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ICE has been using an AI-powered Palantir system to summarize tips sent to its tip line since last spring, according to a newly released Homeland Security document.
The State Department is poised to take over a building DOGE seized from the US Institute of Peace, former staffers claim—possibly for Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace.”
Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.

The Best Open Earbuds for Everyone

The Surface Laptop Is $400 Off
Minnesota ICE Shooting
Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.

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.

Why Minnesota Can’t Do More to Stop ICE

We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower

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

Originally published September 2020: For decades, Jim Woodward dreamed of a propellantless engine to take humans to the stars. Now he thinks he’s got it. But is it revolutionary—or illusory?

One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia
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