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A victory for scammers. The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has been gutted by @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...

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NEW: The CFPB has been gutted. More than 1,400 workers received RIF notices this afternoon, agency sources tell me. Around 200 employees are left. www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...

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NEW: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been gutted -- the positions of 1,400 of the agency's 1,700 employees have been terminated. read more from @makenakelly.bsky.social:

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally-mandated agency. www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...

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SCOOP: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,400 of the agency's 1,700 employees; medical debt and student loans will now be deprioritized.

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Experts say that countries that warrant that paranoid approach to travel might include not just Russia and China but also the United States. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data.

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DOGE strikes again. "WIRED spoke with seven workers with the National Civilian Community Corps, better known as AmeriCorps NCCC, who say that they were told to stop working on projects ranging from rebuilding homes destroyed in storm" by @mollytaft.com www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

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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.

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OK, I need a reader question. Ask me anything!

submitted 12 hours ago • 30 comments

Google is once again deemed a monopoly — this time in ad tech www.wired.com/story/judge-... with @peard33.bsky.social

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American police departments are spending hundreds of thousands on Massive Blue’s unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected traffickers.

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A federal judge ruled today that Google illegally monopolized parts of its advertising technology business. It’s the second time in the space of a year that Google was found to have violated US antitrust law.

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The future of Google's advertising business is at stake after a federal judge found the company illegally monopolized parts of its advertising business. www.wired.com/story/judge-...

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NEW: A company has created custom AI personas for cops to use to target people, from suspected human traffickers to "college protesters." @jasonkoebler.bsky.social & @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social w/ the scoop for @404media.co copublished w/ @wired.com www.wired.com/story/massiv...

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AmeriCorps, the US federal agency that oversees volunteerism and service work, abruptly pulled teams of young people out of a variety of community service projects across the country on Tuesday. The work stoppage was due to DOGE cuts.

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Last year people lost $470 million to scams that started with a text message, the FTC revealed yesterday. Here's my piece from Monday on the Smishing Triad, one of the most prevalent groups sending scam texts. They can send at least 100,000 messages per day and have targeted 121 countries

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NEW: A particularly disgusting impact from the Trump administration's gutting of the CDC -- thousands of urine and tissue samples are in danger of rotting after staff cuts at a CDC Laboratory. read @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

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To no one's surprise, Netflix took Pop the Balloon, a hilarious and messy window in Black dating culture, and ruined it: www.wired.com/story/pop-th...

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what does a show lose, especially one that is anchored in black culture, when it widens its scope to include everyone? my latest for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/pop-th...

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"Federal workers who abruptly lost their jobs in recent weeks say they are worried that thousands of biological samples—from human urine to frozen rodent organs—may be left to rot in a government laboratory" 😱 by @carolinehaskins.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/cdc-jo...

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tissue samples were collected as a part of experiments to determine how americans may be impacted by chemicals they are exposed to at their jobs. unless someone ensures the liquid nitrogen doesn’t totally evaporate, the samples will defrost and rot, staffers tell @wired.com

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SCOOP: Thousands of human urine and rodent tissue samples were left behind at a CDC lab after almost everyone working there lost their jobs. Now, researchers from the lab are afraid they could be left to rot: www.wired.com/story/cdc-jo...

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NEW: Workers who recently lost their jobs at the National Institute for Occupational Safety due to Trump's cuts tell WIRED that they fear biological samples, like human urine and frozen rodent organs used for research, will be left to rot...

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NEW SHOW: "SUPERHUMAN" with WIRED Features Editor, and author of the book "The Athletic Brain," Amit Katwala, finds the cutting-edge technology that pushes the limits of what's humanly possible. In this first episode, Amit tries out an exosuit that athletes can use to train their running form.

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Today on "Uncanny Valley," we tell you how you can best protect yourself from surveillance technology at protests. www.wired.com/story/uncann...

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NEW: Workers who recently lost their jobs at the National Institute for Occupational Safety due to Trump's cuts tell WIRED that they fear biological samples, like human urine and frozen rodent organs used for research, will be left to rot...

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NEW: 💩🤢 @carolinehaskins.bsky.social has the scoop www.wired.com/story/cdc-jo...

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Workers who recently lost their jobs at the National Institute for Occupational Safety say they’re concerned that there’s no plan for managing biological samples tied to research projects. www.wired.com/story/cdc-jo...

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Fans of the hit YouTube series are upset over Netflix’s “watered-down” remake, which one of the streamer’s executives calls a “tragedy.” www.wired.com/story/pop-th...

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Anti-vaccine grifters with ties to #RFKJr are claiming the #measles outbreak in Texas linked to the deaths of two children....is the "bioweapon" At the same time, they are selling their followers AI-powered pseudoscience supplements to fight measles www.wired.com/story/antiva...

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NEW from @davidgilbert.bsky.social: "Anti-vaccine activists with close ties to US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are falsely claiming that the measles public health crisis in Texas is caused by a 'bioweapon' targeting the Mennonite community." www.wired.com/story/antiva...

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NEW: RFK Jr.'s buddies are claiming that the measles outbreak is the result of a bioweapon attack—and that you can protect yourself by spending hundreds of dollars on purportedly AI-powered supplements. This is by @davidgilbert.bsky.social

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NEW: Activists affiliated with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are spouting conspiracy theories about the measles crisis while selling a "measles treatment and prevention protocol" for hundreds of dollars, including supplements supposedly formulated by AI. read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

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Activists affiliated with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are selling a "measles treatment and prevention protocol" for hundreds of dollars, including supplements supposedly formulated by AI. www.wired.com/story/antiva...

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The New Jersey attorney general claims Discord's features to keep children under 13 safe from sexual predators and harmful content are inadequate. www.wired.com/story/new-je...

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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope confirmed the planet K2-18b has traces of dimethyl sulfide, a potential biosignature of marine microorganisms. www.wired.com/story/scient...

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