[photo1]Abdullah Shihipar Alexandra CollinsOver the past two weeks, Minnesota and Vermont took steps to explicitly legalize, fund, and expand drug-checking resources. These are major developments for ...
[photo1]Jessica MaddoxWhen Elon Musk took over Twitter last year, many users migrated to the free and open-source platform Mastodon. Mastodon, like other decentralized social media, isn't owned by one...
[photo1]Phillip MaciakWhen we drive to Pennsylvania in the summers, with my daughters locked in to their screens for the miles and miles of cornfields and blasted-out hillsides, we drive there to visi...
[photo1]By Mike OrcuttThe pitch sounds like an echo from the distant crypto past, when the blockchain was not only going to fight climate change but also cure cancer. Log on to Minecraft clone OPCraft...
[photo1]Ifeoma AjunwaEarlier this month, Lina Khan, chair of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), wrote an essay in The New York Times affirming the agency's commitment to regulating AI. But there w...
Katerina Cizek shirin anlenLast week, the Republican National Committee put out a video advertisement against Biden, which featured a small disclaimer in the top left of the frame: "Built entirely wit...
Lily Hay NewmanThe social media giant Meta warned today that it sees many malware actors spreading their attack infrastructure across multiple platforms, to make it more difficult for individual tech ...
[photo1]By Geoffrey BuntingLooking at typography developed by artificial intelligence is like looking at lettering submerged in deep water, warped and fuzzy. It looks like a copy of a copy of a copy. ...
[photo1]Jaime Green[photo2]Buy This Book At:Buy This Book At:Thomas Nagel's essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" unfortunately does not endeavor to answer its titular...
[photo1]Susan CrawfordThink of Charleston as sitting in a basin of water. A bathtub. As long as the bathtub has 7 feet or less of water in it, life in the Holy City continues peacefully along. Tourist...
[photo1]Sasha LuccioniLast week, the Future of Life Institute published an open letter proposing a six-month moratorium on the "dangerous" AI race. It has since been signed by over 3,000 people, inclu...
[photo1]By Maryn McKennaElla Balasa was 26 when she realized the routine medical treatments that sustained her were no longer working. The slender lab assistant had lived since childhood with the side...
WIRED IdeasHere's an experiment being run by undergraduate computer science students everywhere: Ask ChatGPT to generate phishing emails, and test whether these are better at persuading victims to res...
[photo1]Megan WardBefore the House Energy and Commerce Committee had even concluded its hearing with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew last week, users took to the app to mock members of Congress for their ques...
[photo1]Ashley Ward[photo2] Buy This Book At:Buy This Book At:Animals are sometimes described as having "supersenses," and in many instances these relate to natural p...
[photo1]Allison WhittenThe neocortex stands out as a stunning achievement of biological evolution. All mammals have this swath of tissue covering their brain, and the six layers of densely packed neur...
[photo1]Jonathan Stray Gillian Hadfield Social media, news, music, shopping, and other sites all rely on recommender systems: algorithms that personalize what each individual user sees. These systems...
[photo1]Kelly MartinezLong gone are the days when fan fiction was treated as a guilty pleasure, exclusively consumed on a glowing iPad screen under the covers at night and never to be discussed outsid...
[photo1]Angela WatercutterThe Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.Gather, comrades. We need to talk about boni...
[photo1]By John SemleyBlack curtains hang in the windows of a dinky suburban LA apartment, two blocks from the Pacific, blotting out the light. Inside, Thomas Pynchon--early thirties, awkward, with a ...