This story is crazy! The Jim Dolan had a Knicks fan obsessively monitored at games just because she was trans.

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.

Absolutely monster story here from @noahshachtman.bsky.social and @robertsilverman.bsky.social on the surveillance tactics used at MSG. www.wired.com/story/madiso...

The Gamblers Behind One of the Weirdest Cheating Mysteries in Chess Have Been Unmasked In July 1993, a disguised player entered the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia using the name of a mathematician who died in 1957. His real identity remained unknown—until now.

Rarely does @wired.com solve mysteries with book excerpts.

This one, which reveals how a disguised man with a mysterious buzzing bulge calling himself “John von Neumann” played a grandmaster to a draw, is an exception.

It was fun to edit. Hope you enjoy reading it.
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Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own Alex Bores, a former Palantir employee, helped pass one of the country’s toughest AI laws. Now Silicon Valley’s biggest names are trying to stop his rise to Congress.

Alex Bores, a former Palantir employee, helped pass one of the country’s toughest AI laws. Now Silicon Valley’s biggest names are trying to stop his rise to Congress. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

“This kind of marketing seems to be what it takes to cut through the algorithmic noise.”

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Really smart piece from Kate here on prediction markets and tax season

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.

“And how did I feel, physically? In a word, dear reader: unwell.”

www.wired.com/story/i-took...

‘Thank You for Generating With Us!’ Hollywood's AI Acolytes Stay on the Hype Train Star Wars producer Kathleen Kennedy was one of the few skeptics at the Runway AI Summit, where AI was compared to fire and the printing press just a week after Sora’s death.

Kathleen Kennedy says AFI is starting to work AI into the curriculum. She talked about it with the dean and asked:

“How are you going to teach taste?”

Good stuff from @johnsemley3000.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/thank-...

Woke Isn't Back Progressives are dreaming about “Woke 2”—a new political order that rights the wrongs of the Trump administration. Does it have a shot?

Is woke really back??? (no but @milesklee.bsky.social story is still a fun read): www.wired.com/story/the-pr...

Really appreciate this incredible endorsement of @wired.com from @maddow.bsky.social.

The Online Tools That Fueled ‘No Kings’ and the Trump Resistance Social media platforms, collaborative online tools, and encrypted messaging are all helping to power a massive, decentralized resistance to the Trump administration.

Given that there’s another No Kings protest this weekend, I’d like to point you to @davidgilbert.bsky.social’s wonderful @wired.com piece on the online origins of the movement.

www.wired.com/story/techno...

How ‘Handala’ Became the Face of Iran’s Hacker Counterattacks Amid a paralyzing breach of medical tech firm Stryker, the group has come to represent Iran's use of “hacktivism” as cover for chaotic, retaliatory state-sponsored cyberattacks.

Given the news that Iranian hacker group Handala breached FBI director Kash Patel's personal email, here's our profile from earlier this month of the group, which despite its hacktivist rhetoric is widely believed to be a front for Iranian intelligence. www.wired.com/story/handal...

How to Win a Fight These days it feels like the next fight is always just around the corner. What matters is picking your battles—and knowing how to win.

This piece was part of a series @wired.com did on the big fights of our time. It’s got some additional tools—and a zine!—if you’re looking for info on how to protest safely and avoid surveillance. Check it out here:

www.wired.com/how-to-win-a...

The Online Tools That Fueled ‘No Kings’ and the Trump Resistance Social media platforms, collaborative online tools, and encrypted messaging are all helping to power a massive, decentralized resistance to the Trump administration.

Given that there’s another No Kings protest this weekend, I’d like to point you to @davidgilbert.bsky.social’s wonderful @wired.com piece on the online origins of the movement.

www.wired.com/story/techno...

The End of Handwriting For years, smartphones and computers have threatened to erase writing by hand. Would that be so bad?

Since the cursive discourse is back I’m going to go ahead and tap the sign.

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

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.

“The war is not over. The casualties are not the way they were before. They’re isolated incidents, but they’re still happening.”

Important story from @attackerman.bsky.social today on what doctors are seeing in Gaza.

www.wired.com/story/gaza-w...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

Arm Is Now Making Its Own Chips The chip design firm says Meta, OpenAI, Cerebras, and Cloudflare are among the first customers of its new artificial intelligence hardware.

Huge news in chip world: ARM is now making its own chips www.wired.com/story/chip-d...

Chris Hayes Has Some Advice for Keeping Up With the News The host of MS Now’s “All In,” knows how hard it is to stay current. But he also knows where you should focus your attention—and it starts with a sober view of AI.

If you, like me, spend a lot of time thinking about how hard it is to get people to pay attention to what’s happening in the world then this conversation between @chrislhayes.bsky.social and @katie-drummond.bsky.social is for you.

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

The death stranding of the video game industry Read to the end for The Peg

The Epic layoffs today are another sign of the same reason we're all talking about DLSS 5. The video game industry is showing signs of a mass extinction - a death stranding, so to speak.

I wrote about it last week:
www.garbageday.email/p/the-death-...

Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy Attachment to smart devices and biometric surveillance leaves Americans more vulnerable to police searches than ever. Left unchecked it will only get worse.

Another exciting—and slightly terrifying—book excerpt on @wired.com today: A chapter from
@profferguson.bsky.social’s new book ‘Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance’. Read it here.

www.wired.com/story/book-e...

The Rise of the Ray-Ban Meta Creep Between pickup artists and juvenile pranksters, the wearable device is becoming associated with pests of all kinds.

NEW: from pickup artists filming drunk women to pranks on retail workers, @milesklee.bsky.social looked at how Meta Ray-Bans are making annoying men everyone's problem: www.wired.com/story/the-ri...

Polymarket’s Coming-Out Party in Washington Was a Disaster At the Polymarket pop-up in DC, attendees were supposed to be able to bet on geopolitical crises in real time with their friends. That didn’t happen.

“Girl, when will we ever be in the Polymarket bar eating pizza again?”

www.wired.com/story/polyma...

ICE Invades Airports Across the US Agents from ICE are being deployed to over a dozen airports around the country, including New York, Atlanta, and Chicago.

We talked to eyewitnesses about the ICE takeover of American airports:

If you see anything at a US airport today, please reach out to Tori.

Meet the Gods of AI Warfare In its early days, the AI initiative known as Project Maven had its fair share of skeptics at the Pentagon. Today, many of them are true believers.

We have a great excerpt from Katrina Manson’s ‘Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare’ on @wired.com today. It’s a must-read if you’re interested in AI’s use in war.

www.wired.com/story/projec...

US Takes Down Botnets Used in Record-Breaking Cyberattacks The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had used clever techniques to worm into home networks, infecting more than 3 million devices in total, according to the US Justice Department.

Feds just took down 4 botnets, including the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets that carried out record-breaking DDOS attacks peaking at 30+ terabits per second, nearly three times the previous record. DOJ says the botnets had hijacked more than three million devices. www.wired.com/story/us-tak...