Urban Spam. Now there's a coinage with a future

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.

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

Five hauntings from the other side of technology.

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.”

Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.

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

Amid a wave of backlash, some industry-friendly groups are employing creative and time-tested strategies to woo the youth.

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

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

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.”

Musk, we find your lack of security disturbing.