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.

“Behind the scenes, the atmosphere is so rooted in paranoia that former Knicks players warn one another about rooms being bugged, and staffers worry about being watched when they go out to local bars.”

an instant @wired.com classic www.wired.com/story/madiso...

"What is it about Zendaya that compels certain filmmakers—and, there’s no way around it, certain white male filmmakers—to pelt her with gobs of unexplored trauma? Do they think suffering looks good on her?" www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century The justices again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color.

Regardless of how tomorrow goes i’m not sure any predictive piece i’ve written has aged as well as this one www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Jaden Ivey Lost His Mind And Then His Job | Defector In the first of the recent rambling Instagram Live sermons that got him fired by the Chicago Bulls, Jaden Ivey hunts through a Bible for passages to share with his followers. He evidently did not do t...

“Ivey is in the final weeks of an expiring contract, is injured, and simply is not good or valuable enough to get away with being exhausting. And it is fucking exhausting to be around this sort of person.” defector.com/jaden-ivey-l...

The Comedy Club at the End of the Metaverse “This is my home”: At a VR comedy club in Horizon Worlds, users mourn Meta's plans for the platform.

"Surely there is a version of this that people can get right. There could have been something to this. Something that lets humans connect, laugh, and have a space if they have nowhere else, without getting lost in the darkness"

amazing dispatch from @boone.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/the-la...

The Government’s Shittiest Website For more than 30 years, the US Postal Service has sent people who need to change their addresses to MyMove. Experts say the site uses dark patterns to trap visitors in an online purgatory of “deals.”

NEW: This one's for anybody who has been subjected to the infernal nightmare that is MyMove. @toddfeathers.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/the-go...

‘She’s Never Going to Age’: Porn Stars Are Embracing AI Clones to Stay Forever Young AI companion platforms like OhChat and SinfulX are offering adult creators digital twins, who are always at their peak and stay monetizing.

New: @jasooooon.bsky.social talked to aging porn stars who are embracing AI clones to keep themselves young forever, and others who use them to talk to men while they're sleeping and perform sex acts they wouldn't do: www.wired.com/story/shes-n...

The Blurred Truths of Sora Many will assume that OpenAI’s Sora app represents a new era of social media. But that’s wrong—all it does is reanimate our current one.

"Across social media, people have expressed that Sora is yet another example of techies manufacturing supply when there isn’t even a demand."

r.i.p. sora lol

from 2025: www.wired.com/story/the-bl...

"The organization created a Voting Registration Committee to 'study and watch the negro voting activity' and an Intelligence Committee to 'keep accurate and indexed information on people, places and cars.'”

Surveillance to achieve white supremacist ends used to be analog. Now it's enabled by tech.

Feeld Was a Dating App for the Freaks. Now Some People Call It ‘Normie Hell’ The app that catered to unconventional kinks is gaining steam among daters with vanilla preferences—and some aren’t happy about it.

Definitely didn't expect @jasooooon.bsky.social's Feeld being overrun by vanillas story to start with an ICE officer on the app: www.wired.com/story/feeld-...

the consolidation of major media institutions by the president’s oligarch friends is obviously bad, but i do wonder about the ultimate impact. it is clear that trump and his allies believe that you can buy up media and pull an orban or a putin. but…

I'm so proud of the entire @wired.com team for four ASME nominations, including General Excellence. The most nominations for WIRED in at least a decade! Everyone here earned all of this and more, so today we brag!

Who’s Your Daddy? A Chatbot More people are turning to AI to explore their BDSM fantasies, but some in the community feel it’s a cop-out.

"Whether dom or sub, the debates often circle the same questions: Can a machine really create the desired dynamic? Can there be a real power exchange with no genuine emotion?"

spoke to some folks in the bdsm world for my latest @wired.com dispatch www.wired.com/story/whos-y...

I love how nosy the reporters at Wired are

www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

Everyone Speaks Incel Now After migrating from misogynist forums to social media feeds, terms like “looksmaxxing” and “mogged” are now impossible to avoid.

this week alone, I got several pitches about "proteinmaxxing." Read @milesklee.bsky.social on the widespread adoption of incel speak: www.wired.com/story/everyo...

Opinion | Christians Against Empathy Aren’t Who They Think They Are

“But then many in MAGA decided that cruelty was a virtue, decency a vice, and — worst of all — that empathy was a sin. Now we live in the harsh new world they made.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/o...

How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

I don’t think I’ve ever had so many people writing to me to ask about encrypted/secure/private tools for comms, collaboration, and organizing. So @lhn.bsky.social and I talked to experts and assembled this: the Wired guide to organizing in an age of surveillance. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Inside the App Where Queer Gooners Run Free In light of Zoom crackdowns and Skype shutting down, Batemates has emerged as an alternative for “bators” who like masturbating together online.

wrote about @batematesapp.bsky.social in my latest dispatch for @wired.com

"All the corporate tools were just banning us [and] I was really upset about the hypocrisy of the situation, especially when this is something everybody does.” www.wired.com/story/inside...

DAME TIME

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

Melania Won’t Be Remembered for What She Wore The First Lady’s documentary reveals how she uses her image to deflect from her complicity.

"Melania is not only terrible, it’s also frustrating—but not because it’s technically incompetent, visually unappealing, or even boring. It’s frustratingly facile, an insult to self-awareness and a dead-eyed rebuke to irony."

robin givhan doesn't miss! www.thecut.com/article/mela...

An ‘Intimacy Crisis’ Is Driving the Dating Divide In his book “The Intimate Animal,” sex and relationships researcher Justin Garcia says people have miscalculated their need for human intimacy, which is the real issue at the root of the loneliness ep...

"We’ve screwed up a whole generation of people with this idea that you need to overly self-actualize before you can be in a relationship." www.wired.com/story/justin...

I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren't Allowed I went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies.

another @thiccreese.bsky.social banger www.wired.com/story/i-infi...

Republicans Are All In on Boosting Fraud Allegations in California Right-wing influencers who were instrumental in spreading allegations of fraud in Minnesota ahead of ICE’s surge are now going after a number of California’s social welfare programs.

"right-wing creators ... have been going after a number of California’s social welfare programs, making unsubstantiated accusations of fraud—and potentially laying the groundwork for a similar federal crackdown in the nation’s largest Democrat-run state." www.wired.com/story/republ...

The Trump Administration Arrested Don Lemon Like He Was a Fugitive Slave Lemon’s arrest is not only a clear violation of the First Amendment but a blatant throwback to the Constitution’s long-discarded Fugitive Slave Clause.

Here’s my @thenation.com post on the arrest of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, the violation of the First Amendment, and Trump’s ongoing attempts to change the face of his victims and spark a race war.

"The videos, which have millions of views on Facebook and Instagram, offer a blend of revisionist justice that imagines a digital multiverse where the ICE agents are just like us: not above the rule of law."

truly a man of the people

Age Verification Is Reaching a Global Tipping Point. Is TikTok’s Strategy a Good Compromise? TikTok’s new age-detection tech seems like a better solution than automatically banning youth accounts. But experts say it still requires social platforms to surveil users more closely.

“Unless something dramatically changes, regulators around the globe are building a legal infrastructure that will require most websites and apps to be age-authenticated.” www.wired.com/story/age-ve...

‘I’m Witnessing a Lot of Emptiness’: How ICE Uprooted Normal Life in Minneapolis WIRED talks to a postal worker, a teacher, two US citizens detained by federal agents, and six more Minnesota residents about life in an occupied American city.

the war is at home www.wired.com/story/how-ic...