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I've written a piece for @theipaper.com on the very obvious problem of saying "let me know if there's anything I can do to help". If you want to help, just help. Don't put the burden on the person needing it to come up with ideas for you: inews.co.uk/opinion/stop...

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200 people spent millions on Trump’s memecoin and were rewarded with this dinner www.wired.com/story/a-heli...

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DOGE has evolved to its final, most dangerous form www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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Had a great conversation with @jay.bsky.team about the future of Bluesky, which she hopes is a future where Bluesky becomes one small part of a much larger ecosystem: www.wired.com/story/big-in...

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After Luigi Mangione allegedly killed United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson with a partially 3D-printed "ghost gun," I wanted to know how far these DIY firearms have come. So I 3D-printed and assembled the same exact model of gun—and test-fired it. Our story and video: www.wired.com/story/luigi-...

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people are making "anti-DEI" mods for The Sims 4 that erase Black and LGBT NPCs from the game, @alanayzola.com reports for @wired.com

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NEW: security researchers publish more than 1,000 email addresses allegedly linked to North Korean IT worker activity in one of the largest ever such disclosures, as well as identifying two members of a cluster of NK developers operating out of Laos and Russia www.wired.com/story/north-...

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before today, this was the last time an American president met a Syrian leader

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this is really not normal www.wired.com/story/trumpc...

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Chris Pelkey was fatally shot in a road rage incident in Chandler, Arizona, in November 2021. At the sentencing of Gabriel Horcasitas on manslaughter charges, a video recording of Pelkey created with AI was played to the court, in what is thought to be a courtroom first.

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"It was the first time in Arizona judicial history — and possibly nationwide — that AI has been used to create a deceased victim’s own impact statement" www.abc15.com/news/region-...

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Tulsi Gabbard, the DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, used the same easily cracked password for different online accounts over a period of years, according to leaked records reviewed by WIRED scoop by @timmarchman.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/tulsi-...

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a real quote by Donald Trump on the picture the White House posted depicting him as the pope: "Maybe it was AI"

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"I don't even know where to start with this. It's mind blowing” Mike Waltz Has Somehow Gotten Even Worse at Using Signal www.wired.com/story/mike-w...

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a DOGE recruiter posted in a Palantir alumni Slack that he's hiring for a project to deploy AI agents across federal agencies that would do the work of 70,000 people the post was not well received www.wired.com/story/doge-r...

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the US estimates that a team of North Korean pretenders can earn up to $3 million each year, with the money pumped into everything from Kim Jong Un’s personal slush fund to the country’s nuclear weapons program wild story: North Korea Stole Your Job www.wired.com/story/north-...

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a college student with no government experience, yet to complete his undergraduate degree, is working for Elon Musk’s DOGE at HUD. he’s been tasked with using AI to rewrite the agency’s rules+regulations scoop by @davidgilbert.bsky.social & @telliotter.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

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Leavitt: “As Reuters recently wrote, Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm.” The printout she holds up is based on an article from 2021 though www.reuters.com/world/china/...

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phone networks down, newsrooms going dark in Spain and Portugal, so a bar owner holds up an analogue radio still transmitting during the huge power outages (Sandra Montanez/Getty Images)

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@davidgilbert.bsky.social obtained an internal training video for Social Security Administration staff on the agency's new generative AI chatbot but it a) fails to mention you can’t trust it with personally identifiable information b) looks like it was created in Microsoft Paint via @wired.com

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It’s not just biased—generative AI is importing old stereotypes into new languages and cultures. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...

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why dOn’t yOU wEAr A sUIt

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Thrilled to share that I’ve officially joined @wired.com as Director, Multiplatform Video. I’m incredibly grateful to @katie-drummond.bsky.social for the opportunity to continue working with this brilliant, creative, and deeply dedicated newsroom—and I’m excited for what’s ahead.

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The UK-based Everyone Hates Elon protest group keeps on going viral for its eye-catching unauthorized actions. Who is running the group, and what do they have planned next? @matthewchampion.bsky.social has more:

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"Hey Alexa, are you recording this?" Yes, the answer is yes. Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant." @couts.bsky.social on why you should care. Read more: www.wired.com/story/everyt...

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Backstabbing. Sabotage. Mutiny. And a piss-soaked alleyway in central London. In my latest for @WIRED, I try to finesse my way to winning a $140,000 cryptocurrency prize. www.wired.com/story/crypto...

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Traveling into the U.S. has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. From the ace @wired.com security team, here's tangible guidance on minimizing the risk of Customs and Border Patrol accessing your data. www.wired.com/2017/02/guid...

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we're all immune to being shocked and long ran out of superlatives, but this is genuinely the most unbelievable story I've ever read www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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"On Q-Day, everything could become vulnerable, for everyone: emails, text messages, anonymous posts, location histories, bitcoin wallets, police reports, hospital records, power stations, the entire global financial system." New by me for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/q-day-...

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In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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ICYMI: I interviewed the creator of Animal Well about the game's life-changing success and what comes next (it's a new game): www.wired.com/story/billy-...

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You probably already know that generative AI amplifies stereotypes and bias, but how bad is it? For months at @wired.com we’ve been interviewing experts and testing OpenAI’s Sora. www.wired.com/story/openai...

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In partnership with @freedom.press, WIRED will make all of its FOIA-based reporting free to access for anyone. Public records should be public, and I hope to see more outlets follow suit: freedom.press/issues/wired...

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🚨 the inside story of DOGE and Elon Musk's "digital coup" 🚨 by the amazing world-beating team at WIRED www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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"It’s hard to overstate how deeply weird it is to see Trump, who never met a self-promotion he didn’t like, promote someone else. Even weirder when that person is increasingly a liability." welcome to the United States of Elon Musk Inc. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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this is a real image. 📷 Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

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as Republicans scramble to avoid a government shutdown, one high profile member of Donald Trump's team has been privately advocating for one: Elon Musk "None of this is about saving money, right?” a source told WIRED “It’s all about destroying a liberal power base.” www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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new saddest six word story just dropped

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I dunno, what else do you call a shadowy group of bureaucrats working to reshape government policy from the inside to serve their own ends? www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

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More exciting @wired.com hiring news: The incredible @manishakrishnan.bsky.social is joining as our Senior Editor, Culture. Internet culture, subcultures, drugs, a few guns...Manisha will take WIRED's culture coverage in wild new directions, and I'm excited for her to get started in a few weeks!

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not sure the 🚨 emoji really does this justice, but documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS www.wired.com/story/pentag...

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