NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
Update: The White House got back to us after publication to say it had updated the website to exclude a "handful" of arrests by Homeland Security Investigations. A review of the updated aliens.gov data shows they deleted 270,214 arrests.
For the @wired.com Big Interview this week, I interviewed California gubernatorial hopeful and billionaire Tom Steyer.
It was a tough hang for many reasons, but particularly because he didn't know who he was talking to.
Took a break from editing and writing about my passion (climate and science) to write about my other passion (trying to figure out where Phoebe's next popup show will be)
This is the science equivalent of paying companies $1 billion not to build an offshore wind farm when there's an energy crisis
totally normal Energy Department post
wake up babe, new solar conspiracy theory dropped www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
The DOGE cuts and shuttering USAID are creating a nightmare for the ebola response—and why cases could show up in the US "in no time." Really harrowing read from @knibbs.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/how-tr...
In which @mollytaft.com wades into the PFAS pan wars and the latest legal front that's opened up for @wired.com
well that's certainly one way to answer a question about how much you relied on AI to write your book about how AI impacts the truth... www.wired.com/story/future...
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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.
The indie artist has played a string of surprise, small-venue shows with no phones allowed, prompting fans to piece together clues about a potential upcoming album.
NEW: A @wired.com analysis of the data pub'd by the White House's Aliens.gov and the site's code shows ICE arrested hundreds of US citizens and includes what appears to be a pirated version of the X-Files theme song. @regret.bsky.social & @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/white-...
The stupidity is the point.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there.
