Inside the Homeland Security Forum Where ICE Agents Talk Shit About Other Agents

Forum members have discussed their discomfort with mass deportation efforts, debate how federal agents have interacted with civilians, and complain about their working conditions.

After spooking Hollywood, ByteDance will tweak safeguards on new AI model
After spooking Hollywood, ByteDance will tweak safeguards on new AI model

TikTok creator ByteDance says that it is working to improve safeguards on its new AI video generator after Disney, Paramount, and Hollywood trade groups accused the tool of violating copyright protections. Concerns were raised after hyperrealistic videos generated by the Seedance 2.0 model went viral last week, with the likeness of actors, such as Tom […]

Jikipedia turns Epstein’s emails into an encyclopedia of his powerful friends
Jikipedia turns Epstein’s emails into an encyclopedia of his powerful friends

The folks behind Jmail are at it again with a clone of Wikipedia that turns the treasure trove of data in Epstein’s emails into detailed dossiers on his associates. Entries include known visits to Epstein’s properties, possible knowledge of Epstein’s crimes, and laws that they might have broken. The reports are dense, listing how many […]

A powerful tool of resistance is already in your hands
A powerful tool of resistance is already in your hands

In an eyewitness video analyzed frame by frame by The New York Times, Alex Pretti raises one hand and holds a phone in the other. Federal agents tackle him, and one appears to find and remove a gun holstered on his hip. Then, an agent shoots – and a second follows. They appear to fire […]

Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE

The recent request goes against decades of precedent and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.

Can Democrats post their way to midterm victories?
Can Democrats post their way to midterm victories?

During the 2024 presidential election, @KamalaHQ was something of an alter ego for Vice President Kamala Harris – as Harris ran a buttoned-up campaign, the online accounts shared clips of her set to viral TikTok sounds, shitposted unflattering pictures of Donald Trump, and adopted a voice that was at times indistinguishable from the average 20-something […]

ICE moves out to the suburbs
ICE moves out to the suburbs

We sat in a parking lot and waited. We watched, knowing we were being watched in return. Two men, masked and presumably armed, idled in a gray SUV. “They’re all on this fucking street now,” Lety, a lifelong resident of the Minnesota suburbs, told me. ICE had been spotted at a gas station and a […]

‘Uncanny Valley’: ICE’s Secret Expansion Plans, Palantir Workers’ Ethical Concerns, and AI Assistants

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts dive into WIRED’s scoop about a secret Trump administration campaign extending right into your backyard.

In one swoop, Trump kills US greenhouse gas regulations
In one swoop, Trump kills US greenhouse gas regulations

The Trump administration just eliminated the landmark finding that has underpinned federal regulations on planet-heating pollution since 2009. For nearly the past two decades, the “endangerment finding” has allowed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to craft rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Rather than repealing those rules individually, the Trump administration […]

Top DOJ antitrust enforcer is out weeks before Live Nation trial
Top DOJ antitrust enforcer is out weeks before Live Nation trial

Gail Slater, the top antitrust enforcer at the Justice Department, announced Thursday that she has left her post, just weeks before the agency’s next major tech monopoly trial against entertainment giant Live Nation is set to begin. “It is with great sadness and abiding hope that I leave my role as AAG for Antitrust today,” […]