Leah Feiger

Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government Palantir has become one of the few winners in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, offering other contractors a lifeline while consolidating its own reach and power.

NEW: After massive contract terminations for consulting giants like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead. Now the data analytics firm is partnering with those companies—offering them a lifeline while consolidating its own power.

www.wired.com/story/palant...

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

How Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine and DOGE Got Access to a Federal Payroll System That Serves the FBI Hundreds of pages of records reviewed by WIRED show just how quickly DOGE gained access to systems at the Small Business Administration—and through it, a USDA system that handles payroll for federal l...

SCOOP: We filed a Freedom of Information Act Request and received hundreds of pages of documents about the system access DOGE members Edward Coristine and Donald Park received at the Small Business Administration. But nested in there was something even bigger...

www.wired.com/story/edward...

How Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine and DOGE Got Access to a Federal Payroll System That Serves the FBI Hundreds of pages of records reviewed by WIRED show just how quickly DOGE gained access to systems at the Small Business Administration—and through it, a USDA system that handles payroll for federal l...

NEW: Hundreds of pages of records show just how quickly Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine and DOGE got access to a federal payroll system.

And, because @wired.com has dropped paywalls for Freedom of Information Act-based reporting, this one is free for all to read!

from @telliotter.bsky.social:

For this week’s Inner Loop, we peel back the curtain on the makings of the first real fight between Trumpworld and big crypto:

“We said, you’re just fuckin’ wrong,” a senior administration source involved in negotiations over crypto legislation tells me. @wired.com
www.wired.com/story/trump-...

How does the Epstein scandal end? The Trump administration is desperate to kill the story. Here are 5 ways they could try.

How does the Epstein scandal end? I went over some likely scenarios. Mostly it’s just amazing to consider what an absurd Gordian knot the Trump administration has created for themselves. Featuring some thoughts from the very smart @rothschildmd.bsky.social. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Today my Plaintext column relaunches with a new--and familiar--name: Backchannel. It's the same thoughtful, fresh column, informed by my looooong coverage of tech. To get it in your inbox every Friday, you need a WIRED subscription. Which is a no brainer... www.wired.com/newsletter/e...

Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them New AI regulations suggested by the White House mirror changes to environmental permitting suggested by Meta and a lobbying group representing firms like Google and Amazon Web Services.

SCOOP from me: Trump's AI action plan released last week makes a specific set of recommendations around loosening Clean Water Act permits for data centers — recommendations mirrored in letters sent to the administration by Big Tech lobbyists earlier this year:

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Americans Are Obsessed With Watching Short Video Dramas From China How did steamy, short soap operas that originated in China become the hottest thing in Hollywood, seemingly overnight?

Thrilled about the launch of Made in China, an indispensable weekly newsletter from @zeyiyang.bsky.social and @lmatsakis.bsky.social. Sign up and learn a little something! www.wired.com/story/china-...

An Inventor Is Injecting Bleach Into Cancerous Tumors—and Wants to Bring the Treatment to the US A Chinese man with no medical training is injecting cancer patients with a toxic bleach solution; a full course of treatment runs $20,000. He's now working to bring the unproven treatment to the US.

NEW

For decades, pseudoscience grifters urged followers to drink toxic bleach solutions.

Now one inventor is going even further, injecting cancer patients with highly-concentrated doses of the bleach solution.

Next, he wants to bring it to the US

www.wired.com/story/danger...

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People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago Business leaders are paying as much as $5 million to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1 million apiece to dine with him in a gro...

And it hasn’t just been the inner workings of DOGE either — we’ve gotten deep into Trumpworld, too.

A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls So...

Something that was particularly gratifying as well - while we broke news on dozens of new DOGE operatives, we also got very granular with the kind of access they had, and exactly what that meant. This was monumental - our coverage caused lawsuits around the country.

Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’ Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

I don’t think our team slept for about a month and a half straight when this all started. I’ve never seen a group of journalists more committed to getting a story out. I’m so so proud of all we did during this time.

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

I wanted to take a minute to talk about some of our coverage from this year that I am particularly proud of — starting with DOGE! Our politics team, which formed only about 1.5 years ago, broke the news on what’s shaped up to be one of the biggest stories of this administration.

Hello! I’m WIRED’s senior politics editor, and it’s hard to put into words what it’s been like in our newsroom this year. I am so in awe of my colleagues here, and so grateful to wake up every day to get you, our lovely readers, the news. If you’ve haven’t already, subscribe!! Help us keep it going.

Trump Says He's 'Getting Rid of Woke' and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech The remarks, which came during a keynote speech at a summit hosted by the All-In Podcast, follow President Donald Trump's newly released AI Action Plan.

NEW: “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for,” Trump said. “We appreciate that, but just can't do it— because it's not doable.”

www.wired.com/story/presid...

One of the highlights of my career has been reporting on China & working closely with @zeyiyang.bsky.social. So I’m really excited to share that we’re launching a new newsletter together for @wired.com. It's called "Made in China."

You can sign up for it here: www.wired.com/newsletter/e...

this is a very very good read, highly recommend anything @annamerlan.bsky.social does as always!

Photos: Here Are the Piles of Used Bedding and Children’s Play Sets Left Near DOGE’s Old Offices Elon Musk’s DOGE minions have largely moved out of the General Services Administration. A dystopian scene of bedding and discarded kids’ toys remains.

DOGE has largely vacated the General Services Administration building in Washington DC. Children's play toys, mattresses, and pillows were left behind. Here are the photos: www.wired.com/story/photos...

The GOP's Message for Tech Billionaires: Be Like Peter Thiel One lesson Republican insiders took away from Elon Musk's spectacular flameout? Be wary of billionaires who love the spotlight.

The first edition of Inner Loop, a fantastic new @wired.com newsletter from @jakelahut.writes.news, is out now.

What do GOP insiders hope Silicon Valley's elite learn from Elon's political flameout? Be less like Musk, and more like Peter Thiel.

www.wired.com/story/peter-...

Photos: Here Are the Piles of Used Bedding and Children's Play Sets Left Near DOGE's Old Offices Elon Musk’s DOGE minions have largely moved out of the General Services Administration. A dystopian scene of bedding and discarded kids' toys remains.

SCOOP: Elon Musk’s DOGE minions have largely moved out of the General Services Administration. A dystopian scene of bedding and discarded kids' toys remains -- and we've got the pictures.

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This has been a hell of a year to work at WIRED; while AI and malevolent oligarchs have been eating journalism and the internet alive, the support the public has shown us shows that rigorous, fact-finding work by and for humans beats slop, and we have a lot more coming for our beloved subscribers.

WIRED is hiring! We're looking for a senior writer to cover the frontiers of scientific advancement—breakthroughs in space tech, quantum science, nanotechnology, batteries, and more—and the people and companies behind them.

This role is based in our London office.

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The GOP's Message for Tech Billionaires: Be Like Peter Thiel One lesson Republican insiders took away from Elon Musk's spectacular flameout? Be wary of billionaires who love the spotlight.

Introducing my new premium newsletter for
@wired.com, Inner Loop.

This inaugural edition is right in the wheelhouse of what you can expect — the intersection of Trumpworld and Silicon Valley billionaires — but if you'll indulge me in a thread on our new subscription.. www.wired.com/story/peter-...