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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
WIRED asked 634 women what they really think about working in tech. They told us about harassment, bias, unequal treatment, and the everyday indignities that still shape life in the industry. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-...
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
Here’s how we transformed our cover star Patti Harrison into Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos (with Lauren Sánchez Bezos by his side).
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
Executives happily automating their days with AI. New hires confronting bro culture. Women in tech have a lot to say—and they told it all to WIRED. www.wired.com/story/women-...
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We Surveyed 634 Women Who Work in Tech. They Let Loose
Executives happily automating their days with AI. New hires confronting bro culture. Women in tech have a lot to say—and they told it all to WIRED.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
NEW: Flock is offering employees "generous" buyouts as communities across the US push back against the surveillance camera network, @wired.com has learned. @peard33.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social with the scoop: www.wired.com/story/flock-...
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Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee
As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.
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WIRED @wired.com · 19/09/2026
For one day only, WIRED is bringing the technologies, people, and cultural forces transforming our world off the page and into real life. www.wired.com/story/join-t...
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Join the WIRED World Fair in Miami on November 4
For one day only, WIRED is bringing the technologies, people, and cultural forces transforming our world off the page and into real life.
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WIRED @wired.com · 16/09/2026
Meet the new WIRED app: the best way to read, watch, and listen to our journalism. To celebrate this launch, we’re giving app users full, free access to WIRED for a limited time. All you need to do is create an account. buff.ly/H3Zt1a5
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WIRED @wired.com · 20/07/2026
Four-minute miles are almost routine. Middle schoolers are beating college runners. Inside the youth track boom that’s turning kids and teens into speed machines. www.wired.com/story/teenag...
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Elite Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to ‘Trackflation’
Four-minute miles are almost routine. Middle schoolers are beating college runners. Inside the youth track boom that’s turning kids and teens into speed machines.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
A statement from WIRED leadership.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
NEW: Meta's VP of comms claimed the company's NameTag feature "doesn't exist" in response to recent @wired.com reporting about it. Then Meta's CTO described it in detail on a podcast. Here's my attempt to explain 🫠: wired.com/story/heres-the-truth-about-whether-metas-nametag-face-recognition-exists
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Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’
Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting remarks about its very existence.
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEW: Last year, a whistleblower alleged that members of DOGE had accessed, and potentially exfiltrated data from the National Labor Relations Board. The claims spurred an investigation from the Government Accountability Office, which published a report in April... www.wired.com/story/federa...
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Federal Investigators Say Certain DOGE Records Were Deleted
A government report claims DOGE didn’t access sensitive systems. It also says the agency deleted records that would show if they had.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
NEW: Deep-dive investigation into the flaws of the most significant predictive policing program in the UK—just as the country aims to roll out similar tech nationwide. @mattburgess1.bsky.social/Mark Wilding report (with Liberty Investigates, @lighthousereports.com, and @thebristolcable.bsky.social):
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🧵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
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British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted
As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A friendly reminder as you enjoy tonight’s Knicks game: Madison Square Garden, where the match is being held, is an insane surveillance panopticon. Read our @wired.com investigation if you haven’t already:
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The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
NEW: Alpha School is rapidly expanding across the U.S., promising AI-enabled education that teaches kids in two hours a day. Turns out, its $65,000-a-year location in NYC isn't even a *school* because New York State denied its application. One of several insane revelations in this A+ story:
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Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School
A homeschooling center in Manhattan is part of the company’s nationwide expansion. Internal documents reveal its strategy: “Opening date > safety.”
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WIRED @wired.com · 04/06/2026
Teams at software company Trilogy have overseen the acquisition and renovation of buildings for Alpha School. Internal policy documents obtained by WIRED say the priority was to move at “Alpha speed.” www.wired.com/story/alpha-...
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
NEW: A @wired.com analysis of Meta's app for its smart glasses found that the company has been adding code for face recognition since January, while saying that it is still "thinking through" whether to deploy it. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...
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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
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.
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Anthony Lydgate @anthonylydgate.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Trying to remember the term for a place that dozens of school-aged kids go between 8am and 4pm on weekdays to learn… www.wired.com/story/alpha-...
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Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School
A homeschooling center in Manhattan is part of the company’s nationwide expansion. Internal documents reveal its strategy: “Opening date > safety.”
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Obsessed with this story. @toddfeathers.bsky.social got internal documents from Alpha School--as well as interviews with lots of people involved with the school--to talk about how this "AI-powered" outfit moves fast and breaks things, except it's K-12, not an app www.wired.com/story/alpha-...
