Vegan egg and lab-grown meat startup Eat Just is being sued for more than $100 million. Former employees allege that’s just the start of its problems wired.com/story/eat-just…

Loved this story from Gregory Barber and Aarian Marshall on the Ukrainian afterlife of Teslas wrecked in the US wired.com/story/why-tesl…

A first in the US, Fervo's enhanced geothermal project in Northern Nevada is now supplying energy to the grid. It points the way toward much bigger facilities soon: wired.com/story/new-geot…

I'm sorry to say that after two years at WIRED I've been laid off along with many of my beloved and talented colleagues. I'm so grateful to have worked with journalists and editors who are the very best at what they do, and I am truly going to miss them.

*** Everyone, I have devastating news: A tsunami of layoffs swept through WIRED, and I am among the victims. The majority of the science desk was gutted, features was hit, 3 union stewards and 2/3 of the union's diversity committee (incl me) are out. (1/7) wired.com

(Heart)BREAKING NEWS: After 20 years WIRED , I was among the group of talented editors, writers, designers, and others laid off last Thursday. I am grateful for the career I was able to build there and proud of the work we all did together.

I’m so grateful to all the workers who trusted me to tell their stories WIRED these past few years. It’s been an honor and a thrill. I learned from the best and got to write about dogged union fights, donor-conceived family reunions, employees grappling with layoffs, and more.

Welp WIRED laid me off alongside a bunch of other talented people, and on the way out the door I want to appreciate some stories that I was proud to write while reporting on how AI can harm people, accelerate inequality, violate human rights, and threaten society. A thread 🧵:

I’m happy to have a couple of stories on this list, but even more I’m struck by how many of these pieces are large, involved, patient, literary in concern, and off the main path. When people with shiny smiles tell you nobody is interested in reading anymore—don’t believe them.

Man of mystery

Each year, billions of animals die for human ends. In two new books, Martha Nussbaum and Peter Singer insist that we stop the suffering. nyer.cm/SVOiaL2

this is such a great profile of Ada Palmer, especially this part. Gregory Barber has a great way with words (alt text completed in next tweet) wired.com/story/ada-palm…

I was one of the many affected by the recent layoffs at WIRED. baby's first media layoff! I joined WIRED when I was 22, and I was very lucky to land at a place where I was given so much room to grow as a journalist.

We’re proud to announce the latest recipients of the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism. The winners won grants of up to $15,000 to pursue stories that follow the money. Congrats to Gregory Barber, Robert J. Lopez, Josh McGhee, and Nora Mabie! journalism.cuny.edu/2024/06/four-j…

Hexagons pack the 2D plane better than any other shape. What’s the worst shape? A rounded octagon is likely the worst shape, subject to certain constraints, but a proof for this has eluded mathematicians. A new paper brings them closer than ever before. Gregory Barber reports:

If you sandwich a ball between two parallel planes, it will roll perfectly. But surprisingly, smaller, pointier shapes can do this too. Do such shapes exist in higher dimensions? A new math proof says yes. Gregory Barber reports: quantamagazine.org/mathematicians…

We’ve spent months putting together an immersive special issue of Quanta Magazine that explores the ultimate scientific quest: the search for the fundamental nature of reality. Don’t miss it! quantamagazine.org/the-unraveling…