A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, hooded, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge.

“They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

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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...

Thrilled that Wired's newsroom has been honored for our DOGE reporting with a Hillman Prize for magazine journalism! www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...

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.

ICYMI: On Friday we published a story from @noahshachtman.bsky.social and @robertsilverman.bsky.social about the surveillance practices of Jim Dolan's Madison Square Garden. We are talking logging when someone orders a drink, goes to the bathroom (and for how long)... www.wired.com/story/madiso...

Trump Loosens Restrictions on Psychedelic Drugs

good! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale A PR firm is running a strange AI-fueled plagiarism mill that's ripping off — and mangling — a huge amount of local and national reporting.

NEW: A PR company is operating a bizarre fake news site that's plagiarizing original journalism at a massive scale -- all while spewing misinformation, publishing hallucinated quotes, and replacing real people’s names with “Jane Doe.”

Also: it misquotes the Pope.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

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.

NEW: 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.

read @telliotter.bsky.social:

Selig comes out saying that "the full force of the law" will come to bear on people insider trading on prediction markets. Would probably be more compelling if there was ANY Iran market insider trading investigation to point to as an example.

Hearings | House Agriculture Committee

Watching CFTC Michael Selig's congressional testimony. Here's the livestream for anyone interested! agriculture.house.gov/calendar/eve...

i bring a cheapie travel dual voltage blowout brush with a socket converter i bought on amazon because it takes less space in my bag

Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat "I wake up every day and I'm like, <i>this is the world. I'm still in the fever dream.</i>”

Loved talking to @knibbs.bsky.social and @dustingouker.bsky.social about the chaotic, fascinating, maddening work of reporting on prediction markets!

www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/pred...

Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat "I wake up every day and I'm like, <i>this is the world. I'm still in the fever dream.</i>”

Was delighted to speak with @neeldhanesha.com from @niemanlab.org about the prediction market beat! www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/pred...

MAJOR UPDATE: I found the best free restaurant bread in the United States www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Here's the full paper: ai-on-the-internet.github.io/ai-on-the-in...

The sample examined came from 2022-2025

AI Slop Is Making the Internet Fake-Happy A new study examines the impact of the rise of AI-generated websites on the internet—and found some surprising results.

We have lots of anecdotal evidence about what AI does to the internet. Now we're seeing a new wave of research, including a new paper from Stanford and the Internet Archive that puts the number of AI websites at around 35%—and draws some surprising conclusions: www.wired.com/story/ai-slo...

This week is making me think… nvm Woke 2…. we are at the beginning of Me Too Again

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.

Internal emails obtained by @wired.com reveal that one conservative legal group got direct access to FCC leadership to escalate complaints -- namely about Jimmy Kimmel -- sidestepping the standard FCC process:

Thanks @knibbs.bsky.social for the shout!

Earlier this year, @hanaatameez.bsky.social and I broke the story that major news publishers were blocking the Wayback Machine. Wired with a follow-up this week on the journalists and digital rights orgs pushing back against the decision.

ProPublica journalists walk off the job in first U.S. newsroom strike over AI On the picket line in New York, union leaders said they expect "more concentrated conflicts" over AI in the news industry.

Nieman Lab is doing such strong coverage of AI's impact on media. Here's Andrew from earlier this month on how AI factored into ProPublica's strike: www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/prop...

So glad this story is gaining traction & wanted to highlight that @andrewdeck.bsky.social at @niemanlab.org broke the news that NYT/Guardian/USA Today were blocking IA earlier this year. Encourage all to read: www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...

Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.

'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Staunch Trump Supporters Are Now Asking If He's the Antichrist The Iran war and a series of social media posts, including one depicting Trump as Jesus Christ, have some conservative commentators and fans suspecting the president may be the antichrist.

NEW: Before you turn to your pile of Jack T. Chick comics, read @makenakelly.bsky.social and @davidgilbert.bsky.social to catch up on what's going on in the discourse

Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

The people and protocols that held the line in 2020 are gone. In their place are two dozen political appointees in positions that could affect elections: 10 who actively worked to reverse the 2020 vote, and the rest who are associates of such people.

FULL STORY: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Not just journalists, but lawyers as well. It’s so reliable that courts will judicially notice its content without hesitation. I’ve used WM captures to defeat motions over personal jurisdiction, establish the popularity of streaming media over time to calculate copyright damages, and so much more.

link rot has slowly but surely dissolved away probably 70% to 80% of every cool piece of work i ever did, every interview about it, every blog, every audio recording, just boom gone and now the time magazine link to that thing i discovered in 2008 redirects to an article about jam

It’s true — a catalogue of the internet as it was, and not as it is constantly being re-edited, deleted, paywalled, etc is an invaluable tool.

Huge archives of articles and data have disappeared from the internet in the last few years. Keeping the internet archive is critical.

There has to be some interesting philosophy about how the Internet is both forever, and also a remarkably fragile storage medium for knowledge and history.

As a bookbinder i think about archives and information preservation a lot. Lately, ive been quietly freaking out about how much cultural information only exists digitally and can/will blip out of existence due to negligence, apathy and tech advancements. Losing the Wayback Machine would be awful