Since YouTube is apparently putting $22 million toward Trump’s White House ballroom, here’s a reminder of big and dumb it’s going to be.

OpenAI is getting ready to release an app for people that love TikTok but wish none of it was real. scoop from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social

So glad to see @sidewalkfilm.bsky.social on this list. Great theater, any Birmingham people go support! (For the Epstein doc and in general!)

NEW: The Heritage Foundation is pushing a terrorism designation based on "transgender ideology" on the claim that "50% of major (non-gang) school shootings since 2015" involve a transgender shooter or trans-related motive. @dell.bsky.social and me on why that's false: www.wired.com/story/herita...

I have seen The Onion's Jeffrey Epstein documentary and really, really need everyone else to see it so we can talk about it. Especially that one part.

"I will not give them what they want. I will not just leave. I’m going to make it as difficult as possible for these fuckheads.” This is WIRED's oral history of DOGE:

You can (and should!) start your day with the trailer for the Onion’s upcoming Jeffrey Epstein mockumentary:

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...

A giant SIM farm in the NY area with 100,000 SIMs was most likely used for spam/scams and even swatting US officials—which led the feds to find and dismantle it. (Speculation it was going to be used to attack the the UN General Assembly seems like...a bit of a leap.) www.wired.com/story/sim-fa...

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...

No one knows Silicon Valley better than @stevenlevy.bsky.social. And no one is more clear-eyed about how far removed it has become from its supposed ideals.

Incredible work here, subscribe to Wired www.wired.com/story/silico...

Blessing your timeline with DOGE Playing Poker and our politics issue, with more stories rolling out all week.

Who could have predicted that the first big meeting of RFK Jr.’s ragtag crew of antivax crusaders would be a shambolic mess?! from @emilymullin.bsky.social

Something I think about a lot is that in the 2002 horror movie FeardotCom, the evil website's URL is actually feardotcom . com

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...

The FCC commissioner isn't going to stop at Kimmel. www.wired.com/story/brenda...

Your government was hard at work today investigating chemtrails and other made-up weather-modification nonsense. from @mollytaft.com

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

The shooter allegedly wrote "if you read this you are gay lmao" on one bullet casing, and the FBI director closed his remarks by telling Charlie Kirk "I'll see you in Valhalla." www.wired.com/story/charli...

Among those at a vigil for Kirk, per Wired, were Proud Boys and a guy who had “unvaxxed“ tattooed on the back of his head. www.wired.com/story/a-vigi...

Wednesday night, a large crowd of mourners gathered outside of Charlie Kirk’s hospital. They included young children, Proud Boys, and a man dressed as Abraham Lincoln. www.wired.com/story/a-vigi...

Charlie Kirk, whose Turning Point USA played an instrumental role in the right’s efforts to dominate the digital political sphere, has died. More here: www.wired.com/story/charli...

“.. The president has run this play previously with his cabinet .. But there was an eeriness to seeing that same dynamic among Big Tech’s braintrust, like passing a camera around to take turns wishing a distant, unloved uncle a very happy Thanksgiving.” @wired.com www.wired.com/story/tech-c...

Tesla's board saying it'll pay Elon Musk $1 trillion IF he launches successful robot and robotaxi businesses is a first ballot hall of fame IF. from @aarianmarshall.bsky.social

What are words, even? from @dell.bsky.social

In addition to being extremely weird, the spectacle of tech executives kissing the ring at the White House last night showed that the only principle left in Silicon Valley is power www.wired.com/story/tech-c...

Scoop: A sudden no-bid ICE contract for specialized sniper training has gone to a decorated former Marine who is also the brother of a GOP lawmaker. Reached by WIRED, he says there was no hookup; 20 years in a reconnaissance unit and even more as an instructor simply left him uniquely qualified.

For years this was the premise of a common scam email. Now it’s real. from @agreenberg.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/steale...

This is the story you have to read today www.wired.com/story/the-ba...

Strongly in favor of making antic citywide scavenger hunts a mandatory thing, especially after reading this romp from @boone.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/pursui...

FEMA is reeling and Kristi Noem's response this week was basically "please clap." from @mollytaft.com

Grok was slated to be used by the federal government until the Mecha Hitler incident wrecked the deal. Now, just a few weeks later, the White House wants it back in the mix. from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social

NEW: A major AI copyright legal showdown just took a huge twist today. Facing a class action on behalf of book authors that could've seen it pay over a TRILLION in damages for alleged piracy, Anthropic has agreed to settle instead: www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Mark Zuckerberg spent billions of dollars recruiting top AI talent to Meta's new superintelligence lab. Just two months in, at least recent hires have already left. from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/resear...

If you're in Mississippi, you can't read this post without a VPN. from @megannicolett.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

It's official, @laurengoode.bsky.social is a vibe coder now www.wired.com/story/why-di...

NEW: Over the last 3 months, phone and devices searches at the US border hit a new high. Almost 15,000 devices were searched between April and June, according to data published on the US Customs and Border Protection website

🚨Journalism job alert🚨 We're hiring an investigative reporter to join my team at @wired.com. We're looking for someone who has both traditional and non-traditional reporting skills (coding/data work/OSINT, etc). Fit the bill? Come work with me! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...

FEMA now requires disaster victims to have an email address if they want aid. But what happens to the tens of millions of Americans who don't have internet access in the first place? from @mollytaft.com

Only @knibbs.bsky.social could bring you a story like this and that’s the highest compliment I got

We're at the point where not even the humble PDF is safe from a chatbot infusion. from @thiccreese.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/adobe-...

SCOOP The White House said EJ Antoni—Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics—went to the Capitol on Jan 6th after seeing it on the news But a now-deleted Twitter account bearing his name shows someone deeply enmeshed in far-right election conspiracies www.wired.com/story/twitte...

We spoke to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about what he learned from the GPT-5 launch, the AI bubble, and why he's prepared to spend trillions on data centers in the "not very distant future." With @willknight.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/sam-al...

A bunch of big AI companies have landed major contracts with the US government this month. xAI was in position to join the list ... until MechaHitler. from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social

New Inner Loop, with a James Talarico Q&A on being on the lam + a scoop on the lack of tech enforcement from the Trump admin w/ new data www.wired.com/story/james-...

Researchers at Defcon just showed they can crack the Securam ProLogic locks used on high-security safes to protect guns, cash, and narcotics in pharmacies. When they told Securam last year, it sent them legal threats—and didn't fix the flaws. www.wired.com/story/secura...

NEW: Four National Guard armories were breached weeks apart in incidents previously undisclosed, with evidence pointing toward a possible inside job. Sensitive equipment was taken. We learned FBI took point, but it declined to confirm its involvement. By me w/ records via @propertyofthepeople.org

Do you have a Cybertruck owner in your life? Please send this @wired.com survey to them -- @zoeschiffer.bsky.social and I want to hear from the truckers for a story! docs.google.com/forms/d/18mX...

The story of the high-stakes race to escape Trump's tariffs, complete with airport logjams, bidding wars for private planes, and one snapped knee ligament: www.wired.com/story/charte...