#wired.com. What We Know About the Winter Storm About to Hit the US—and What We Don’t. A huge portion of the United States is going to be hit with snow or freezing rain this weekend. Exactly where, what, and how much remains uncertain.
#Jan.21.2026 ×
#wired.com. Surveillance and ICE Are Driving Patients Away From Medical Care, Report Warns. A new EPIC report says data brokers, ad-tech surveillance, and ICE enforcement are among the factors leading to a “health privacy crisis” that is eroding trust and deterring people from seeking care.
#Jan.21.2026 ×
#wired.com. Meta Seeks to Bar Mentions of Mental Health—and Zuckerberg’s Harvard Past—From Child Safety Trial. The trial starts soon in New Mexico’s case against Meta—and the company is pulling out all the stops to protect its reputation.
#Jan.21.2026 ×
#wired.com. The AI Boom Will Increase US Carbon Emissions—but It Doesn’t Have To. A new analysis finds that data centers’ energy demands will drastically increase power plant emissions over the next decade. Renewables, though, could cut them while helping keep prices from rising.
#Jan.21.2026 ×
#wired.com. ICE Details a New Minnesota-Based Detention Network That Spans 5 States. Internal ICE planning documents propose spending up to $50 million on a privately run network capable of shipping immigrants in custody hundreds of miles across the Upper Midwest.
#Jan.20.2026 ×
#wired.com. She Was Given Up by Her Chinese Parents—and Spent 14 Years Trying to Find a Way Back. More and more Chinese adoptees in the US are trying to reunite with their birth parents. For Youxue, it took more than a decade, and a remarkable coincidence.
#Jan.20.2026 ×
#wired.com. 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.
#Jan.20.2026 ×
#bbc.com. Artemis II: Nasa's mega Moon rocket arrives at launch pad. Final preparations now get underway for the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years.
#Jan.18.2026 ×
#nytimes.com. $2 Rental Batteries Are Helping to Power South Africa. The $2 Rental Batteries Helping to Power South Africa
#Jan.17.2026 ×
#wired.com. US Hackers Reportedly Caused a Blackout in Venezuela. Plus: AI reportedly caused ICE to send agents into the field without training, Palantir’s app for targeting immigrants gets exposed, and more.
#Jan.17.2026 ×
#wired.com. The Campaign to Destroy Renee Good. After an ICE agent shot and killed the Minneapolis mother, conservative media launched an all-out attack on her reputation. Her identity as a queer woman was central to it.
#Jan.16.2026 ×
#wired.com. RFK Jr. Says He’s Ending the War on Protein. It Doesn’t Exist. There is no war on protein. But pretending there is goes hand-in-hand with the Trump administration’s appeal to traditional masculinity.
#Jan.16.2026 ×
#wired.com. Elon Musk’s Grok ‘Undressing’ Problem Isn’t Fixed. X has placed more restrictions on Grok’s ability to generate explicit AI images, but tests show that the updates have created a patchwork of limitations that fail to fully address the issue.
#Jan.15.2026 ×
#wired.com. Why ICE Can Kill With Impunity. Over the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed more than two dozen people. Not a single agent appears to have faced criminal charges.
#Jan.15.2026 ×
#wired.com. OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s New Brain-Tech Startup Merge Labs. Merge Labs has emerged from stealth with $252 million in funding from OpenAI and others. It aims to use ultrasound to read from and write to the brain.
#Jan.15.2026 ×
#wired.com. Former CISA Director Jen Easterly Will Lead RSAC Conference. The longtime cybersecurity professional says she’s taking the helm of the legacy security organization at “an inflection point” for tech and the world beyond.
#Jan.15.2026 ×
#bbc.com. Elon Musk's X to block Grok from undressing images of real people. Grok will no longer allow users to remove clothing from images of real people in jurisdictions where it is illegal.
#Jan.14.2026 ×
#bbc.com. Apple turns to Google to power AI upgrade for Siri. Analysts say the deal is likely to be welcomed by consumers - but reflects Apple's failure to develop its own AI tools.
#Jan.13.2026 ×
#wired.com. Trump Declared a Space Race With China. The US Is Losing. If you want to put people back on the moon, don’t gut the agency in charge of getting them there.
#Jan.13.2026 ×
#wired.com. Meta Is Making a Big Bet on Nuclear With Oklo. Meta will finance Oklo’s purchase of uranium for its reactors. It’s a massive vote of confidence for both the startup and nuclear power, but challenges remain.
#Jan.09.2026 ×
#wired.com. The 3 Keys to Understanding Trump’s Retro Coup in Venezuela. This weekend’s invasion was both a throwback to the last century and a new, uniquely Trumpian nightmare—one that’s just beginning.
#Jan.06.2026 ×
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