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Abubakar Salim’s game Dead Take explores scandals, exploitation, and AI-fueled media manipulation.

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This is the first of two parts. Vector databases are a foundational component of many modern AI systems, powering fast

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Dylan Field took Figma public in one of the wildest IPOs in recent memory. He insists the real story is the rise of design itself.

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"For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT."

Aud is back in Atlanta, teaching a self-defense class to a ragtag group of women, when one of her students takes her lessons in a direction she didn’t imagine.

Back in the beginning I wanted the web to be like Harvard. It's one of the reasons I went there as a research fellow in 2003. I wasn't satisfied with the web, the density of minds wasn't up to my expectations, so I thought if I brought the web to the minds, that might work ...

No matter the genre or location, these gadgets will upgrade your experience.

Dear Marge, You might have forgotten about the time your husband jeered at you on stage, as you spoke through a miniature wooden version of yourself. It happened in 1996, almost thirty years ago. Let me remind you of the circumstances. Your son, Bart, started working at a lo...

“In this human-made paradise, entertainment reigned supreme, and all forms of leisure had their whispered, rum-breathed price.” - - - A semi-regular guest column about regularly ignored places - - - Each year, as many as twenty-five million people visit the sacrificial land...

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi's office said this was “a formal investigation into Flock Group Inc. over its role in enabling invasive surveillance practices that threaten the privacy, safety, and civil liberties of women, immigrants, and other vulnerable Americans.”

For this "Summer Friday" we've put together some of our favorite conversations this year: David Graham, staff writer at The Atlantic and an author of the Atlantic daily newsletter, plus author of The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America (Random House Trade Paperb...

These WIRED-tested hearing aids are affordable alternatives to prescription devices. No doctor’s appointment necessary.

People keep throwing dildos onto the court at WNBA games, which is an incredibly wack trend even before you hear who is taking credit for it: Crypto bros.

On Wednesday, a powerful loser and crypto enthusiast who calls himself Lt. Daldo Raine—you may have just instinctively reached for a blunt object—spoke to ESPN's Katie Barnes and claimed that he and his fellow crypto shitheads have been orchestrating recent dildo tosses at WNBA games for the sake of pumping their meme coin. "We wanted to really make memes funny again," he told Barnes. Mission not accomplished, my friend.

Yesterday I wrote a quick review of ChatGPT 5, after trying a simple programming exercise with it. It was an awful collaboration because it lied to me about its capabilities, leading me to develop a feature in my software to support the capability that it later admitted that...

The Halo 3C is a vape detector installed in schools and public housing. A young hacker found it contains microphones and that it can be turned into an audio bug, raising privacy concerns.

Many don’t realize that The Gilded Age, the very grand and expensive HBO/Max/HBOMaxAgain show, was actually devised for a very specific audience: quirky early millennial women who studied theater in college and briefly tried their hand at acting before ultimately becoming wr...

A pair of hackers found that a vape detector often found in high school bathrooms contained microphones—and security weaknesses that could allow someone to turn it into a secret listening device.