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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.

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.

Revealed Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compounds Enslaved Workforce

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.

Red baseball cap that says 'Make America China Again'

The robotics explosion. The energy revolution. The cultural takeover. It’s everything you wanted for the United States—but done better in China.

A WIRED interpretation of dogs playing poker
The Politics Issue

All Hail the Technocracy

Jim Woodward sitting in his lab

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?