It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:

UK world’s worst for letting fossil fuel companies drill in nature… New investigation reveals vast global overlap between drilling permits and cherished sites crucial for nature

More great work from @tbij.bsky.social

www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

Ford's Answer to China: A Completely New Way of Making Cars The American automaker is spending billions on a radical reinvention of EV manufacturing, aimed squarely at taking on Chinese competition and Tesla.

Ford says the new method of manufacturing will be 40 percent faster than the existing process and will need 20 percent less parts.

www.wired.com/story/fords-...

Psychedelic Therapy Crashed and Burned. MAHA Might Bring It Back Abuse allegations and infighting helped kill a campaign to legalize MDMA for medical use. Trumpworld is giving the therapy’s advocates hope for a second shot.

Could the psychedelic world’s new Trumpworld allies be the ones who finally help it achieve its goal?

www.wired.com/story/psyche...

Mark Zuckerberg Is Expanding His Secretive Hawaii Compound. Part of It Sits Atop a Burial Ground Meta’s CEO has become one of the biggest landowners in Hawaii, growing his property’s footprint and erecting new mysterious buildings.

Zuckerberg has quietly expanded his footprint on Hawaii with a massive new land purchase.

www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

According to NASA, the annual rate of increase in global sea levels has doubled since 1993. Sadly, we're going to see more of this.
www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

Today, we're launching a new, improved subscription to give our fans more of the @wired.com they love. It includes:

- Five exclusive, subscriber-only newsletters

- Livestreams to connect with our journalists

- A new commenting experience + more

It's been a remarkable year so far. A look back: 🧵

Ross Ulbricht Got a $31 Million Donation From a Dark Web Dealer, Crypto Tracers Suspect Crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis says the mysterious 300-bitcoin donation to the pardoned Silk Road creator appears to have come from someone associated with a different defunct black market: AlphaBay.

When Ross Ulbricht received a mystery $31 million bitcoin donation Saturday, some guessed he was sending himself old Silk Road profits.

Crypto tracers now tell me they suspect a much stranger source for the money: a vendor from the defunct dark web market AlphaBay. www.wired.com/story/ross-u...

DeepSeek and chip bans have supercharged AI innovation in China Investors believe practical AI applications will fuel the next wave of growth, with startups building on top of DeepSeek’s foundation.

Export control constraints don't appear to be damaging the ability of Chinese AI labs to produce frontier models.

restofworld.org/2025/china-a...

8) And this one is important.

For all the talk about the powerful pro-Trump media ecosystem, the share of Americans who have heard negative business news coverage of the government has exploded.

Evidently even the podcast bros can’t distract Americans from the realities of the stock market.

The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.

Distract yourself from the global market meltdown with this terrific @wired.com piece from @amitkatwala.bsky.social about another potential form of global meltdown.

www.wired.com/story/q-day-...

Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March Foreign travel into the U.S. tumbled in mid-to-late March compared to the same time last year.

Have heard a lot of anecdotal evidence of this, but here it is backed up by data.
www.axios.com/2025/04/04/f...

There are now only two occasions in recent financial history where the S&P 500 sold off more sharply in two days than it has since the US tariff announcements - the peak of Covid panic in March 2020, and a cluster of occasions during the very worst moments of the global financial crisis in 2008

I Went Undercover in Crypto’s Answer to ‘Squid Game.’ It Nearly Broke Me I spent 10 days competing in Crypto: The Game, a winner-takes-all contest where hundreds of players try to finesse and backstab their way to claiming a $140,000 cryptocurrency prize.

Great piece from @joelkhalili.bsky.social on his attempt to win a crypto Hunger Games.

www.wired.com/story/crypto...

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Putting this right at the tip top of my list of 2025 stories I'm extremely jealous of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.

AI is stealing the headlines, but the quantum arms race is no less frantic and high-stakes, by @amitkatwala.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/q-day-...

The Art of the Perfect Nap Done wisely, naps can be a valuable way to boost your focus and energy. A sleep researcher explains how to get it right.

It’s Sunday. You deserve it.

www.wired.com/story/the-ar...

some big personal news! next week i'm coming on board at @wired.com to cover all things climate, energy, & environment. i'm pinching myself that i get to join this unbelievable team of journalists who are doing absolutely incredible work — i'm so excited to dive in.

Delighted to announce Phare Bio as the winner of the @wired.com Health startup competition! Many congratulations to Dr Akhila Kosaraju and the team who are using generative AI to find novel antibiotics.

Again, hard to overstate what a massive resource WIRED is at this point in history.

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

So @WIRED is removing paywalls for our reporting based on freedom of information requests. We’re a for-profit media outlet, but we’ve decided to strike a balance between business and public interest.

freedom.press/issues/wired...

Meta Tries to Bury a Tell-All Book Mark Zuckerberg might be in his post-fact-checking-era. But that hasn’t stopped Meta from going after the author of Careless People.

Nothing helps sales like trying to ban a book. Smooth move.

www.wired.com/story/plaint...

Great to bump into my old chum @gregwilliams718.bsky.social, Deputy Global Editorial Director of @wired.
Great to bump into my old chum @gregjw1, Deputy Global Editorial Director of
@wired.com, at brilliant #wiredhealth brilliant #wiredhealth!

Ready to go at the @wired.com Health event at King’s Place. Some stellar sessions coming: Dame Sally Davies on antimicrobial resistance, Daphne Koller will make an announcement on machine learning and drug discovery, Steve Horvath on biological aging + @reidhoffman.bsky.social on his new AI startup.

A nonsensical threat to:
One of the most important advances in biotechnology of our time, already being used to successfully treat refractory cancers, enable genome editing, develop vaccines for infectious diseases for which there are none, treat autoimmune diseases, and more.

Paul Deegan warns U.S.-Canada trade war threatens local news media on both sides of the border - Editor and Publisher As tensions rise between the United States and Canada over tariffs, newspapers on both sides of the border are feeling the strain. Paul Deegan, CEO of News Media Canada, joined E&P Reports to discuss ...

CEO of News Media Canada Paul Deegan has warned that Trump tariffs between US and Canada threaten news industry because newsprint is imported from Canada while ink heads north from the US www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/paul...

Opinion | It Isn’t Just Trump. America’s Whole Reputation Is Shot. What happens when a superpower goes rogue.

“The Chinese have many advantages, but until recently America had the decisive one — we had more friends around the world. Unfortunately, over the last month and a half, America has smashed a lot of those relationships to smithereens.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...

I tested it, because it seemed so craven, grotesque, and absurd, but if you put in the original URL it changes to the "DEI" version automatically.
www.defense.gov/News/Feature...

Harry Potter and the unpaid tax bill A London Centric investigation reveals one of the capital's most garish gift shops owes hundreds of thousands of pounds in unpaid taxes — and uncovers its mysterious owners.

Really enjoying the reporting from @londoncentric.media

London deserves a media outlet worthy of a complex and fascinating global city. At last it has it. So great to see local journalism of this calibre. Kudos to @jim.londoncentric.media

www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...

Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’ Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

You know all that great reporting that @wired.com has been doing about DOGE? There’s more…

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...