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New Yorkers have known for a long time that going to a game or concert at Madison Square Garden meant surrendering some privacy. That, as you watched the show, the Garden in a real sense watched you.

Owner James Dolan has watchlists of basketball fans who dared criticize his management. He keeps a close eye on his other venues too, including Radio City Music Hall and The Sphere in Las Vegas.

For this story, WIRED goes deep inside the security operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. We spoke with seven current and former employees of Dolan’s security service, and we reviewed some of their confidential internal reports and Signal group chat messages.

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The news business isn’t just any business — it serves a vital role in our democracy, recognized by the First Amendment. But media outlets can’t serve that role if they’re bankrupt. And as a result, news readers often find themselves blocked by paywalls from reading important stories about government business.

"That experience is particularly frustrating for readers who are unable to access the groundbreaking investigative reports outlets like Wired magazine have been publishing, particularly over the first couple months of the Trump administration," the Freedom of the Press Foundation release reads. "Fortunately, Wired has a solution — it’s going to stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act."

Access to journalism based on public records is more important than ever at this moment, with government websites and records disappearing, DOGE doing its best to operate outside the public’s view, and the National Archive in disarray.

We’re excited to be the first publication to partner with @freedomofthepressfoundation to offer this for our new coverage. And if you want to support our journalism directly, you can do so by tapping the 🔗 in bio to subscribe.

The news business isn’t just any business — it serves a vital role in our democracy, recognized by the First Amendment. But media outlets can’t serve that role if they’re bankrupt. And as a result, news readers often find themselves blocked by paywalls from reading important stories about government business.

"That experience is particularly frustrating for readers who are unable to access the groundbreaking investigative reports outlets like Wired magazine have been publishing, particularly over the first couple months of the Trump administration," the Freedom of the Press Foundation release reads. "Fortunately, Wired has a solution — it’s going to stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act."

Access to journalism based on public records is more important than ever at this moment, with government websites and records disappearing, DOGE doing its best to operate outside the public’s view, and the National Archive in disarray.

We’re excited to be the first publication to partner with @freedomofthepressfoundation to offer this for our new coverage. And if you want to support our journalism directly, you can do so by tapping the 🔗 in bio to subscribe.

The news business isn’t just any business — it serves a vital role in our democracy, recognized by the First Amendment. But media outlets can’t serve that role if they’re bankrupt. And as a result, news readers often find themselves blocked by paywalls from reading important stories about government business.

"That experience is particularly frustrating for readers who are unable to access the groundbreaking investigative reports outlets like Wired magazine have been publishing, particularly over the first couple months of the Trump administration," the Freedom of the Press Foundation release reads. "Fortunately, Wired has a solution — it’s going to stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act."

Access to journalism based on public records is more important than ever at this moment, with government websites and records disappearing, DOGE doing its best to operate outside the public’s view, and the National Archive in disarray.

We’re excited to be the first publication to partner with @freedomofthepressfoundation to offer this for our new coverage. And if you want to support our journalism directly, you can do so by tapping the 🔗 in bio to subscribe.

As passengers return to the US from the cruise that saw a rare hantavirus outbreak, much of the country is lacking a basic public health tool: a test to diagnose the illness in the earliest stages of infection. Nebraska may be the first state with the ability to do so.

In just a few days, a lab at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha developed its own diagnostic test for the Andes virus in anticipation of receiving 16 American passengers from the ship.

“I believe we might be the only lab in the nation that has this test available at the moment,” Peter Iwen, director of the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory tells WIRED, referring to polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing, which was important during the Covid-19 pandemic. Its ability to detect tiny quantities of the virus before patients have full-blown symptoms makes it crucial for identifying cases quickly, getting patients prompt medical treatment, and preventing the spread of disease.

The university’s medical center is home to a highly specialized biocontainment unit designed to care for patients with severe infectious diseases that lack vaccines or treatments. Staff members previously treated patients during the 2014 Ebola outbreak and cared for some of the first Americans diagnosed with Covid in 2020.

When Nebraska was notified that it would be receiving some of the passengers, Iwen contacted the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to see if it had tests on hand. He learned that the CDC has the ability to run a serological test, which looks for the presence of hantavirus antibodies. But people don’t develop antibodies until they are actively sick and their body has had time to mount an immune response.

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QR codes are at the center of the latest conspiracy theory in Georgia’s elections. And it’s largely thanks to Garland Favorito, a man who has spent decades trying to get people to listen to his conspiracy theories about insecure voting machines being used to rig elections in Georgia.

When Georgia became the epicenter of election denial conspiracy theories in 2020, Favorito became an overnight superstar in the election denial community, and an integral part of the vast network of groups across the country that sprang up to promote the baseless claim that US elections are rigged. In Georgia, he claimed that the use of QR codes on ballots could rig elections. In 2024, the state legislature approved a bill banning their use.

Now, with six months to go to the midterms elections, lawmakers in Georgia have failed to approve a system to replace the QR codes. Favorito and his allies are using this opportunity to push for the removal of voting machines entirely, a key demand of election conspiracy theorists who have long claimed that nefarious forces have used the machines to rig elections against President Donald Trump.

These conspiracy theories go back many years. In 2019, Georgia introduced a new election system, spending $107 million on new Dominion voting machines. The new system had voters use a touchscreen to make their selections rather than hand-marking their ballots. Once completed, the machine spits out a paper ballot that includes both a human-readable summary of their selections and a QR code that encodes the same information. Voters can check that their selections have been recorded accurately before feeding the ballot into a tabulator, which reads the QR code to count the votes.

Critics of the use of QR codes—which include everyone from election deniers to computer scientists—claim that because humans cannot read the digital code, there is no way of knowing that the results encoded in it are the same as those printed on the ballot.

While most critics admit there is no evidence that they have been used successfully to rig elections, Favorito has claimed otherwise.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

QR codes are at the center of the latest conspiracy theory in Georgia’s elections. And it’s largely thanks to Garland Favorito, a man who has spent decades trying to get people to listen to his conspiracy theories about insecure voting machines being used to rig elections in Georgia.

