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SCOOP: Last year, Dan Berulis filed a whistleblower complaint against DOGE at the NLRB. Elon Musk boosted a post calling it false. The next day, Berulis' brake lines were cut. Now he's filed a defamation suit against Musk. @wired.com
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A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.
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Vittoria Elliott
"My smartphone was essentially glued to my forehead all evening as I completed AI tasks on Waffle."
Nobody makes the AI fever dream we're all living through feel as whimsical as it is stupefying like @thiccreese.bsky.social
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For nearly a decade, the Pentagon was warned—by its own contractors, analysts, and intelligence agencies—that anyone with a credit card could buy a map of where American troops sleep, work, and store nuclear weapons. Now the bill has come due in a war zone.
My latest at @wired.com
“Dancers engaged in perreo-intense grinding, hip thrusting, and twerking...Cameras captured close-ups of suggestive contact and pelvic motions, amplifying the explicit nature."
Let's GO! Eyes on the prize, people.
@wired.com @waterslicer.bsky.social @snackfight.bsky.social @d-jacks.bsky.social @boone.bsky.social
Apologies to whatever you were planning on doing this afternoon. from @makenakelly.bsky.social
MY FIRST “BIG STORY” FOR WIRED!!
Spent a week with a camera strapped to my forehead, training robots how to do chores.
“Teach the robot how to cook tonight so you can put food on the table tomorrow.”
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Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoids—if you’re prepared for the consequences.
The US military has long known that cheap fixes could stop location data from exposing its troops. It adopted almost none—and now says adversaries are using the data to target soldiers during a war.
Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoids—if you’re prepared for the consequences.
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For nearly a decade, the Pentagon was warned—by its own contractors, analysts, and intelligence agencies—that anyone with a credit card could buy a map of where American troops sleep, work, and store nuclear weapons. Now the bill has come due in a war zone.
My latest at @wired.com
Katie Drummond
Scoop: www.wired.com/story/opal-e...
really captured the on-the-ground atmosphere at today’s Google event in @wired.com’s liveblog 🫡
check it out: www.wired.com/live/google-...
Daisy Sitch
The US military has long known that cheap fixes could stop location data from exposing its troops. It adopted almost none—and now says adversaries are using the data to target soldiers during a war.
Opal, the company famous for making a fancy webcam, has pivoted to making other consumer electronics. Fueled by big investments from OpenAI and Samsung, it’s working on an audio gadget first.
