Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.| WIRED
The Digital Services Act has granted the European Commission unprecedented power over tech companies in times of war.| WIRED
Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R&D.| WIRED
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The storm, which is set to make landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday, has stunned meteorologists with its intensity and the speed at which it built.| WIRED
Soon-to-be former Instacart CEO Fidji Simo sent a memo to OpenAI staff Monday laying out her vision for how AI will change the world.| WIRED
Prepaid phones are looking good as privacy worries peak.| WIRED
Artists are free to create fantasies or nightmares with unrestricted image generator Stable Diffusion, but some fear a flood of AI-made horrors.| WIRED
Total traffic deaths fell during pandemic lockdowns. But fatalities per mile traveled rose, due to faster driving, fewer cops, and more drug use.| WIRED
The AI-powered ElliQ robot and smart display aim to improve life for older folks living alone.| WIRED
Not everyone likes Apple’s springy, jiggly, see-through Liquid Glass interface. If you’re not a fan, tweaking these settings will make your iPhone, iPad, or Mac a lot less bubbly.| WIRED
Some worry the Chinese startup’s impressive tech indicates the US is losing its lead in AI, but it may really be a sign that a new approach to building models is gaining traction.| WIRED
From video game developers to a nuclear power plant, companies across China are adopting DeepSeek’s AI models to boost stock prices and flaunt their national pride.| WIRED
When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded on the scene.| WIRED
Claude 3.7, the latest model from Anthropic, can be instructed to engage in a specific amount of reasoning to solve hard problems.| WIRED
Claude is the first major AI model to be able to take control of a computer to do useful work.| WIRED
From changing Wi-Fi channels to routing an Ethernet cable, there’s always something you can do to improve your internet at home.| WIRED
By stripping away the fabric tape that’s held zippers together for a hundred years, Japanese clothing giant YKK is designing the future of seamless clothing.| WIRED
“We were the targets.” WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they’re proud to drive it.| WIRED
To handle its massive amount of data, Facebook built new hardware and software tools, and shared them through open source.| WIRED
This week we recap all the news from Google I/O and discuss how the company is reshaping its core business with generative tools.| WIRED
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OpenAI’s subscription-only service costs $20 a month and includes access to the GPT-4 model. We signed up and tried it out.| WIRED
It’ll take over the world. It won’t subjugate humans. For Meta’s chief AI scientist, both things are true.| WIRED
75 years after the first explosive nuclear tests, now outlawed, sophisticated virtual testing allows American physicists to understand these weapons better than ever.| WIRED
Officials in the US and UK have taken sweeping action against “one of the largest investment fraud operations in history,” confiscating a historic amount of funds in the process.| WIRED
The Meta CEO is leading a hiring blitz, offering top talent at OpenAI eye-watering pay packages and endless access to cutting-edge chips.| WIRED
The undocumented migrant community in the United States is using social networks and other digital platforms to send alerts about raids and the presence of immigration agents around the US.| WIRED
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German researchers gained rare access to three satellites and found that they're years behind normal cybersecurity standards.| WIRED
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.| WIRED
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Whether your chip is running a vintage computer game or the latest DeepSeek model, it’ll reward you for speaking its native language.| WIRED
Software designers, even those impressed by Apple’s refreshed look at WWDC 2025, are concerned about the readability of the company’s new see-through aesthetic.| WIRED
A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.| WIRED
A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks.| WIRED
“We are going to do everything in our power to fight this,” says ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron after Apple removed his app from the App Store.| WIRED
Do people really fall in love with AI? I dated bots from four different companies for a week—and found out it was easier than I thought.| WIRED
A study reveals that large language models recognize when they are being studied and change their behavior to seem more likable.| WIRED
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Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.| WIRED
A government memo viewed by WIRED states that insider threats “could derail or jeopardize a fair and transparent election process.”| WIRED
The agency also cautioned that it’s unable to get a grasp on the full scale of the threat, due to extremists increasingly using encrypted chat tools.| WIRED
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Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.| WIRED
Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.| WIRED
For years, potential therapies that attack this brain protein have failed to help patients in clinical trials. Now—surprisingly—a new drug shows promise.| WIRED
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Antibody treatments clear amyloid protein from patients’ brains, slowing the progression of their disease but potentially inducing deadly swelling.| WIRED
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An experimental device developed by Cognito Therapeutics seeks to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients using light and sound.| WIRED
Elon Musk's men at HUD come from the real estate sector. They have access to vast stores of personal and financial data—and control over who can access which HUD systems.| WIRED
DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, an IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.| WIRED
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.| WIRED
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After days of chaos at ChatGPT creator OpenAI, the company says it has “in principle” reached an agreement for ousted CEO Sam Altman to return to his post.| WIRED
OpenAI, the independent research lab cofounded by Elon Musk, created a for-profit arm to attract more funding to hire researchers and run computers.| WIRED
A new generation of AI algorithms can feel like they’re reaching artificial general intelligence—but it’s not clear how to measure that.| WIRED
OpenAI wants to give away the 21st century's most transformative technology. In the process, it could remake the way people make tech.| WIRED
Chaos at OpenAI has its root in an unusual corporate structure designed to protect humanity against rogue AI—some investors had expressed fears it could weaken the company.| WIRED
Microsoft has hired OpenAI cofounders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head a new advanced AI team, acquiring one of the most successful management groups in the AI industry.| WIRED
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These three alternatives to the newsletter platform offer just as many—if not more—features, and can be easier on your wallet.| WIRED
Cybersecurity firm Recorded Future counted 44 health-care-related incidents in the month after Change Healthcare’s payment came to light—the most it’s ever seen in a single month.| WIRED
At a White House dinner Thursday night, America’s tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump.| WIRED
The last big barrier to personalized instruction is teacher time. Knewton wants to help.| WIRED
People seeking solidarity and safety in like-minded groups are increasingly looking to secret Facebook groups. They're solipsistic—but that's OK.| WIRED
Fake news may be a scourge, and hardline sites love to court controversy. But online publishing is still just a business.| WIRED
What do the controls for two hydroelectric plants in New York, a generator at a Los Angeles foundry, and an automated feed system at a Pennsylvania pig farm all have in common? What about a Los Angeles pharmacy's prescription system and the surveillance cameras at a casino in Czechoslovakia? They're all exposed on the internet, without so much as a password to block intruders from accessing them.| WIRED
WhatsApp's rise and Twitter's decline converge to send a message about the way we communicate now.| WIRED
Despite some initial confusion, the CIA hasn't undermined Signal and other important end-to-end encrypted apps.| WIRED
The hardest part about leaving the iPhone is leaving iMessage. We're here to make it a little easier.| WIRED
Now that WhatsApp is sharing phone numbers with Facebook, it's no longer the security oasis users relied on.| WIRED
Lorrie Cranor thought she dropped a call. The reality was much worse.| WIRED
As we communicate more digitally, governments encroach more on our privacy. End-to-end encryption cannot be taken for granted.| WIRED
The agency cracked the Pensacola iPhones, but it still views Cupertino as a problem—even though it's easier to break into iPhones than it has been in years.| WIRED
Attorney general William Barr seems eager to reignite the encryption wars, starting with the social media giant.| WIRED
A sustained backlash against a new system to look for child sexual abuse materials on user devices has led the company to hit pause.| WIRED
With a new capability to search for illegal material not just in the cloud but on user devices, the company may have opened up a new front in the encryption wars.| WIRED
From Apple vs FBI to WhatsApp, it was a banner year for end-to-end encryption.| WIRED
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In Whatsapp's footsteps, Google's new apps finally adopt end-to-end encryption.| WIRED
Viber flips on default end-to-end decryption, and there's nothing Congress can do about it.| WIRED
In fact, the Burr-Feinstein bill is so bad for privacy that it may be good for privacy in the long run, say experts.| WIRED
Former Vice President Al Gore accuses the White House of using the Sept. 11 terror attacks to justify a major assault on Americans' civil liberties, and calls for an end to Big Brother-style government.| WIRED
The second-ranked search engine is getting a new chatbot interface that attempts to synthesize information from sites across the web.| WIRED
Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.| WIRED
Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid computation. They’re just now beginning to understand the implications.| WIRED
Computer security news is usually pretty dismal. But today the web got safer in a very important way.| WIRED
In an industry once known for cushy perks, some founders are now asking staff to commit to a 72-hour weekly schedule. You’re either in or you’re out.| WIRED
Arguments over whether Google’s large language model has a soul distract from the real-world problems that plague artificial intelligence.| WIRED
There's a new Surface Laptop and Surface Pro, plus a host of AI-powered tricks for Windows.| WIRED
The Trump administration claims it is allowing “lifesaving” foreign aid to continue, but in reality, DOGE is preventing vital work on HIV and AIDS from saving lives.| WIRED
The toughest export restrictions yet cut off AI hardware and chipmaking tools crucial to China’s commercial and military ambitions.| WIRED
As the US and China meet for the APEC summit in San Francisco this week, American officials are pushing for talks on the risks posed by military use of AI.| WIRED
Jason Matheny, CEO of the influential think tank Rand Corporation, says advances in AI are making it easier to learn how to build biological weapons and other tools of destruction.| WIRED
In northwest China, the government is cracking down on the minority Muslim Uyghur population, keeping them under constant surveillance and throwing more than a million people into concentration camps.| WIRED
