Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places)

For 7 years, Akasha Song ran secret labs that produced tens of millions of doses of DMT—a psychedelic of mind-blowing potency—and made a fortune selling it on the dark web. His story, in this 13,000-word piece, is one of the wildest I've ever told: wired.com/story/rise-fal… 🧵👇

Maybe you read our story about Akasha Song, who produced huge quantities of the psychedelic DMT, arguably helping to pave the way for legalization. Akasha has since been in a car crash and is fighting for his life. Those who want to help can give here: gofundme.com/f/help-akasha-…

On the one-year anniversary of CrowdStrike's disastrous crashes that took down millions of computers worldwide, a new study finds 750-plus hospital networks in the US were disrupted, and 200-plus appear to have had outages of patient medical services. wired.com/story/at-least…

I have roughly zero interest in polo and related wealthy people drama, but this final feature by @mattsreynolds1 for @WIRED about polo horse cloning is just extremely enjoyable and fascinating magazine writing.

“Pretty uniquely dystopian compared to a normal hiring process, right? And that's what made me want to look into it more,” says @iangcarroll. “After 30 minutes, we had full access to virtually every application that's ever been made to McDonald's going back years.”

McDonald's uses an AI bot called "Olivia" for hiring. A pair of hackers found they could access every conversation job applicants had with it—including all the personal info they shared—by exploiting security flaws as basic as using the password "123456". wired.com/story/mcdonald…

Out today in the UK! (And Australia!)

In 3 days a slick new UK edition of Sandworm comes out with a new foreword: amazon.co.uk/Operation-Sand… The publisher has tweaked the title to "Operation Sandworm" for UK reasons I don't entirely understand, but it's the same book, and hopefully will now reach a new audience.

Wishing everyone a contemplative NotPetya/Khouzestan steel mill cyberattack/Live Free or Diehard theatrical premiere day. (No I don't think all these cyberwar events are connected just because they happened on the same date but this stuff is in my brain so now it's in yours.)

Somehow it's considered antisemitic to protest this in America or suggest it should be resisted. In fact, it's antisemitic to think that this has anything to do with judaism rather than a murderous regime's campaign of conquest. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. wired.com/story/ice-dete…

For more on Predatory Sparrow, we published this deep dive on the group's cyberattacks—some of the most disruptive and destructive in history—last year: wired.com/story/predator…