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#wired.com. × Zohran Mamdani Just Inherited the NYPD Surveillance State. In addition to affordability, New York City’s mayor-elect will be forced to reckon with the NYPD’s sweeping mass surveillance operations.

#Nov.05.2025 ×

#wired.com. × The CIA Used This Psychic Meditation Program. It’s Never Been More Popular. The Monroe Institute claims its meditations, which have also been used by the US military, help people access different planes of consciousness. Its virtual and in-person retreats are now selling out.

#Nov.05.2025 ×

#wired.com. × Blood Tests for Alzheimer’s Are Here. New diagnostic kits aim to revolutionize early screening of the disease, potentially allowing patients to receive treatments—such as monoclonal antibodies—sooner.

#Nov.05.2025 ×

#wired.com. × FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves. In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

#Nov.04.2025 ×

#wired.com. × A New Type of Opioid Is Killing People in the US, Europe, and Australia. Nitazenes, a class of synthetic drugs 40 times more potent than fentanyl, are steadily becoming more common on both sides of the Atlantic.

#Nov.04.2025 ×

#wired.com. × Premiere: Netflix’s New True Crime Doc Dives Into a Mother’s Mysterious Disappearance. “The Carman Family Deaths,” based on a 2021 WIRED story, chronicles what happened after a son was rescued following a boat accident off the New England coast.

#Nov.04.2025 ×

#wired.com. × The Mathematician Who Tried to Convince the Catholic Church of Two Infinities. In the late 19th century, Georg Cantor believed his new theory could help the Church understand the infinite nature of the divine. He miscalculated.

#Nov.04.2025 ×

#wired.com. × Kara Swisher Would Rather Work for Sam Altman Than Mark Zuckerberg. But ideally, the journalist and podcast host would rather not work for tech CEOs at all.

#Nov.04.2025 ×

#wired.com. × The Inside Story of How Gen Z Toppled Nepal’s Leader and Chose a New One on Discord. The revolution started on social media. It ended with protests, violence, and an online poll to pick the new prime minister.

#Nov.04.2025 ×

#wired.com. × A New Light-Based Cancer Treatment Kills Tumor Cells and Spares Healthy Ones. By combining LED technology and nanomaterials, researchers have created a therapy that eliminates cancer cells using localized heat without damaging healthy tissue.

#Nov.04.2025 ×

#wired.com. × Trump’s CZ Pardon Has the Crypto World Bracing for Impact. The Trump administration has recast Binance founder CZ as a martyr—and his pardon may have unintended consequences for the US crypto industry.

#Nov.03.2025 ×

#wired.com. × OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Deal With Amazon. OpenAI has committed to buying billions of dollars worth of compute from AWS—the latest in a string of major deals brokered by the AI startup.

#Nov.03.2025 ×

#wired.com. × WIRED Roundup: Alpha School, Grokipedia, and Real Estate AI Videos. In this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we run through the top stories of the week and dive into why the promise of a tech-forward school in Texas with software instead of teachers fell apart.

#Nov.03.2025 ×

#wired.com. × An Anarchist’s Conviction Offers a Grim Foreshadowing of Trump’s War on the ‘Left’. As the Trump administration ramps up its targeting of left-leaning people and groups, the prosecution and harsh sentencing of Casey Goonan may provide a glimpse of things to come.

#Nov.03.2025 ×

#wired.com. × Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List. A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arrest

#Nov.03.2025 ×

#wired.com. × Live TV Isn't Dead. These Are the Best Live TV Streaming Services. Live TV is far from dead, but it looks a little bit different these days. These are our favorite services.

#Nov.02.2025 ×

#wired.com. × Here's What Azteca Stadium Will Look Like for the 2026 World Cup. The venue where the first game of the World Cup will be held on June 11 next year is a legendary piece of world soccer history. It's getting a new field, a new roof, and countless modern upgrades.

#Nov.02.2025 ×

#wired.com. × Tech Traveler’s Guide to Austin: Where to Stay, Eat, and Recharge. Skip the tourist traps. Here’s what to do in Austin when you’re on and off the clock.

#Nov.02.2025 ×

#wired.com. × Physicists Create a Thermometer for Measuring ‘Quantumness’. “Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it.

#Nov.02.2025 ×