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SignalGate Isn’t About Signal

Off Target

SignalGate Isn’t About Signal

Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman

Inside DOGE’s Plan to Invade the Treasury—and Throttle USAID

Takeover

Inside DOGE’s Plan to Invade the Treasury—and Throttle USAID

Vittoria Elliott and Matt Giles

A New Social Media App Punishes Users for Rage-Baiting

Social Media

A New Social Media App Punishes Users for Rage-Baiting

Jason Parham

Beneath Greenland’s Ice Lies a Climate Solution—and a New Geopolitical Battleground

Rare Earth

Beneath Greenland’s Ice Lies a Climate Solution—and a New Geopolitical Battleground

Matt Simon

Trump Admin Plans to Cut Team Responsible for Critical Atomic Measurement Data

Trump 2.0

Trump Admin Plans to Cut Team Responsible for Critical Atomic Measurement Data

Louise Matsakis and Will Knight

Trump Officials in Signal Fiasco Attended Secret Mar-a-Lago Dinner Shortly After Celebrating Bombing

Trump 2.0

Trump Officials in Signal Fiasco Attended Secret Mar-a-Lago Dinner Shortly After Celebrating Bombing

Leah Feiger, Jake Lahut, Zoë Schiffer, and Tim Marchman

Using Starlink Wi-Fi in the White House Is a Slippery Slope for US Federal IT

Logging On

Using Starlink Wi-Fi in the White House Is a Slippery Slope for US Federal IT

Lily Hay Newman

The FBI Is Investigating Attacks on Tesla as ‘Domestic Terrorism.’ Here’s Why That Matters

Watchful Gaze

The FBI Is Investigating Attacks on Tesla as ‘Domestic Terrorism.’ Here’s Why That Matters

Caroline Haskins

Elon Musk and Donald Trump Have Chosen Chaos

WIRED Politics Lab

Elon Musk and Donald Trump Have Chosen Chaos

Brian Barrett

Researchers Rush to Save US Government Data on Trans Youth—Before It Disappears

Public Health

Researchers Rush to Save US Government Data on Trans Youth—Before It Disappears

Angela Watercutter

‘We Don’t Want an AI Demo, We Want Answers’: Federal Workers Grill Trump Appointee During All-Hands

Takeover

‘We Don’t Want an AI Demo, We Want Answers’: Federal Workers Grill Trump Appointee During All-Hands

Zoë Schiffer

DOGE Is Doing the Opposite of Government Auditing

Uncanny Valley

DOGE Is Doing the Opposite of Government Auditing

Katie Drummond and Vittoria Elliott

DOGE’s Dodgy Numbers Employ a Tesla Technique

Juke Box

DOGE’s Dodgy Numbers Employ a Tesla Technique

Aarian Marshall

‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE

Takeover

‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE

Vittoria Elliott

Donald Trump Held Another Million-Dollar ‘Candlelight’ Dinner—With Elon Musk in Tow

Pay to Play

Donald Trump Held Another Million-Dollar ‘Candlelight’ Dinner—With Elon Musk in Tow

Leah Feiger and Zoë Schiffer

The Anti-DEI Agenda Is Reprogramming America

Digital Culture

The Anti-DEI Agenda Is Reprogramming America

Jason Parham

Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models

Change of Plan

Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models

Will Knight

These Are the 10 DOGE Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration

Takeover

These Are the 10 DOGE Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration

Makena Kelly and David Gilbert

Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’

Takeover

Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’

Makena Kelly, David Gilbert, Vittoria Elliott, Kate Knibbs, Dhruv Mehrotra, Dell Cameron, Tim Marchman, Leah Feiger, and Zoë Schiffer

‘People Are Scared’: Inside CISA as It Reels From Trump’s Purge

Brute Force

‘People Are Scared’: Inside CISA as It Reels From Trump’s Purge

Eric Geller