When Georgia became the epicenter of election denial conspiracy theories in 2020, Favorito became an overnight superstar in the election denial community, and an integral part of the vast network of groups across the country that sprang up to promote the baseless claim that US elections are rigged. In Georgia, he claimed that the use of QR codes on ballots could rig elections. In 2024, the state legislature approved a bill banning their use.

Now, with six months to go to the midterms elections, lawmakers in Georgia have failed to approve a system to replace the QR codes. Favorito and his allies are using this opportunity to push for the removal of voting machines entirely, a key demand of election conspiracy theorists who have long claimed that nefarious forces have used the machines to rig elections against President Donald Trump.

These conspiracy theories go back many years. In 2019, Georgia introduced a new election system, spending $107 million on new Dominion voting machines. The new system had voters use a touchscreen to make their selections rather than hand-marking their ballots. Once completed, the machine spits out a paper ballot that includes both a human-readable summary of their selections and a QR code that encodes the same information. Voters can check that their selections have been recorded accurately before feeding the ballot into a tabulator, which reads the QR code to count the votes.

Critics of the use of QR codes—which include everyone from election deniers to computer scientists—claim that because humans cannot read the digital code, there is no way of knowing that the results encoded in it are the same as those printed on the ballot.

While most critics admit there is no evidence that they have been used successfully to rig elections, Favorito has claimed otherwise.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

QR codes are at the center of the latest conspiracy theory in Georgia’s elections. And it’s largely thanks to Garland Favorito, a man who has spent decades trying to get people to listen to his conspiracy theories about insecure voting machines being used to rig elections in Georgia.

When Georgia became the epicenter of election denial conspiracy theories in 2020, Favorito became an overnight superstar in the election denial community, and an integral part of the vast network of groups across the country that sprang up to promote the baseless claim that US elections are rigged. In Georgia, he claimed that the use of QR codes on ballots could rig elections. In 2024, the state legislature approved a bill banning their use.

Now, with six months to go to the midterms elections, lawmakers in Georgia have failed to approve a system to replace the QR codes. Favorito and his allies are using this opportunity to push for the removal of voting machines entirely, a key demand of election conspiracy theorists who have long claimed that nefarious forces have used the machines to rig elections against President Donald Trump.

These conspiracy theories go back many years. In 2019, Georgia introduced a new election system, spending $107 million on new Dominion voting machines. The new system had voters use a touchscreen to make their selections rather than hand-marking their ballots. Once completed, the machine spits out a paper ballot that includes both a human-readable summary of their selections and a QR code that encodes the same information. Voters can check that their selections have been recorded accurately before feeding the ballot into a tabulator, which reads the QR code to count the votes.

Critics of the use of QR codes—which include everyone from election deniers to computer scientists—claim that because humans cannot read the digital code, there is no way of knowing that the results encoded in it are the same as those printed on the ballot.

While most critics admit there is no evidence that they have been used successfully to rig elections, Favorito has claimed otherwise.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

QR codes are at the center of the latest conspiracy theory in Georgia’s elections. And it’s largely thanks to Garland Favorito, a man who has spent decades trying to get people to listen to his conspiracy theories about insecure voting machines being used to rig elections in Georgia.

When Georgia became the epicenter of election denial conspiracy theories in 2020, Favorito became an overnight superstar in the election denial community, and an integral part of the vast network of groups across the country that sprang up to promote the baseless claim that US elections are rigged. In Georgia, he claimed that the use of QR codes on ballots could rig elections. In 2024, the state legislature approved a bill banning their use.

Now, with six months to go to the midterms elections, lawmakers in Georgia have failed to approve a system to replace the QR codes. Favorito and his allies are using this opportunity to push for the removal of voting machines entirely, a key demand of election conspiracy theorists who have long claimed that nefarious forces have used the machines to rig elections against President Donald Trump.

These conspiracy theories go back many years. In 2019, Georgia introduced a new election system, spending $107 million on new Dominion voting machines. The new system had voters use a touchscreen to make their selections rather than hand-marking their ballots. Once completed, the machine spits out a paper ballot that includes both a human-readable summary of their selections and a QR code that encodes the same information. Voters can check that their selections have been recorded accurately before feeding the ballot into a tabulator, which reads the QR code to count the votes.

Critics of the use of QR codes—which include everyone from election deniers to computer scientists—claim that because humans cannot read the digital code, there is no way of knowing that the results encoded in it are the same as those printed on the ballot.

While most critics admit there is no evidence that they have been used successfully to rig elections, Favorito has claimed otherwise.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

QR codes are at the center of the latest conspiracy theory in Georgia’s elections. And it’s largely thanks to Garland Favorito, a man who has spent decades trying to get people to listen to his conspiracy theories about insecure voting machines being used to rig elections in Georgia.

When Georgia became the epicenter of election denial conspiracy theories in 2020, Favorito became an overnight superstar in the election denial community, and an integral part of the vast network of groups across the country that sprang up to promote the baseless claim that US elections are rigged. In Georgia, he claimed that the use of QR codes on ballots could rig elections. In 2024, the state legislature approved a bill banning their use.

Now, with six months to go to the midterms elections, lawmakers in Georgia have failed to approve a system to replace the QR codes. Favorito and his allies are using this opportunity to push for the removal of voting machines entirely, a key demand of election conspiracy theorists who have long claimed that nefarious forces have used the machines to rig elections against President Donald Trump.

These conspiracy theories go back many years. In 2019, Georgia introduced a new election system, spending $107 million on new Dominion voting machines. The new system had voters use a touchscreen to make their selections rather than hand-marking their ballots. Once completed, the machine spits out a paper ballot that includes both a human-readable summary of their selections and a QR code that encodes the same information. Voters can check that their selections have been recorded accurately before feeding the ballot into a tabulator, which reads the QR code to count the votes.

