The scale of the AI-fueled, nonconsensual sexualization of women in photos on X is staggering. The internet has suffered tools like this for years, but never at this scale, with this reach, and this out in the open. from @regret.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social

An awesome and very well-deserved award for our own brilliant @leahfeiger.bsky.social: The Front Page Award for Journalist of the Year, presented by the Newswomen's Club of New York.

I know it sounds crazy but it's possible that the Trump administration has not thought this Venezuela oil situation all the way through. from @mollytaft.com

From repurposed footage filmed years ago in different parts of the world, to AI images and videos of Maduro's arrest, social media platforms like X, Instagram and TikTok were flooded with disinformation within minutes of America's assault on #Venezuela www.wired.com/story/disinf...

If you ask ChatGPT why the US invaded Venezuela and captured Maduro, it will confidently tell you that you are making shit up. www.wired.com/story/us-inv...

This is... actually an excellent explanation of what CyberTipline report numbers, and up/down changes to those numbers, do and don't necessarily mean. www.wired.com/story/openai...

as a result of my reporting, Reddit fully banned the 200K+ member sub where users generated nonconsensual bikini deepfakes and shared tips for stripping women using AI last investigation of the year for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/google...

Did you see this video circulating? WIRED found the preceding document in the dump, a 2021 email to federal investigators asking to help verify whether the video was real, and talked to the guy who wrote it. My latest w/ @brbarrett.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/the-ep...

NEW: @wired.com went through the Epstein doc dump so you don't have to spend your Friday night looking at "sexy" soap and pics of Bill Clinton in a weird swimming pool. www.wired.com/story/epstei...

You owe it to yourself to do this at least for the holidays.

The new head of the Trump administration's cancer panel has speculated that there's a link between Covid vaccines and "turbo cancer" and is, yes, a big ivermectin fan. from @davidgilbert.bsky.social

OpenAI is losing its chief comms officer; Hannah Wong had been there since 2021. scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social

Do Kwon gets 15 years for crypto crimes, even longer than prosecutors had asked for. from @joelkhalili.bsky.social and @carolinehaskins.bsky.social

RFK Jr may launch a men's health initiative. The new assistant sec. for health has a background in "treatment of erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation...and a condition called Peyronie’s disease that involves the curvature of the erect penis," so this checks out. from @emilymullin.bsky.social

The Disney and OpenAI deal makes perfect sense when you realize both of them were in an unwinnable fight. Expect a lot more of these deals, for better or worse.

Democratic-led states are standing up to RFK Jr.'s ACIP and say they will continue recommending the universal birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/many-s...

Fortunately the Orioles have never signed a 30-ish 1B slugger to a huge contract and lived to regret it!!!!!!

It’s officially time for end-of-year posts and I am honestly SO eager to brag about my brilliant colleagues at @wired.com. there are way too many people to talk about in the newsroom, but this wild, exhausting, and absolutely ridiculous year wouldn’t have happened without any of them!!

Slack's CEO is headed to OpenAI to help them figure out how to make money. scoop from @laurengoode.bsky.social and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/slack-...

An OpenAI staffer has quit, claiming that the company has backed off from publishing negative economic research about AI. scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/openai...

NEW: Dr. Oz is quite literally telling his federal employees to eat less. “You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.

NEW: An AI image generator startup left its database exposed online, unsecured and accessible to anyone. The "overwhelming majority" of the files inside contained nudity, with images appearing to contain children and explicit face-swaps

We are so back (we=geothermal energy). from @mollytaft.com

NEW: You've read a lot about immigrants kidnapped, forcibly detained, and held in ICE facilities -- what about the immigrants *trying* to leave the country? Turns out its wildly difficult for them too. don't miss this from @telliotter.bsky.social:

A trial is getting underway soon for a pretty radical way to combat the opioid crisis: a fentanyl vaccine that prevents overdoses in the first place. from @emilymullin.bsky.social

Absolutely thrilled to have @sepinwall.bsky.social in WIRED, writing about the crimes of remastering TV shows that should have been left alone www.wired.com/story/hbo-ma...

NEW: A newly enacted NY state law requires retailers to reveal whether it used "surveillance pricing" to decide how much you pay for goods. Target, for example, shows the alert on a pop-up when you try to buy eggs online. @regret.bsky.social—@wired.com's new investigative data reporter!—reports:

No, DOGE isn’t dead. The same people are still doing the same things at agencies across the federal government. from @telliotter.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social

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...

Do I try to explain the Nuzzi-Lizza situation to my in-laws at Thanksgiving dinner or do I just pass the stuffing and keep screaming in my own brain hmmmmmmm

Let the record show: Shortly after Manisha attempted to “roast” me using Grok, I asked her to leave my office:

WIRED's @manishakrishnan.bsky.social has done the lord's work and tried this out at the office. It went ... about how you'd expect.

Guaranteed multimillion-dollar payouts for immigrant bounty hunters, paid out by the US government. from @dell.bsky.social

A new feature on X showed that lots of hugely popular MAGA accounts were secretly based overseas. Donald Trump keeps sharing their posts anyway. from @davidgilbert.bsky.social

A 91-year-old woman refused to sell her home of 60 years to make room for a $100 billion Micron superfab. She finally gave up when authorities threatened to take it through eminent domain. from @peard33.bsky.social

Jmail is Gmail but exclusively for the Epstein emails. Yep! from @boone.bsky.social

NEW: A copy of a letter from the Senate homeland security committee reviewed by @wired.com asks for documents linked to 300+ terms, including “mask mandates,” “origins of Covid-19,” “Trump voter," "red hat,” “sedition,” and much more. @awinston.bsky.social has the scoop www.wired.com/story/senato...

This is a great piece. I have had five endometriosis surgeries and a c-section. Pelvic floor PT is a godsend.

A $100 million pro-AI super PAC has picked its first target. @mzeff.bsky.social talked to New York congressional candidate Alex Bores about what it's like to be in Andreessen Horowitz's crosshairs: www.wired.com/story/alex-b...

I wrote this piece because I only learned about pelvic floors a few years ago, despite having had one all my life. And then it turned out to be where I store all my issues. And then that turned out to be true for a lot of people www.wired.com/story/the-pe...

Google DeepMind has hired the former CTO of Boston Dynamics (yes, the dystopian robot dog company) to help build Gemini into a sort of operating system for robots. Great scoop from @willknight.bsky.social

Not mad that this helper robot looks so much like Homestar Runner

There's a chance you'll be able to add long Covid to the list of things some GLP-1 drugs can treat. from @emilymullin.bsky.social

With the release of 20,000 Epstein files, MAGA finally got what it had been demanding for years. Now they're doing their damndest to brush them off. from @davidgilbert.bsky.social

Donald Trump claims he broke off contact with Jeffrey Epstein in 2004. But recently released text messages show Epstein presenting himself—to a Bill Gates associate—as plugged into the Trump White House as recently as 2017. from @timmarchman.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social

It turns out the spending bill that will reopen the government will also effectively ban THC products. from @manishakrishnan.bsky.social

new from me today: not all data centers are created environmentally equal — and building them in states with cleaner grids and more access to water could go a long way in preventing environmental catastrophe

That'll do it.

Apologies to anyone who thought they were flying out of Atlanta tonight.