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A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.
A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its operations in unprecedented detail.
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
An airline’s boarding policy shake-up shows the limits of efficiency. (Spoiler: It’s money.)
The technical failure coincided with TikTok’s ownership transition, leading users to question whether videos criticizing ICE raids in Minnesota were being intentionally censored.
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Why Minnesota Can’t Do More to Stop ICE
Democratic lawmakers have few options that wouldn’t trigger something like civil war.
We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower
With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.
You’ve Never Heard of China’s Greatest Sci-Fi Novel
Your First Humanoid Robot Coworker Will Probably Be Chinese
The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up
A research paper suggests AI agents are mathematically doomed to fail. The industry doesn’t agree.
How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic
23 Ways You’re Already Living in the Chinese Century
The robotics explosion. The energy revolution. The cultural takeover. It’s everything you wanted for the United States—but done better in China.
The Greatest Successes and Worst Flameouts of 2025
AI of a Thousand Faces
All Hail the Technocracy
WIRED Takes You Back to School
One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia
Originally published September 2021: Ksenia Coffman’s fellow editors have called her a vandal and a McCarthyist. She just wants them to stop glorifying fascists—and start citing better sources.
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A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part I
