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New York City and Los Angeles school districts have launched moratoriums on AI in schools — in NYC through eighth grade, in L.A. including high school. WNYC education reporter Jessica Gould explains what’s in the New York ban and how it fits into a wider…
PHILADELPHIA — Former Philadelphia union leader John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty could soon get out of prison after President Donald Trump signed a commutation ending his six-year sentence Thursday, his attorney, George Bochetto, told NBC10. Dougherty was convicted in 2023 of bribing a City Council member…
More than 200 staffers at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the encyclopedia Wikipedia, have voted 158-14 to join the Communications Workers of America labor union. The US National Labor Relations Board counted ballots on Thursday. Three Wikimedia employees tell WIRED they will now have…
This Guy Made Two Bots Talk to Each Other Because He Was So Fed Up With AI InterviewsMaybe the logical end point of AI job interviews is two bots talking to each other. Christopher—who asked that WIRED use his first name as his job hunt…
and this is the Wired Autocomplete Interview. I have worked with kids since I was 18 I would tell my mom that I wanted to help kids when I was a kid, and she’d be like, You’re a kid, and I’d be like, Yes. I…
She Was Fed Up With ‘Killmonger Locs’ Being the Black Hair Default in Video Games. So She Fixed ItWhen the life simulation game Paralives was released in early access, Danielle Udogaranya’s hand ached at the thought of making new Black hairstyles for it. Udogaranya, better…
The wall of ice, water and rock that tore through Nepal last week has claimed more than 1,200 lives and left more than 4,000 missing, depriving many grieving families of a basic rite: funerals. The scale of the disaster has proved challenging for authorities, with…
The Trump administration is threatening to withdraw support for the Smithsonian Institution, accusing its leadership of presenting a “radical ideology” that weakens “shared American identity” in the latest effort to pressure the institution to change its presentations and practices. The Department of the Interior sent…
Leon Black, a former Wall Street private equity investor, on Thursday sued the House Oversight Committee, seeking to stop the panel from enforcing its subpoenas against him in an ongoing probe of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. “The Committee is on a fishing expedition…
A former California podcaster has been arrested on charges he repeatedly threatened to kill the president. Benjamin Azariah Southworth, 40, of Los Angeles, engaged in repeated rants on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok in order “to publicly express his hatred toward President Trump and his supporters,…
