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
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The latest iPadOS makes Apple’s tablet behave more like a Mac than ever. Can an iPad now finally replace a Mac for everyone? We find out.| WIRED
Liquid Glass, iPad multitasking, and call screening—take a look at Apple’s latest features coming to your iPhone and iPad later this year.| WIRED
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Cupertino has done the thing it swore it never would: turn its tablet into a full-blown window-wrangling, compromise-abandoning computer. Yes, it’s better, but lurking deep in the settings the ghost of Jobs remains.| WIRED
Vittoria Elliott is a reporter for WIRED, covering platforms and power. She was previously a reporter at Rest of World, where she covered disinformation and labor in markets outside the US and Western Europe. She has worked with The New Humanitarian, Al Jazeera, and ProPublica. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and, before transitioning to journalism, worked with startups in Kenya and India.| WIRED
A growing number of US government websites have gone offline as of Saturday, including several related to USAID and others focused on youth programs, Africa, and more.| WIRED
Chinese hacks, rampant ransomware, and Donald Trump’s budget cuts all threaten US security. In an exit interview with WIRED, former CISA head Jen Easterly argues for her agency’s survival.| WIRED
A former USDS employee called the repurposing of the Digital Service into DOGE an “A+ bureaucratic jiujitsu move.” It will give Musk and his associates access to unclassified data in every government agency.| WIRED
A new version of Google’s flagship AI model shows how the company sees AI transforming personal computing, web search, and perhaps the way people interact with the physical world.| WIRED
The US Office of Personnel Management is telling federal workers to get in line—or get out.| WIRED
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Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE’s Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn’t exist.| WIRED
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.| WIRED
Sources tell WIRED that NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk’s DOGE task force access to all of the agency’s Google sites by the end of business on Wednesday.| WIRED
Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.| WIRED
A new analysis shows that “open source” AI tools like Llama 2 are still controlled by big tech companies in a number of ways.| WIRED
A new study suggests that sudden jumps in LLMs’ abilities are neither surprising nor unpredictable, but are actually the consequence of how we measure ability in AI.| WIRED
Earlier this month Elon Musk sued OpenAI for keeping its technology secret. Today he promised to give away his own “truth-seeking” chatbot Grok for free.| WIRED
These WIRED-tested indoor and outdoor air-quality monitors have been teaching us things about our air quality we can never unsee.| WIRED
There are already countless songs on Spotify, Apple Music, and SoundCloud. And as tunes become easier to create, anyone can add to the copyright din.| WIRED
Elon Musk isn't the only Silicon Valley billionaire to line up behind Donald Trump's presidential campaign. See how his donations, which total more than $281 million, make everyone else look tiny in comparison.| WIRED
A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.| WIRED
The move reportedly comes after US attorney general Pam Bondi reassured Apple and Google they would not be fined for hosting TikTok.| WIRED
When humans over-exploit underground water supplies, the ground collapses like a huge empty water bottle. It's called subsidence, and it could affect 1.6 billion people by 2040.| WIRED
I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.| WIRED
We all want our personal big-screen experience to feel as close to the real thing as possible. Here’s how to optimize your system—popcorn not included.| WIRED
Indoor-air experts think: Sure, maybe. Why the hell not? We convinced the CEO of an air filter company to give it a try.| WIRED
People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.| WIRED
For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned.| WIRED
In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting.| WIRED
Palantir has become one of the few winners in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, offering other contractors a lifeline while consolidating its own reach and power.| WIRED
A bill with bipartisan support might finally give the US a strong federal data protection law.| WIRED
The blockbuster antitrust case begins Monday. Its outcome could impact how Big Tech companies grow—but the government has a long way to go to prove its case.| WIRED
More than just cute pictures, these digital icons are a lingua franca for the digital age.| WIRED
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Developed to boost productivity and operational readiness, the AI is now being used to “review” diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies to align them with President Trump’s orders.| WIRED
She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism. Google brought her in. Then it forced her out. Can Big Tech take criticism from within?| WIRED
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As public spaces reopen, scientists are racing to understand the mysterious and turbulent way the disease spreads through air—from person to person, and place to place.| WIRED
How readily can playing instruments transmit the virus? As researchers investigate, musical ensembles prepare for the show to go on.| WIRED
Public health messaging and science have to work hard to stay in sync during a crisis. During the Covid-19 pandemic, they haven’t always succeeded.| WIRED
It’s harder to make fire than you might think. But the Pixar team was determined to do the impossible.| WIRED
Zen Goziker worked at TikTok for only six months. Many of his allegations about the company and the US government are improbable. But he still may have shaped how the app is viewed in Washington.| WIRED
TikTok says it plans to challenge the law that could ban it in the US in court. Experts think it's got a fighting chance.| WIRED
A few weeks ago, Shou Zi Chew sat down with WIRED to tell us how he’s trying to make TikTok better. Is the company’s CEO for real—or just a really good politician?| WIRED
