NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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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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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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The Associated Press is pivoting away from… journalism. We’re well and truly cooked folks.

AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper journalism

The Associated Press says it will offer buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspaper journalism that sustained the company...

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Are you like me? Do you have to put this song on every time you edit in one of these cheeky little punctuation marks?

Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma

YouTube video by XL Recordings

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey at presser: "To ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis." www.youtube.com/live/QABt2PL...

January 7, 2026 City leaders hold briefing on federal shooting in Minneapolis press conference

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A statement from Wired's Conde Union Members

Jake is one of the best and I’ll really miss working with him — whoever gets to work with him next is very lucky!

Jake Lahut@jakelahut.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

Actual Tolkien nerd @johnsemley3000.bsky.social went deep on how poorly Elon Musk, MAGA, and other right-wing tech bros understand the Lord of the Rings. And can we all just admire this art by @anjalinair.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Elon Musk Really Doesn't Get 'The Lord of the Rings'

Musk has recently used Tolkien references to push anti-immigration messaging, as has the Department of Homeland security. They've got it all backwards.

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Next week, 5 teens from Palestine will head to Panama to compete in one of the world’s largest youth robotics competitions. The goal? To win—and teach STEM to their peers displaced by Israel's war and occupation of Palestine. A special oral history for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/meet-t...

Meet the Palestinian Teens Trying to Win Robotics Gold

Next week, five teens from Palestine will head to Panama to compete in one of the world’s largest youth robotics competitions. The goal? To win—and then teach STEM to their peers displaced by the Isra...

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ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Not Jane!! 😢

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

Saw Hegseth, and as a former service member, here's my two cents. He sounded exactly like a dude who has a chip on his shoulder because of a few unsavory reports made against him during his time in. Now he has the reins, and he's trying to make it easier to fail up rather than facing consequences.

Nothing in the parenting books prepared me for having my Sims' intricate little worlds devastated by the lawless vampire families my 14-year-old moved into MULTIPLE neighborhoods.

How to wash yr hands

Something beautiful is happening in Brooklyn, New York this week.

evy kwong@evystadium.bsky.social · 11mo ago

today the @wired.com mural in bushwick they’re working on zuck dog leg and sam altman dog manicure so tag us if u see us

Anxiety flavor: pumpkin spice

26-year-old @katmabu.bsky.social made her name swatting down right-wing talking points on social media. Now she’s hoping internet fame can propel her to Congress. “I just couldn’t watch it anymore. I thought, fuck it, I’m going to run.” From our politics issue:

She Fought the Far Right Online for Years. Now She Wants to Do It in Congress

Kat Abughazaleh, 26, made her name swatting down right-wing talking points on social media. Now she’s hoping internet fame can propel her to Congress.

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Huge week here @wired.com as we're rolling out our Politics Issue. First up, check out this cover, which we're also posting all over cities across the US.

Reporting members of the UC Berkeley community to the government is reminiscent of the McCarthy era, when lives and careers were ruined merely because a person’s name showed up on a list.

UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe

UC Berkeley gave the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and details on their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” — sparking due-process...

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It's so easy to get lost in despair right now. Big plug for angry exertion. Walking, running, lifting, punching the air. All fair game.

Screenshot since it won't embed. You can follow this Palestinian journalist on Instagram @nahed_hajjaj99. This is a baby, whose leg was nearly severed in an explosion. There is a graphic video to this too. It's also horrific. It's also shocking and tragic. We're living in a fucking nightmare.

NEW: Right-wing extremists and an anonymously run website are targeting people for allegedly celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder - and posting identifying details about people accused online. Some of those targeted are now getting death threats. read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

Right-Wing Activists Are Targeting People for Allegedly Celebrating Charlie Kirk's Death

Extremists and an anonymously run website are posting identifying details about people accused of celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder online. Some of those targeted are now getting death threats.

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Charlie Kirk Shot at Utah Valley University Event

Turning Point USA cofounder Charlie Kirk was shot at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. The suspect is in custody.

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Every time the Apple event cut back to Tim Cook, I couldn’t help but think about his recent visit to the White House and the utter sycophancy of his demeanor, as well as all the other tech CEOs. www.wired.com/story/tech-c...

All the President’s Tech CEOs

At a White House dinner Thursday night, America’s tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump.

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Sometimes you're just having a Monday morning and then Sam Cooke comes on and you're having a religious experience instead.

Tried ChatGPT for the first time. Went in guns blazing with questions about energy usage and ethics. Came out with a new vegan cream cheese recipe to try. We're probably all doomed.

going live on @wired.com in 45 minutes! come hang out and ask questions as we discuss the future of wellness 🩸 www.wired.com

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