How Indie Studios Are Pioneering Accessible Game Design (www.wired.com)
The Work-From-Anywhere War Is Beginning (www.wired.com)
Elon Musk Is Totally Wrong About Population Collapse (www.wired.com)
The Push to Legalize Magic Mushrooms for Depression and PTSD (www.wired.com)
Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA (www.wired.com)
This Anti-Tracking Tool Checks If You’re Being Followed (www.wired.com)
How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook (www.wired.com)
archived version (no paywall)
An Inclusive, Cyberpunk Future Is In the Cards (www.wired.com)
The Trek Fetch+ 2 Is Well Made but Not Well Priced (www.wired.com)
This cargo ebike is a familiar stepping stone that will cut your local car miles.
[Other] What If Your AI Girlfriend Hated You? (www.wired.com)
The bizarre new app “AngryGF” simulates arguments with an irate virtual girlfriend, ostensibly to teach communication skills, but comes across as a frustrating and misguided experience. Unlike typical AI companion apps aimed at providing an idealized romantic partner, AngryGF seems to revel in relationship downsides without...
Scientists Are Unlocking the Secrets of Your ‘Little Brain’ (www.wired.com)
How a Houthi-Bombed Ghost Ship Likely Cut Off Internet for Millions (www.wired.com)
Millions lost internet service after three cables in the Red Sea were damaged. Houthi rebels deny targeting the cables, but their missile attack on a cargo ship, left adrift for months, is likely to blame.
Hackers Behind the Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack Just Received a $22 Million Payment (www.wired.com)
The transaction, visible on Bitcoin’s blockchain, suggests the victim of one of the worst ransomware attacks in years may have paid a very large ransom....
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records (www.wired.com)
OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns (www.wired.com)
Nearly 500 employees of OpenAI have signed a letter saying they may quit and join Sam Altman at Microsoft unless the startup's board resigns and reappoints the ousted CEO.
Underage Workers Are Training AI (www.wired.com)
Companies that provide Big Tech with AI data-labeling services are inadvertently hiring young teens to work on their platforms, often exposing them to traumatic content.
DeepMind’s New AI Can Predict Genetic Diseases (www.wired.com)
AI Chatbots Can Guess Your Personal Information From What You Type (www.wired.com)
In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners. (www.wired.com)
The End of Airbnb in New York (www.wired.com)
How NASA Nearly Lost the Voyager 2 Spacecraft Forever (www.wired.com)
The space agency lost touch with the beloved spacecraft following a faulty command signal. Here’s how it happened—and how engineers worked to bring it back.
Microsoft’s AI Red Team Has Already Made the Case for Itself (www.wired.com)
Since 2018, a dedicated team within Microsoft has attacked machine learning systems to make them safer. But with the public release of new generative AI tools, the field is already evolving.
Satellites Are Rife With Basic Security Flaws (www.wired.com)
German researchers gained rare access to three satellites and found that they're years behind normal cybersecurity standards.
More Battlefield AI Will Make the Fog of War More Deadly (www.wired.com)
The Pentagon’s embrace of military AI raises questions about what limits should be placed on the technology—and how to keep humans in control.