Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
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When 'pedophile hunters' catch the wrong guy. My latest with the great @aric.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/t...
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jesus christ
Is this a new thing that Google does or have I just not seen it before?
(I was looking for an old article I wrote and it had this "highly cited" tag on it in the search results.)
On writing about A.I. that simulates people: "The longer this story went on, the more tired I was... It was the feeling of being at a computer all day. It was a dehydration of human interaction... It was the subject matter. It was trying to dig to the depths of something and not finding any."
Talked to one group fighting a data center who said people were motivated by a combination of “not in my backyard” and ‘not wanting the thing built that will take my children’s jobs’
We reported earlier this year on Meta's plans to roll out a facial recognition feature in its smart glasses and the company said it was "still thinking through options." Now Wired discovers that the code to do it is already in Meta's AI app: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...
Not surprisingly, astonishingly good article.
you are absolutely going to want to take the time to read this
Florida is the first state to sue OpenAI over safety concerns, claiming that the company failed to warn the public about the dangers of ChatGPT. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/t...
In April, a 25-year-old man was visiting LA and met a girl he met on an app for anonymous hook-ups. Soon after he met her, Vitaly Zdorovetskiy, livestreaming to 24,000+ viewers on Kick, jumped out of some bushes and falsely accused him of being a pedophile.
From me and @kashhill.bsky.social
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Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
