Meta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group Faces Mass Resignation of Expert Advisers

On Monday, a small but consequential rebellion unfolded in the world of online safety. Six of the nine independent experts serving on the advisory board of the Global Internet Forum…

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Best Apple Watch: Series 12, Ultra 4, and SE 3 (2026)

As WIRED’s resident wearable tester, I’ve strapped, clipped, and tapped my way through more smartwatches than I can count. I know there’s life beyond…

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Bose Launches New Wired Earbuds After More Than a Decade

Once upon a time, the name Bose was practically synonymous with wired headphones. The company built its reputation on over-ear “quiet comfort” models and…

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Space Lasers Are About to Get Their First Real Test Generating Energy

Imagine a neighborhood being built far beyond the last streetlight, where every house must bring its own generator. That is the situation currently unfolding…

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This Browser Extension Lets You Snooze Open Tabs Until Later

Browser tabs are one of the best inventions in the history of the web. They’re also, quite possibly, one of the worst. I mean…

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Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead

Welcome to Kernel Panic, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess. We spend our days inside the strange, sprawling world of…

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Our Favorite White Elephant Gifts for Your Next Exchange

White elephant gift exchanges are one of those peculiar holiday rituals that somehow manage to be both completely predictable and endlessly chaotic. You gather…

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The 34 Best Gifts for Dads (2026)

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Being a father myself—and someone who gets paid to evaluate gadgets for a living—I’ve come to realize that I am an absolute nightmare to shop for. It’s not something I’m…

Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk

Anthropic just lost an important round in its fight against the Pentagon, and the consequences are anything but abstract. On Friday, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., refused to…

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How Tech Companies Can Use Digital Marketing + SEO to Grow Faster (Without Burning Budget)

Growth in tech is oddly simple and painfully competitive at the same time. Simple because the path is clear: get in front of the…

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Federal Court Deems FBI’s Warrantless “Backdoor” Searches Unconstitutional

The recent ruling by US District Court Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall declaring the FBI's warrantless searches of US citizens' communications under Section 702 of…

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‘Primetime’ Exposes the Ego-Driven Core of Vigilante Pedophile Hunting

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Child predators occupy a uniquely dark place in the public imagination. They are, arguably, the most reviled demographic in society,…

The Trump Administration Is Trying to Get Musk and X Out of a $137 Million EU Fine

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Party Invite Phishing Scams Are the New Missed Connections

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It began as one of those small, unsettling glitches in the rhythm of daily life—the kind that makes you question…

Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?

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The first time I met Paulina Borsook, in the fog of a December afternoon, she was somewhere deep inside what…

Nearly a Decade Later, the Electric Tesla Semi Is Here

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Paragraph 1: The Vision Versus the Vehicle At first glance, there was something almost comical about the scene unfolding on…

Inside the Network of Anonymous Men Destroying Young Women’s Lives

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A year ago, Maddie Kowalski was just another college sophomore navigating the ordinary chaos of life at the University of…

I Think I Found an AI Agent Worth the Risk

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Leaving WIRED after years of writing about artificial intelligence felt like stepping out of a fast-moving river and into a…

Scientists Detect Radio Signals From an Exoplanet for the First Time in History

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Imagine a family portrait taken not of people but of planets, captured around a distant star some 63 light-years away.…

Venus May Have Devoured Its Moon

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Venus has long been known as Earth’s twin, a world so similar in size, mass, and rocky composition that astronomers…

Google’s Gemini Can Now Make Calls for You on Pixel Phones

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Paragraph 1: The Dawn of the Digital Receptionist Remember the summer of 2018 when Google unleashed Duplex upon an unsuspecting…

Why No One Wants to Date Tech Bros

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At a crowded Manhattan bar, where the happy-hour hum of conversation and clinking glasses made intimacy feel possible, 23-year-old Gary…

Why This Weekend’s Nor’easter Is Like a Hurricane

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Imagine waking up to the sound of wind rattling your windows, rain hammering the roof, and the ocean roaring just…