Published on: 2025-04-22 15:48:36
Seven federal workers who abruptly lost their jobs in recent weeks say they are worried that thousands of biological samples—from human urine to frozen rodent organs—may be left to rot in a government laboratory in West Virginia. The workers left behind the samples, which they say include lungs, spleens, and brains collected from rats and mice, after the Trump administration laid off or placed on administrative leave about two-thirds of the staff working at facilities managed by the National Ins
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 15:15:28
Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), four current and former agency workers tell WIRED. This could put vast troves of public health data, including the sensitive health records of hundreds of millions of Americans, clinical trial data, and more, at risk of exposure. As a result of a reduction in force, or RIF, in the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 04:33:00
Donald Trump’s new tariffs have put a strange pall on the US economy. Uncertainty abounds, but prices seem likely to rise on all kinds of goods, from food to construction materials. Big-ticket electronics like TVs and soundbars may be at the front of the line. Pricing for Sony's new flagship Bravia 8 Mk II OLED TV, expected to launch at the same price or lower than 2023's A95L, instead came in at a significantly higher cost, and it appears other brands are following suit. With so many unknowns,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 06:30:00
Photograph: Christopher Null Other Good Laptops to Consider Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition (Copilot+ PC) for $1,300: The first Intel-based Copilot+ PC (7/10, WIRED Review) we tested is a winner on all fronts, boasting outstanding AI and graphics performance and some of the best battery life we’ve ever seen on Intel hardware. With its slightly oddball 15.3-inch screen, it hits its high points without breaking the bank, though the fan is loud and the system may weigh you down more than you’d l
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 15:27:10
Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel, is part of an effort by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to build a new “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service records, IRS sources tell WIRED. For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a single API layer above all IRS databases at an event previously characterized to WIRED as a “hackathon,”
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 10:10:57
Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is getting a taste of its own medicine. Since March, Wired reports, the Government Accountability Office, an independent investigative agency of Congress, has been auditing the Trump administration's initiative to slash federal expenditures. The probe concerns how DOGE, which GAO refers to as the US DOGE Service (USDS), handled sensitive data at multiple agencies, including the Departments of Labor, Education, Homeland Security, Health
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 11:05:13
Other Wireless Headphones We’ve Tested Wireless headphones are the default these days, and there are roughly one gazillion of them (and counting). We do our best to test them all, but not everything we test can make the big list. Here are some other great options worth trying. Beyerdynamic Amiron 300 for $280: These premium earbuds from Beyerdynamic are nondescript looking and don't have noise-canceling to compete with Sony and Bose, but they do sound fantastic. If you're looking for a great-s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 17:48:32
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to hold a “hackathon” next week in order to create a “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service data, reports Wired. The outlet says the API would be used to move the data into a cloud platform — potentially a third-party one — to serve as the “read center” of the agency’s systems.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 11:14:37
In Brief Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plans to host a hackathon next week focused on the creation of a “mega API” that will provide access to taxpayer data, according to Wired. Wired says the hackathon is being organized by two DOGE staffers at the Internal Revenue Service — Gavin Kliger and Sam Corcos, who’s also CEO at healthtech startup Levels. Corcos has reportedly been telling others at DOGE that his goal is to build “one new API to rule them all.” This would ma
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 02:31:26
Before the official faculty profiles of renowned Indiana University, Bloomington (IU) data privacy professor Xiaofeng Wang and his wife disappeared and the FBI raided two of the couple’s homes last week, the school is said to have been reviewing for months whether the professor received unreported research funding from China, WIRED has learned. Indiana University contacted Wang in December to ask about a 2017-2018 grant in China that listed Wang as a researcher, according to an unsigned stateme
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 07:31:26
Before the official faculty profiles of renowned Indiana University, Bloomington (IU) data privacy professor Xiaofeng Wang and his wife disappeared and the FBI raided two of the couple’s homes last week, the school is said to have been reviewing for months whether the professor received unreported research funding from China, WIRED has learned. Indiana University contacted Wang in December to ask about a 2017-2018 grant in China that listed Wang as a researcher, according to an unsigned stateme
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 11:12:11
Several top scientists charged with overseeing research into disease prevention and cures at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were notified that they were subject to a reduction in force on Tuesday as part of a devastating purge of federal employees carried out by US Health and Human Services secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., WIRED has learned. Multiple sources at the NIH, granted anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media, confirmed Tuesday afternoon that at least 10 pr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 19:00:12
Nothing TL;DR Nothing is “launching” a new set of wired headphones, cheekily called the Nothing Ear (3.5mm). The product is an April Fool’s joke with a 50-meter cable and a “beautifully inconvenient” design. This joke might not land well if you are one of the millions of people (and growing) who prefer wired headphones. In 2016, Apple made a choice filled with “courage”: every phone in the iPhone 7 series lacked a headphone jack. Since then, no iPhones have had a 3.5mm port, and most flagshi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 18:08:49
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk. The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell W
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-29 19:00:14
ZDNET's key takeaways The OneOdio Studio Max 1 headphones are available now on the official site for $169.99 These headphones offer wired and wireless options for connecting to a traditional source and produce a well-blended sound If you're looking for headphones to use with your phone, look elsewhere. View now at Oneodio My best friend has been a DJ for over 30 years. I've seen and worked with the equipment he uses, and I've watched other DJs do their thing in many environments. One thing th
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This morning, Apple announced a new feature for USB-C AirPods Max. Starting with iOS 18.4, they’ll now be capable of lossless audio playback, enabling ultra-low latency listening over a wired connection. AirPods Max with USB-C are now going to be capable of wired audio playback for the first time, a feature that was initially missing when the headphones debuted last September. Lightning model offered wired playback A lot of people might not have known this, but Lightning AirPods Max actually
