Katie Drummond

There Are Few Things Harry Styles Has to Himself. Running Is One of Them. The global pop superstar chats with legendary author and fellow marathoner Haruki Murakami on the sublime simplicity of running—and how it nourishes the creative life.

I give so much credit to the @runnersworld.bsky.social editorial team for getting Harry Styles to do their cover -- in conversation with Murakami, no less! -- impressive.

@carolinehaskins.bsky.social did some really really thorough reporting here, highly recommend a read:

Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei’s Death Sparks Revolt Among Kalshi Customers How Kalshi decided to settle a market tied to Iran’s Supreme Leader prompted anger among traders who felt the rules weren’t clear.

Maybe we shouldn't be doing this:

How Journalists Are Reporting From Iran With No Internet After strikes killed senior Iranian officials, Iran cut off internet access. Journalists are relying on satellite links, encrypted apps and smuggled footage to report from inside the country.

"The right of information is always the first casualty when the government [prioritises] its security objectives."

When the Internet Goes Dark, the Truth Goes With It Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad on bearing witness, the fragile power of social media, and why documenting lived reality matters more than ever.

Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad on bearing witness, the fragile power of social media, and why documenting lived reality matters more than ever. www.wired.com/story/plesti...

The 5 Big ‘Known Unknowns’ of Donald Trump’s New War With Iran The all-out air assault on the Islamic Republic might be the biggest gamble of the president’s career.

What history teaches us about Trump's new war, and what could be next— @vermontgmg.bsky.social explores the known unknowns www.wired.com/story/5-big-...

X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israel’s Attack on Iran WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

“Almost all of the most viral posts reviewed by WIRED on Saturday came from accounts with blue check marks, meaning they…could be eligible to earn money based on how much engagement their posts generate, even if the content is false.”

From @davidgilbert.bsky.social

Hacked Prayer App Sends ‘Surrender’ Messages to Iranians Amid Israeli Strikes As Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran this morning, Iranians received mysterious push notifications saying that “help is on the way,” promising amnesty if they surrender.

NEW: Iranians received a message saying "help is on the way" and promising amnesty if they surrender via a hacked prayer-timer app called "BadeSaba Calendar." Reporting by @wired.com Middle East: www.wired.com/story/hacked...

WIRED’s team in the Middle East, based in Dubai, are working with freelancers across the region to cover this story as it develops. Follow their incredible work. >>>

United States and Israeli forces have launched military strikes against Iran, with President Donald Trump calling the attacks a “major combat operation” against the Iranian regime.

🔗 www.wired.com/story/us-ira...

OpenAI Fires an Employee for Prediction Market Insider Trading Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.

SCOOP: OpenAI fired an employee for their prediction market activity www.wired.com/story/openai...

YES!

Tin Can Is a Dumb Phone for Kids. Can Someone Teach Them How to Use It? With its twirly cord and landline-like features, the Tin Can is giving kids a crash course in phone etiquette. For example: Talk!

Great, fun piece, though it did remind me that the Tin Can we ordered for our daughter is still not shipped. (And that once it arrives, I'll have to teach her how to actually talk on the phone, which is not something kids learn anymore!)

I'm so proud of the entire @wired.com team for four ASME nominations, including General Excellence. The most nominations for WIRED in at least a decade! Everyone here earned all of this and more, so today we brag!

A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

SCOOP: An X account called Johnny MAGA with 300k followers that described the Obamas-as-apes video as "a masterpiece" appears to be a sockpuppet account for a White House rapid-reaction staffer. @makenakelly.bsky.social has all the details:

Looks like this poster was inspired by our story www.wired.com/story/grok-i... and ongoing Grok reporting.

Poster artist, if you’re reading this, please get in touch! You can email us at mail@wired.com or Signal one of our editors at timmarchman.01.

College Campuses Are in Upheaval Over Faculty Ties to Epstein From small art schools to large public universities, the new DOJ release of emails reveals just how deep the financier’s influence in academia went. Students are demanding accountability.

The Epstein documents released weeks ago are full of university administrators, professors, and trustees. With students demanding transparency and accountability from their schools, academia faces a nationwide reckoning over how it courts and indulges deep-pocketed benefactors.

The Righteous EV Owners Who Won’t Let Their Broken Cars Die Fisker went out of business in 2024, but its biggest fans want to bring the “right to repair” to the masses.

I spent many months wondering why every other Uber I got was a Fisker Ocean. @aarianmarshall.bsky.social answered that question and MUCH MORE in this fantastic story about what happens when your car's company goes bust...

‘Narco-Submarine’ Carrying 4 Tons of Cocaine Captured by Mexico's Navy Following increased surveillance and patrols of routes used by transnational drug-trafficking networks, Mexican authorities have seized approximately 10 tons of cocaine in the past week alone.

sometimes you just have to write a headline with “4 tons of cocaine” in it www.wired.com/story/narco-...

They Bet Against Trump’s Tariffs. Now They Stand to Make Millions After the US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s tariff regime, investment firms are in line for a whopping return on a niche trade.

“We were like, [Trump] is capriciously applying the law,” says Thomas Braziel, founder of investment firm 117 Partners, who says he purchased $925,000 worth of tariff refund claims with his own money. “That was the play.” www.wired.com/story/they-b...

DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition.

NEW: Homeland Security officials are asking companies to help them combine all of their face and fingerprint systems together into one giant biometric platform.

Buttttttt it's unclear how workable this really is since DHS uses a wide mishmash of proprietary algos.

Trump’s Commerce Secretary Loves Tariffs. His Former Investment Bank Is Taking Bets Against Them A subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, which is run by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, is letting clients essentially bet that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will be struck down in cou...

Big day for Howard Lutnick's large adult sons

Metadata Exposes Authors of ICE’s ‘Mega’ Detention Center Plans Comments and other data left on a PDF detailing Homeland Security’s proposal to build “mega” detention and processing centers reveal the personnel involved in its creation.

Good to know that the US agency tasked with safeguarding Americans against terrorism and cyber threats, among other things, doesn't even have a handle on metadata.

Plestia Alaqad: When the Internet Goes Dark, the Truth Goes With It Plestia Alaqad on bearing witness, the fragile power of social media and why documenting lived reality matters more than ever.

"Killing journalists means killing and silencing the truth."

Read this powerful interview with Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad, whose online dispatches from Gaza helped change public perception - especially in the west - about what was unfolding on the ground:

An FBI ‘Asset’ Helped Run a Dark Web Site That Sold Fentanyl-Laced Drugs for Years A staffer of the Incognito dark web market was secretly controlled by the FBI—and still allegedly approved the sale of fentanyl-tainted pills, including those from a dealer linked to a confirmed death...

The FBI secretly controlled a staffer at a dark web drug market that did $100 million in sales. The informant allegedly approved the sale of drugs even after warnings they were tainted with fentanyl—including from a vendor whose pills led to a confirmed fatal overdose. www.wired.com/story/an-fbi...

Bookmarking this article for later, but let's just say that it's been a long time since a picture lede made me put my head down on my desk and laugh helplessly, kudos to whoever at @wired.com conceived, greenlit and executed this

Mindy...bless you.

Inside the Rolling Layoffs at Jack Dorsey’s Block Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, where layoffs continue and employees are expected to use AI tools daily.

"Rather than a one-off event, management has slowly enacted the firings over the course of weeks and told employees that the process will continue through the end of this month."

How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

News you can use, from the @wired.com security team (who are the best in the biz).

They asked technologists, activists, aid groups, and cybersecurity experts for guidance on how to organize and collaborate in an age of surveillance. Here’s the result:

DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir “If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.

A billion-dollar tab. Is that good?