We're getting GEAR'd up for #CyberMonday! Let us help you get the most for your money. Follow this thread for a list of super Cyber Monday deals: wired.trib.al/l56Xvys
Roku Streaming Stick 4K for $30 ($20 off)
It doesn't have hands-free voice or programmable shortcuts on the remote the way the new 4K Plus version does, but it still has a microphone button you can use: wired.trib.al/C0P7Cgh#CyberMonday
📷: Roku
Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar for $2,000 ($500 off)
When acclaimed audio brand Sennheiser decides to make a soundbar, you know it's going to be a bit special: wired.trib.al/C0P7Cgh#CyberMonday
📷: Sennheiser
Aura Carver Luxe Digital Photo Frame for $160 ($20 off)
This is a newer, video-enabled version of my favorite frame from the brand: wired.trib.al/C0P7Cgh#CyberMonday
📷: Aura
Nintendo Switch + Mario Kart 8 + 3 Months Nintendo Switch Online for $300
The original Nintendo Switch is $300 on its own, but this bundle comes with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, plus three months of the Switch Online service included for free: wired.trib.al/5TGrvvJ
📷: Nintendo
Dame Pom Flexible Vibrator for $76 ($19 off)
This little vibrator is one of our all-time faves: wired.trib.al/gDYTPje#CyberMonday
📷: Dame
Dame Arc G-Spot Vibe for $92 ($23 off)
Gently curved with a soft bulbous end, it's designed to provide rumbly, diffuse stimulation to the G-spot: wired.trib.al/gDYTPje#CyberMonday
📷: Dame
Avocado Green Organic Hybrid Mattress for $1,474 ($125 off)
It is made of organic latex, organic wool, and organic cotton (in California), with no polyurethane, fire retardants, memory foam, or chemical adhesives: wired.trib.al/xVSG7TS
📷: Melissa Kused / Avocado Mattress
★ Colgate Hum Rechargeable Electric Toothbrush for $42 ($28 off)
This is our favorite electric toothbrush (9/10, WIRED Recommends). It's slim and light, and it has a companion app that offers insights about your brushing habits: wired.trib.al/xVSG7TS#CyberMonday
📷: Colgate
★ Blunt Coupe Umbrella for $67 ($22 off)
The fiberglass ribs hold up really well against high winds: wired.trib.al/xVSG7TS#CyberMonday
📷: Blunt
★ Fitbit Charge 5 for $130 ($50 off)
The Charge 5 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is our current top pick for most people, especially at this price: wired.trib.al/xVSG7TS#CyberMonday
📷: Fitbit
★ Garmin Venu Sq for $130 ($70 off)
Garmin's Venu Sq (8/10, WIRED Recommends) has an awkward name, but it's our pick as the best fitness smartwatch for most people: wired.trib.al/xVSG7TS#CyberMonday
📷: Garmin
★ Nest Mini Voice-Assistant Speaker for $25 ($25 off)
This is the best way to enter the smart-home world. You can ask Google Assistant pretty much anything, and it can control any supported smart home gadget you install. #CyberMonday 📸: Google wired.trib.al/qWAfPO3
Elgato HD60 S Capture Card for $120 ($20 off)
Stream your games this holiday with this capture card. Just plug it into your PlayStation and run it to your PC or Mac, and you'll be able to show off your gameplay in 1080p at 60 frames per second. wired.trib.al/0z6qIqP 📸: Elgato
★ Best Fire Tablet—Fire HD 10 Tablet for $75 ($75 off)
Amazon's Fire HD 10 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) holds the title of best Fire tablet and our favorite budget tablet. wired.trib.al/f4oDSvl
📸: Amazon
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NEW: Tulsi Gabbard, now the US director of national intelligence, used the same easily cracked password for different online accounts including a personal Gmail account and Dropbox over a period of years, leaked records reviewed by WIRED reveal. wired.com/story/tulsi-ga…
The password associated includes the word “shraddha,” which appears to have personal significance to Gabbard: This year, WSJ reported that she had been initiated into the Science of Identity Foundation, which ex-members have accused of being a cult. wired.com/story/tulsi-ga…
Security experts advise people to never use the same password on different accounts precisely because people often do so. As director of national intelligence, Gabbard oversees the 18 organizations comprising the US intelligence community.
DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope. wired.com/story/doge-col…
The scale at which DOGE is seeking to interconnect data, including sensitive biometric data, has never been done before, raising alarms with experts who fear it may lead to disastrous privacy violations. wired.com/story/doge-col…
“They are trying to amass a huge amount of data,” a senior DHS official tells WIRED. “It has nothing to do with finding fraud or wasteful spending … They are already cross-referencing immigration with SSA and IRS as well as voter data.” wired.com/story/doge-col…
American police are spending hundreds of thousands on Massive Blue’s unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected traffickers.
Massive Blue calls its product Overwatch, which it markets as an “AI-powered force multiplier for public safety” that “deploys lifelike virtual agents, which infiltrate and engage criminal networks across various channels.”
404 Media obtained a presentation showing some of these AI characters. These include a “radicalized AI” “protest persona,” which poses as a 36-year-old divorced woman who is lonely, has no children, is interested in baking, activism, and “body positivity.”
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…
Dozens of federal employees tell WIRED that Trump's federal return to office order has resulted in chaos (including bad Wi-Fi and no toilet paper), with productivity plummeting and public services suffering. wired.com/story/federal-…
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-…
SCOOP: Elon Musk’s DOGE has plans to stage a “hackathon” next week in Washington, DC. The goal is to create a single “mega API”—a bridge that lets software systems talk to one another—for accessing IRS data, sources tell WIRED. wired.com/story/doge-hac…
DOGE ops have repeatedly referred to the company Palantir as a possible partner in the project, sources tell WIRED.