This week I'm writing the @wired Plaintext newsletter, filling in for the excellent Steven Levy. That means I'm also looking for reader questions to attempt to answer. If there is something ~wired~ you've been dying to know or better understand, now is the time to ask. DMs open

Big AI copyright lawsuit news: the music labels are suing Suno and Udio wired.com/story/ai-music…

looking to talk to people who are taking compounded GLP1 meds about your experiences— please do DM me or email me [email protected] if you're willing to talk! (especially interested if you got via telehealth!)

Some great reporting from Lauren Goode and Tom Simonite

Do I know any lovely freelance journos based in/around Ibiza? Please get in touch!

The new government could bring about a renaissance in UK tech and bolster the country’s precarious post-Brexit startup pipeline. That’s if politics don’t get in the way. wired.trib.al/VH5BDSk

Here are all the announcements from Samsung at #GalaxyUnpacked in Paris! Eight new products: Galaxy Z Fold6, Z Flip6, Galaxy Ring, Galaxy Buds3 and Buds3 Pro, Galaxy Watch7 (two sizes), and Galaxy Watch Ultra. Whew! wired.com/story/samsung-… via WIRED

Filled my fridge with telehealth semaglutide for this investigation into how all those startups hawking GLP1s on the internet vet their patients: wired.com/story/glp1-oze…

These trauma surgeons thought they’d seen the worst of the worst. But nothing they’d experienced prepared them for the horrors they found in Gaza, as civilians and children suffer under Israel’s bombing campaign. Two weeks inside a Gaza hospital👇 politico.com/news/magazine/…

In January I went to a military base in the desert outside Abu Dhabi. I got on a small propellor plane loaded with dozens of flares and canisters. They were filled with salt. When we were in the air, the pilot released those salt crystals into the sky to try and make it rain.

Léna Lazare is one of the founding members of Les Soulèvements de la Terre, or Earth Uprisings, a French organization that is the most extreme of a new wave of radical European climate groups. 🔗 wired.trib.al/K3Njwz9

Every day, people die waiting for a transplant. But what if failing organs could be reprogrammed instead? I recently got a firsthand peek into an effort to revive livers with infusions of messenger RNA—the tech in Covid vaccines. My story for WIRED: wired.com/story/mrna-org…

A local Hawaii paper has two new reporters: James, who appears to be unable to blink, and Rose, who struggles to pronounce words like “Hanalei” and “TV.” They're weird, glitchy and entirely generated by AI. Latest for WIRED by Guthrie Scrimgeour wired.com/story/an-ai-bo…

A cash-strapped city in rural Texas will soon be home to the world’s largest bitcoin mine. Local protesters are “raising hell" to stop it. Loved editing this piece, please read it! wired.com/story/the-worl…

A man doused himself in alcohol and got his mates to shoot fireworks at him, in an attempt to get people to buy his memecoin. He's part of a cohort of coin creators who are resorting to extreme stunts to stand out in a crowded market wired.com/story/people-o…

NEW: people can now bet on elections in the US for the first time in around… 100 years!? wired.com/story/yes-you-…

Microsoft is building an alternative for cybersecurity companies that now utilize the deepest layer of its operating system after a flawed CrowdStrike update led to a global outage trib.al/Fmxms5N

Interesting nugget here: WIRED asked whether it was considering any sort of payment system for users when it does strike deals. Roberts says there is no plan at the moment, but that she would consider it if data licensing for AI became incredibly lucrative down the road.

We sat down with Vice President Kamala Harris to answer the internet’s most-searched questions about her life, her candidacy, the presidential debate, and yes, Taylor Swift. 🔗 wired.trib.al/AEL4FUW