Meta’s flailing virtual reality social experience is being discontinued in June. It's part of Meta’s broader moves to slim down the business that became its namesake. www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

In 2019, two Canadian brothers blew into Detroit with an irresistible pitch: For $50, almost anyone could become a property owner. When houses decayed and the city intervened, the blame games began. Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/crypto...

After my recent Invisalign experience, I wanted to learn more about the company, which doesn't get featured in the news media much. Here's my Q-and-A with the beekeeping CEO as he offers tips on using Invisalign, agrees to consider more AI, and explains $$$ prices. www.wired.com/story/how-in...

The New York Times is right. I don’t care! (And huge credit to the @wired.com team, whose intrepid, fearless, always fair reporting gives the tech bros plenty to be mad about.)

My metaphor supplies were perilously low until I read @mattburgess1.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social on a Sears chatbot exposing millions of chat logs with, and audio recordings of, customers to the entire internet.

Tesla is supported by a robust online community, especially on X. But Elon Musk’s politics and overblown hype about Full Self-Driving are turning some loyalists away. www.wired.com/story/the-te...

happy Illinois primary day to all who celebrate! www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...

NEW: US retailer Sears left a database of people's interactions with its AI chatbot exposed to the internet—including 3.7 million chat logs and audio files of chats. Terrible for privacy, but also people were quick to get pissed off with the bots

Joe Hogan, Align Technology’s plastics-nerd CEO, says you shouldn’t eat with your aligners and that you don’t need to wear your retainers every night. www.wired.com/story/how-in...

In 2019, two Canadian brothers blew into Detroit with an irresistible pitch: For $50, almost anyone could become a property owner. When houses decayed and the city intervened, the blame games began. www.wired.com/story/crypto...

Customer conversations with chatbots can include contact information and personal details that make it easier for scammers to launch phishing attacks and commit fraud. www.wired.com/story/sears-...

It used to be common wisdom that leaving your phone charging overnight degrades the battery. But handset design has evolved to mitigate the harm caused by constant charging. www.wired.com/story/should...

On Tuesday, 26 year-old Kat Abughazaleh will face off against Daniel Biss, Laura Fine, and others vying to win the tight race for Illinois’ 9th Congressional District. Read our 2025 profile on the Gen Z content creator and candidate. 👇

"I started to at least realize that he was kind of a moron about many topics."

Ahead of the Nvidia annual developer conference, WIRED reported last week that the company was planning to launch an open-source platform for AI agents. It was just announced at the conference today. Our story from last week: www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

OUTTA HERE: This month,Tesla customers were outraged over what some called a “bait and switch” over the Full Self-Driving feature. And there's more: many other Tesla faithful are reaching breaking point. @milesklee.bsky.social has the full story for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-te...

ICMYI: I broke down everything we know about what, specifically, Anthropic's Claude is & isn't doing inside Palantir tech used by the US military. For the story, I carefully reviewed every relevant demo & report that Palantir & the military have ever released: www.wired.com/story/palant...

The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously difficult to remove. www.wired.com/story/cobol-...

The EV manufacturer is supported by a robust online community. But Elon Musk’s politics and overblown hype about Full Self-Driving are turning some loyalists away. www.wired.com/story/the-te...

A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend. www.wired.com/story/georgi...

As the legal war over how to regulate prediction markets rages on, financial institutions are embracing the industry anyway. www.wired.com/story/predic...

Dozens of Telegram channels reviewed by WIRED include job listings for “AI face models.” The (mostly) women who land these gigs are likely being used to dupe victims out of their money. www.wired.com/story/models...

Ryan Coogler’s horror movie has shattered box office records—and the myth that audiences don’t care about original stories.

The Frankenstein director tells WIRED the real Victor Frankensteins are tyrannical politicians and Silicon Valley tech bros.

Kids everywhere know her voice—if not her name. WIRED talks to the former SM trainee about her rise to global superstardom with her hit song “Golden.”

The 98th Annual Academy Awards will happen on Sunday, March 15. Here's how to make sure you catch every speech, joke, dress, and song.

For railroads, it’s all about managing static and kinetic friction.

The secret to this acrobatic skill lies in an extremely flexible part of the spine that allows cats to twist in the air and land safely. www.wired.com/story/a-new-...

The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

Ahead of its annual developer conference, Nvidia is readying a new approach to software that embraces AI agents similar to OpenClaw.

With the release of his Netflix documentary Inside the Manosphere, the director talked to WIRED about why so many young men are drawn to toxic influencers.

Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

The defense secretary has made clear that Pentagon managers are to encourage workers, including civilians, to volunteer to assist in the administration’s immigration crackdown.

Who needs a supercomputer when you can calculate pi with a box of sewing needles? www.wired.com/story/you-ca...

Plus: A porn-quitting app exposed the masturbation habits of hundreds of thousands of users, Russian hackers are trying to take over people’s Signal accounts, and more. www.wired.com/story/securi...

Declutter and deep clean your home sanely by breaking it into smaller tasks. You're also bound to discover there are things you no longer need that you can sell.

Researchers in Japan pioneered reprogrammed cells 20 years ago. Now the country has given the first-ever authorizations to manufacture and sell medical products based on the technology. www.wired.com/story/japan-...

Through Palantir software demos, public documentation, and Pentagon records, @carolinehaskins.bsky.social explains exactly how the US military uses Claude:

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The Laundry Chair is a chair for your laundry from @simonegiertz.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/simone...

Here's what really matters about the OpenClaw hype in China that got grandmas queueing to install it: OpenClaw adopters are enthusiastic or desperate enough to pay for servers and API calls without hesitation. To Chinese companies, that's the best news they've ever heard, so they are going all in.

Not subscribed to Made in China yet? Fix that here: www.wired.com/newsletter/

This week’s Made in China is exactly the kind of reporting I hoped to work on when I joined WIRED. @zeyiyang.bsky.social talked to people in China caught up in the OpenClaw hype, and wrote a really smart story about what the saga says about the country’s AI market www.wired.com/story/china-...

Have you vibe coded anything recently? We are interested in hearing from people without extensive coding experience who have made something cool. If that's you, please fill out this quick survey, and you might appear in a future WIRED article. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

SCOOP: The Pentagon/Anthropic feud has been all over the news, but few details about how the military actually uses AI chatbots have come out, until today @carolinehaskins.bsky.social uncovered tons of specifics about how these tools are likely being deployed www.wired.com/story/palant...

Throughout this fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon you might have wondered what the military actually uses LLM chatbots for. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social has the best answer I've seen anywhere

Airline ticket prices are already rising, but an extended crisis in Iran could have bigger effects on the global travel industry. www.wired.com/story/higher...

Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen says the conflict is stranding cargo and threatening inflation. www.wired.com/story/iran-w...

NEW: Tons of recent news reports have mentioned the fact that Claude works inside war tech from Palantir to help the Pentagon select its targets. But how does this actually work? What specifically is Claude doing vs not doing? I broke down everything we know: www.wired.com/story/palant...

Inventor and YouTuber Simone Giertz built an elegant chair that holds your half-dirty clothes while still functioning as a seat. www.wired.com/story/simone...