The Sharing Economy: a whole new set of niggling legal issues

Meta got hit this week with its biggest fine yet, the latest in a mounting pile of court-ordered payments.

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

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

Five hauntings from the other side of technology.

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.

Meta’s board feared that its CEO’s departure could disrupt the company’s AI ambitions. A new stock agreement gives him financial incentives to stay put.

The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens of states allege encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.

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

Thanks to a lucky break, flawed code in a tainted Claude extension prevented the attacker from fully worming their way into some 5,000 developer machines.

The company is suspending the feature after security researchers discovered how easy it was to access sensitive information shared with the AI assistant.

Musk, we find your lack of security disturbing.

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