The death of Robert Redford (RIP) means the window to rewatch Hackers in honor of the 30th anniversary has officially closed and it is now time to re-watch Sneakers. (Time to rewatch Sneakers will continue indefinitely.)

A DHS data-sharing platform used for sharing restricted intel among government agencies, law enforcement and fusion centers was misconfigured to allow access to "everyone" including tens of thousands of unauthorized government staff, contractors and foreign nationals. www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...

For a new episode of Hacklab, our hands-on hacking video series, we tested safecracking methods that can open Securam ProLogic locks on 8 brands of high security safes used in stores and pharmacies nationwide. Morale of the story: Backdoors leave people vulnerable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=upVz...

Researchers found multiple hacking campaigns using a sample of malware that monitors the victim's browser for web addresses that look like porn, takes simultaneous browser screenshots and photos of the victim with the webcam, then sends to the hacker for sextortion. www.wired.com/story/steale...

Jen Easterly was a non-partisan military vet securing some of the nations' most critical infrastructure and enabling critical cybersecurity programs. It's not a shock she's facing this after the same disgusting treatment of Chris Krebs, but it's absurd and unacceptable.

The Halo 3C is a smoke/vape detector that Motorola sells for use in school bathrooms. It also has microphones inside. A teen hacker found them at his school, and with another security researcher has now shown they could be hacked for audio surveillance. www.wired.com/story/school...

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...

🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL ASSASSINATES AL JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT ANAS AL-SHARIF Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.

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...

The Halo 3C is a smoke/vape detector that Motorola sells for use in school bathrooms. It also has microphones inside. A teen hacker found them at his school, and with another security researcher has now shown they could be hacked for audio surveillance. www.wired.com/story/school...

Microsoft found Turla, Russia's elite FSB cyberespionage group, hacking foreign embassies' staff in Moscow by directly meddling with ISP traffic to infect targets with spyware that silently stripped away encryption on their communications and credentials. www.wired.com/story/russia...

Today US senator Margaret Wood Hassan has written to Elon Musk—citing WIRED's investigation below—demanding answers about why Starlink is still being used in huge scam compounds in Southeast Asia Letter from Hassan here: www.hassan.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

WIRED has relaunched subscriptions with a bunch of new exclusive stuff. To give a sense of what readers get for $2 a month, I'm going to highlight some of the collaborative stories I've been a part of this year, one of the most inspiring in my 11+ years in this newsroom. Thread!

Simple web bugs exposed virtually all user data held by Airportr, a premium luggage checking service across ten airlines. The data included flight records, passports and much more. Samples I reviewed included passports for US, UK and Swiss government officials. www.wired.com/story/luggag...

If you’re thinking about subscribing to WIRED, I hope this handful of stories and our new offerings convinced you to join our community. If you already subscribe – thank you. Now please send this subscription sign-up link to everyone you know:

Finally, we're going bigger and more ambitious than ever with online and print packages. This week's "Beyond Wellness" edition is a tour-de-force, covering everything from Trump's war on cancer research to the future of brain-computer interfaces. A week's worth of reading, all in one place.

WIRED also kills it with ambitious narrative storytelling. Pieces you can lean back and spend time with (in the mag, on your phone, wherever)! Take, for example, Evan Ratliff’s dive into the world’s first AI-inflected death cult, the Zizians, and their staggering cross-country murder spree.

We are, of course, very good at having fun—and at showing people how stuff works. Take the BTS story of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl show, from concept to construction to lighting and choreography. One of our top-performing stories and videos of 2025—and great counterprogramming to the dystopia.

Our DOGE coverage was unparalleled. For months, WIRED broke news on the beat multiple times a day, lapping our competitors and publishing revelation after revelation about DOGE’s exploits. My personal favorite? Introducing readers to “Big Balls” and his various shenanigans:

Today, we're launching a new, improved subscription to give our fans more of the @wired.com they love. It includes: - Five exclusive, subscriber-only newsletters - Livestreams to connect with our journalists - A new commenting experience + more It's been a remarkable year so far. A look back: 🧵

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Maybe you read our story about Akasha Song, who produced huge quantities of the psychedelic DMT, arguably helping to pave the way for its legalization. Akasha has since been in a car crash and is fighting for his life. Those who want to help can donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-akash...

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...

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...

I have roughly zero interest in polo and related wealthy people drama, but this final feature by @mattreynolds.bsky.social for @wired.com about polo horse cloning is just extremely enjoyable and fascinating magazine writing.

The DOJ released what it called “raw” footage from the prison where Epstein died—but metadata shows it was stitched from multiple clips and processed by Adobe Premier before being made public. Experts say its unclear what was changed, but absent an explanation it will fuel conspiracies.

