Anthony Lydgate
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Four-minute miles are almost routine. Middle schoolers are beating college runners. Inside the youth track boom that’s turning kids and teens into speed machines. www.wired.com/story/teenag...
Elite Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to ‘Trackflation’
Four-minute miles are almost routine. Middle schoolers are beating college runners. Inside the youth track boom that’s turning kids and teens into speed machines.
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NEW: Meta's VP of comms claimed the company's NameTag feature "doesn't exist" in response to recent @wired.com reporting about it. Then Meta's CTO described it in detail on a podcast. Here's my attempt to explain 🫠: wired.com/story/heres-the-truth-about-whether-metas-nametag-face-recognition-exists
Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’
Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting remarks about its very existence.
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NEW: Last year, a whistleblower alleged that members of DOGE had accessed, and potentially exfiltrated data from the National Labor Relations Board. The claims spurred an investigation from the Government Accountability Office, which published a report in April... www.wired.com/story/federa...
Federal Investigators Say Certain DOGE Records Were Deleted
A government report claims DOGE didn’t access sensitive systems. It also says the agency deleted records that would show if they had.
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NEW: Deep-dive investigation into the flaws of the most significant predictive policing program in the UK—just as the country aims to roll out similar tech nationwide. @mattburgess1.bsky.social/Mark Wilding report (with Liberty Investigates, @lighthousereports.com, and @thebristolcable.bsky.social):
Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · last mo.🧵NEW: For more than a decade, police in South West England have been quietly experimenting with algorithms to score thousands of people. Most of them didn't know anything about it. Over two years, me and Mark Wilding investigated the messy setup, multiple parts have now been scrapped
🧵NEW: For more than a decade, police in South West England have been quietly experimenting with algorithms to score thousands of people. Most of them didn't know anything about it. Over two years, me and Mark Wilding investigated the messy setup, multiple parts have now been scrapped
British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted
As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics.
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A friendly reminder as you enjoy tonight’s Knicks game: Madison Square Garden, where the match is being held, is an insane surveillance panopticon. Read our @wired.com investigation if you haven’t already:
The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
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NEW: Alpha School is rapidly expanding across the U.S., promising AI-enabled education that teaches kids in two hours a day. Turns out, its $65,000-a-year location in NYC isn't even a *school* because New York State denied its application. One of several insane revelations in this A+ story:
Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School
A homeschooling center in Manhattan is part of the company’s nationwide expansion. Internal documents reveal its strategy: “Opening date > safety.”
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Teams at software company Trilogy have overseen the acquisition and renovation of buildings for Alpha School. Internal policy documents obtained by WIRED say the priority was to move at “Alpha speed.” www.wired.com/story/alpha-...
NEW: A @wired.com analysis of Meta's app for its smart glasses found that the company has been adding code for face recognition since January, while saying that it is still "thinking through" whether to deploy it. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
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Trying to remember the term for a place that dozens of school-aged kids go between 8am and 4pm on weekdays to learn… www.wired.com/story/alpha-...
Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School
A homeschooling center in Manhattan is part of the company’s nationwide expansion. Internal documents reveal its strategy: “Opening date > safety.”
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Obsessed with this story. @toddfeathers.bsky.social got internal documents from Alpha School--as well as interviews with lots of people involved with the school--to talk about how this "AI-powered" outfit moves fast and breaks things, except it's K-12, not an app www.wired.com/story/alpha-...
Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School
A homeschooling center in Manhattan is part of the company’s nationwide expansion. Internal documents reveal its strategy: “Opening date > safety.”
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Debt is rising in the United States. Now, when you owe money, you're likely to get a phone call from an AI collector asking you to pay up—sometimes even when you *don't* owe anything: www.wired.com/story/ai-tak...
AI Is Taking Over the Most Cursed Job in the World
There’s a mad dash to automate the world’s most hated calls. Have an unpaid bill? You’ll hear from an AI debt collector sometime soon.
