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Introducing WIRED's Gadget Lab!

Open Source AI Has Founders—and the FTC—Buzzing

Bitcoin Bros Go Wild for Donald Trump

Polluted Lakes Are Being Cleansed Using Floating Wetlands Made of Trash

At The Olympics, AI Is Watching You

Here's What Happens When You Give People Free Money (They Get Poorer)

RealPage Says Rental Pricing Tech Is Misunderstood, but Landlords Aren’t So Sure

Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed Its Robotaxis

J.D. Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows

Spotify, Stop Trying to Become a Social Media App

Paris Mayor Defies Poo Threats to Swim in Seine, and Prove a Point

Tiny Texas Village Seeks Billion-Dollar Bitcoin Miner to Pave Potholes, Scare Dogs Away

Pressure Grows in Congress to Treat Crypto Investigator Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed in Nigeria, as a Hostage

How Watermelon Cupcakes Kicked Off an Internal Storm at Meta

Apple to Allow Rivals to Access ‘Tap and Go’ Technology

Epic Games Lashes Out at Apple Over App Store Rejection

What Will Plants Be Like on Alien Worlds?

How Labour Can Fix the UK’s Tech Industry

After a 10 Year Wait, Mt. Gox Bitcoin Is Finally Being Returned

Hurricane Beryl Isn’t a Freak Storm—It’s the Exact Nightmare Meteorologists Predicted

Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Cuts Dozens of Jobs

Meta's Pay for Privacy Model Is Illegal, Says EU

French AI Startups Felt Unstoppable. Then Came the Election

OpenAI Wants AI to Help Humans Train AI

Air So Polluted It Can Kill Isn’t Being Taken Seriously Enough

The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over

Post-Pandemic Recovery Isn’t Guaranteed

Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine

Potatoes Are the Perfect Vegetable—but You’re Eating Them Wrong

STEM Students Refuse to Work at Google and Amazon Over Project Nimbus

Banks Are Finally Realizing What Climate Change Will Do to Housing

AI Is Coming for Big Tech Jobs—but Not in the Way You Think

I Spent a Week Eating Discarded Restaurant Food. But Was It Really Going to Waste?

From the Archives: Scientists Have Finally Found the Origins of a Mysterious Asteroid

Apple Proved That AI Is a Feature, Not a Product

US National Security Experts Warn AI Giants Aren't Doing Enough to Protect Their Secrets

From the Archives: The ‘Green’ Future of Furniture Is a Sofa Stuffed With Seaweed

An AI Cartoon May Interview You For Your Next Job

The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning Into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever

The Case for MDMA's Approval Is Riddled With Problems

From the Archives: Energy Drinks Are Out of Control

From the Archives: Here Come the Glow-in-the-Dark Houseplants

From the Archives: What Will Plants Be Like on Alien Worlds?

Marc Andreessen Called Online Safety Teams an Enemy. He Still Wants Walled Gardens for His Kid

From the Archives: A Medieval French Skeleton Is Rewriting the History of Syphilis

An American Company Enabled a North Korean Scam That Raised Money for WMDs

AI Is Your Coworker Now. Can You Trust It?

The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning

Google's AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken. That's How AI Works

What Ever Happened to the Tiny House Movement?