“Pretty uniquely dystopian compared to a normal hiring process, right? And that's what made me want to look into it more,” says security researcher Ian Carroll. “After 30 minutes, we had full access to virtually every application that's ever been made to McDonald's going back years.”

McDonald's uses an AI bot called "Olivia" for hiring. A pair of hackers found they could access every conversation job applicants had with it—including all the personal info they shared—by exploiting security vulnerabilities as basic as using the password "123456". www.wired.com/story/mcdona...

McDonald's uses an AI bot called "Olivia" for hiring. A pair of hackers found they could access every conversation job applicants had with it—including all the personal info they shared—by exploiting security vulnerabilities as basic as using the password "123456". www.wired.com/story/mcdona...

Out today in the UK! (And Australia!)

In 3 days a slick new UK edition of Sandworm comes out with a new cover and new foreword: www.amazon.co.uk/Operation-Sa... The publisher has tweaked the title to "Operation Sandworm" for UK reasons I don't entirely understand, but it's the same book, and hopefully will now reach a new audience.

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

Wishing everyone a contemplative NotPetya/Khouzestan steel mill cyberattack/Live Free or Diehard theatrical premiere day. (No I don't think all these cyberwar-related events are actually connected just because they happened on the same date but this stuff is in my brain so now it's in yours.)

Somehow it's considered antisemitic to protest this in America or suggest it should be resisted. In fact, it's antisemitic to think that this has anything to do with judaism rather than a murderous regime's campaign of conquest. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

NEW: 911 audio and EMS records from ICE detention centers reveal a surge in medical emergencies — including staff sexual assaults, suicide attempts, and head injuries. Records also show calls over severe pregnancy complications. Free to read: www.wired.com/story/ice-de... w/ @dell.bsky.social

A month ago, Telegram banned the two biggest black markets for crypto scammer services, hosted on its platform, which had done $35 billion in transactions. Then it watched those markets rebuild to their previous size and has done nothing to stop them. www.wired.com/story/telegr...

For more on Predatory Sparrow, we published this deep dive on the group's cyberattacks—some of the most disruptive and destructive in history—last year: www.wired.com/story/predat...

In the midst of the unfolding war, hyper-aggressive Israel-linked hacker group Predatory Sparrow is now launching cyberattacks on Iran's financial system. Online banking and ATMs offline for Sepah bank and $90 million burned at crypto exchange Nobitex. www.wired.com/story/israel...

We've updated and republished our guide to surveillance-resistant protest, first published in the summer of 2020. Paywall is down for this. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

We've updated and republished our guide to surveillance-resistant protest, first published in the summer of 2020. Paywall is down for this. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

When Ross Ulbricht received a mystery $31 million bitcoin donation Saturday, some guessed he was sending himself old Silk Road profits. Crypto tracers now tell me they suspect a much stranger source for the money: a vendor from the defunct dark web market AlphaBay. www.wired.com/story/ross-u...

When Ross Ulbricht received a mystery $31 million bitcoin donation Saturday, some guessed he was sending himself old Silk Road profits. Crypto tracers now tell me they suspect a much stranger source for the money: a vendor from the defunct dark web market AlphaBay. www.wired.com/story/ross-u...

This story is free to read, like all WIRED stories based on FOIA.

Confidential records obtained by WIRED & @propertyofthepeople.org show the ag industry deploying moles to infiltrate activist meetings, while functionally serving as FBI informants, in a shadow campaign to brand the animal rights movement America's biggest bioterrorism threat. My latest @wired.com:

(Thank you for any boosts for visibility too!)

I am now fascinated with the world of dark web psychedelics. If you've sold significant quantities on the dark web (or elsewhere) of LSD, psilocybin, DMT, MDMA, ketamine etc. (or know someone who did) and would be willing to talk, I'm Andy.01 on Signal. Anonymity granted on request!

I am now fascinated with the world of dark web psychedelics. If you've sold significant quantities on the dark web (or elsewhere) of LSD, psilocybin, DMT, MDMA, ketamine etc. (or know someone who did) and would be willing to talk, I'm Andy.01 on Signal. Anonymity granted on request!

Sad to learn of the death of John Young, creator of Cryptome, cypherpunk, shit-stirrer, progenitor of the transparency movement that included WikiLeaks and Snowden. I profiled him in my book, This Machine Kills Secrets, which ended with a comment he wrote in 2012 about Assange and his early work:

1. "The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin" (@agreenberg.bsky.social @wired.com) "I only get high on narrative journalism, maaaaan, and Andy Greenberg’s piece about Akasha Song’s DMT empire is a trip." www.wired.com/story/rise-f...