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★ Primula Burke Cold Brew Coffee Maker for $12 ($5 off)
Be your own barista with our favorite cold-brew coffee maker. 📸: Primula wired.trib.al/6wmCHdM 2/
Apple Watch Series 7 (GPS 45mm) for $309 ($50 off)
WIRED editor @adriennemso says the Apple Watch Series 7 is the best smartwatch for iPhone owners, and this is the lowest price we've seen. 📸: Apple wired.trib.al/6wmCHdM 3/
Bose Noise Canceling Headphones 700 for $269 ($110 off)
This is the lowest price we've seen on one of our favorite noise canceling headphones. They have excellent noise reduction as well as great battery life and excellent call quality. 📸: Bose wired.trib.al/6wmCHdM 4/
Sony A90J 55-Inch OLED 4K TV for $1,998 ($200 off)
This is one of the prettiest TVs we’ve tested. The bezels are super slim, the OLED panel is fantastic and delivers deep blacks and rich colors, and it has an Android TV interface. 📸: Sony wired.trib.al/6wmCHdM 5/
Nixplay 10.1 Inch Smart Digital Photo Frame for $120 ($70 off)
This one is for the photography enthusiasts. Keep your memories close by and on repeat with the Nixplay digital frames. 📸: Amazon wired.trib.al/6wmCHdM 6/
★ Google Pixel 6 Android Smartphone for $490 ($109 off)
The Pixel 6 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) remains one of the best values right now. This is the lowest price we have ever tracked. 📸: Google wired.trib.al/6wmCHdM 7/
Apollo City 2022 Scooter for $1,299 ($200 off)
Take a ride through the city on the Apollo City. It packs a powerful 500-watt motor and a top speed of 27 miles per hour. 📸: Apollo wired.trib.al/6wmCHdM 8/
Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE for $475 ($70 off)
Samsung's Galaxy Tab S7 FE is a good mid-range Android tablet. It features a spacious 12.4-inch LCD screen that's sharp and bright. 📸: Samsung wired.trib.al/6wmCHdM 9/
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NEW: The alleged shooter is a 57-year-old white male; according to his ministry's website, he “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn't the answer.” wired.com/story/shooting…
UPDATE: In a 2023 sermon reviewed by WIRED and delivered by the alleged shooter in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he preached against abortion and called for different Christian churches to become “one.” wired.com/story/shooting…
In another sermon in Matadi that year, Boelter railed against the LGBTQ community. “They're confused,” he said. “The enemy has gotten so far into their mind and their soul.”
SCOOP: Edward Coristine (“Big Balls”), Luke Farritor, and Ethan Shaotran were part of the original DOGE crew. They were brought in under short-term “special government employee” status. Supposed to be temporary. Spoiler: it’s not. wired.com/story/big-ball…
As of May 31 (Coristine & Farritor) and April 10 (Shaotran), the trio officially became full-time federal employees. Their roles at the General Services Administration (GSA) are now permanent.
According to documentation viewed by WIRED, they each maintain their “senior advisor” titles.
Their pay? GS-15 for Coristine & Farritor, one of the highest government salary grades. Shaotran’s at GS-14—just one step below. wired.com/story/big-ball…
In fact, federal workers from at least six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments, and Trump himself said in a press conference today that “Elon's really not leaving.” wired.com/story/doge-elo…
Members of Musk’s early DOGE team, including Luke Farritor and Gavin Kliger, have met with a number of departments and agencies in recent days, seemingly continuing business as usual, WIRED has learned.
Over the last week, federal workers have been asked to urgently review contracts across the government, and sources say the pressure to slash contracts has drastically increased in recent weeks. wired.com/story/doge-elo…
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.”