US to Russia on Nuke Experiments: Do as We Say, Not as We Do
In a maze of tunnels 900 feet beneath the Nevada desert, US nuclear weapons scientists have since the 1990s been intermittently agitating […]
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Inside China’s Surveillance Crackdown on Uyghurs
The woman remembers the first time she got a smartphone. It was 2011, and she was living in Hotan, an oasis town […]
Trump’s World Still Faces 16 Known Criminal Probes
In December, WIRED took stock of then 17 known criminal investigations swirling around Donald Trump, Russia’s role in the 2016 election, and […]
‘If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are the Right Guys’
On a brisk day in March 2016, Stephen Allwine walked into a Wendy’s in Minneapolis. The smell of old fryer grease hung […]
On the Trail of the Robocall King
PART ONE Brad Young, a lawyer at TripAdvisor, arrived at the company’s offices in Needham, Massachusetts, on October 12, 2015, to find […]
One Man’s Obsessive Fight to Reclaim His Cambridge Analytica Data
It’s 8 on a Wednesday morning in January, and David Carroll’s Brooklyn apartment, a sunny, wood-beamed beauty converted from an old sandpaper […]
How Trump Could Wind up Making Globalism Great Again
A few days before the 2016 election, journalist Andrew Sullivan wrote this about Donald Trump: “He has no concept of a nonzero-sum […]
Pan Am Flight 103: Robert Mueller’s 30-Year Search for Justice
Thirty years ago last Friday, on the darkest day of the year, 31,000 feet above one of the most remote parts of […]
In Project Maven’s Wake, the Pentagon Seeks AI Tech Talent
The American military is desperately trying to get a leg up in the field of artificial intelligence, which top officials are convinced […]
The Feds Just Hit Notorious Swatter Tyler Barriss With 46 New Charges. He Intends to Plead Guilty
Three days after last Christmas, a 25-year-old Los Angeles man named Tyler Barriss allegedly called police in Wichita, Kansas, and pretended that […]