Critics of the use of QR codes—which include everyone from election deniers to computer scientists—claim that because humans cannot read the digital code, there is no way of knowing that the results encoded in it are the same as those printed on the ballot.

While most critics admit there is no evidence that they have been used successfully to rig elections, Favorito has claimed otherwise.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

QR codes are at the center of the latest conspiracy theory in Georgia’s elections. And it’s largely thanks to Garland Favorito, a man who has spent decades trying to get people to listen to his conspiracy theories about insecure voting machines being used to rig elections in Georgia.

When Georgia became the epicenter of election denial conspiracy theories in 2020, Favorito became an overnight superstar in the election denial community, and an integral part of the vast network of groups across the country that sprang up to promote the baseless claim that US elections are rigged. In Georgia, he claimed that the use of QR codes on ballots could rig elections. In 2024, the state legislature approved a bill banning their use.

Now, with six months to go to the midterms elections, lawmakers in Georgia have failed to approve a system to replace the QR codes. Favorito and his allies are using this opportunity to push for the removal of voting machines entirely, a key demand of election conspiracy theorists who have long claimed that nefarious forces have used the machines to rig elections against President Donald Trump.

These conspiracy theories go back many years. In 2019, Georgia introduced a new election system, spending $107 million on new Dominion voting machines. The new system had voters use a touchscreen to make their selections rather than hand-marking their ballots. Once completed, the machine spits out a paper ballot that includes both a human-readable summary of their selections and a QR code that encodes the same information. Voters can check that their selections have been recorded accurately before feeding the ballot into a tabulator, which reads the QR code to count the votes.

Critics of the use of QR codes—which include everyone from election deniers to computer scientists—claim that because humans cannot read the digital code, there is no way of knowing that the results encoded in it are the same as those printed on the ballot.

While most critics admit there is no evidence that they have been used successfully to rig elections, Favorito has claimed otherwise.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

QR codes are at the center of the latest conspiracy theory in Georgia’s elections. And it’s largely thanks to Garland Favorito, a man who has spent decades trying to get people to listen to his conspiracy theories about insecure voting machines being used to rig elections in Georgia.

When Georgia became the epicenter of election denial conspiracy theories in 2020, Favorito became an overnight superstar in the election denial community, and an integral part of the vast network of groups across the country that sprang up to promote the baseless claim that US elections are rigged. In Georgia, he claimed that the use of QR codes on ballots could rig elections. In 2024, the state legislature approved a bill banning their use.

Now, with six months to go to the midterms elections, lawmakers in Georgia have failed to approve a system to replace the QR codes. Favorito and his allies are using this opportunity to push for the removal of voting machines entirely, a key demand of election conspiracy theorists who have long claimed that nefarious forces have used the machines to rig elections against President Donald Trump.

These conspiracy theories go back many years. In 2019, Georgia introduced a new election system, spending $107 million on new Dominion voting machines. The new system had voters use a touchscreen to make their selections rather than hand-marking their ballots. Once completed, the machine spits out a paper ballot that includes both a human-readable summary of their selections and a QR code that encodes the same information. Voters can check that their selections have been recorded accurately before feeding the ballot into a tabulator, which reads the QR code to count the votes.

Critics of the use of QR codes—which include everyone from election deniers to computer scientists—claim that because humans cannot read the digital code, there is no way of knowing that the results encoded in it are the same as those printed on the ballot.

While most critics admit there is no evidence that they have been used successfully to rig elections, Favorito has claimed otherwise.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

China’s Unitree, famous for making low-cost dancing robots, will now sell you a giant, wall-smashing mecha.

The company has unveiled the GD01, a massive transforming mecha shown spider-walking, bending backwards, and tearing through cinder blocks in a dramatic promo video. While its humanoids are limited to performing relatively simple actions autonomously, the GD01 seems to be built more for destruction, publicity, and aura farming than practical use.

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The complaints, obtained by WIRED following a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), described Bad Bunny’s performance as being overly sexual and protested that the show was in Spanish.

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Poll q: Is your husband obsessed with AI?

There’s a strange and under-discussed side effect of the AI boom: what it’s doing to family dynamics. By which we mean: how it’s potentially destroying family dynamics.

We’re sure this applies to all kinds of families, gay or straight, rich or poor, with any AI-pilled members. The technology is coming, has come, for us all. But for the purposes of this story, we mostly spoke to white-collar heteros in the Bay Area, because that’s where a certain psychological crisis seems most acute. Often it goes like this: He works in AI, and she does everything and anything else. Other times, it’s bleaker: He desperately wants to work in AI—or feels he must work in AI—and she wants him to do literally anything else.

Either way, the men go in and the women want out. How many? It depends on how you define “working in AI.” About 71 percent of “AI-skilled workers,” according to one report, are men, and there are roughly 35,000 open AI roles in the US at any given moment. Broaden that to include investors and you’re adding thousands more. Broaden it further to include every man who has mentioned to his wife that he is “looking at some opportunities in the space”—and we’re in the millions. Conservatively, that means hundreds of thousands of spouses, partners, and girlfriends, holding down the fort while someone man-splains the singularity to them.

There’s a name for these ranks, and the writer of this story, Alessandra Ram counts herself among them: the sad wives of AI.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

🎨: @cat_sims

Poll q: Is your husband obsessed with AI?

There’s a strange and under-discussed side effect of the AI boom: what it’s doing to family dynamics. By which we mean: how it’s potentially destroying family dynamics.

We’re sure this applies to all kinds of families, gay or straight, rich or poor, with any AI-pilled members. The technology is coming, has come, for us all. But for the purposes of this story, we mostly spoke to white-collar heteros in the Bay Area, because that’s where a certain psychological crisis seems most acute. Often it goes like this: He works in AI, and she does everything and anything else. Other times, it’s bleaker: He desperately wants to work in AI—or feels he must work in AI—and she wants him to do literally anything else.

Either way, the men go in and the women want out. How many? It depends on how you define “working in AI.” About 71 percent of “AI-skilled workers,” according to one report, are men, and there are roughly 35,000 open AI roles in the US at any given moment. Broaden that to include investors and you’re adding thousands more. Broaden it further to include every man who has mentioned to his wife that he is “looking at some opportunities in the space”—and we’re in the millions. Conservatively, that means hundreds of thousands of spouses, partners, and girlfriends, holding down the fort while someone man-splains the singularity to them.

There’s a name for these ranks, and the writer of this story, Alessandra Ram counts herself among them: the sad wives of AI.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

🎨: @cat_sims

Poll q: Is your husband obsessed with AI?

There’s a strange and under-discussed side effect of the AI boom: what it’s doing to family dynamics. By which we mean: how it’s potentially destroying family dynamics.

We’re sure this applies to all kinds of families, gay or straight, rich or poor, with any AI-pilled members. The technology is coming, has come, for us all. But for the purposes of this story, we mostly spoke to white-collar heteros in the Bay Area, because that’s where a certain psychological crisis seems most acute. Often it goes like this: He works in AI, and she does everything and anything else. Other times, it’s bleaker: He desperately wants to work in AI—or feels he must work in AI—and she wants him to do literally anything else.

Either way, the men go in and the women want out. How many? It depends on how you define “working in AI.” About 71 percent of “AI-skilled workers,” according to one report, are men, and there are roughly 35,000 open AI roles in the US at any given moment. Broaden that to include investors and you’re adding thousands more. Broaden it further to include every man who has mentioned to his wife that he is “looking at some opportunities in the space”—and we’re in the millions. Conservatively, that means hundreds of thousands of spouses, partners, and girlfriends, holding down the fort while someone man-splains the singularity to them.

There’s a name for these ranks, and the writer of this story, Alessandra Ram counts herself among them: the sad wives of AI.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

🎨: @cat_sims

Poll q: Is your husband obsessed with AI?

There’s a strange and under-discussed side effect of the AI boom: what it’s doing to family dynamics. By which we mean: how it’s potentially destroying family dynamics.

We’re sure this applies to all kinds of families, gay or straight, rich or poor, with any AI-pilled members. The technology is coming, has come, for us all. But for the purposes of this story, we mostly spoke to white-collar heteros in the Bay Area, because that’s where a certain psychological crisis seems most acute. Often it goes like this: He works in AI, and she does everything and anything else. Other times, it’s bleaker: He desperately wants to work in AI—or feels he must work in AI—and she wants him to do literally anything else.

Either way, the men go in and the women want out. How many? It depends on how you define “working in AI.” About 71 percent of “AI-skilled workers,” according to one report, are men, and there are roughly 35,000 open AI roles in the US at any given moment. Broaden that to include investors and you’re adding thousands more. Broaden it further to include every man who has mentioned to his wife that he is “looking at some opportunities in the space”—and we’re in the millions. Conservatively, that means hundreds of thousands of spouses, partners, and girlfriends, holding down the fort while someone man-splains the singularity to them.

There’s a name for these ranks, and the writer of this story, Alessandra Ram counts herself among them: the sad wives of AI.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

🎨: @cat_sims

Poll q: Is your husband obsessed with AI?

There’s a strange and under-discussed side effect of the AI boom: what it’s doing to family dynamics. By which we mean: how it’s potentially destroying family dynamics.

We’re sure this applies to all kinds of families, gay or straight, rich or poor, with any AI-pilled members. The technology is coming, has come, for us all. But for the purposes of this story, we mostly spoke to white-collar heteros in the Bay Area, because that’s where a certain psychological crisis seems most acute. Often it goes like this: He works in AI, and she does everything and anything else. Other times, it’s bleaker: He desperately wants to work in AI—or feels he must work in AI—and she wants him to do literally anything else.

Either way, the men go in and the women want out. How many? It depends on how you define “working in AI.” About 71 percent of “AI-skilled workers,” according to one report, are men, and there are roughly 35,000 open AI roles in the US at any given moment. Broaden that to include investors and you’re adding thousands more. Broaden it further to include every man who has mentioned to his wife that he is “looking at some opportunities in the space”—and we’re in the millions. Conservatively, that means hundreds of thousands of spouses, partners, and girlfriends, holding down the fort while someone man-splains the singularity to them.

There’s a name for these ranks, and the writer of this story, Alessandra Ram counts herself among them: the sad wives of AI.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

🎨: @cat_sims

Poll q: Is your husband obsessed with AI?

There’s a strange and under-discussed side effect of the AI boom: what it’s doing to family dynamics. By which we mean: how it’s potentially destroying family dynamics.

We’re sure this applies to all kinds of families, gay or straight, rich or poor, with any AI-pilled members. The technology is coming, has come, for us all. But for the purposes of this story, we mostly spoke to white-collar heteros in the Bay Area, because that’s where a certain psychological crisis seems most acute. Often it goes like this: He works in AI, and she does everything and anything else. Other times, it’s bleaker: He desperately wants to work in AI—or feels he must work in AI—and she wants him to do literally anything else.

Either way, the men go in and the women want out. How many? It depends on how you define “working in AI.” About 71 percent of “AI-skilled workers,” according to one report, are men, and there are roughly 35,000 open AI roles in the US at any given moment. Broaden that to include investors and you’re adding thousands more. Broaden it further to include every man who has mentioned to his wife that he is “looking at some opportunities in the space”—and we’re in the millions. Conservatively, that means hundreds of thousands of spouses, partners, and girlfriends, holding down the fort while someone man-splains the singularity to them.

There’s a name for these ranks, and the writer of this story, Alessandra Ram counts herself among them: the sad wives of AI.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

🎨: @cat_sims

Poll q: Is your husband obsessed with AI?

There’s a strange and under-discussed side effect of the AI boom: what it’s doing to family dynamics. By which we mean: how it’s potentially destroying family dynamics.

