maddy varner

writer at @wired magazine. data journalist, technologist, quilter. prev @ftc @themarkup @propublica

[maddy varner @tenuous]

@ReclaimTheNetHQ You're linking to the order denying the order applications, not the warrant applications themselves!

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@ReichlinMelnick Yep, and the hours of visitation listed on the ICE site are 100% accurate, written in an accessible language, and not at all omitting key details! Nothing to worry about!!

[Benjamin S. Weiss @BenjaminSWeiss]

JUDICIAL WARRANTS: Asked about DHS policy on use of warrants when entering homes, Sec. Mullin repeats to Senate appropriators what he said in confirmation hearing: that fed agents will use judicial warrants to enter homes. No mention of 2025 guidance on administrative warrants.

[Caroline Haskins @car0linehaskins]

POV: you're me. Your $940 round trip with Norse airlines was cancelled. After 14 days, you can't get a refund. The refund request page doesn't work. You need human help. Norse directs you to a chatbot. There's no phone #, and a gigantic fraud warning on the website 🧵1/3

[Taffy Brodesser-Akner @taffyakner]

This @WIRED package is the most hilarious and potent AI explainer — done as "mandatory AI training — and I cannot get over it. https://t.co/OxNmY3IQbi

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@MaxMMillerAT how is this materially different from the current rules around disclosure at agencies?

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@MartinShkreli who's been offering to "facilitate" for you? best of luck, btw!

[maddy varner @tenuous]

Claude has a particular design vernacular and I can't stop seeing it everywhere! Ahhhh

[maddy varner @tenuous]

You can read here: https://t.co/KxvNMwha4p

[maddy varner @tenuous]

Starting today, platforms are now required to offer a way for you to file takedown requests to get nonconsensual nudes removed under the Take It Down Act. WIRED reached out to 14 companies that spent lobbying money on the act to find out how to do that! Link next...

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@megangrA Despite being finalized more recently, the FTC's proposed consent order was voted out over a year ago in January 2025

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@mollytaft I use whisper (free, runs on your computer) and it is Fine.

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@RobertFreundLaw Where the court is the wife of former DOJ chief of staff Chad Mizelle?

[Kyle McDonald @kcimc]

i made an app for tracking whether the oligarchs are actually fleeing city centers https://t.co/Fog0lIQhrA

[Max Zeff @ZeffMax]

Elon Musk just said on the witness stand that he doesn't know what a "safety card" is with regard to AI development... "Why would it be a card?"

He also says he doesn't know what a preparedness framework is.

[maddy varner @tenuous]

I’m sick im going to throw up wtf

[Justin Brannan @JustinBrannan]

Caputo’s Bakery on Court Street, a.k.a. “the bread store,” has unexpectedly closed after 124 YEARS! They were a fifth-generation, family-run bakery for all that time. We’re all gonna need some time (and a seeded twist) to mourn this one.

[maddy varner @tenuous]

I just got this ad for funeral services school?

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https://t.co/npa1kQzrvM

[maddy varner @tenuous]

NEW: The Consumer Federation of America is suing Meta, alleging that the company misled consumers about its efforts to combat scam advertisements and violated Washington DC's consumer protection laws. My latest for @WIRED...

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

Investigative journalism existing amid an infinite scroll of takes on this platform has made people think that reporting is basically a karaoke machine. But repeatedly finding information that people with money don't want the public to know can require months and months of work