Why I hang out with designers

Five hauntings from the other side of technology.

What’s it like to be the richest man in the world? Find out for yourself.

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.”

a certain kind of person writes in all lowercase now. why?

Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to the internet. WIRED goes inside the backroom shenanigans of ICANN, the organization at the helm.

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.

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

The second iteration of the viral Friend AI necklace is louder and less interesting.

MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots.

An exclusive early look at Apple’s new touchscreen MacBook Pro—the computer Apple said would never happen.

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.

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