We’re sure this applies to all kinds of families, gay or straight, rich or poor, with any AI-pilled members. The technology is coming, has come, for us all. But for the purposes of this story, we mostly spoke to white-collar heteros in the Bay Area, because that’s where a certain psychological crisis seems most acute. Often it goes like this: He works in AI, and she does everything and anything else. Other times, it’s bleaker: He desperately wants to work in AI—or feels he must work in AI—and she wants him to do literally anything else.

Either way, the men go in and the women want out. How many? It depends on how you define “working in AI.” About 71 percent of “AI-skilled workers,” according to one report, are men, and there are roughly 35,000 open AI roles in the US at any given moment. Broaden that to include investors and you’re adding thousands more. Broaden it further to include every man who has mentioned to his wife that he is “looking at some opportunities in the space”—and we’re in the millions. Conservatively, that means hundreds of thousands of spouses, partners, and girlfriends, holding down the fort while someone man-splains the singularity to them.

There’s a name for these ranks, and the writer of this story, Alessandra Ram counts herself among them: the sad wives of AI.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

🎨: @cat_sims

Poll q: Is your husband obsessed with AI?

There’s a strange and under-discussed side effect of the AI boom: what it’s doing to family dynamics. By which we mean: how it’s potentially destroying family dynamics.

We’re sure this applies to all kinds of families, gay or straight, rich or poor, with any AI-pilled members. The technology is coming, has come, for us all. But for the purposes of this story, we mostly spoke to white-collar heteros in the Bay Area, because that’s where a certain psychological crisis seems most acute. Often it goes like this: He works in AI, and she does everything and anything else. Other times, it’s bleaker: He desperately wants to work in AI—or feels he must work in AI—and she wants him to do literally anything else.

Either way, the men go in and the women want out. How many? It depends on how you define “working in AI.” About 71 percent of “AI-skilled workers,” according to one report, are men, and there are roughly 35,000 open AI roles in the US at any given moment. Broaden that to include investors and you’re adding thousands more. Broaden it further to include every man who has mentioned to his wife that he is “looking at some opportunities in the space”—and we’re in the millions. Conservatively, that means hundreds of thousands of spouses, partners, and girlfriends, holding down the fort while someone man-splains the singularity to them.

There’s a name for these ranks, and the writer of this story, Alessandra Ram counts herself among them: the sad wives of AI.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

🎨: @cat_sims

Poll q: Is your husband obsessed with AI?

There’s a strange and under-discussed side effect of the AI boom: what it’s doing to family dynamics. By which we mean: how it’s potentially destroying family dynamics.

We’re sure this applies to all kinds of families, gay or straight, rich or poor, with any AI-pilled members. The technology is coming, has come, for us all. But for the purposes of this story, we mostly spoke to white-collar heteros in the Bay Area, because that’s where a certain psychological crisis seems most acute. Often it goes like this: He works in AI, and she does everything and anything else. Other times, it’s bleaker: He desperately wants to work in AI—or feels he must work in AI—and she wants him to do literally anything else.

Either way, the men go in and the women want out. How many? It depends on how you define “working in AI.” About 71 percent of “AI-skilled workers,” according to one report, are men, and there are roughly 35,000 open AI roles in the US at any given moment. Broaden that to include investors and you’re adding thousands more. Broaden it further to include every man who has mentioned to his wife that he is “looking at some opportunities in the space”—and we’re in the millions. Conservatively, that means hundreds of thousands of spouses, partners, and girlfriends, holding down the fort while someone man-splains the singularity to them.

There’s a name for these ranks, and the writer of this story, Alessandra Ram counts herself among them: the sad wives of AI.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

🎨: @cat_sims

Poll q: Is your husband obsessed with AI?

There’s a strange and under-discussed side effect of the AI boom: what it’s doing to family dynamics. By which we mean: how it’s potentially destroying family dynamics.

We’re sure this applies to all kinds of families, gay or straight, rich or poor, with any AI-pilled members. The technology is coming, has come, for us all. But for the purposes of this story, we mostly spoke to white-collar heteros in the Bay Area, because that’s where a certain psychological crisis seems most acute. Often it goes like this: He works in AI, and she does everything and anything else. Other times, it’s bleaker: He desperately wants to work in AI—or feels he must work in AI—and she wants him to do literally anything else.

Either way, the men go in and the women want out. How many? It depends on how you define “working in AI.” About 71 percent of “AI-skilled workers,” according to one report, are men, and there are roughly 35,000 open AI roles in the US at any given moment. Broaden that to include investors and you’re adding thousands more. Broaden it further to include every man who has mentioned to his wife that he is “looking at some opportunities in the space”—and we’re in the millions. Conservatively, that means hundreds of thousands of spouses, partners, and girlfriends, holding down the fort while someone man-splains the singularity to them.

There’s a name for these ranks, and the writer of this story, Alessandra Ram counts herself among them: the sad wives of AI.

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From a twisty lamp to a bendy clock, the Swedish company’s full 2026 PS Collection has dropped. It’s a boon for those looking to refine their homes and workstations.

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The home page for Moms.gov, the Trump administration’s recently launched website for “new and expecting mothers,” is a trad wife’s dream.

Featuring soft pastel graphics and a photo of a young, white, blond woman in a field clutching her pregnant belly, the website offers resources for women of reproductive age such as anti-abortion “pregnancy centers,” as well as a CDC website listing potential workplace hazards for expecting mothers without noting accompanying legal protections for pregnant women.

If you were conspiratorially minded, you might conclude from the website alone that the Trump administration is champing at the bit for young (white and blond) women to have as many (white and blond) babies as possible. But as it turns out, you don’t need to be conspiratorially minded at all to arrive at that conclusion, because on Monday, the president and senior health officials reiterated their hardline pronatalist agenda at a maternal health care event.

During the event, Trump announced a proposal for employers to offer a health care coverage option for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other fertility treatments, which are currently not included under most insurance plans. Though the plan would not mandate that employers offer such coverage, Trump said that he was deeply invested in expanding fertility options for women, declaring he had “learned everything” about female reproductive health and that he was “the father of fertility.”

