#wired.com. × SignalGate Is Driving the Most US Downloads of Signal Ever. Scandal surrounding the Trump administration’s Signal group chat has led to a landmark week for the encrypted messaging app’s adoption—its “largest US growth moment by a massive margin.”
#Mar.27.2025
#wired.com. × Inside Maye Musk’s Cozy Relationship With China. As Elon Musk continues to expand his political power in the US, his mother has repeatedly traveled to China to speak at events, model for Chinese brands, and promote Tesla.
#Mar.27.2025
#wired.com. × SignalGate Isn’t About Signal. The Trump cabinet’s shocking leak of its plans to bomb Yemen raises myriad confidentiality and legal issues. The security of the encrypted messaging app Signal is not one of them.
#Mar.26.2025
#wired.com. × Trump Officials in Signal Fiasco Attended Secret Mar-a-Lago Dinner Shortly After Celebrating Bombing. Trump officials accidentally invited the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to their Signal group chat. Hours after bombs dropped on Yemen, they partied at a $1-million-per-seat Mar-a-Lago dinner.
#Mar.25.2025
#wired.com. × Using Starlink Wi-Fi in the White House Is a Slippery Slope for US Federal IT. The ad hoc addition to the otherwise tightly controlled White House information environment could create blind spots and security exposures while setting potentially dangerous precedent.
#Mar.24.2025
#wired.com. × The Chaos of NIH Cuts Has Left Early-Career Scientists Scrambling. As graduate programs lose spots and labs face shutdowns following Trump administration cuts to science funding, students and researchers are left to figure out what's next.
#Mar.24.2025
#wired.com. × Trump’s Aggression Sours Europe on US Cloud Giants. Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US. But cutting ties won’t be easy.
#Mar.24.2025
#wired.com. × Elon Musk and Donald Trump Have Chosen Chaos. Elon Musk secured his choke hold on the mechanics of the federal government weeks ago. Along with Donald Trump, he has already standardized chaos across the US.
#Mar.21.2025
#wired.com. × The Trump Administration Wants USAID on the Blockchain. “It feels like a fake technological solution for a problem that doesn’t exist,” says one expert.
#Mar.20.2025
#wired.com. × Donald Trump Held Another Million-Dollar ‘Candlelight’ Dinner—With Elon Musk in Tow. Unlike the previous fundraiser, this event did not appear on President Donald Trump’s official schedule.
#Mar.17.2025
#wired.com. × The Anti-DEI Agenda Is Reprogramming America. President Trump’s anti-DEI playbook doesn’t just affect the makeup of America’s workplaces. It also impacts cultural production. Just ask Netflix’s former head of diversity.
#Mar.14.2025
#wired.com. × Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’. Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.
#Mar.13.2025
#wired.com. × The United States of Elon Musk Inc.. The degree to which Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s interests are intertwined is unprecedented—and ultimately unsustainable.
#Mar.13.2025
#wired.com. × Democrats Demand Answers on DOGE’s Use of AI. Members of the House Oversight Committee sent dozens of requests to federal agencies on Wednesday about their use of AI software—and how Elon Musk could benefit.
#Mar.12.2025
#wired.com. × ‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’. The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.
#Mar.07.2025
#wired.com. × Trump’s ‘Strategic Bitcoin Reserve’ Plan Comes With a Twist. Rather than buy bitcoin directly, Donald Trump’s plan calls for holding the US government’s current bitcoin assets in reserve—and creates a separate stockpile for other crypto coins.
#Mar.07.2025
#wired.com. × DOGE Is the Deep State. A shadowy group of unelected figures reshaping the federal government to their own benefit from the inside? Sounds familiar!
#Mar.06.2025
#wired.com. × DOGE’s $1 Federal Spending Limit Is Straight Out of the Twitter Playbook. On this special episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we talk about Elon Musk’s move to put spending limits on US government employee credit cards, plus how DOGE is embracing AI.
#Mar.05.2025
#wired.com. × Trump Still Considering Tariffs on Taiwanese Chips, Despite $100 Billion TSMC Deal. Enforcing the tariffs on Taiwan would be difficult, and they wouldn’t necessarily be enough to meaningfully increase semiconductor manufacturing in the United States, experts told WIRED.
#Mar.04.2025
#wired.com. × Donald Trump’s Not-So-Strategic Crypto Reserve. When US president Donald Trump picked out a handful of cryptocurrencies for potential inclusion in a national strategic reserve, he sparked a trading frenzy—and questions about who stands to benefit.
#Mar.04.2025
#wired.com. × People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Business leaders are paying as much as $5 million to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1 million apiece to dine with him in a grou
#Mar.04.2025
#wired.com. × A Lethal Mystery Illness Is Spreading in Congo. USAID Cuts Have Slowed the Response. Gutting USAID is already having a devastating impact around the world. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, teams that would normally be racing to identify a fatal sickness are gone.
#Mar.03.2025
#wired.com. × The Trump Administration Is Deprioritizing Russia as a Cyber Threat. Plus: The FBI pins that ByBit theft on North Korea, a malicious app download breaches Disney, spyware targets a priest close to the pope, and more.
#Mar.01.2025
#wired.com. × The US Solar Power Industry Is Trying to Rebrand as MAGA-Friendly. As Donald Trump rages against renewable energy, solar power is being reimagined as a symbol of American “energy dominance.”
#Mar.01.2025
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