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The latest in-depth coverage covering the intersection of technology and culture will help you make sense of a world in constant transformation. Join us as we explore the ways technology is changing our lives.
The latest in-depth coverage covering the intersection of technology and culture will help you make sense of a world in constant transformation. Join us as we explore the ways technology is changing our lives.
DC went to YC to talk OS.
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At the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Trump told crypto enthusiasts exactly what they want to hear.
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Platforms combining plants and recycled garbage could offer a cut-price solution for reviving polluted bodies of water.
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A controversial new surveillance system in Paris foreshadows a future where there are too many CCTV cameras for humans to physically watch.
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OpenResearch released the first results of the most comprehensive study on giving unrestricted cash grants to impoverished Americans. Researchers say it will flame both sides of the debate over welfare.
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The software company has pushed back hard against claims that its algorithms helped make rent in the US too damn high. Property owners and managers aren't entirely convinced.
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The Alphabet-owned driverless car service is getting aggressive against alleged vandals after a series of violent incidents in San Francisco.
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The Republican VP nominee's Venmo network reveals connections ranging from the architects of Project 2025 to enemies of Donald Trump—and the populist's close ties to the very elites he rails against.
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The music streaming service has added a comment function under podcasts. Who is it for, anyway?
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French politicians’ pledge to make swimming possible in the iconic river is a way to ward off criticism about the cost of the clean up operation.
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In a roundabout bid to win public opinion (and a juicy tax abatement,) Riot Platforms is preparing for its prized bitcoin mine to be annexed by a miniscule village in rural Texas.
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A new resolution echoes what 16 members of Congress have already said to the White House: It must do more to free one of the most storied crypto-focused federal agents in history.
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Arab and Muslim workers at Meta allege that its response to the crisis in Gaza is one-sided and out of hand. “It makes me sick that I work for this company,” says one employee.
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In the latest iOS overhaul prompted by European Union rules, the smartphone maker will give third-party developers access to its payment technology.
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Fortnite creator Epic Games says Apple rejected its App Store rival for being too similar to its own—a move it deemed “arbitrary, obstructive,” and in violation of EU rules.
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Scientists know enough about exoplanets to speculate about how simple plants might arise on them. But don't count on them being green.
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The new government could bring about a renaissance in UK tech and bolster the country’s precarious post-Brexit startup pipeline. That’s if politics don’t get in the way.
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Former customers of bankrupt crypto exchange Mt. Gox are preparing to be reunited with their lost bitcoin—and it's a $9bn windfall.
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A hot ocean provides the energy hurricanes need to grow—and can limit the cooling that happens in their wake, making it likelier that the storms that follow will be powerful ones.
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Upside Foods is slashing staff, citing legislative, regulatory, and funding headwinds.
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In the latest big tech reprimand, European Commission officials say the tech giant must offer another option for EU users to opt out of targeted advertising.
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With polls suggesting voters are about to swing toward the far right or hard left, the AI industry is starting to freak out.
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Having humans rate a language model’s outputs produced clever chatbots. OpenAI says adding AI to the loop could help make them even smarter and more reliable.
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Toxic air kills over half a million children every year, yet only once has air pollution been listed as a cause of death on a death certificate.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to plead guilty to one count of espionage in US court on Wednesday, ending a years-long legal battle between the US government and a controversial publisher.
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The aftermath of a disaster like Covid can be divided into roughly three stages: the honeymoon, the slump, and the uptick. The aim is always to build back better—but in some cases that never happens.
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Earlier this week, WIRED published a story about the AI-powered search startup Perplexity, which Forbes has accused of plagiarism.
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The humble potato is a miraculous vegetable, but Americans are eating less of them than ever before and have ditched fresh potatoes for frozen. Is it time to rebrand the spud?
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Students and young workers from more than 120 universities have pledged to refuse work at Google and Amazon until the Israeli contract is dropped.
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Extreme weather threatens the investment value of many properties, but financing for climate mitigation efforts are only just getting going.
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Companies aren’t replacing workers with AI yet. But they are sacrificing thousands of jobs in the race to further innovation in the technology.
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I Spent a Week Eating Discarded Restaurant Food. But Was It Really Going to Waste?
Astronomers show how a 50-meter space rock orbiting near Earth isn’t a typical asteroid: It probably blasted off the moon millions of years ago.
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Other tech companies want to sell you chatbots. Apple’s demos show the value of seeing the AI as an integrated, holistic experience rather than a stand-alone app or device.
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Susan Rice, who helped the White House broker an AI safety agreement with OpenAI and other tech companies, says she's worried China will steal American AI secrets.
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Foam rubber—like the filling inside your couch—produces an enormous amount of CO2. A Norwegian company called Agoprene thinks seaweed could be the solution.
