Lauren Goode
@laurengoode.bsky.social
WIRED Senior Correspondent covering Silicon Valley and its impact beyond. Send tips to Signal handle ChaoticGoode.12. (No PR pitches please)
In a world of fucked up things, this might be the most fucked up thing I've ever read.
Lauren Goode@laurengoode.bsky.social · last wk.In case you happened to forget about one of the most disturbing harassment campaigns ever led by a giant tech company against its critics - a big update on the civil suit filed by the Massachusetts couple who were harassed by eBay www.wired.com/story/ebay-h...
Ebay’s harassment spree against a perfectly nice couple in Massachusetts is one of the craziest stories I’ve ever covered. Six years later, the victims have finally gotten their due. from @laurengoode.bsky.social
Ebay Has to Pay $55.7 Million in Settlement for Its Unhinged Harassment Campaign
For months on end, eBay employees and contractors made life hell for a couple that had criticized the company. Six years later, the company is finally paying up.
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In case you happened to forget about one of the most disturbing harassment campaigns ever led by a giant tech company against its critics - a big update on the civil suit filed by the Massachusetts couple who were harassed by eBay www.wired.com/story/ebay-h...
Ebay Has to Pay $55.7 Million in Settlement for Its Unhinged Harassment Campaign
For months on end, eBay employees and contractors made life hell for a couple that had criticized the company. Six years later, the company is finally paying up.
wired.com
We found that thousands of parents have been separated from U.S. citizen children and at least 79 kids were doused with chemical agents. 🗓️ On July 21, join us for a virtual discussion on how children have been caught in Trump's immigration crackdown: https://propub.li/4fiHDSF
Ahead of AMD's annual AI event this week, Nvidia is pulling back the curtain on its Vera Rubin design, touting early customers (including OpenAI), staking its claim in the CPU industry—and throwing shade at chiplet designs, calling it the "chiplet tax." www.wired.com/story/nvidia...
Nvidia Wants to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data Centers
Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform combines CPUs and GPUs into a single system, reflecting the company’s growing ambition to power every layer of AI infrastructure.
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Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.
WIRED@wired.com · 3w agoYesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
Hi! WIRED health reporter here. Looking to speak with people who got sick with cyclosporiasis and are willing to share the gruesome details. emily_mullin@wired.com
today, ny becomes the first state with a statewide data center moratorium even though the hochul data center pause is less aggressive than ny's data center moratorium bill passed in may, it's still "a gigantic step forward," one advocate told me
New York Governor Signs First Statewide Data Center Moratorium
“We have no choice but to address the challenges created by these massive facilities,” New York governor Kathy Hochul said. The executive order will pause construction for one year.
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my most widely read piece of writing ever turned 8 today. shoutout @laurengoode.bsky.social for enduring almost a decade of meme accounts tagging us on instagram about it
More blockbuster reporting on Madison Square Garden’s surveillance apparatus from @wired.com An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, including labeling those identified as “LGBTQIA.” …! By @noahshachtman.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/madiso...
Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
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Obsessively reading the news can't be good for your health, they say. Hehe. But you get rewarded with headlines and beautiful writing about the real gems, like this story. Sure, democracy is sliding, but man, those squirrels... It helps to restore our sanity. Viva la squirrels!
Lauren Goode@laurengoode.bsky.social · 4w agoIt's wild out there. www.wired.com/story/one-of...
Microsoft isn't the only tech co to conduct mass layoffs this year, but this sentence in MSFT HR chief's memo stood out: "Companies don't get to choose whether their industry changes; they only get to choose whether they change with it." By default aren't these co's the ones changing the industry?
NEW: The Pentagon is probing the exposure of an active-duty special operations officer whose personal information was revealed in the Dialog data. A White House National Security Council official was also exposed. @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/the-pe...
The Pentagon Is Looking Into the Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials
Exposed records from the private group included the personal information of a senior White House intelligence official and an active-duty special operations officer.
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Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
Please read and call. Flood the zone.
Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · last mo.I just sent this out to Democracy Docket premium members, but in light of the Postmasters comments this morning threatening voting by mail, I felt it is urgent to post it online for everyone. Please read and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/mail...
This whole thread. Even if you think that USAID was bad (and there are real and legitimate critiques), withdrawing USAID without an alternative or a plan is just straight-up murder.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · last mo.Whenever I hear someone claiming that USAID was evil from a leftist perspective, I hear someone saying “yes, millions ARE dying because Musk and Trump killed USAID, but at least they’ll die free of American imperialism.” Notably it is never the people saying this who are dying.
Sources tell me there’s a post circulating around Meta in which a worker has created a mock SEV, but instead of it being about a software outage, it’s about Meta’s internal morale…
@laurengoode.bsky.social I really enjoyed this story, good lunchtime read about ARM and its history to date.
Arm’s CEO Insists the Market Needs His New CPU. It Could Piss Everyone Off
Arm just confirmed the rumors: It’s producing its own chip for the first time. CEO Rene Haas explains why this won’t alienate the many chipmakers who license the company’s designs.
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Late Monday, Meta VP told staff that the issue had been found June 18 and addressed within four hours. But the initial fix didn’t stick and access to the data had to be further locked down. The issue made “some MCI-derived data” accessible to more people than intended. www.wired.com/story/meta-p...
Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
The move comes after the company left potentially sensitive data from the initiative exposed internally.
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NEW: Insane screwup inside Meta. The company exposed worker keystroke data that was being used to train AI — making it potentially accessible to anyone at the company. The data included personnel and performance info, private convos, full transcriptions…imagine your coworkers seeing all of that.
Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program
Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers’ keystroke data to train AI models.
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Here’s the thing: as we showed with DataWorkLandscape.org, Meta is a Mercor customer. Mercor had a massive data breach that potentially exposed similar workplace monitoring data on the company’s contract AI trainer workforce to cyber criminals. techequity.us/2026/05/21/d...
Data Work Landscape
Tech companies in the AI industry are powered by workers who develop, train, test, and maintain AI systems. We’re shining a light on this shadowy industry.
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Lauren Goode@laurengoode.bsky.social · last mo.Aaaaaand the latest, from @peard33.bsky.social: Meta has now paused its controversial employee-tracking and AI-training program, following an internal security breach we reported on earlier today www.wired.com/story/meta-p...
Aaaaaand the latest, from @peard33.bsky.social: Meta has now paused its controversial employee-tracking and AI-training program, following an internal security breach we reported on earlier today www.wired.com/story/meta-p...
Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
The move comes after the company left potentially sensitive data from the initiative exposed internally.
wired.com
"the key question from the U.S. government’s perspective would be whether China-based investors got access to nonpublic information about SpaceX’s technology or strategies"
ProPublica@propublica.org · 2mo agoNEW: Records obtained by ProPublica detail at least a dozen SpaceX investors with addresses in mainland China, Hong Kong or Russia who acquired stakes in SpaceX years ago through a middleman firm in the U.S. called Tomales Bay Capital.
NEW, from me and @peard33.bsky.social: As some employees feared might happen, Meta exposed data internally from its controversial employee-tracking and data-training program, MCI (model capability initiative) www.wired.com/story/meta-a...
Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program
Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers' keystroke data to train AI models.
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