Veronica de Souza
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Audience & content strategy @wired.com. Where’s the reblog button? veronica_desouza@wired.com
From our team in the Middle East: As Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran this morning, millions of Iranians received mysterious push notifications saying that “help is on the way”, promising amnesty if they surrender. wrd.cm/4l0QScB
Hacked Prayer App Sends “Surrender” Messages to Iranians Amid Israeli Strikes
As Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran this morning, millions of Iranians received mysterious push notifications saying that “help is on the way”, promising amnesty if they surrender.
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Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials. Then he had to get out alive. This is his story. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive
A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.
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Introducing WIRED's new tagline: For Future Reference. Our stories don't just reflect the moment—they help create it.
What do you do when you’re a gun-loving leftist who doesn’t fit into mainstream American gun culture? That's a question @manishakrishnan.bsky.social set out to answer this summer when she attended a Brutality match, an inclusive firearms competition in Idaho.
The Hard-Left Shooters Leading a Gun Culture Revolution
Earlier this year, I attended a shooting competition for queer, often trans, very online misfits. Then Charlie Kirk was killed.
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when Elon Musk attacked my reporting to his millions of followers last week, it was one of the scariest days of my life in that moment, the leadership at @wired.com enthusiastically stood by my article and its message: holding powerful tech leaders accountable
This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop. Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
Anil Dash@anildash.com · 9mo agoThe key thing to watch here: they fired a Wired political reporter. That’s the title doing the most effective, pointed work. Teen Vogue’s stuff was culturally impactful, but less focused on investigating the administration. Within the Condé portfolio, Wired and the New Yorker are the canaries.
Mere months ago, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social was polling at 1 percent—right next to “Someone Else.” Tonight, he was elected New York City’s newest mayor. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...
really good Inner Loop newsletter this week. @jakelahut.writes.news asked his trumpworld sources to rank the five Cabinet-level officials they thought were in the worst standing with Trump www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Trumpworld's Least Favorite Cabinet Secretaries
“Worst, Bondi,” they begin. “2.) Bondi. 3.) Bondi. 4.) Bondi. 5.) HegsethRFKTulsiNoem.”
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These Sora videos feel like a more capable version those “Elf Yourself” videos from a decade ago. Except this time, any silliness is overcome with a nagging sense of dread.
tired: thiel lawsuit was the trump-prefiguring gawker event wired: gamergate was the trump-prefiguring gawker event inspired: commenters flipping out because richard jokingly called them "peasants" in a private chat was the trump-prefiguring gawker event
Tom Scocca@tomscocca.bsky.social · 11mo agoOf fucking COURSE
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This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the [italics] Gawker comments section [roman], way back in the day. But as progressive](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lyspo2bgxpznqtug5ir2q33g/bafkreiclluc2id5dmxlbfzwuj4ftldmlgn34xnsi444ccbuldbifjf3yau)
if you saw wired’s politics issue cover and thought “wow i wish someone would hand paint a massive version of that on a building in bushwick” it’s your lucky day
Charlie Kirk, whose Turning Point USA played an instrumental role in the right’s efforts to dominate the digital political sphere, has died. More here: www.wired.com/story/charli...
Right-Wing Activist Charlie Kirk Dead at 31
Turning Point USA cofounder Charlie Kirk passed away after he was shot at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.
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not to brag but i've been described the same way "OpenAI claims GPT-5 is smarter, faster, more useful, and more accurate, with a lower hallucination rate than previous models." www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI Finally Launched GPT-5. Here's Everything You Need to Know
OpenAI released GPT-5 on Thursday to both free users of ChatGPT and paying subscribers.
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One of the highlights of my career has been reporting on China & working closely with @zeyiyang.bsky.social. So I’m really excited to share that we’re launching a new newsletter together for @wired.com. It's called "Made in China." You can sign up for it here: www.wired.com/newsletter/e...
Introducing my new premium newsletter for @wired.com, Inner Loop. This inaugural edition is right in the wheelhouse of what you can expect — the intersection of Trumpworld and Silicon Valley billionaires — but if you'll indulge me in a thread on our new subscription.. www.wired.com/story/peter-...
The GOP's Message for Tech Billionaires: Be Like Peter Thiel
One lesson Republican insiders took away from Elon Musk's spectacular flameout? Be wary of billionaires who love the spotlight.
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The new @wired.com subscription is so big and so beautiful :))))) that I've started Posting Online again. Subscribe now! www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...
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This is a good story on why city-run grocery stores are not some far-fetched idea in NYC gothamist.com/news/zohran-...
Zohran Mamdani is calling for city-owned grocery stores. NYC already has them.
The idea has broad support from progressives, while some critics warn against “radical socialism.” But New York already has city-owned grocery stores.
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