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Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School
A homeschooling center in Manhattan is part of the company’s nationwide expansion. Internal documents reveal its strategy: “Opening date > safety.”
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Debt is rising in the United States. Now, when you owe money, you're likely to get a phone call from an AI collector asking you to pay up—sometimes even when you *don't* owe anything: www.wired.com/story/ai-tak...
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AI Is Taking Over the Most Cursed Job in the World
There’s a mad dash to automate the world’s most hated calls. Have an unpaid bill? You’ll hear from an AI debt collector sometime soon.
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Meghan Herbst @megherbst.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
In which I give AI chatbots a fact checking test and find them sorely wanting. My latest for WIRED.
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AI Just Isn’t Right
Can AI do fact-checking? A WIRED fact-checker fact-checks.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Anthropic employs at least four philosophers. Google DeepMind employs at least TEN. When journalism fully implodes, at least my B.A. in philosophy will be put to good use. (Love this story from @joelkhalili.bsky.social about the murky motives of AI companies and their Aristotles)
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To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant
The world’s leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to think through ethical edge cases and grand questions of mind and morality. Are they another instrument of hype?
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Anthony Lydgate @anthonylydgate.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Adapting to the AI era can be stressful. Let our compliance webinar be your guide. AIorDieTrying.com
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Take This Mandatory AI Workplace Training Right Now—or Else
AI could make you redundant. Here’s what you need to know.
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
🎇New package! We know you are confused, angry, invigorated or maybe paralyzed by corporate America's embrace of AI. So we wrote a bunch of stories, made a bunch of videos, added quizzes and made a whole mandatory AI training www.wired.com/story/ai-or-...
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Take This Mandatory AI Workplace Training Right Now—or Else
AI could make you redundant. Here’s what you need to know.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This week on the @wired.com Big Interview podcast, I sat down with Amelia Dimoldenberg -- the host of Chicken Shop Date, a red carpet fixture...and a real control freak, it turns out. (Takes one to know one!) She was delightful, smart, and of course hilarious. Read and listen at the link:
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The Secret to Amelia Dimoldenberg’s Online Superstardom? Control
The host of “Chicken Shop Date” joined WIRED’s “Big Interview” podcast to talk about turning down bad deals, beating the algorithm, and the importance of being over-prepared.
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Anthony Lydgate @anthonylydgate.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Lots of people have suspected AI job screeners of unfairly judging them. Not many have spent six months trying to prove it by reverse-engineering their own AI screener and testing it with 6,000 synthetic applications. Meet Chad. www.wired.com/story/he-cou...
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He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm trashed his job application.
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WIRED @wired.com · 24/04/2026
The master sergeant allegedly used classified intel to profit on the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, marking the first US arrest for insider trading on a prediction market. www.wired.com/story/us-spe...
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US Special Forces Soldier Arrested for Polymarket Bets on Maduro Raid
The master sergeant allegedly used classified intel to profit on the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, marking the first US arrest for insider trading on a prediction market.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Thrilled, honored, and so proud of @wired.com for winning the 2026 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism: "WIRED’s stories were not only groundbreaking; they were singular."
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Inside the DOGE Takeover of the Federal Government
In early 2025, Americans first learned about the takeover of the federal government by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE had been operating under a veil of secrecy, with l...
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Going to be making noise about this story for weeks, I'm afraid. @noahshachtman.bsky.social and @robertsilverman.bsky.social did incredible work documenting stuff that had been reported in fits and starts for years—with precise and shocking new details.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/04/2026
New Yorkers have known for a long time that going to a game or concert at the Garden meant surrendering some privacy. That, as you watched the show, the Garden in a real sense watched you. www.wired.com/story/madiso...
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The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden's Surveillance Machine
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
NEW: Someone hacked the crosswalk announcements in cities in 5 states to make it say messages about politics and tech in the voices of Musk, Zuckerberg, and Trump. @peard33.bsky.social took a deep dive into the vulnerabilities local authorities never imagined: www.wired.com/story/crossw...
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The Dumbest Hack of the Year Exposed a Very Real Problem
Last April, a hacker hijacked crosswalk announcements to mimic Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Records obtained by WIRED reveal how unprepared local authorities were.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
WIRED is doing more hiring! Come be a staff editor and work across our newsroom and with our international editions. Great, dynamic gig, moving quickly so don’t hold off on applying:
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Staff Editor
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
We made @milesklee.bsky.social throw up :(
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I Took RFK Jr.’s Advice and Ate Nothing but High-Protein Foods for a Week
From forcing down chewy, bacon-flavored Man Cereal to vomiting at the office, buying into the MAHA protein craze was a challenging endeavor.
