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New: Since January, dozens of companies have been mentioning deportations in SEC filings, saying they risk causing labor shortages and a recession. This is very unusual. For reference, between June 2020 and Jan. 2025, just 6 filings mentioned deportations: www.wired.com/story/compan...

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Good piece on the new AI Now report from WIRED's @lmatsakis.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/report...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: The self-owns are aplenty. @willknight.bsky.social, @laurengoode.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social, and @lmatsakis.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

We spoke to sources across the country about Trump's crackdown on international students. They all said the same thing: these moves will undermine American dominance in science and technology and derail critical research efforts in areas like AI www.wired.com/story/trump-...

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: The US government has collected DNA from over 100,000 migrant children—including a 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic profiles into a national biometric database meant for sex offenders and violent criminals. www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

submitted 25 days ago • 20 comments

I am so ashamed to watch my country make perhaps one of the biggest geopolitical own goals of all time out of ignorance and bigotry www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

About the AI summer reading list: • There were a number of other AI-fabricated sentences in Heat Index • Some people and quotes were invented • I talked to someone who was quoted, but had not spoken with the writer • I also spoke with the writer, who owned up to it all new with @cwarzel.bsky.social

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

SCOOP: A Silicon Valley venture capitalist claims he personally facilitated getting Starlink internet to the IDF within days of 10/7/23. This was days before the IDF targeted Gaza's telecom/internet, & 4 months before Israel permitted any Starlink use: www.wired.com/story/shaun-...

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

Two men claiming to be newly appointed Trump appointees were blocked from entering the US Copyright Office this morning. Scoop from @knibbs.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/us-cop...

submitted 42 days ago • 18 comments

Sccoooop OpenAI and the FDA Are Holding Talks About Using AI In Drug Evaluation: www.wired.com/story/openai...

submitted 47 days ago • 19 comments

Scoooop w/@lmatsakis.bsky.social: A 'Trump Card Visa' is already showing up on immigration forms (courtesy of DOGE): www.wired.com/story/doge-t...

submitted 47 days ago • 4 comments

"WIRED confirmed that citizens of China, Russia, Ukraine, South Korea and many other countries are eligible to select the Trump Card Visa option in Global Entry applications." New details on the Trump "gold card visa" from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @lmatsakis.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/doge-t...

submitted 46 days ago • 10 comments

SCOOP: Elon Musk's DOGE has started rolling out a dedicated website and other digital infrastructure for Trump's $5 million gold card program, which he said would allow wealthy people to buy US residency. From me & @zoeschiffer.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/doge-t...

submitted 46 days ago • 29 comments

NEW: a coalition of states and startups are suing the nuclear regulatory commission, saying that there are too many regulations standing in the way of nuclear progress. some nuclear experts say removing regulations is the exact wrong move at a fragile moment of public nuclear acceptance:

submitted 55 days ago • 9 comments

SCOOP: Jamieson Greer, Trump's top advisor on matters related to international trade, consulted for Chinese ecommerce giant Shein before joining the White House, according to a former Shein employee and internal documents seen by WIRED. By @timmclaughlin3.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/shein-...

submitted 49 days ago • 6 comments

At 2 PM EST today me and @zeyiyang.bsky.social are doing an Reddit AMA about Temu, answering all your questions about Chinese e-commerce, tariffs, higher prices, and more. Hit us up! www.reddit.com/r/TemuThings...

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

absolutely, so to make sure everyone can get the info they need we’re running an AMA on r/TemuThings tomorrow at 2 pm ET with the amazing @zeyiyang.bsky.social and @lmatsakis.bsky.social ! leave your questions here:

submitted 54 days ago • 6 comments

NEW from @zeyiyang.bsky.social: The wife of professor Xiaofeng Wang, who was abruptly fired by Indiana University the same day the couple’s houses were searched by the FBI last month, said on Monday that she believes her family has been unfairly targeted www.wired.com/story/profes...

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

“I hate to say it—I think they beat us at capitalism.” www.wired.com/story/tariff...

submitted 70 days ago • 6 comments

i don't know how we come back from this www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/w...

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

I, increasingly on the “old” side of the continental divide of culture, keep hearing from people on the other side that China has been gaining in coolness. Many will cry propaganda. But there’s something real in zany videos or gallows political humor or just dreaming of a thing not this.

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote about how Trump's trade war is falling flat in a moment when Americans don't feel as negatively about China as they once did www.wired.com/story/china-...

submitted 73 days ago • 7 comments

Anecdotal, but I see a ton of TikToks these days that glamorize daily life, travel, and commerce in China. (Maybe glamorize isn’t even the right word—depict in a straightforwardly appealing way?) V good piece by @lmatsakis.bsky.social on the rise of China’s soft power and the decline of the U.S.’s

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

I checked a few super pro-Trump media sites to get a sense of how they're messaging in this moment. Here's one of the top opinion pieces right now on Townhall. Can't say I find this narrative very inspiring or convincing. "reality doesn't care about your hopes and aspirations."

submitted 75 days ago • 3 comments

I wrote about the impossibly complex supply chain defining every aspect of consumer technology, the near impossibility of an America-first iPhone, the possibility that perhaps we do not need to be buying so many of these things 🌞

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

One notable tech winner from Trump's tariffs: Palantir, which jumped on the announcement to promote an AI service they claim helps businesses ensure that “tariff-related decisions consider the full operational context.” www.wired.com/story/trump-...

submitted 81 days ago • 17 comments

This situation is really wild, @wired.com breaks down what they know: www.wired.com/story/xiaofe...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Scoop: We got updates about the cybersecurity prof Xiaofeng Wang: A document circulating among academics says Indiana U has been inquiring Wang about involvement in a research project with alleged Chinese funding. Wang's attorney says he & his wife are safe and have no pending criminal charges.

submitted 82 days ago • 3 comments

NEW, with @zeyiyang.bsky.social + @lmatsakis.bsky.social: The FBI raided the homes of an Indiana Uni comp sci prof & his wife last week. They disappeared. Now, sources say this followed a months-long IU review into whether he got unreported research funding from China: www.wired.com/story/xiaofe...

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments