Mar 5, 2004 5:21 PM

A Techno Thing of Beauty is a Joy For Techno-Ever

Way too much ugly mayhem this week. Time

for art that is inventive and ingenious and pretty.

Michael Rees, digital sculptor.

http://www.michaelrees.com/

Michael Rees dotcom

The Michael Rees blog

Daniel Rozin, interactive mirror-maker.

The Rozin ouevre

IEEE Spectrum on TechnoArt

Italo Calvino as a whole bunch of MP3s in Italian

and English.

The Spoken Digital Word

9 WIRED-Approved Gifts for the Techie in Your Life

Don’t buy a loved one something you wouldn’t want for yourself. These are the must-haves that tech enthusiasts have on their wish lists this year.

Luke Larsen

WIRED Ghost Stories

Five hauntings from the other side of technology.

Demi Adejuyigbe Thinks You Should Only Post 3 Times a Day

The comedian sees being online as similar to visiting the zoo. “I don’t need to interact with that,” he says. “It’s just a thing that I enjoy, and then I walk away.”

Miles Klee

Jensen Huang’s Vision for Europe Runs on Plug-In Data Centers

At Nvidia’s GTC in Berlin, Huang unveiled the company’s new plug-in data center—the DSX Pod—as the key to unlocking Europe’s AI infrastructure lag. Oh, and autonomous humanoid robotics.

Tom Bristow

Please Let the Internet Die

Online spaces are captured by oligarchs and saturated with slop—and they’re exacerbating humanity’s worst impulses. It’s time to start over.

Miles Klee

Artificial Roasts AI’s Creators—and Sends a Dark Warning About Its Dangers

From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.

John Semley

Wikipedians Believed AI Would Come and Go. They Were Wrong

In a world of AI Overviews, Wikipedia usage declines. But the real loss may be far more existential than website traffic.

Richard Cooke

Dune: Part Three’s Cowriter Has a New Comic on the Way

Brian K. Vaughan claims he’s seen Dune: Part Three and it’s “a fucking beautiful movie.”

Angela Watercutter

Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.

Zoë Schiffer

The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable

Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.

Lily Hay Newman

We Got Hot and Heavy With Meta’s Muse—and Baffled by Apple’s HomeView

This week on Uncanny Valley, we dive into an unexpected Muse feature, shadowy spending from the largest pro-AI super PAC, and men’s tendency to lie about how much they know about AI.

Brian Barrett

The New ChatGPT Is More Show Than Tell

OpenAI is updating ChatGPT for all users with an “Intelligent UI” that’s more visual—generating interactive elements as part of the chatbot’s outputs.

Reece Rogers