Last February, Emily Whittemore stepped onto the stage at Los Angeles’ Jumbo’s Clown Room in a pair of eight-inch Pleaser heels, a black string bikini, and an extra-large…
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Read more A Journey Into the Heart of LabubuDuring our conversation, Brown compared Praxis to Israel—minus a world war and a holocaust, of course. “There were these stateless people who were scattered,” he says, and they…
Read more Tech Billionaires Already Captured the White House. They Still Want to Be KingsWhen the suit didn’t produce instant results, Musk went jingoistic. A few months earlier, in February 2014, Russia had invaded Ukraine, illegally annexing the Crimean Peninsula and triggering…
Read more Elon Musk Is Out to Rule Space. Can Anyone Stop Him?Young people dominated the hospital crowd, which makes sense, since Kirk’s major accomplishment was to promote his brand of rightwing politics to a cohort that has historically been…
Read more A Vigil for Charlie KirkThe court delivered a devastating judgment in January 2022. In a 1,700-page ruling, the judge found that Lynch had been “aware of improprieties in Autonomy’s accounting practices” and…
Read more The Superyacht, the Billionaire, and a Wildly Improbable Disaster at SeaBi understood how far-fetched her allegations sounded. “If it were not for all the hard evidence, it’s too shocking to believe [Rebecca Smith] did what she did to…
Read more The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It?Sitting a few feet away was Simon Last, one of Notion’s three cofounders. He is gangly and shy, an engineer who has relinquished management responsibilities to focus on…
Read more Why Did a $10 Billion Startup Let Me Vibe-Code for Them—and Why Did I Love It?Kevin: When we went to do the IPO, it was very, very clear that the digital side was far more valuable than the magazine side. That was the…
Read more ‘We Were Wrong’: An Oral History of WIRED’s Original WebsiteBut then, too, there was the assurance, the confidence, in the accounts of the biologists as remedy to allay suspicion. Because Sergeant Rocker, too, had then taken to…
Read more ‘Absolution’ Excerpt: Read the Beginning of Jeff VanderMeer’s Newest Southern Reach BookWell actually WIRED shares a parent company with Reddit. Good. Get rid of it. What’s the part of all of it that feels the weirdest to you still?…
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Read more The Green Economy Is Hungry for Copper—and People Are Stealing, Fighting, and Dying to Feed ItBy the time I arrive in Lezay my clothes are damp with sweat, my head foggy. I find hundreds of Les Soulèvements de la Terre’s supporters in a…
Read more She’s the New Face of Climate Activism—and She’s Carrying a PickaxIt was questionable how much credit they could take. They had arrived in Texas right at the start of the rainy season, and the precipitation that fell before…
Read more The New Gods of Weather Can Make Rain on Demand—or So They Want You to Believe**SPOILERS AHEAD**!!!!!! As the fictional Freud writes of his own approaching death, he foresees the death of his sister Dolfi (who will die three years later in historical…
Read more China Miéville Writes a Secret Novel With the Internet’s Boyfriend (It’s Keanu Reeves)Disclosure: Longtime journalist Steven Brill is the founder or cofounder of a number of publications and companies, including NewsGuard, where he is the co-CEO and coeditor in chief.…
Read more How Advertising Broke the WorldThe Allied soldiers who weren’t killed limped back from the defeat. It was clear now, they needed to be able to creep up to the beaches days before…
Read more They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a WarThe last two weeks before the deadline were frantic. Though officially some of the team still had desks in Building 1945, they mostly worked in 1965 because it…
Read more 8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside StoryHall says when she has access to an interpreter, they are rotated throughout the week, forcing her to repeatedly explain some technical concepts. “Google is going the cheap…
Read more Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Tout Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for DiscriminationMost alarmingly, PlanetRisk began seeing evidence of the US militaryâs own missions in the Locomotive data. Phones would appear at American military installations such as Fort Bragg in…
Read more How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find its Targets—and Vladimir Putin
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