#Music is the gift that keeps on giving. Here are our favorite gifts for #audio enthusiasts and music lovers, from affordable accessories to insane, tube-driven wonders. If you buy something using our links, WIRED may earn a commission. wired.trib.al/cOMFEwh 1/
#Vinyl is back and better than ever. If you’re looking for a great starter turntable, the @Fluance RT81 Turntable is perfect for you. It's belt-driven, with low-noise, and comes loaded with a very nice AT95E elliptical stylus: wired.trib.al/wqEqWN3
📷: Fluance 2/
Headphones can get uncomfortable after a while, but not these. The @Audeze LCD-1 uses planar magnetic technology to create sound. These foldable #headphones have great quality sound and are super comfortable: wired.trib.al/Kqy8uHu
📷: Audeze 3/
If you’re a vinyl listener, upgrade your sound with the @ProJectAudioSysPro Phono Box DC Preamplifier. It pre-amplifies the sound from your favorite records before they hit the stereo amp giving you a more improved sound. wired.trib.al/DZmGUVW
📷: Pro-Ject 4/
Wireless stereo speakers never looked so good. @audioengineusa's amazing-sounding HD6 bookshelf speakers can play streaming audio from a phone, tablet, or favorite turntable: wired.trib.al/d2Q7eRO
📷: Joseph Shin 5/
Not every room is acoustic friendly. So while acoustic panels might seem like the least-sexy accessory in the audio world, they make a big of difference. ATS Acoustic Panels are ideal for taming overly reflective rooms: wired.trib.al/SYQptqP
📷: ATS 6/
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The audit covers DOGE’s handling of data at several Cabinet-level agencies, including:
–the Departments of Labor, Education, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services
–the Treasury
–the Social Security Administration
–the US DOGE Service (USDS) itself wired.com/story/gao-audi…
It's being carried out after congressional leaders’ requests and is centered on DOGE’s adherence to privacy and data protection laws and regulations.
A Congressional aide said the requests followed media reports on DOGE’s incursions into federal systems. wired.com/story/gao-audi…
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One effect of all this, many federal employees tell WIRED, is that they are travelling long distances in order to spend all of their time in virtual meetings.
A Treasury employee says they spend most of their time at the office on video calls as well. wired.com/story/federal-…
It isn’t just traveling to work to sit on Zoom calls—it’s that there may be no place to take the call, or no working internet to connect to it.
WIRED granted employees anonymity to speak freely about their experiences. wired.com/story/federal-…
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DOGE ops have repeatedly referred to the company Palantir as a possible partner in the project, sources tell WIRED.
SCOOP: Shortly after senior Trump officials discussed the bombing of Yemen in a Signal group chat that just happened to include the Atlantic's editor in chief, a subset of the group feasted at a secret dinner featuring Trump where guests were asked to pay $1 million apiece to join. wired.com/story/trump-of…
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Earlier that day, the United States had bombed Yemen, targeting Houthi leadership. At least 53 people, including children, were killed.
A Letter from WIRED's Editor: Ever since Elon Musk dove headfirst into backing Donald Trump’s presidential bid last year—to the tune of $280 million in contributions—WIRED has been tracking the billionaire’s political exploits and growing sphere of influence within the GOP and the Trump administration more specifically. We’ve been sourcing up, talking to people within and around federal agencies, as well as experts in disciplines including cybersecurity, AI, medicine, and more, about Musk’s potential impact.
What would Musk do, we wanted to understand, once Trump took back the White House on January 20? How would our government—and our country —change with Trump at the steering wheel and Musk riding shotgun?
Now the world, and WIRED, are finding out. The entire WIRED newsroom, from editors and reporters to fact-checkers and photo editors, has been working relentlessly to unearth new information about what exactly Elon Musk and his allies are doing across federal agencies, and to what end. What is changing, how, and what are the consequences? Amid the findings of our reporting, one overarching fact has become extremely clear: Musk is now in the driver’s seat, and he is implementing sweeping, shocking, and largely unchecked changes across the entirety of our country’s federal apparatus.
If you’ve been wondering what Elon Musk and his lackeys are up to since taking control of the US government, look no further. Our latest story names six 19- to 24-year-olds working with his DOGE organization, which now has access to sensitive federal systems. wired.com/story/elon-mus…
We’ve also been tracking more former Musk employees who have infiltrated the Government Services Administration: wired.com/story/elon-mus…
Workers at GSA and Technology Transformation Services (TTS) have been summoned into what one source called “sneak attack” meetings to discuss their code and projects with total strangers—some quite young: wired.com/story/elon-mus…