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...

NEW: As Trump continues to threaten Europe and Nato allies, no country has arguably done more to get off of US technology than France. The gov is building a full Office/Docs alternative. Lyon has moved 70% of staff away from Office. And open source is key. Story by me and @telliotter.bsky.social

For this.weekinsecurity.com, these are the most urgent threats facing the internet in 2026. From restricting access to abusing it for hacking and spying, these are the top six issues that everyone should think about. (And yes, one is Trump, but perhaps not for the reasons you might think.)

NEW: Foxconn, which famously helps build Apple's iPhones, suffered yet another cyberattacks, with a ransomware gang *claiming* to have stolen 8 TB of data. @lhn.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/foxcon...

I'm really proud of this profile of A'ja Wilson I've been working on this spring!!!! She's *really* funny and I hadn't really seen that reflected in the other stuff I read about her, so I tried to capture it in here www.vanityfair.com/news/story/a...

NEW: Huge thanks to @regret.bsky.social who did an ASAP analysis of the FCC complaints I FOIA’d about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show. www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...

Y’all, this is a friend of a friend’s son. He’s been missing since Tuesday afternoon, last seen near Howard. Please amplify if you can. Thanks.

NEW: Around 90,000 screenshots from a celebrity's phone have been exposed after an apparent worst-case stalkerware scenario. The screenshots were all placed in a database named after well-known spyware. And then that database was available to anyone online Story with @lhn.bsky.social

NEW In the space of a year, Trump has destroyed the DOJ's voting rights section, turning what was once the "crown jewel of the Civil Rights Division" into what one former DOJ lawyer called "the losingest law firm in America" This is the story of that demise. www.wired.com/story/the-ju...

New gas-powered data center projects linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI could emit more greenhouse gases than entire nations, according to a @wired.com investigation from @mollytaft.com -- happy earth day, don't miss this one!

Interesting view from Firefox on The Cyber AI Reckoning. Bobby Holley says, “This is a transitory moment that is difficult and requires coordinated focus and a lot of grit to get through, but I think that it is a finite moment, even as the models become more advanced" www.wired.com/story/mozill...

For @wired.com’s April cover, we take you inside Madison Square Garden’s surveillance machine — which has allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. Revelatory work from @noahshachtman.bsky.social & @robertsilverman.bsky.social that I’m proud to publish and urge you to read.

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

NEW: Someone hacked the crosswalk announcements in cities in 5 states to make it say messages about politics and tech in the voices of Musk, Zuckerberg, and Trump. @peard33.bsky.social took a deep dive into the vulnerabilities local authorities never imagined: www.wired.com/story/crossw...

😂 bsky.app/profile/timm...

FOIA scoop (no paywall): The day Renee Good was killed, a Minnesota state police official repeatedly texted a FBI agent. He wanted to co-manage the crime scene & ensure his agents were included in interviews. For at least 2 days, maybe longer, the FBI didn't respond: www.wired.com/story/the-fb...

NEW: You may have heard about Trump's efforts to undermine trust in the elections with the SAVE America Act. But here I highlight how this is just one part of a broader effort to manipulate the midterms, and how that could have long-lasting effects on US democracy www.wired.com/story/this-i...

"All this policy around keeping kids off the internet is couched in language of protecting them...But there is a piece of it that is inherently rooted in the idea that they have nothing valuable to add to society or that there's no point in listening to them." www.businessinsider.com/kids-parenti...

NEW with @lhn.bsky.social: The US claims to have struck more than 9,000 sites in Iran, but the war is taking place in an information void. Iranian volunteers are mapping confirmed strikes and warning citizens about potential strike targets, as the country enters its 26th day without the internet

Meta is cutting end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs, potentially setting a very problematic precedent in the industry. And they announced it in a way that was also extremely insulting to their users ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.wired.com/story/the-da...

"As is always the case with unencrypted data, it will inevitably end up in the wrong hands" www.wired.com/story/signal...

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

This is the most bizarre interaction I've ever had with an HHS spokesperson. From my story on CDC's pivot to "shared-decision making" for vaccines, with insight from @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social and @jakescottmd.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/why-rf...

A full iOS exploitation toolkit, "Coruna," has been found in the wild, hacking iPhones that visited infected websites, used by Russian spies targeting Ukrainians and thieves targeting Chinese crypto holders. And it may have been originally created for the US government. www.wired.com/story/coruna...

an update on current GPS jamming activity in the Strait of Hormuz, by @mattburgess1.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/gps-at...

really excellent/wild story bsky.app/profile/kimz...

