Hands-on with AI startup Friend's $129 always-listening pendant: feels like a beefy AirTag, runs Gemini 2.5, gives unhelpful commentary, and makes others uneasy
The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that's snarky and unhelpful.
Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates
Musk has gone to war with Donald Trump. What happens next? Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Elon Musk signals he may back down in public row with Donald Trump Wired : Elon Musk's Feud W...
A look at RISC architecture's origins, the Arm vs. RISC-V war, and how RISCites beat the CISCites, as RISC's increasing adoption risks US companies' dominance
“RISC architecture is gonna change everything.” Those absurdly geeky, incredibly prophetic words were spoken 30 years ago. Bluesky: @emilprotalinski , @wired.com , @waterslicer , ...
Romance scams may rise as isolation grows and generative AI helps scammers scale; the FBI says US victims lost nearly $4.5B to such scams over the past decade
There are even sweatshop type setups where people are tricked into working in the romance scam industry. — It would be nice if Wired acknowledged that instead of using an illustr...
A look at challenges indie video game devs face, as they struggle to survive due to lack of funding and studio closures, leading to talent loss in the industry
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Hands-on with Ray-Ban Meta's new AI translation feature, which is too rudimentary and buggy to be anything more than a novelty
Google Translate at least changed it to “Cinema Love.")" ~@Knibbs https://www.wired.com/... Kevin Dominik Korte / @kedkorte : We ask drone operators to wear orange vests to make th...
Anonymous social media app Sidechat has become both a place for dialog and a breeding ground for hate speech amid US college protests over the Israel-Hamas war
“How Sidechat Fanned the Flames of University Campus Protests” — https://www.wired.com/... “Amid tensions about free speech on university campuses and the ongoing Israel-Hamas w...
How Ukraine recreated the Soledar Salt Mine in Minecraft to let players compete for prizes and donate to restore a school hit by a Russian missile
How Ukraine recreated the Soledar Salt Mine in Minecraft to let players compete for prizes and donate to restore a school hit by a Russian missile
Dig in Minecraft. Rebuild in Real Life French developers Endorah … Minesalt : Welcome to Minesalt — Minesalt is a Recreation of the Soledar Salt Mines in Minecraft. Odessa Journ...
A profile of Lanny Smoot, Disney's first and only research fellow who holds 100+ patents and has built an omnidirectional HoloTile Floor to let users walk in VR
106 right now. He is the only the second Disney employee ever inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The first? Walt Disney himself. [image] @wired : Lanny Smoot builds...
Hollywood unions resisting AI being used to recreate actors' performances sets a precedent for future labor movements on how to push back against automation
I think this foreshadows two trends that seem inevitable — 1. An increasing trend of unionization as a worker tool to prevent job displacement by AI while fields that lack unions...
An analysis of 36GB of US school network logs for January 2022 to August 2023 finds widespread internet censoring filters, such as for health and sexuality info
A WIRED investigation into internet censorship in US schools found widespread use of filters to censor health, identity, and other crucial information. X: @meghann , @katiedrumm , ...
A profile of Matthew Butterick, a lawyer leading cases against OpenAI, Meta, Stability AI, and others, alleging they broke the law when building their AI tools
Matthew Butterick is leading a wave of lawsuits against major AI firms, from OpenAI to Meta. Win or lose, his work will shape the future of human creativity.
A look at the flood of near-identical YouTube obituary videos, in which men read obituaries scraped from authorized publishers like funeral homes and newspapers
A look at the flood of near-identical YouTube obituary videos, in which men read obituaries scraped from authorized publishers like funeral homes and newspapers
If you Google someone who recently died, you might see a flood of near-identical videos of men reading obits. Here's why. X: @pearlriverflow , @waterslicer , @mattsreynolds1 , @ni...
The CWA files two unfair labor practice charges with the US NLRB alleging Grindr cut 82 workers, or 46% of its staff, for rejecting a return-to-office mandate
https://www.wired.com/... X: Caitlin Harrington / @caitharr : New: Grindr issued an in-office mandate 2 weeks after the @GrindrUnited union went public. Now, nearly half of its sta...
Inside TSMC's facilities in Taiwan, where Fab 18 makes a quintillion transistors for Apple every six months, and an interview with Chairman Mark Liu
As the US boosts production of silicon chips, an American journalist goes inside TSMC, the mysterious Taiwanese company at the center of the global industry.
Zuckerberg says Facebook is extending the block it has placed on Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts “indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks”
The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining …
A look at the digital archives preserving the posts rioters made of themselves at the US Capitol; the valuable crowdsourced evidence otherwise faces removal
Yesterday, a nauseated and tired public witnessed a clear, on-the-ground, real-time feed of Trump supporters committing countless potential felonies and misdemeanors.