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 18:07:00
Once again we are being subjected to another Amazon sale. This time it’s the Big Spring Sale, which takes place from March 25 through March 31. And as is usual with these events, every category you could think of has some sort of deal or promotion going on, from home gear to tech like headphones and speakers. Some of these deals are exclusive to Amazon Prime members. We on the WIRED Gear desk are not strangers to these sales and their pitfalls. We’ll be covering actual discounts on products we’
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 18:43:24
On Thursday, Stephen Ehikian, the acting administrator of the General Services Administration, hosted his first all-hands meeting with GSA staff since his appointment to the position by President Donald Trump. The auditorium was packed, with hundreds of employees attending the meeting in person and thousands more tuning in online. While the tone of the live event remained polite, the chat that accompanied the live stream was a different story. “‘My door is always open’ but we’ve been told we ca
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 15:03:00
Once again we are being subjected to another Amazon sale. This time it’s the Big Spring Sale, which takes place from March 25 through March 31. And as is usual with these events, every category you could think of has some sort of deal or promotion going on, from home gear to tech like headphones and speakers. Some of these deals are exclusive to Amazon Prime members. We on the WIRED Gear desk are not strangers to these sales and their pitfalls. We’ll be covering actual discounts on products we’
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 10:08:29
TL;DR The European Commission confirmed that smartphones without wired charging ports are not required to have a USB-C connector under current regulations. Apple considered launching the iPhone 17 Air as its first portless device but decided against it partly due to concerns about EU regulatory response. The Common Charger Directive mandates only that devices with wired charging must use USB-C but allows for entirely wireless designs, paving the way for potential fully wireless smartphones. A
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 18:21:22
The news business isn’t just any business — it serves a vital role in our democracy, recognized by the First Amendment. But media outlets can’t serve that role if they’re bankrupt. And as a result, news readers often find themselves blocked by paywalls from reading important stories about government business. That experience is particularly frustrating for readers who are unable to access the groundbreaking investigative reports outlets like Wired magazine have been publishing, particularly ove
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 18:02:00
Once again we are being subjected to another Amazon sale. This time it’s the Big Spring Sale, which takes place from March 25 through March 31. And as is usual with these events, every category you could think of has some sort of deal or promotion going on, from home gear to tech like headphones and speakers. Some of these deals are exclusive to Amazon Prime members. We on the WIRED Gear desk are not strangers to these sales and their pitfalls. We’ll be covering actual discounts on products we’
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An invitation to a “candlelight” dinner held this past Saturday at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club asked prospective guests to spend $1 million per seat. Trump attended the dinner along with Elon Musk, according to multiple photographs and videos of the event viewed by WIRED. Elon Musk, wearing his standard uniform of a black sport coat over a black T-shirt, was seen shaking hands and waving to other attendees. He was with a woman wearing a floor length gown who appeared to be Shivon Z
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 00:07:56
During a Fox News interview earlier this week, multi-hypenate billionaire and X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk blamed a "massive cyberattack" that repeatedly took down the site yesterday as coming from Ukraine. But, as Wired reports, his evidence is flimsy at best. Musk claimed that "IP addresses" behind the attack originated in the embattled European nation. But as experts told the publication, that's far from actual proof. "What we can conclude from the IP data is the geographic distributi
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During a Fox News interview earlier this week, multi-hypenate billionaire and X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk blamed a "massive cyberattack" that repeatedly took down the site yesterday as coming from Ukraine. But, as Wired reports, his evidence is flimsy at best. Musk claimed that "IP addresses" behind the attack originated in the embattled European nation. But as experts told the publication, that's far from actual proof. "What we can conclude from the IP data is the geographic distributi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 11:16:16
Employees of the General Services Administration, which manages government real estate and certain IT efforts, have been given a custom chatbot from Elon Musk’s DOGE to help automate tasks, according to a new report from Wired , with an internal memo telling workers it can be used to “draft emails, create talking points, summarize text, write code.” The chatbot, GSAi, gives users a choice of three models — Claude Haiku 3.5 (the default), Claude Sonnet 3.5 v2 and Meta Llama 3.2 — and is ultimatel
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 23:22:29
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has deployed a proprietary chatbot called GSAi to 1,500 federal workers at the General Services Administration, WIRED has confirmed. The move to automate tasks previously done by humans comes as DOGE continues its purge of the federal workforce. GSAi is meant to support “general” tasks, similar to commercial tools like ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude. It is tailored in a way that makes it safe for government use, a GSA worker tells WIRED.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 03:40:54
Representatives from dozens of nonprofit organizations attending a major human rights conference in Taipei, Taiwan, last week woke up Thursday to devastating news. Over the previous night in Asia, the Donald Trump administration had abruptly announced it would end nearly 10,000 contracts and grants from the US State Department, including the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) as well as the US Agency for International Development, representing about 90 percent of USAID’s contract
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-30 18:04:02
Neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan thinks that modern health care is overdiagnosing people but not necessarily making them healthier—and in fact, that it might be doing more harm than good. In her new book, The Age of Diagnosis, she backs this assertion with some sobering facts. For instance, between 1998 and 2018, autism diagnoses jumped by 787 percent in the UK alone; Lyme disease has an estimated 85 percent overdiagnosis rate, including in countries where it’s impossible to contract the disease;
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 22:04:20
Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency has been rampaging through the US federal government at an alarming pace, leaving seemingly no stone unturned. As Wired reports, even scientists at the United States Antarctic Program (USAP), which operates three permanent stations on the southernmost continent, are feeling the hurt. Over a thousand people visit these stations each year, conducting important scientific experiments, from studying climate change to peering into the earlie
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