They Built a Legendary Privacy Tool. Now They’re Sworn Enemies There’s a lot of love all over the world for GrapheneOS, the gold standard of mobile security. There’s very little love between the two guys at the center of its history.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Stepping Down John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, will replace Cook as CEO on September 1. Cook will stay on as executive chairman.

NEWS: Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO. Apple svp of hardware engineering John Ternus will take on the CEO role starting in Sept. @peard33.bsky.social and I break down Cook's career, his wins, his losses, his legacy as CEO, and what this big change means for Apple www.wired.com/story/tim-co...

Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now WIRED tracked down some of the most prominent figures of last year’s DOGE invasion. Here's where they are now—in government and beyond.

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The Battle for OpenAI’s Soul In Musk v. Altman, a jury will soon determine whether OpenAI has strayed from its founding mission to ensure AGI benefits humanity. Here’s what to know.

In Musk v. Altman, a jury will soon determine whether OpenAI has strayed from its founding mission to ensure AGI benefits humanity. Here’s what to know.

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Labor Dept. Investigates Texts Among Secretary’s Family and Staff

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Inside Messy, Fast-Growing Mercor, Run By Youngest-Ever Self-Made Billionaires Founded in 2023 by 20-somethings, data labeling startup Mercor exploded to $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate earlier this year. Now it's confronting a wave of challenges, including an employee...

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The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trump’s Media Critics Internal emails obtained by WIRED reveal how a conservative legal group with a direct line into FCC chairman Brendan Carr’s office built the case against Jimmy Kimmel and his employees.

NEW: Emails obtained by @wired.com show how a small conservative group was instrumental in FCC chair Brendan Carr's actions against Jimmy Kimmel. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA: www.wired.com/story/the-fc...

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit “This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”

Is the California attorney general or privacy protection agency going to do anything about it?
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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.

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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In Seattle, activists inside tech giants are leaning into grassroots fundraising and peer support as petitions and protests draw little response from executives.

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Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation www.axios.com/2026/04/09/m...

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Anthropic Supply-Chain Risk Label Should Stay In Place, Appeals Court Says The AI company now faces conflicting rulings in its fight over how Claude can be used by the US military.

The panel said that while Anthropic may suffer financial harm from the ongoing supply-chain risk designation, they did not want to risk “a substantial judicial imposition on military operations” or “lightly override” the military’s judgements on national security.

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5 Burning Questions About Elon Musk’s Terafab Chip Partnership with Intel Intel’s role in Elon Musk’s ambitious chip venture is still murky, raising questions about what the partnership actually entails—and whether it can work at all.

Here are five outstanding questions about how Intel’s involvement could affect Terafab’s chances of success.
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Nobody Knows How to File Taxes on Prediction Market Wins Americans flocked to prediction markets last year. Now, it’s time to pay taxes on winnings. How do you do that? Great question.

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#146 in Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of War (N.D. Cal., 3:26-cv-01996) – CourtListener.com STATUS REPORT by Paul S. Atkins, Scott Bessent, Frank J. Bisigano, Mary Anne Carter, Douglas A. Collins, Executive Office of the President, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Federal Reserve Board of Gov...

Anthropic is back in business across the federal government after winning a preliminary injunction. Curious to hear whether government workers are actually using it again though. Reach out to me!

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Border Patrol Agents Sold Challenge Coins With ‘Charlotte’s Web’ Characters in Riot Gear Nonprofits run out of US Border Patrol stations are also selling other “operation”-themed coins that include a phrase popularized by the Proud Boys, potentially in violation of government rules.

NEW: I found IRS paperwork for several nonprofits whose addresses matched Border Patrol stations. Some of the groups, named after the military's "morale, welfare, and recreation" program, were selling challenge coins commemorating last year's enforcement surges: www.wired.com/story/us-bor...

The Ridiculously Nerdy Intel Bet That Could Rake in Billions Advanced chip packaging is suddenly at the center of the AI boom. Intel is going all in.

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Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models.

NEW: Hacks impacting AI data-training startup Mercor resulted in Meta pausing its projects with the company indefinitely. Maxwell Zeff, @zoeschiffer.bsky.social & @lhn.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-p...

Bytes: Week in Review - SpaceX's IPO, Iran threatens U.S. tech firms and California's new AI executive order Paresh Dave, senior writer at WIRED, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

Vidcast: my thoughts on three top stories this week

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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.

A box of Protein Boostin’ Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop-Tarts and a package of Kodiak Cakes’ “protein-packed” French toast sticks have slightly less than Special K with milk.

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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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Pioneer Female Referee Sues NFL Over "Humiliation and Open Hostility" One of the NFL's first female referees has decided to sue the league after facing humiliation and open hostility throughout her career.

The NFL has (another) woman problem. The league’s third female official was fired after 3 years but alleges the man who evaluated her performance was also harassing and humiliating her. VERY INTERESTED TO HEAR THE RESPONSE FROM THE NFL REFEREES ASSOCIATION. www.essentiallysports.com/nfl-active-n...

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.

elegant, important pieces like this -- at WIRED -- show that the glory days of american magazine writing are not behind us:

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California Suspends Enforcement of Law Requiring VCs to Report Diversity Data After investors appealed to the governor, California again delayed the deadline for venture firms to disclose the demographics of startup founders they back.

After investors appealed to the governor, California again delayed the deadline for venture firms to disclose the demographics of startup founders they back.

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Impossible Works: The Book of 3D Printed Art A museum-quality art book documenting the most extraordinary objects ever created through 3D printing, now seeking its first printing.

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The IRS Wants Smarter Audits. Palantir Could Help Decide Who Gets Flagged Documents show the tax agency is testing a Palantir tool to surface “highest-value” audit and investigation targets from a maze of legacy systems.

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