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As if trying to land a new gig isn't demoralizing enough, job seekers are meeting with characters powered by generative AI who are capable of meeting with infinite candidates to judge their skills.
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The number of alleged hacks targeting the customers of cloud storage firm Snowflake appears to be snowballing into one of the biggest data breaches of all time.
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The FDA is considering approving MDMA alongside psychotherapy as a treatment for PTSD. But evidence of the drug’s effectiveness isn’t clear cut.
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Highly caffeinated drinks have become a cultural staple. But following a death allegedly related to Panera Bread’s Charged Lemonade, has our collective obsession with energy drinks become unsafe?
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Startup Light Bio has created a bioluminescent petunia using mushroom genes and plans to start shipping the plants next spring.
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Scientists know enough about exoplanets to speculate about how simple plants might arise on them. But don't count on them being green.
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Investor Marc Andreessen called tech ethics and safety teams “the enemy” in his “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” last year. Today he clarified he’s in favor of online guardrails for his 9-year-old son.
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Christopher Columbus was blamed for bringing syphilis to Europe. New DNA evidence suggests it was already there. Maybe both stories are true.
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Wyoming’s secretary of state has proposed ways of “preventing fraud and abuse of corporate filings by commercial registered agents” in the aftermath of the scheme’s exposure.
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Generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot are becoming part of everyday business life. But they come with privacy and security considerations you should know about.
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Data breaches at Ticketmaster and financial services company Santander have been linked to attacks against cloud provider Snowflake. Researchers fear more breaches will soon be uncovered.
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Google rushed out fixes after its AI search feature made errors that went viral. Fundamental limitations of generative AI mean that it will still screw up sometimes.
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Tiny houses started as a minimalist revolution. They ended up as an Instagram aesthetic.
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2022’s NASA mission proved it was possible to knock an incoming near-Earth object off course. But that creates debris—which might also be a threat.
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The US says a Chinese national operated the “911 S5” botnet, which included computers worldwide and was used to file hundreds of thousands of fraudulent Covid claims and distribute CSAM, among other crimes.
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Why does some wildlife thrive in the city? Figuring this out is the first step to boosting urban biodiversity. And that's good for everyone.
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A clinical trial reveals the first evidence of how the brain restructures physically in the first month on SSRIs—and the link between neuroplasticity and depression.
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The US military aims to maintain its dominance by building autonomous attack drones that collaborate with humans and overwhelm defenses in swarms.
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Solar winds at a million miles an hour and freaky magnetic turbulence are sparking some of the best light shows in centuries.
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The Chinese-owned app is in serious trouble in Washington, but a survey of US creators suggests TikTok’s influencer economy is carrying on with business as usual.
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If Scarlett Johansson pursues legal action against OpenAI for giving ChatGPT a voice she calls “eerily similar to mine,” she might claim the company breached her right to publicity.
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Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare
They predict the ups and downs of Bitcoin based on planetary movements, and their super-secretive clientele listens.
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Ken Segall is the reason so many Apple products start with “i.” Now he says it’s time to drop the prefix entirely.
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We wanted to bring you one of our favorite stories from 2023: The wide-ranging scams, often disguised as game promotions, can all be linked back to one network.
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The emotional mimicry of OpenAI’s new version of ChatGPT could lead AI assistants in some strange—even dangerous—directions.
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Loaded with ever more renewables, the grid will need to store a whole lot of energy. Enter: a new kind of magic school bus—one that can both charge and give power back.
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Alexey Pertsev, cofounder of the crypto-anonymizing tool, has been sentenced to over five years behind bars.
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Wearable AI gadgets from Rabbit and Humane were panned by reviewers, including at WIRED. Their face-plants show that it’s still tough to compete with big tech in the age of ChatGPT.
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Neuralink experienced a mechanical issue with its first human brain-computer interface implant. Its novel design may make it more prone to failure.
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. had both a brain parasite and mercury poisoning at the same time. Just how rare is each condition?
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OpenAI released draft guidelines for how it wants the AI technology inside ChatGPT to behave—and revealed that it’s exploring how to ‘responsibly’ generate explicit content.
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ChatGPT developer OpenAI says that artists and other content owners will be able to request that their work be excluded from use in AI development. Many details of the scheme remain unclear.
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With little incentive for US farmers to test their cattle, and many undocumented laborers on dairy farms, the full scale of the outbreak is unclear.
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The Biden administration is asking tech companies to sign a pledge, obtained by WIRED, to improve their digital security, including reduced default password use and improved vulnerability disclosures.
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President Joe Biden will update the directives to protect US critical infrastructure against major threats, from cyberattacks to terrorism to climate change.
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The FCC voted 3-2 to restore net neutrality rules that had disappeared during the Trump administration.
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The FCC voted 3-2 to restore net neutrality rules that had disappeared during the Trump administration.
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Ads for Explicit ‘AI Girlfriends’ Are Swarming Facebook and Instagram
Noncompetes Are Dead—and Tech Workers Are Free to Roam
The Bitcoin halving is imminent. Crypto mining companies are reaching for every trick in the book to survive it. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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Sales of vegan meat are trending downward in the US, with companies scrambling to win back customers. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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Smooth-talking scammers known as “Yahoo Boys” use widely available face-swapping tech to carry out elaborate romance scams. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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AngryGF offers a perpetually enraged chatbot intended to teach men better communication skills. WIRED took it for a spin. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright
Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government
Want one of the fastest-growing jobs in the US? Get used to being high. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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Bird Flu Is Spreading in Alarming New Ways
Transparency advocates say that Eric Schmidt's pursuit of “personal” connections with AI companies in China represents a concerning conflict of interest. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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Europe Rules That Insufficient Climate Change Action Is a Human Rights Violation
Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI
When I started coding, I was suspicious of all the abstractions. Then I discovered the Django framework. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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A TikTok Whistleblower Got DC’s Attention. Do His Claims Add Up?
OpenAI’s GPT Store Is Triggering Copyright Complaints
Meta Kills a Crucial Transparency Tool At the Worst Possible Time
The London-based social enterprise is turning regular people into at-home zookeepers. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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Follow these tips to produce stronger writing that stands out on the web even in the age of AI and ChatGPT. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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Two new books offer radically different approaches to how people should think about smartphones and social media. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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The Earth Will Feast on Dead Cicadas
The Baltimore Bridge Collapse Is About to Get Even Messier
Enjoy Your Favorite Wine Before Climate Change Destroys It
A Deepfake Nude Generator Reveals a Chilling Look at Its Victims
If you've ever heard music, voices, or other sounds while trying to sleep with a white noise machine running, you're not losing your mind. Here's what's going on.
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Some species can absorb extreme amounts of nickel from soils. Such “phytomining” could help provide batteries essential for the renewable revolution. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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The shift to electric vehicles is exciting, but it will leave us with thousands of tonnes of spent batteries. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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Those sounds you hear when you’re alone in a Huddle aren’t canned. They’re uncanny. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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The Designer Who’s Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge
States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat
Regulators Need AI Expertise. They Can’t Afford It
Ageism Haunts Some Tech Workers in the Race to Get Hired
Rampant Wildfires Are Threatening a Collapse of the Amazon Rainforest
The Quest to Give AI Chatbots a Hand—and an Arm
Apple Could Be the First Target of Europe's Tough New Tech Law
Europe Is Breaking Open the Empires of Big Tech
De-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences claims it has found a way to reprogram elephant cells, a technical breakthrough that could lead to the return of the long-lost mammals.
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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Trump Trial Ransomware Leak
Google’s Deal With StackOverflow Is the Latest Proof That AI Giants Will Pay for Data
Elon Musk’s Lawsuit Against a Group That Found Hate Speech on X Isn’t Going Well
From today, Ford electric car drivers can plug into the Supercharger network. You can bet more makers will follow. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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Any tech company moving into the auto space needs a manufacturing partner. But the Apple's EV died as it lived: alone. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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A Discarded Plan to Build Underwater Cities Will Give Coral Reefs New Life
Neuralink’s First Brain Implant Is Working. Elon Musk’s Transparency Isn’t
Google Tweaked Search to Comply With EU Rules. Yelp Says It Makes Results Even More Unfair
This Small Wearable Device Reduces Parkinson’s Symptoms
Climate Finance Is Targeting the Wrong Industries
AI Is Coming for the Experts. First, It Needs Their Help
Viruses called phages offer a promising treatment option for bacterial infections when antibiotics stop working, but they have limitations. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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The Feds Just Bet Even Bigger on American-Made Heat Pumps
Smoking Alters Your Immune System for Years After You Quit
AI Is Rewiring Coders’ Brains. Yours May Be Next
Who Tests If Heat-Proof Clothing Actually Works? These Poor Sweating Mannequins
European app makers are seething, comparing Apple to “the Mafia” and piling pressure on lawmakers to act. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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The Far-Right's Favorite Web Host Has a Shadowy New Owner
Google Prepares for a Future Where Search Isn’t King
A scientific publisher found serious flaws in a paper that links the medication mifepristone to more emergency room visits.Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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The FCC has issued a cease and desist and is working on a new proposal banning AI-generated robocalls. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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A Startup Allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then Came the Censorship—and Now the Backlash