This was not even the creepiest quote to emerge from the event. That honor goes to Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who proclaimed that the country was undergoing a fertility crisis that was a “threat to our national economy and our security.” As evidence, he cited factors such as endocrine disrupting chemicals, pesticides, and other potential contributors to hormonal imbalances causing infertility, maligning the “toxic soup that our young women are walking around in.”

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The home page for Moms.gov, the Trump administration’s recently launched website for “new and expecting mothers,” is a trad wife’s dream.

Featuring soft pastel graphics and a photo of a young, white, blond woman in a field clutching her pregnant belly, the website offers resources for women of reproductive age such as anti-abortion “pregnancy centers,” as well as a CDC website listing potential workplace hazards for expecting mothers without noting accompanying legal protections for pregnant women.

If you were conspiratorially minded, you might conclude from the website alone that the Trump administration is champing at the bit for young (white and blond) women to have as many (white and blond) babies as possible. But as it turns out, you don’t need to be conspiratorially minded at all to arrive at that conclusion, because on Monday, the president and senior health officials reiterated their hardline pronatalist agenda at a maternal health care event.

During the event, Trump announced a proposal for employers to offer a health care coverage option for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other fertility treatments, which are currently not included under most insurance plans. Though the plan would not mandate that employers offer such coverage, Trump said that he was deeply invested in expanding fertility options for women, declaring he had “learned everything” about female reproductive health and that he was “the father of fertility.”

This was not even the creepiest quote to emerge from the event. That honor goes to Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who proclaimed that the country was undergoing a fertility crisis that was a “threat to our national economy and our security.” As evidence, he cited factors such as endocrine disrupting chemicals, pesticides, and other potential contributors to hormonal imbalances causing infertility, maligning the “toxic soup that our young women are walking around in.”

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The home page for Moms.gov, the Trump administration’s recently launched website for “new and expecting mothers,” is a trad wife’s dream.

Featuring soft pastel graphics and a photo of a young, white, blond woman in a field clutching her pregnant belly, the website offers resources for women of reproductive age such as anti-abortion “pregnancy centers,” as well as a CDC website listing potential workplace hazards for expecting mothers without noting accompanying legal protections for pregnant women.

If you were conspiratorially minded, you might conclude from the website alone that the Trump administration is champing at the bit for young (white and blond) women to have as many (white and blond) babies as possible. But as it turns out, you don’t need to be conspiratorially minded at all to arrive at that conclusion, because on Monday, the president and senior health officials reiterated their hardline pronatalist agenda at a maternal health care event.

During the event, Trump announced a proposal for employers to offer a health care coverage option for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other fertility treatments, which are currently not included under most insurance plans. Though the plan would not mandate that employers offer such coverage, Trump said that he was deeply invested in expanding fertility options for women, declaring he had “learned everything” about female reproductive health and that he was “the father of fertility.”

This was not even the creepiest quote to emerge from the event. That honor goes to Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who proclaimed that the country was undergoing a fertility crisis that was a “threat to our national economy and our security.” As evidence, he cited factors such as endocrine disrupting chemicals, pesticides, and other potential contributors to hormonal imbalances causing infertility, maligning the “toxic soup that our young women are walking around in.”

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

The home page for Moms.gov, the Trump administration’s recently launched website for “new and expecting mothers,” is a trad wife’s dream.

Featuring soft pastel graphics and a photo of a young, white, blond woman in a field clutching her pregnant belly, the website offers resources for women of reproductive age such as anti-abortion “pregnancy centers,” as well as a CDC website listing potential workplace hazards for expecting mothers without noting accompanying legal protections for pregnant women.

If you were conspiratorially minded, you might conclude from the website alone that the Trump administration is champing at the bit for young (white and blond) women to have as many (white and blond) babies as possible. But as it turns out, you don’t need to be conspiratorially minded at all to arrive at that conclusion, because on Monday, the president and senior health officials reiterated their hardline pronatalist agenda at a maternal health care event.

During the event, Trump announced a proposal for employers to offer a health care coverage option for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other fertility treatments, which are currently not included under most insurance plans. Though the plan would not mandate that employers offer such coverage, Trump said that he was deeply invested in expanding fertility options for women, declaring he had “learned everything” about female reproductive health and that he was “the father of fertility.”

This was not even the creepiest quote to emerge from the event. That honor goes to Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who proclaimed that the country was undergoing a fertility crisis that was a “threat to our national economy and our security.” As evidence, he cited factors such as endocrine disrupting chemicals, pesticides, and other potential contributors to hormonal imbalances causing infertility, maligning the “toxic soup that our young women are walking around in.”

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

The home page for Moms.gov, the Trump administration’s recently launched website for “new and expecting mothers,” is a trad wife’s dream.

Featuring soft pastel graphics and a photo of a young, white, blond woman in a field clutching her pregnant belly, the website offers resources for women of reproductive age such as anti-abortion “pregnancy centers,” as well as a CDC website listing potential workplace hazards for expecting mothers without noting accompanying legal protections for pregnant women.

If you were conspiratorially minded, you might conclude from the website alone that the Trump administration is champing at the bit for young (white and blond) women to have as many (white and blond) babies as possible. But as it turns out, you don’t need to be conspiratorially minded at all to arrive at that conclusion, because on Monday, the president and senior health officials reiterated their hardline pronatalist agenda at a maternal health care event.

During the event, Trump announced a proposal for employers to offer a health care coverage option for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other fertility treatments, which are currently not included under most insurance plans. Though the plan would not mandate that employers offer such coverage, Trump said that he was deeply invested in expanding fertility options for women, declaring he had “learned everything” about female reproductive health and that he was “the father of fertility.”

