Angela Watercutter

Just in time for Halloween, it’s Ghost Stories Week at @wired.com! Follow along as we roll out haunting stories from now until Friday. (Also, check out the cool 👻 cursor. We’re calling him Douglas.) www.wired.com/ghost-stories/

NEW: US lawmakers say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding a secret court opinion about the surveillance of Americans, even as it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.

Nathan Fielder is on the cover of @wired.com this month. I interviewed him about Elizabeth Holmes, his extraordinary new film, and whether anyone can ever know what the hell is going on with another person. An exclusive! And quite an experience. Read the full interview here:

The codirector of “You Can See Everything” talks exclusively to WIRED about truth, lies, and Theranos.

“Using an advanced surveillance capability such as a cell-site simulator against members of the free press for reporting stories that are unfavorable to the president is an appalling attack on the First Amendment...” www.wired.com/story/feds-g...

Huge story here from @dmehro.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social, and @awinston.bsky.social. A must-read.

Lucky me! I got to interview our cover star, Patti Harrison, for the @wired.com women's issue. Not only is she hilarious, but she also has very sharp views about tech, social media, and where it's all going wrong. She even invokes DARPA! A woman after my own heart.

NEW: Hackers cut down a Flock camera, dumped its internal storage, and shared the files w/ WIRED and 404 Media. It includes thousands of videos and logs showing how the device took images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days The code reveals in new detail how Flock tracks the vehicles and people.

Also, please do check out all of @wired.com’s new covers featuring Patti and tell me which is your fave.

“So, it is meaningful to me to get to do this on the basis of you guys liking how much I’m online talking about jism and kissing my dog on the mouth.” I laughed so many times editing this conversation between Patti Harrison and @katie-drummond.bsky.social. www.wired.com/story/big-in...

Yesterday, we unrolled two more pieces— @laurengoode.bsky.social went in search of the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley, talking to all of the heavy hitters www.wired.com/story/search...

Very cool excerpt to have and I’m so stoked it’s on @wired.com!

In Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel “Exit Party,” becoming a “ghost” means running afoul of the state. In this excerpt, a secret agent discovers it doesn’t take much. www.wired.com/story/book-e...

some fun news: i'm going to be writing a weekly column on everyone's favorite topic: DATA CENTERS i'll be taking over the @wired.com sunday newsletter from now until the midterms to yap about all things DCs it's going to be tons of fun (in MY opinion)!

NEW: The GSA’s New Office Is Falling Apart -- WIRED obtained photos showing a bathroom covered in debris, a gaping hole in a ceiling, and a dead mouse caught in a trap. Workers have been told to let water run for 5-10 seconds before drinking it. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social with the scoop:

My latest for @wired.com: I tried exercising my data access rights over 100 times and almost lost my sanity during the process. www.wired.com/story/i-dema...

The art portfolio platform Cara, designed for creators who don’t want their work used to train AI, has been under assault by trolls seizing and publishing its data. www.wired.com/story/he-scr...

New: OpenAI is developing a "Persistent" mode for its AI agent, Codex. Persistent mode is a new level of reasoning effort that will make Codex "continue working until put to sleep." The agent will also proactively create follow up tasks for itself, per code reviewed by WIRED.

What do you do when you've launched a moral panic about transgender athletes in the WNBA, but there has never been an active trans player in the league? Simple: you start a conspiracy theory about every single woman on the court.

I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program and received an extensive, personalized report that algorithmically predicts my next purchase.

TIL that an octopus has a “sex arm” www.wired.com/story/octopu...

SCOOP: On Flock's YouTube page, there are dozens of videos touting the work of police departments that use its license plate readers. Four of them have since faced allegations of misusing Flock's technology: www.wired.com/story/flock-...

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

If the words "Danger Room" mean anything to you, this is the story for you.

<3 www.wired.com/story/dont-g...

One day after a federal judge ordered an ICE detention center opened to state health inspectors, the agency posted new contract terms that would void state oversight at four facilities. www.wired.com/story/ices-n...

Want to know how—and why—the World Cup did a halftime show this time around? I got you covered. www.wired.com/story/fifa-w...

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

Taking cues from the Manosphere and MAHA, Pete Hegseth plans to screen US Armed Forces for testosterone and offer hormone therapy for men with a T "deficiency." I spoke to an endocrinologist at Johns Hopkins, and you'll be shocked—shocked!—to hear that she thinks this is incredibly stupid:

Not only do we stand by our reporting. Madison Square Garden’s ridiculous lawsuit actually confirms it, noting the company did, in fact, track the sexual orientation of LGBTQIA celebrities in its talent database.

Click through to see our reporting in the thread!

The art on this story... www.wired.com/story/everyo...

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In ‘Citizen Vigilante,’ Armie Hammer plays Sanders, a former US soldier who embarks on an extrajudicial killing spree across Europe, angered by what he sees as a Muslim takeover of the continent. Unsurprisingly, real-world far-right extremists love it.

In a world regulated by devices, humanity has become disconnected from the physical world—from stick-shift cars to postcards.

This was a very cool assignment. Running into OG Anunoby as I walked off the field last night was the perfect end to the night. www.wired.com/story/exclus...

Here's me on CBS News, talking about the Madison Square Garden surveillance state. Can you tell (a) the AC wasn't working in the room and (B) I'm sweating like a stuck pig? www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuOT...

🧵NEW: For more than a decade, police in South West England have been quietly experimenting with algorithms to score thousands of people. Most of them didn't know anything about it. Over two years, me and Mark Wilding investigated the messy setup, multiple parts have now been scrapped

From Amazon's “Off Campus” to Netflix’s upcoming “Icebreakers,” the recent spate of hetero hockey romances shows Hollywood learned the wrong lessons from “Heated Rivalry.” www.wired.com/story/story/...

I read this paragraph at least five times.

Kratom, often marketed as a wellness product and alcohol substitute, has blown up in the last few years, along with one of its active components, 7-OH. Both have opioid-like effects and can cause debilitating withdrawal symptoms. But only one is being targeted by MAHA www.wired.com/story/the-kr...