Bruce Sterling at Freedom to Connnect

Five hauntings from the other side of technology.

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

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 documentary chronicles how Star Trek’s positions on everything from race to AI were way ahead of their time.

At a recent event for security firm NordVPN, NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal revealed that he got hacked—and warned the public about the need to “have control of their own information.”

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

Apple’s original music player got many things right. Chief among them: It didn’t connect to the internet.

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.”

WIRED has partnered with Neal Agarwal of Neal.fun to create a visualization of Elon Musk’s massive wealth. Here’s how it came together.

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

From Trump TV to a Shark Tank knockoff, the president’s latest entertainment ventures are a steep decline from his days on The Apprentice.

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.