Vittoria Elliott

A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers

On: October 7, 2026

The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.Continue Reading

The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank

On: September 15, 2026

In: Politics

The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal funding based on population sizes.Continue Reading