This was not even the creepiest quote to emerge from the event. That honor goes to Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who proclaimed that the country was undergoing a fertility crisis that was a “threat to our national economy and our security.” As evidence, he cited factors such as endocrine disrupting chemicals, pesticides, and other potential contributors to hormonal imbalances causing infertility, maligning the “toxic soup that our young women are walking around in.”

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Nicole Iovine, an infectious-disease expert and epidemiologist at the University of Florida Health, discusses what hantavirus is, how it spreads, and whether it’s likely to spark another pandemic.

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Writer: Emily Mullin
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Nicole Iovine, an infectious-disease expert and epidemiologist at the University of Florida Health, discusses what hantavirus is, how it spreads, and whether it’s likely to spark another pandemic.

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Writer: Emily Mullin
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Nicole Iovine, an infectious-disease expert and epidemiologist at the University of Florida Health, discusses what hantavirus is, how it spreads, and whether it’s likely to spark another pandemic.

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Writer: Emily Mullin
Photo: Getty Images

Nicole Iovine, an infectious-disease expert and epidemiologist at the University of Florida Health, discusses what hantavirus is, how it spreads, and whether it’s likely to spark another pandemic.

Tap the link in bio to read more, via @wired.

Writer: Emily Mullin
Photo: Getty Images

Nicole Iovine, an infectious-disease expert and epidemiologist at the University of Florida Health, discusses what hantavirus is, how it spreads, and whether it’s likely to spark another pandemic.

Tap the link in bio to read more, via @wired.

Writer: Emily Mullin
Photo: Getty Images

Nicole Iovine, an infectious-disease expert and epidemiologist at the University of Florida Health, discusses what hantavirus is, how it spreads, and whether it’s likely to spark another pandemic.

Tap the link in bio to read more, via @wired.

Writer: Emily Mullin
Photo: Getty Images

Farrah was fed up with her vagina. For the past two years, the 29-year-old dancer from Ohio had been dealing with severe pelvic pain and vaginal odor. “It was like 8/10, horrible core pain,” she says. “I couldn’t lie down. I couldn’t even work an office job. It was bad.”

When she visited doctors, she told them what she thought the culprit was: an allergic reaction to soy oil in a vat of water she’d swam in during a pirate-themed dinner theater performance. But they didn’t believe her. “They attempted to fix it with antibiotics,” she says. “And they just did nothing.”

So Farrah (who requested we withhold her full name to speak freely about health matters) started Googling her symptoms. That’s how she stumbled on Neueve, a vaginal health company that provides supplements, suppositories, and at-home vaginal microbiome testing kits.

She ordered a test from the company for $150, and it came back with a diagnosis: aerobic vaginitis (AV), a bacterial infection caused by an overgrowth of E. coli or streptococcus. She ordered supplements the company recommended, and she says the pain abated almost immediately. “I was just so glad to actually know what was wrong,” she says.

Farrah is one of a growing number of women who have used at-home tests to self-diagnose issues with the vaginal microbiome—an ecosystem of bacteria growing inside the vagina; the presence of “good” bacteria correlates with lower risk of STIs and other types of infections, according to numerous studies.

Biohacker Bryan Johnson recently bragged about his girlfriend's “top 1%” vagina as the at-home vaginal microbiome test industry is thriving. But experts are skeptical.

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Farrah was fed up with her vagina. For the past two years, the 29-year-old dancer from Ohio had been dealing with severe pelvic pain and vaginal odor. “It was like 8/10, horrible core pain,” she says. “I couldn’t lie down. I couldn’t even work an office job. It was bad.”

When she visited doctors, she told them what she thought the culprit was: an allergic reaction to soy oil in a vat of water she’d swam in during a pirate-themed dinner theater performance. But they didn’t believe her. “They attempted to fix it with antibiotics,” she says. “And they just did nothing.”

So Farrah (who requested we withhold her full name to speak freely about health matters) started Googling her symptoms. That’s how she stumbled on Neueve, a vaginal health company that provides supplements, suppositories, and at-home vaginal microbiome testing kits.

She ordered a test from the company for $150, and it came back with a diagnosis: aerobic vaginitis (AV), a bacterial infection caused by an overgrowth of E. coli or streptococcus. She ordered supplements the company recommended, and she says the pain abated almost immediately. “I was just so glad to actually know what was wrong,” she says.

Farrah is one of a growing number of women who have used at-home tests to self-diagnose issues with the vaginal microbiome—an ecosystem of bacteria growing inside the vagina; the presence of “good” bacteria correlates with lower risk of STIs and other types of infections, according to numerous studies.

Biohacker Bryan Johnson recently bragged about his girlfriend's “top 1%” vagina as the at-home vaginal microbiome test industry is thriving. But experts are skeptical.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

Farrah was fed up with her vagina. For the past two years, the 29-year-old dancer from Ohio had been dealing with severe pelvic pain and vaginal odor. “It was like 8/10, horrible core pain,” she says. “I couldn’t lie down. I couldn’t even work an office job. It was bad.”

When she visited doctors, she told them what she thought the culprit was: an allergic reaction to soy oil in a vat of water she’d swam in during a pirate-themed dinner theater performance. But they didn’t believe her. “They attempted to fix it with antibiotics,” she says. “And they just did nothing.”

So Farrah (who requested we withhold her full name to speak freely about health matters) started Googling her symptoms. That’s how she stumbled on Neueve, a vaginal health company that provides supplements, suppositories, and at-home vaginal microbiome testing kits.

She ordered a test from the company for $150, and it came back with a diagnosis: aerobic vaginitis (AV), a bacterial infection caused by an overgrowth of E. coli or streptococcus. She ordered supplements the company recommended, and she says the pain abated almost immediately. “I was just so glad to actually know what was wrong,” she says.

Farrah is one of a growing number of women who have used at-home tests to self-diagnose issues with the vaginal microbiome—an ecosystem of bacteria growing inside the vagina; the presence of “good” bacteria correlates with lower risk of STIs and other types of infections, according to numerous studies.

