Wired

Why Normal People Aren

The tech industry is realizing it needs to build agents based on what regular consumers want, not just what its AI models can do.

7 Aug 2026 1:25 am

DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported Peoples Homes Abroad

Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.

5 Aug 2026 10:54 pm

People Are Ghosting Long-Term Partners. Some Dont Regret It

The communication-free form of breaking up has become ubiquitous. I no longer had to bear her energy, a man who ghosted his partner of four years tells WIRED.

3 Aug 2026 4:30 pm

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million Peoples DNA Last YearIncluding Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

3 Aug 2026 3:30 pm