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In which I give AI chatbots a fact checking test and find them sorely wanting. My latest for WIRED.
AI Just Isn’t Right
Can AI do fact-checking? A WIRED fact-checker fact-checks.
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Anthropic employs at least four philosophers. Google DeepMind employs at least TEN. When journalism fully implodes, at least my B.A. in philosophy will be put to good use. (Love this story from @joelkhalili.bsky.social about the murky motives of AI companies and their Aristotles)
To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant
The world’s leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to think through ethical edge cases and grand questions of mind and morality. Are they another instrument of hype?
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Adapting to the AI era can be stressful. Let our compliance webinar be your guide. AIorDieTrying.com
Take This Mandatory AI Workplace Training Right Now—or Else
AI could make you redundant. Here’s what you need to know.
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🎇New package! We know you are confused, angry, invigorated or maybe paralyzed by corporate America's embrace of AI. So we wrote a bunch of stories, made a bunch of videos, added quizzes and made a whole mandatory AI training www.wired.com/story/ai-or-...
Take This Mandatory AI Workplace Training Right Now—or Else
AI could make you redundant. Here’s what you need to know.
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This week on the @wired.com Big Interview podcast, I sat down with Amelia Dimoldenberg -- the host of Chicken Shop Date, a red carpet fixture...and a real control freak, it turns out. (Takes one to know one!) She was delightful, smart, and of course hilarious. Read and listen at the link:
The Secret to Amelia Dimoldenberg’s Online Superstardom? Control
The host of “Chicken Shop Date” joined WIRED’s “Big Interview” podcast to talk about turning down bad deals, beating the algorithm, and the importance of being over-prepared.
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Lots of people have suspected AI job screeners of unfairly judging them. Not many have spent six months trying to prove it by reverse-engineering their own AI screener and testing it with 6,000 synthetic applications. Meet Chad. www.wired.com/story/he-cou...
He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm trashed his job application.
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The master sergeant allegedly used classified intel to profit on the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, marking the first US arrest for insider trading on a prediction market. www.wired.com/story/us-spe...
US Special Forces Soldier Arrested for Polymarket Bets on Maduro Raid
The master sergeant allegedly used classified intel to profit on the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, marking the first US arrest for insider trading on a prediction market.
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Thrilled, honored, and so proud of @wired.com for winning the 2026 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism: "WIRED’s stories were not only groundbreaking; they were singular."
Inside the DOGE Takeover of the Federal Government
In early 2025, Americans first learned about the takeover of the federal government by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE had been operating under a veil of secrecy, with l...
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Going to be making noise about this story for weeks, I'm afraid. @noahshachtman.bsky.social and @robertsilverman.bsky.social did incredible work documenting stuff that had been reported in fits and starts for years—with precise and shocking new details.
WIRED@wired.com · 4mo agoNew Yorkers have known for a long time that going to a game or concert at the Garden meant surrendering some privacy. That, as you watched the show, the Garden in a real sense watched you. www.wired.com/story/madiso...
New Yorkers have known for a long time that going to a game or concert at the Garden meant surrendering some privacy. That, as you watched the show, the Garden in a real sense watched you. www.wired.com/story/madiso...
The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden's Surveillance Machine
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
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NEW: Someone hacked the crosswalk announcements in cities in 5 states to make it say messages about politics and tech in the voices of Musk, Zuckerberg, and Trump. @peard33.bsky.social took a deep dive into the vulnerabilities local authorities never imagined: www.wired.com/story/crossw...
The Dumbest Hack of the Year Exposed a Very Real Problem
Last April, a hacker hijacked crosswalk announcements to mimic Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Records obtained by WIRED reveal how unprepared local authorities were.
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WIRED is doing more hiring! Come be a staff editor and work across our newsroom and with our international editions. Great, dynamic gig, moving quickly so don’t hold off on applying:
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WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
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