooting suspect, authorities claim, highlighting the danger of an industry that freely sells your personal information. @lhn.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/minnes...

EVERYONE go read the "How To Win A Fight" package that @waterslicer.bsky.social has put together It features: • Stories • Guides • Videos • A Choose Your Fighter quiz • A WIRED zine you can print Given all that's happening, this feels more vital than ever 1/9 www.wired.com/how-to-win-a...

We've just updated the @wired.com guide to protecting your privacy while attending protests with the latest best practices. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

This piece by @lhn.bsky.social points to an important issue. Residential proxies are also being used to attack media sites as part of an “emerging censorship strategy that poses a serious transnational threat to press freedom”: cpj.org/2024/07/cybe... @pressfreedom.bsky.social

German law enforcement says it knows the identity of the elusive and notably effective Russian cybercrime boss "Stern." Story with @mattburgess1.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/stern-...

A must-read scene report from the Trump memecoin dinner, including photos of a sad meal, from @joelkhalili.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/a-heli...