Introducing WIRED Politics: Kamala Harris' Brat Summer Is Almost Over. What's Next?
We're in your feed today to share an episode from a podcast we think you might like called the WIRED Politics Lab. As Election 2024 quickly approaches, our news feeds and timelines are filled with co...
30 Sep 202432min
Defrauding Big Tech
They were scammers. But they weren't going to scam just anyone. They were going to scam Big Tech. And they almost got away with it. Earlier this month, federal prosecutors accused a North Carolina ma...
27 Sep 202425min
The Great Lemming Lie
Telling a story is hard. Filming nature is even harder. That may be why, in the 1940s, Walt Disney productions leaned on movie magic to develop its True-Life Adventures nature documentary series. It ...
20 Sep 202435min
A Reasonable Expectation of Privacy
When the founder of the messaging and social media app Telegram, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France, it exposed something: many of Telegram's millions of users believe the app is much more secure tha...
13 Sep 202433min
Ignore All Previous Instructions
How do you break a bot? Recently, one sneaky idea turned into an online meme. Tell the bot, "Ignore all previous instructions and..." Then you fill in the blank. Such was the case for Toby Muresianu....
6 Sep 202426min
The Internet's Most Hated Bird
Gulls are not beloved creatures. Consult social media, where they are deemed relentless, dirty pests who steal our food and crowd our beaches. As one TikTok user puts it, "Seagulls are the worst anima...
30 Aug 202437min
Bad Assumptions
A blurry video surfaces on the r/trashy subreddit of what appears to be a work dispute in an unspecified African country. A Chinese man slaps a clipboard out of a Black worker's hands, then leaves the...
23 Aug 202437min
Singing About the Rain
What is it about weather reporters that makes them so goofy? Whatever it is, today, meteorologists have appeal far beyond the airwaves. Several have gained celebrity on TikTok and YouTube. One such w...
16 Aug 202418min