Biohacker Bryan Johnson recently bragged about his girlfriend's “top 1%” vagina as the at-home vaginal microbiome test industry is thriving. But experts are skeptical.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

Farrah was fed up with her vagina. For the past two years, the 29-year-old dancer from Ohio had been dealing with severe pelvic pain and vaginal odor. “It was like 8/10, horrible core pain,” she says. “I couldn’t lie down. I couldn’t even work an office job. It was bad.”

When she visited doctors, she told them what she thought the culprit was: an allergic reaction to soy oil in a vat of water she’d swam in during a pirate-themed dinner theater performance. But they didn’t believe her. “They attempted to fix it with antibiotics,” she says. “And they just did nothing.”

So Farrah (who requested we withhold her full name to speak freely about health matters) started Googling her symptoms. That’s how she stumbled on Neueve, a vaginal health company that provides supplements, suppositories, and at-home vaginal microbiome testing kits.

She ordered a test from the company for $150, and it came back with a diagnosis: aerobic vaginitis (AV), a bacterial infection caused by an overgrowth of E. coli or streptococcus. She ordered supplements the company recommended, and she says the pain abated almost immediately. “I was just so glad to actually know what was wrong,” she says.

Farrah is one of a growing number of women who have used at-home tests to self-diagnose issues with the vaginal microbiome—an ecosystem of bacteria growing inside the vagina; the presence of “good” bacteria correlates with lower risk of STIs and other types of infections, according to numerous studies.

Biohacker Bryan Johnson recently bragged about his girlfriend's “top 1%” vagina as the at-home vaginal microbiome test industry is thriving. But experts are skeptical.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

Farrah was fed up with her vagina. For the past two years, the 29-year-old dancer from Ohio had been dealing with severe pelvic pain and vaginal odor. “It was like 8/10, horrible core pain,” she says. “I couldn’t lie down. I couldn’t even work an office job. It was bad.”

When she visited doctors, she told them what she thought the culprit was: an allergic reaction to soy oil in a vat of water she’d swam in during a pirate-themed dinner theater performance. But they didn’t believe her. “They attempted to fix it with antibiotics,” she says. “And they just did nothing.”

So Farrah (who requested we withhold her full name to speak freely about health matters) started Googling her symptoms. That’s how she stumbled on Neueve, a vaginal health company that provides supplements, suppositories, and at-home vaginal microbiome testing kits.

She ordered a test from the company for $150, and it came back with a diagnosis: aerobic vaginitis (AV), a bacterial infection caused by an overgrowth of E. coli or streptococcus. She ordered supplements the company recommended, and she says the pain abated almost immediately. “I was just so glad to actually know what was wrong,” she says.

Farrah is one of a growing number of women who have used at-home tests to self-diagnose issues with the vaginal microbiome—an ecosystem of bacteria growing inside the vagina; the presence of “good” bacteria correlates with lower risk of STIs and other types of infections, according to numerous studies.

Biohacker Bryan Johnson recently bragged about his girlfriend's “top 1%” vagina as the at-home vaginal microbiome test industry is thriving. But experts are skeptical.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

Farrah was fed up with her vagina. For the past two years, the 29-year-old dancer from Ohio had been dealing with severe pelvic pain and vaginal odor. “It was like 8/10, horrible core pain,” she says. “I couldn’t lie down. I couldn’t even work an office job. It was bad.”

When she visited doctors, she told them what she thought the culprit was: an allergic reaction to soy oil in a vat of water she’d swam in during a pirate-themed dinner theater performance. But they didn’t believe her. “They attempted to fix it with antibiotics,” she says. “And they just did nothing.”

So Farrah (who requested we withhold her full name to speak freely about health matters) started Googling her symptoms. That’s how she stumbled on Neueve, a vaginal health company that provides supplements, suppositories, and at-home vaginal microbiome testing kits.

She ordered a test from the company for $150, and it came back with a diagnosis: aerobic vaginitis (AV), a bacterial infection caused by an overgrowth of E. coli or streptococcus. She ordered supplements the company recommended, and she says the pain abated almost immediately. “I was just so glad to actually know what was wrong,” she says.

Farrah is one of a growing number of women who have used at-home tests to self-diagnose issues with the vaginal microbiome—an ecosystem of bacteria growing inside the vagina; the presence of “good” bacteria correlates with lower risk of STIs and other types of infections, according to numerous studies.

Biohacker Bryan Johnson recently bragged about his girlfriend's “top 1%” vagina as the at-home vaginal microbiome test industry is thriving. But experts are skeptical.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.

Farrah was fed up with her vagina. For the past two years, the 29-year-old dancer from Ohio had been dealing with severe pelvic pain and vaginal odor. “It was like 8/10, horrible core pain,” she says. “I couldn’t lie down. I couldn’t even work an office job. It was bad.”

When she visited doctors, she told them what she thought the culprit was: an allergic reaction to soy oil in a vat of water she’d swam in during a pirate-themed dinner theater performance. But they didn’t believe her. “They attempted to fix it with antibiotics,” she says. “And they just did nothing.”

So Farrah (who requested we withhold her full name to speak freely about health matters) started Googling her symptoms. That’s how she stumbled on Neueve, a vaginal health company that provides supplements, suppositories, and at-home vaginal microbiome testing kits.

She ordered a test from the company for $150, and it came back with a diagnosis: aerobic vaginitis (AV), a bacterial infection caused by an overgrowth of E. coli or streptococcus. She ordered supplements the company recommended, and she says the pain abated almost immediately. “I was just so glad to actually know what was wrong,” she says.

Farrah is one of a growing number of women who have used at-home tests to self-diagnose issues with the vaginal microbiome—an ecosystem of bacteria growing inside the vagina; the presence of “good” bacteria correlates with lower risk of STIs and other types of infections, according to numerous studies.

Biohacker Bryan Johnson recently bragged about his girlfriend's “top 1%” vagina as the at-home vaginal microbiome test industry is thriving. But experts are skeptical.

Tap the 🔗 in bio to read the full story.