The defendants were found guilty in 2025, three years after the investigation began, of diverting funds by faking meal counts and submitting false reimbursement claims, then spending the money they got on luxury homes and cars. Other federal investigations of…
Hobbes, one of the finest political theorists of his time, said this in his great political treatise, “Leviathan,” published in 1651 during a civil war in England and Scotland. Hobbes would likely also take a dim view of a major…
The U.S. has a dire shortage of skilled tradespeople. A school in Huntsville, Ala., is attempting to replenish the talent pool—one teenager at a time. The Huntsville Center for Technology (HCT) is a new $40 million facility where 700 students…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing for the biggest IPO in history, and its next-generation Starship vehicle may be the key to its sky-high valuation. At 408 feet tall, the fully reusable Starship V3 looms higher than any previous version. It…
Bank of America has a message for anyone who has grown skeptical of the AI boom: you are thinking too small. In a report published Thursday, the bank’s research team made a typically sweeping claim for a Wall Street bank…
For the ultrawealthy, it used to largely be the case that they wanted their flashy home purchases and sales to be made very public: Think drone shots, a glossy listing, and a splashy press release naming the owner and buyer. …
About 28 years ago, I was reporting a story from my desk at Wired titled “The Hot New Medium Is … Email.” This was an unusually personal report because I was partly its subject — a creator of a then-novel phenomenon:…
The associate professor at Columbia University’s School of Nursing had grown accustomed to having artificial intelligence tools help polish scientific papers for grammar, formatting, and other details. But a few weeks after submitting his latest research, the academic journal he…
Near the U.S.-Mexico border—just a few miles from SpaceX Starbase—little-known NextDecade is on the verge of becoming the top exporter of natural gas out of Texas. Its massive complex, sprawling 1,000 acres along the Brownsville Ship Channel, took more than…
It has become much harder to forget since the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Hundreds rather than the usual thousands of vessels have passed through the strait since March 5. “This really feels like a global crisis, a…