After years of negotiations, the Senate approved a bill to force TikTok to either divest from its Chinese owners or face an outright ban.| WIRED
The Biden campaign’s TikTok account got off to a rocky start—but they’re not stressing the comments.| WIRED
The latest TikTok ban bill has been tacked onto a foreign aid package, making it much harder for the Senate to ignore.| WIRED
The brother goes on vision quests. The sister is a former English major. Together, they defected from OpenAI, started Anthropic, and built (they say) AI’s most upstanding citizen, Claude.| WIRED
“Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on,” wrote Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in a note to staff obtained by WIRED.| WIRED
A teenager in Georgia has decided to take things into her own hands after her school and police said they could do nothing about the bullying from classmates on Facebook.| WIRED
The New Jersey attorney general claims Discord’s features to keep children under 13 safe from sexual predators and harmful content are inadequate.| WIRED
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Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.| WIRED
The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”| WIRED
All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.| WIRED
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.| WIRED
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Google says Gemini, launching today inside the Bard chatbot, is its “most capable” AI model ever. It was trained on video, images, and audio as well as text.| WIRED
Just two months after Alphabet made its Gemini AI model public, it’s rolling out a new version that can handle several times as much audio, video, and text input as GPT-4.| WIRED
Sure, anyone can use OpenAI’s chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results.| WIRED
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Stephen and Katie Miller—he's “the prime minister,” sources say; she’s DOGE’s comms guru—liaise between the White House and Elon Musk, and are centrally involved as he tears the government apart.| WIRED
Leaked chats obtained by WIRED detail plans for the General Services Administration—and the staff’s angry response.| WIRED
Elon Musk secured his choke hold on the mechanics of the federal government weeks ago. Along with Donald Trump, he has already standardized chaos across the US.| WIRED
Court filings show that from the earliest days of the second Trump administration, Elon Musk’s DOGE had a plan to infiltrate US Treasury payment systems—and turn them against USAID.| WIRED
The company behind the Saflok-brand door locks is offering a fix, but it may take months or years to reach some hotels.| WIRED
Researchers found a flaw in a Kia web portal that let them track millions of cars, unlock doors, and start engines at will—the latest in a plague of web bugs that’s affected a dozen carmakers.| WIRED
I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.| WIRED
Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai.| WIRED
X is promoting Community Notes to solve its disinformation problems, but some former employees and people who currently contribute notes say it’s not fit for that purpose.| WIRED
If you thought 2020 was bad, decisions from Big Tech and the US government have led to an internet that’s even worse off.| WIRED
Parents of newborns are reporting symptoms including diarrhea, twitching, and “complete toddler meltdowns” after giving them Pure Body Extra detox treatment.| WIRED
Ahead of the election, anti-government militias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate training, and promote ballot box stakeouts. Meta isn’t shutting their groups down and is even auto-generating pages.| WIRED
Colossal Biosciences has started work on a five-year-long docuseries that follows its de-extinction efforts. That’s just the beginning of its small-screen plans.| WIRED
A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors to an island once owned by Epstein, the notorious sex offender.| WIRED
President Donald Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing. Hours before announcing new tariffs, his administration cut support for centers that help US firms do just that.| WIRED
The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation.| WIRED
During his confirmation hearings this week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he would promote vaccines as HHS secretary, despite a long history of promoting anti-vax positions.| WIRED
The “truth seekers” conference, held at a hotel owned and frequented by President Donald Trump, is being organized by Charlie Ward, an antisemitic conspiracy theorist.| WIRED
The online marketplace is rife with books advocating scientifically unproven and potentially fatal "treatments" for autism, including chemical baths and drugs intended for arsenic poisoning| WIRED
Online communities dedicated to the use of a toxic bleach solution to treat everything from cancer to autism believe Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is interested in their cause.| WIRED
All you need is an internet connection, a library card, and a good ebook reader to dive into your next page-turner.| WIRED
DOGE demanded full access to a US Department of the Interior system that handles even the Supreme Court's paychecks. When top staff asked questions, they were put on leave.| WIRED
The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has vacated an injunction against an age-verification requirement to view internet porn in Texas.| WIRED
We spent the Pornhub Awards with some of the site’s biggest stars to talk censorship, making money, and the popularity of trans porn—all while the site is blocked in more than a third of US states.| WIRED
An increasing number of states are passing age-verification laws. It’s not clear how they’ll work.| WIRED
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court held that age verification for explicit sites is constitutional. In a dissent, Justice Elena Kagan warned it burdens adults and ignores First Amendment precedent.| WIRED
Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI hinges on a dubious claim that the company has already developed ‘artificial general intelligence’—and handed it over to Microsoft.| WIRED
In the lawsuit, Musk claims OpenAI has abandoned its mission to develop AI for the benefit of humanity.| WIRED
The claim appeared in a court filing related to Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. The Tesla and xAI owner has posted about his laptop numerous times in the past year.| WIRED
