Do AI companies need an antitrust exemption to take time to work on safety and address potentially catastrophic risks? As an FTC antitrust attorney put it, “no humanity would result in no competition.” wired.com/story/the-ai-slowd…

The cost of DOGE: The Trump administration paid federal employees $9.5 billion not to work during 2025, GAO finds nytimes.com/2026/09/15/us/po…

Unaccompanied children are being held in ORR custody longer than at any point in the available data. The fiscal year average went from 30 days in 2024 to 117 in 2025. The monthly average is now 187 days. austinkocher.substack.com/p/…

Appalling: Energy company drags a mother into federal court, trying to stop her from sharing FOIA'd records -- records the state *gave her* -- about an Arkansas data center. And it wants the court to censor newspaper coverage. She left the courtroom "weeping loudly."

Today, the @FTC and five States achieved a complete victory for the American people in their lawsuit against Zillow and Redfin with a major settlement that resolves all our competition concerns and restores competition in the housing rental market.

Searching online for help with a substance use disorder? The top result might show the name of the clinic you searched for — but it could be an ad paid for by an impersonator. Watch to learn how to spot and help avoid treatment center search scams: piped.video/shorts/26u2estgo…

Flock just announced some pretty huge changes that are clearly the result of increased scrutiny on the company from journalists, activists, and local communities. An indication that it sees the current state of affairs as untenable: flocksafety.com/blog/flock-g…

The largest hospital system in Maine and northern New England is demanding answers on one of their nurses reportedly detained by ICE.

Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect. wired.com/story/dhs-is-hirin…

A lawsuit accuses Homeland Security of violating protesters’ free-speech rights—but the agency is using it to try to get access to the plaintiffs’ encrypted communications. wired.com/story/dhs-wants-pr…

WIRED is surveying tech workers! From your opinions about your bosses and workplaces to your thoughts on the AI revolution, we want to know it all. Share your two cents by taking our short survey at the link below. 👇 se1.decipherinc.com/survey/s…

day 5 of @Starlink disabling internet access for the remote village of lumolumo in papua new guinea, without any explanation 😩 they won't answer my ticket and i'm at a loss.

Claude chats showed in Google and Bing search results, despite Anthropic's robots․txt saying not to crawl them, likely because the pages lacked a "noindex" tag (@tenuous / Wired) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

James Dolan and Madison Square Garden recently sued me over my reporting for @WIRED. It's not stopping our stories. The latest just dropped. It's free for everyone to read, because Dolan doesn't want you to: wired.com/story/for-taylor-s…