All of the restaurants that once sold cultivated meat have stopped offering it, leaving the industry in a strange limbo. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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A Cheaper Tesla Model Is Coming in 2025 as Chinese Competition Intensifies
One of America’s largest internet providers may collect data about your political beliefs, race, and sexual orientation to serve personalized ads. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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Newly disclosed breaches of Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise highlight the persistent threat posed by Midnight Blizzard, a notorious Russian cyber-espionage group. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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Apple Isn’t Ready to Release Its Grip on the App Store
Researchers Say the Deepfake Biden Robocall Was Likely Made With Tools From AI Startup ElevenLabs
This Chatbot Screens Your Dating App Matches for You
No, the Great Tech Layoffs of 2023 Aren’t Happening Again
This Chinese Startup Is Winning the Open Source AI Race
ChatGPT's Hunger for Energy Could Trigger a GPU Revolution
The world’s trawlers are stirring carbon dioxide into the water—and into the atmosphere. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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A new ad campaign is targeting the cultivated meat industry on TV and online. Industry supporters criticize it as unscientific. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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Why Tech Workers Are Ditching Big Cities for Boise
Ocean exploration to prepare for deep-sea mining has been greenlit in Norway. These are the startups hoping to benefit. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data
Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon
The White House Just Announced a $623 Million EV-Charging Bonanza
Wildfire smoke and exhaust fumes are triggering spikes in eczema and other skin conditions. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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In Defense of AI Hallucinations
Spying on Beavers From Space Could Help Save California
Ibogaine, a plant-based psychoactive drug, drastically reduced symptoms of depression and PTSD in veterans with traumatic brain injuries. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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Molecular farming company Moolec has inserted pig genes into soy beans to generate meaty-tasting proteins that can be grown in plants. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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This Ultrasound Bra Could Detect Cancer Sooner
What Are ‘Missed Period Pills,’ and How Do They Work?
Your Money Is Funding Fossil Fuels Without You Knowing It
How to Stop Another OpenAI Meltdown
Sorry California, Amazon Will No Longer Sell You Donkey Meat
What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home
Google’s App Store Monopoly Ruled Illegal as Jury Sides With Epic
My Surprisingly Unbiased Week With Elon Musk's 'Politically Biased' Chatbot
In a World First, a Patient’s Antibody Cells Were Just Genetically Engineered
OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever Has a Plan for Keeping Super-Intelligent AI in Check
Stop Planting Trees, Says Guy Who Inspired World to Plant a Trillion Trees
YouTube Is Now Hiding Which Channels Get a Cut of Ad Revenue
Can Rock Dust Soak Up Carbon Emissions? A Giant Experiment Is Set to Find Out
Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat. WIRED goes behind the scenes of the company’s colossal effort to get it right.
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Videos featuring Elijah Wood, Mike Tyson, and Priscilla Presley have been edited to push anti-Ukraine disinformation, according to Microsoft researchers. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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Google Just Launched Gemini, Its Long-Awaited Answer to ChatGPT
Spotify Is Screwed
OpenAI Committed to Buying $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman
The Race to Find What’s Making America’s Dogs Sick
A Life-Extension Drug for Big Dogs Is Getting Closer to Reality
The Weirdest Reason the Poles Are Warming So Fast? Invisible Clouds
A Damning Report Claims a Major Gig Economy Union Had a Culture of Abuse and Toxicity
The US Wants Vietnam to Be Its New Tech Best Friend
A second Starship test flight advanced a bit further than the first, with the rocket reaching the edge of space but blowing up soon after. Industry experts say it’s still a step forward.
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New Orleans Tried to Control Short-Term Rentals With a Lottery System. It Was a Mess
The Precarious Rise of Disposable Vapes
The Biden administration is announcing $169 million to supercharge domestic production of a device beloved by climate and energy nerds. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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YouTube Shorts Challenges TikTok With Music-Making AI for Creators
Research has questioned whether seasonal depression actually exists. Maybe that doesn’t matter. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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The medical community's leading authority on traumatic brain injuries wants to make contact sports—which she loves—safer for everyone. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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The threat of avalanches is rising with global warming, but technology can help protect skiers on and off the slopes. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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Staff at US federal contractor Maximus claim they only get six minutes a day to use the bathroom, are monitored by an AI system that reports them for going off-script, and can’t afford health care.
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Face recognition technology has been controversial for years. Cops in the UK are drastically increasing the amount they use it. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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Big Tech Ditched Trust and Safety. Now Startups Are Selling It Back As a Service
Greenland’s northern ice shelves—long thought to be relatively stable—have lost more than a third of their volume since 1978, new research finds. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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Why You Can’t Stop Reading About Daylight Saving Time
YouTube’s Ad Blocker Crackdown Spurs Record Uninstalls
Facebook Finally Puts a Price on Privacy: It’s $10 a Month
Lawrence Faucette died six weeks after undergoing the experimental procedure involving a genetically engineered organ. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.
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