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From The Big Story: She Got a Great Deal on Egg Freezing. Then She Spiraled
From The Big Story: The Genesis Engine
From The Big Story: You Finally Got a Wikipedia Page. Then It Vanished
From The Big Story: The Big Fight Over 403 Very Small Wasps
From The Big Story: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans From Tehran
From The Big Story: She Was the DEA’s Premier Crypto Detective. The Clues Led Straight to Her Own Family
From The Big Story: Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web's Biggest Child Abuse Site
From The Big Story: Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here's What Happened
From The Big Story: Nathan Fielder Tells Us Everything
From The Big Story: A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
From The Big Story: The Accidental Zillionaire
From The Big Story: The Internet Runs on Cats and Porn. It’s About to Get Cattier and Pornier
From The Big Story: Billions Registered
From The Big Story: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
From The Big Story: Choke Points
From The Big Story: How a Research Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China—and Won
From The Big Story: Greetings From Burning Man!
From The Big Story: She's 28, Loves God and Her Family, and Might Be the Reason You Can't Have Kids
From The Big Story: Sayaka Murata Inhabits a Planet of Her Own
Introducing WIRED Politics Lab!
Although we paused on publishing narrated versions of WIRED articles in this feed, you will still hear the latest in tech and politics from the WIRED team. Join host Leah Feiger and a rotation of guests as they guide you through the exciting, challenging, and sometimes entertaining vortex of internet extremism, conspiracies, and disinformation on WIRED Politics Lab.You can find the information needed to lift the fog of disinformation we find ourselves in everyday right on this feed.Listen to WIRED Politics Lab: https://listen.wired.com/politicslab_feeddrop Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Introducing WIRED's Gadget Lab!
Although we paused on publishing narrated versions of WIRED articles in this feed, you will still hear the latest in tech from the WIRED team.On WIRED's Gadget Lab, you'll find hosts Lauren Goode and Michael Calore tackling the biggest questions in the world of tech with knowledgeable WIRED reporters.You can expect the best of WIRED's breaking news and tech analysis right here in this feed.Listen to WIRED's Gadget Lab: https://listen.wired.com/YDai_aaZ Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Zombie Alt-Weeklies Are Stuffed With AI Slop About OnlyFans
Beloved alt-weeklies like the Village Voice have started publishing what appears to be AI-generated clickbait about OnlyFans. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
People Are Using Memecoins to Bet on the US Election
While a fight over betting on US elections plays out in court, the tech-savvy are gambling hundreds of millions of dollars on cryptocurrencies inspired by politicians. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
SearchGPT Is OpenAI's Direct Assault on Google
The company behind ChatGPT is expanding into search, and leaning heavily on its relationships with publishers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Cars Are Now Rolling Computers, So How Long Will They Get Updates? Automakers Can’t Say
Phones are supported well beyond their average ownership lifetime. In stark contrast, automakers are struggling to work out how long their “smartphones on wheels” can be kept on the road. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How IT Departments Scrambled to Address the CrowdStrike Chaos
System administrators and their teams sprang into action last Friday and worked tirelessly to get their companies back online amid one of the worst digital blackouts ever. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Meta's New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky
The newest version of Llama will make AI more accessible and customizable, but it will also stir up debate around the potential pitfalls of releasing AI without guardrails. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Global CrowdStrike Outage Triggered a Surprise Return to Cash
The event caused chaos at airports, grocery stores, and Starbucks outlets. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
OpenAI Slashes the Cost of Using Its AI With a “Mini” Model
With competing models—including many free ones—flooding the market, OpenAI is announcing a cheaper way to use its AI. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The AI-Powered Future of Coding Is Near
Tech companies—including OpenAI—are developing a new generation of AI assistants that can not only write code but debug, organize, and critique it, too. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Elon Musk Says He's Moving X and SpaceX Headquarters to Texas
The tech mogul cited California’s new transgender rights law as “the final straw” for moving out of the state. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Craig Wright Faces Perjury Investigation Over Claims He Created Bitcoin
By order of a UK judge, Craig Wright can no longer claim he is the creator of bitcoin and now faces the prospect of criminal charges. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
At 25, Metafilter Feels Like a Time Capsule From Another Internet
After a quarter century the community-driven site hasn’t changed much. And don’t ask it to license its archive to AI. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The EU Is Coming for X's Paid Blue Checks
Elon Musk's paid blue-check system on X deceives users and can be abused by malicious actors, the European Union said today. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
OpenAI Is Testing Its Powers of Persuasion
Sam Altman is touting AI’s ability to sway people's behavior. His company is also wrestling with the risks. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
AI Can’t Replace Teaching, but It Can Make It Better
Even techno-optimists hesitate to say teaching is best left to the bots, but there’s a debate about where to draw the line. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Google’s Nonconsensual Explicit Images Problem Is Getting Worse
Reports of intimate images and video posted online without consent are growing, and deepfakes add a horrifying new dimension to the problem. Google insiders say they’ve struggled to get executives to act. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream
The US military has abandoned its half-century dream of a suit of powered armor in favor of a “hyper enabled operator,” a tactical AI assistant for special operations forces. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
US Government Awards Moderna $176 Million for mRNA Bird Flu Vaccine
As fears of a pandemic mount, the biotech company’s mRNA vaccine trial is set to release Phase 1/2 results later this year, with a larger Phase 3 trial expected to begin in 2025. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Britain’s Brewing Battle Over Data Centers
The Labour Party, which is leading in UK election polls, has proposed making it easier for companies to build new server farms—risking a new type of conflict in communities across the country. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The US Supreme Court Has Handed Big Tech a Big Gift
By shifting regulatory power away from government agencies and to the courts, recent SCOTUS rulings may be a boon for a tech industry under fire. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Rimac's Super-Sleek Robotaxi Has More Room Than a Rolls-Royce
The group's new autonomous ride-hailing service has a 43-inch widescreen, 17-speaker audio system, and five-position reclining seats. But will it beat Tesla's rival coming in August? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand
WIRED was able to download stories from publishers like The New York Times and The Atlantic using Poe’s Assistant bot. One expert calls it “prima facie copyright infringement,” which Quora disputes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All
Hany Farid, a leading expert on image and video manipulation, says that detecting deepfakes will take more than AI alone. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The US Is Being Flooded by Chinese Vapes
The US government vowed to crack down on the sale of illegal nicotine vapes. They only got cheaper, fancier, and more potent. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
My Memories Are Just Meta's Training Data Now
Meta’s plans to use personal content posted by Facebook and Instagram users to train algorithms suggest our digital histories are being repackaged to teach AI about—and how to mimic—humanity. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Eternal Truth of Markdown
An exegesis of the most ubiquitous piece of code on the web. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google
Not too long ago, services like GOOG-411, 118 118 and AQA used actual humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge. Today’s search engines could learn something. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
We’re Still Waiting for the Next Big Leap in AI
Anthropic’s latest Claude AI model pulls ahead of rivals from OpenAI and Google. But advances in machine intelligence have lately been more incremental than revolutionary. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Adobe Says It Won't Train AI Using Artists' Work. Creatives Aren't Convinced
After a user backlash, Adobe has been forced to clarify how it will use creators’ work. But can it be trusted? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices