The email is reminiscent of one that Musk sent early in his Twitter days, demanding that employees email a one-page description of what they had accomplished the previous month and how it differed from their goals. Rather than convening with Shedd in these meetings, TTS employees were instead surprised toContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, vowed on Thursday (Jan 30) to protect FBI employees against “political retribution” even as the Trump administration has begun to fire and sideline Justice Department officials who were involved in investigations into the president. Pressed by Democratic US Senator RichardContinue Reading
Michael Calore: This is WIRED’s Uncanny Valley, a show about the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley. I’m Michael Calore, Director of Consumer Tech and Culture here at Wired. Zoë Schiffer: I’m Zoe Schiffer, WIRED’s director of Business and Industry. Lauren Goode: I’m Lauren Goode. I’m a Senior WriterContinue Reading
Fiona O’Leary, an Ireland-based activist who has autistic children and has spent years trying to highlight the dangers of toxic bleach solution being sold as an autism cure, worries that the Miami conference will “platform” Kalcker and allow him to increase his influence in the US. “Andreas Kalcker has beenContinue Reading
U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze is reportedly wreaking havoc along the Thai-Myanmar border, where medical clinics serving around 100,000 refugees, most of them from Myanmar, could soon be forced to close their doors – if they haven’t already. Among the flurry of executive orders that he issued afterContinue Reading
For reasons that were not immediately clear, SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to his social media site X on Tuesday evening to make a perplexing space-based pronouncement. “The @POTUS has asked @SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on the @Space_Station as soon as possible. We will do so,”Continue Reading
WASHINGTON: In a contentious confirmation hearing to be the nation’s top health official Robert F Kennedy Jr. struggled to answer questions about how he would reform Medicaid or Medicare, the government health care programs used by millions of disabled, poor and older Americans. Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a physicianContinue Reading
Elon Musk has told multiple people that he has been sleeping at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) headquarters in Washington, DC, WIRED has learned, as he works to exercise control over the federal government. DOGE is based out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, just steps from the WhiteContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday (Jan 29) that the Trump administration has revoked a decision that would have protected roughly 600,000 people from Venezuela from deportation. On “Fox and Friends,” Noem said that she reversed the decision made by her successor, Alejandro Mayorkas, in the waning daysContinue Reading
Elon Musk is only one week into his role in President Donald Trump’s new administration, but the US federal government is already rolling out the Twitter playbook to manage its spending and personnel. Just like Musk did when he took over the social media platform, Trump’s team is attempting toContinue Reading
