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Bearing Witness
ICE Quietly Scales Back Rules for Courthouse Raids
A requirement that ICE agents ensure courthouse arrests don’t clash with state and local laws has been rescinded by the agency. ICE declined to explain what that means for future enforcement.
Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron
Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.
Kate Knibbs
Bill Gates Traumatized His Parents—and Other Stories of a Wild, Wonky Youth
Terrorizing classmates, spending a night in jail, tripping on LSD: This isn’t the Bill Gates you know.
Steven Levy
Under Trump, US Cyberdefense Loses Its Head
Chinese hacks, rampant ransomware, and Donald Trump’s budget cuts all threaten US security. In an exit interview with WIRED, former CISA head Jen Easterly argues for her agency’s survival.
Lily Hay Newman
This Is Not Another Boring Q&A
Mind-melds with freaks and geeks and bigwigs and rock stars—literal and figurative. Welcome to The Big Interview.
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Find My Murderers
3 Teens Almost Got Away With Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches
Raksha Vasudevan
Everything’s Computer
If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born
Steven Levy
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
MAX IMPACT
The Worst 7 Years in Boeing’s History—and the Man Who Won’t Stop Fighting for Answers
Lauren Smiley
dirty deals
This Russian Tech Bro Helped Steal $93 Million and Landed in US Prison. Then Putin Called
Noah Shachtman