It's hard enough to figure out your own threat model and how to approach your own digital privacy and security, but it's even more overwhelming to try to think it through for bigger groups. @agreenberg.bsky.social and I put together this guide as a starting point www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Reminder that the Washington Post lost 250,000 subscribers, more than most outlets will ever have, after its decision not to publish an endorsement in the last election. www.npr.org/2024/10/29/n... That kind of cowardice, not AI or whatever, is what's "drastically reshaping" readers' expectations.

New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

ICYMI: Yesterday we published the results of a survey of 100+ security researchers and journalists asking about the legal and criminal threats they face for doing their jobs. A very interesting takeaway: While legal & criminal threats are common, most of our respondents *did not* give in to them.

The AI-chat-enabled stuffed toy Bondu invites little kids to have intimate conversations with it, like an LLM imaginary friend. It also exposed virtually all their chats on a web interface with no security. Anyone with a Gmail account could log in and read transcripts. www.wired.com/story/an-ai-...

my magnum opus on woke 2 has arrived!!! (magnum wokus?) thank you to @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and @kattenbarge.bsky.social for providing your thoughts on the matter www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

Hackers behind cyberattack against Poland electric grid in Dec disabled communication devices for at least 30 sites across a number of energy facilities in country. They rendered the devices - known as remote terminal units or RTUs - not only inoperable but also unrecoverable

Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials. Then he had to get out alive. This is his story. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...

Human trafficking to scam compounds in SE Asia is a catastrophe for forced laborers and their scam victims worldwide. One individual, Red Bull, gave @agreenberg.bsky.social incredible insight into the situation over months from inside. Then he attempted an escape www.wired.com/story/he-lea...

for The New York Times, I wrote about the 1,000 Rejections Challenge and why getting comfortable with "no" is more useful than resolutions about becoming the perfect version of yourself www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/a...

NEW: A database left accessible to anyone online contained tens of millions of login credentials from Gmail, Facebook, Apple, OnlyFans, crypto accounts, and more. @lhn.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/149-mi...

Officials in ONCD, NSC and CISA discussed potential plans to no longer attend after Jen Easterly, the former CISA director under Biden, was named as CEO of RSAC Conference on Thursday: www.nextgov.com/people/2026/...

a big load of earbuds, headphones and speakers need updating to patch vulnerabilities that could be exploited to hijack audio, take over mics for eavesdropping, or even in some cases for location tracking www.wired.com/story/google...

The Rubik's cubes and jam sessions are coming to RSA Conference www.wired.com/story/former...

WIRED Security has always had the very earnest, kind of dopey unofficial tagline “stay safe out there” and it’s more apt than ever right now www.wired.com/story/what-t...

Okay, remember in 2024 when RFK Jr. admitted he dumped a dead black bear cub in Central Park in 2014? An event that was a NY mystery for a decade? if this story has also haunted you...... I got new docs, emails, & pics about it from NYC's Dept of Parks & Rec via FOIA: www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

'“On a daily basis I’m worrying that federal cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection may be backsliding,”' - @malwarejake.bsky.social tells @lhn.bsky.social in @wired.com. Me too, brother. Me too. www.wired.com/story/expire... @gate15.bsky.social @fergdawg.bsky.social #cybersecurity

NEW: Scammers are using a face-swapping app that experts say can create "nearly perfect" face swaps during video calls. It's largely marketed on Telegram, but its main channel disappeared after @wired.com inquired. @mattburgess1.bsky.social, @lhn.bsky.social, @zeyiyang.bsky.social w/ the scoop:

At the @wired.com Big Interview event last week, I spoke to SF mayor Daniel Lurie. Our entire conversation is now online as a podcast ep + text piece. Neither quite capture how unhinged and boisterous the entire thing was IRL, but needless to say, he *did* remove one shoe onstage.

ICYMI: This weekend, we published the @wired.com guide to digital opsec for teens (tho it applies to pretty much everyone!) We hope you and the kids in your life will read it and stay safe out there. No paywall! @lhn.bsky.social and JP Aumasson report: www.wired.com/story/digita...

I was really thrilled to get to work on The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens with @aumasson.jp. I think we did a good job but also apologies in advance to the teens that we tried to make jokes and generally Be Chill. Also no paywall to make it easier to share! www.wired.com/story/digita...

NEW: Myanmar has made a big show of destroying the notorious KK Park scam compound—even publishing a video of a steamroller driving over thousands of phones But new images show buildings are only destroyed in one area. Hundreds are left untouched and experts say the crackdown is mostly propaganda