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Features Director, WIRED. Reyhan_harmanci@wired.com

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Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Video of last year's fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over"...

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."

But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

07.03.2026 00:59 πŸ‘ 3681 πŸ” 1724 πŸ’¬ 70 πŸ“Œ 107
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US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says The default rate among U.S. corporate borrowers of private credit rose to a record 9.2% in 2025, ​according to a report Friday by credit rating agency β€ŒFitch Ratings.

Record high defaults... with the previous record being last year.... www.reuters.com/business/us-...

06.03.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

The 1968 My Lai massacre killed at least 347 civilians. It led to congressional hearings and criminal trials. The bombing of the #Minab school, if confirmed to be an American airstrike, is a comparable massacre and scandal. A dark day in American history.

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BlackRock limits withdrawals as redemptions rattle private credit fund BlackRock said on Friday it has put limits on withdrawals from a flagship private credit fund after a surge in ​redemption requests, amid rising investor worries over the once red-hot asset β€Œclass.

"Sentiment over private credit continues to worsen after Blue Owl replaced client redemptions with promised payouts, and the ​exposure of some players last year to the bankruptcies of a U.S. ​auto parts supplier and a subprime auto lender." hmmmm that's the stuff ... www.reuters.com/business/bla...

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Private credit, still out there, ready to bring down the economy 2008-style bsky.app/profile/unus...

06.03.2026 17:38 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Explain the Block Layoffs In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block’s cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company β€œas an intelligence.”

What's interesting about this convo with Jackβ€”in addition to his comments on Block layoffs, the state of X, and his decision to step away from Blueskyβ€”is that he says Wired has gotten more negative but also essentially acknowledged that the state of tech isn't...great www.wired.com/story/jack-d...

06.03.2026 16:36 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2
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Why Is Alexa+ So Bad? I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well.

By building their voice assistant around generative AI, Amazon has created an Alexa that simply doesn’t work.

Easy tasks, like playing music or pulling up YouTube videos, go haywire.

It’s an AI flop.

www.wired.com/story/why-is...

06.03.2026 13:47 πŸ‘ 254 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 16

Worse than the worst War on Terror drone strikes. By innocents killed, worse than multiple of the worst drone strike errors combined.

06.03.2026 03:03 πŸ‘ 888 πŸ” 251 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 5

Such strange language -- an "unnecessary" war

04.03.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by β€˜double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

04.03.2026 22:40 πŸ‘ 2389 πŸ” 1322 πŸ’¬ 107 πŸ“Œ 272

😍

04.03.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly I think the price should be even higher! It's a steal!

04.03.2026 19:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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For everyone who has askedβ€”yes, WIRED is for sale www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

04.03.2026 19:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Modern Farmer!!!!

04.03.2026 19:12 πŸ‘ 138 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

So this is just a straight up war crime, right? Hegseth isn’t even pretending the ship they sunk attacked a US ship or was menacing it in any way?

04.03.2026 15:50 πŸ‘ 169 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 3
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How Is Kalshi Not Gambling? Kalshi lets you place bets on everything from football games to foreign invasions. The prediction market’s CEO, Tarek Mansour, says this doesn’t count as gamblingβ€”and is actually good for society.

How Kalshi sees itself (as not gambling) (somehow). From @stevenlevy.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/big-in...

04.03.2026 14:35 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports
By Helen Regan
More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children.
More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported.
The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.

CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

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'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The graves dug for 153 Iranian female school children who were killed by an Israeli-American strike.

Photo: IRNA

02.03.2026 18:44 πŸ‘ 701 πŸ” 423 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 29

The chairman of the Board of Peace bombed the Gandhi hospital. Process that.

01.03.2026 22:05 πŸ‘ 1390 πŸ” 532 πŸ’¬ 58 πŸ“Œ 15
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The 5 Big β€˜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.

Everything we know about upheaval in Iran says it has enormous unforeseen consequences β€” we haven’t even finished wrestling with the downstream consequences of the LAST upheaval in Iran in 1979. My new essay: www.wired.com/story/5-big-...

01.03.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 198 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
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The 5 Big β€˜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 nextβ€” @vermontgmg.bsky.social explores the known unknowns www.wired.com/story/5-big-...

01.03.2026 18:13 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

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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.

β€œAlmost 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

28.02.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 1254 πŸ” 461 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 43
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This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting.

NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

28.02.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 923 πŸ” 602 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 167

Curious how this is playing for β€œAmerica First” folks

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Inside the System That Intercepted Missiles Over the UAE Today As Iranian missiles targeted US-linked sites across the Gulf, the UAE’s missile shield was activated in real time.

From our team in the Middle East: A look inside the system that intercepted missiles over the UAE today wrd.cm/4cljL0P

28.02.2026 14:21 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

28.02.2026 11:53 πŸ‘ 2005 πŸ” 940 πŸ’¬ 123 πŸ“Œ 237

Over 20 deaths reported

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Deeply conflicted, Kushner represents the U.S. in high-stakes negotiations with Iran Today in Geneva, Switzerland, Jared Kushner will represent the United States in meetings with Iranian officials β€” a last-ditch effort to avoid war.

Just a reminder: instead of an actual diplomat, we sent Trump’s deeply compromised son-in-law as the lead negotiator to avert war with Iran.

popular.info/p/deeply-con...

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