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/04/2026
A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history. www.wired.com/story/border...
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Unmasking the Paramilitary Agents Behind Trump’s Violent Immigration Crackdown
A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Rafael Concepcion built an app to help immigrants avoid ICE raids. Then came death threats. Hacks. An app store ban. He even lost his job. Read @brendankoerner.bsky.social on one man's obsessive mission to resist ICE -- and the incredible personal toll it's taken.
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Opposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life
For months, lone vibe coder Rafael Concepcion has obsessively built tools to counter the federal immigration crackdown—pivoting as he’s been outmatched. He’s also lost his job and become a target.
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Important story from @attackerman.bsky.social about what doctors have seen in Gaza since the ceasefire. The wounds have not healed. www.wired.com/story/gaza-w...
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The Ghosts of Al-Shifa Hospital
Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.
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WIRED @wired.com · 27/03/2026
Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war. www.wired.com/story/gaza-w...
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The Ghosts of Al-Shifa Hospital
Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The hits keep coming! Very happy that Lauren Smiley won a SABEW Best in Business award for her fantastic @wired.com feature on Boeing whistleblowers. Read the story if you haven't:
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The Worst 7 Years in Boeing’s History—and the Man Who Won’t Stop Fighting for Answers
Fatal crashes. A door blowout. Grounded planes. Inside the citizen-led, obsessive campaign to hold Boeing accountable and prevent the next disaster.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Read the rigorously reported story from @peard33.bsky.social on Anduril right here:
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Anduril Wants to Own the Future of War Tech. Mishaps, Delays, and Challenges Abound
From drones to missiles to submarines, the $30.5 billion defense startup wants to transform how the tools of war are made. It’s not all going as planned.
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Anthony Lydgate @anthonylydgate.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
🚨 Lunchtime viewing alert 🚨 WIRED's @peard33.bsky.social, @willknight.bsky.social, and Carla Sertin are about to talk THE WAR MACHINE www.wired.com/story/livest...
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Join Our Livestream: The War Machine
A panel of WIRED experts are dissecting the defense tech industry’s impact on modern warfare. Watch live!
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WIRED @wired.com · 26/03/2026
From drones to missiles to submarines, Anduril wants to transform how the tools of war are made. It’s not all going as planned. www.wired.com/story/anduri...
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Anduril’s Real War Is With Itself
From drones to missiles to submarines, the $30.5 billion defense startup wants to transform how the tools of war are made. It’s not all going as planned.
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WIRED @wired.com · 26/03/2026
From drones to missiles to submarines, the $30.5 billion defense startup wants to transform how the tools of war are made. It’s not all going as planned. www.wired.com/story/anduri...
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Anduril’s Real War Is With Itself
From drones to missiles to submarines, the $30.5 billion defense startup wants to transform how the tools of war are made. It’s not all going as planned.
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This story, from Mahmoud Mushtaha and our friends at Palestine Reporting Lab, is not an easy read. It's about the paralyzing state of not-knowing in Gaza, which also becomes a bureaucratic maze. Access to forensic technology would help at least some of that pain www.wired.com/story/hassan...
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Hassan Took a Bike Ride. Now He's One of the Thousands Missing in Gaza
In a place denied access to basic forensic technology—and where people disappear into Israeli detention—the fate of thousands remains unknown. One of them is an autistic teenager.
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🎇New cover story, new cover package... War Machine. Months ago, we thought we should tell stories of conflict, not knowing, of course, what 2026 would bring
cover image, "The Impossible Search for Gaza's Missing"
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
One day, LinkedIn invites an AI agent to speak to hundreds of employees. The next day, it boots the agent off the slopified platform. Evan Ratliff has a modest proposal www.wired.com/story/linked...
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My AI Agent ‘Cofounder’ Conquered LinkedIn. Then It Got Banned
When social media is constantly pushing people to use AI, why not let AI agents participate?
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Katie Robertson @katierobertson.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
NEW: Wired’s editor Katie Drummond said it added 200k new paid subs last year. She told me: “If you still don’t understand why Wired covers politics, you are either willfully ignorant or a complete idiot.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...
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Wired’s New Editor Doesn’t Care if the Tech Bros Are Mad
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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Finally got to read @mzeff.bsky.social's Claude Code vs. Codex feature in full (his first @wired.com feature!) and it's a banger: "But while Altman makes confident pronouncements from the serenity of pretzel pose, the reality over the past few years has been messier..." www.wired.com/story/openai...
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Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code
Why is the biggest name in AI late to the AI coding revolution?
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