The anthropology of stickytape

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

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.”

To save endangered languages, tech companies like Apple are working with Indigenous communities to meet the next generation where they type.

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.

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 death of a lab worker in Russia has authorities looking at whether plague played a role. Even if it did, though, the odds of it spreading are very low.

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

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

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

Although the case is considered exceptional, investigators are working to determine how the infection occurred and whether the pathogen played a role in the patient’s death.

Hysteria over the agent's appearance in a 7,500-person group reveals that internet experts have outdated notions of privacy.