Books

Party Foul
Macmillan Staff Say the Publisher Threw a Party for a Workplace AI Assistant That Was Later Killed
Workers tell WIRED that NOA—or “No Ordinary Assistant”—was unhelpful. Bestselling authors also say AI is ruining their relationships with Big Five publishers.
Adam Morgan



Language Model
More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’
Emma Madden



◉ Livestream AMA
Livestream Replay: Inside The World of Online Romance Scams
Kate Knibbs and Carlos Barragán

Book Club
How Chinese Gamers End Up With Amazon Gift Cards From Nigerian Scammers’ Victims
Kate Knibbs




Writer’s Block
Literary Prizewinners Are Facing AI Allegations. It Feels Like the New Normal
Miles Klee

Book Excerpt
The Gamblers Behind One of the Weirdest Cheating Mysteries in Chess Have Been Unmasked
Kit Chellel





The Big Interview
Margaret Atwood on Doomscrolling: ‘I Want to Keep Up With the Latest Doom’
Katie Drummond


Book Excerpt
The Mathematician Who Tried to Convince the Catholic Church of Two Infinities
Jason Socrates Bardi




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Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims
Named “Volta-Autodoxer,” the recently uncovered malware uses AI tools to collect troves of data about victims, from login credentials and credit card numbers to Discord sessions and UberEats receipts.
Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

Light Up Your Home Like Christmas With These Smart String Lights
Glow up your home indoors or out with these versatile, discounted, full color smart string lights. They’re WIRED-tested and 25 percent off right now.
Simon Hill

There’s a Completely New Type of Whisky. It’s French and Made in Concrete Eggs
The founders of Maison Lineti are, in a world first, making single malt whisky as if it were wine—and the spirit world is mighty impressed.
Jeremy White

Power Outages Are No Match for This Fridge Battery
Backup by BioLite is designed to power your fridge when the grid goes down. It works, but protecting your ice cream doesn’t come cheap.
Christopher Null

Meta’s Muse Could Upend All Kinds of Businesses. It Hasn’t Yet
Companies have spent the past several weeks trying to reassure investors that Muse and other AI agents pose more of an opportunity than a threat.
Paresh Dave

An AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain
A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs.
Emily Mullin

Get Bose QC Headphones at Their Lowest Price Ever
They’re a steal at over 40 percent off in multiple colors. Plus, other great Bose deals you should know about ahead of Black Friday.
Harry Rabinowitz

Keep ’Em Caffeinated
The Keurig Alta Brewer Can Do It All, With No Plastic Pods
This multifaceted home coffee brewer and its new AltaRounds will make you rethink everything you know about Keurig machines.
Louryn Strampe

Worm Eat Worm World
Are Memories Transferable? Meet the Scientists Replicating an Infamous Study to Find Out
Claire L. Evans


White Dwarfs Aren’t Just White. Scientists Discover Dying Stars Turning Pink and Green
Astronomers find that a white dwarf’s density and the kind of material it absorbed from its surroundings can produce a rainbow of shades in the star’s atmosphere.
Petr Kubala

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Molly Higgins

Smart Savings
The Google Pixel Watch 5 Just Hit Its Lowest Price Ever
Google’s latest smartwatch packs great new health and fitness features, and it’s already on sale ahead of Black Friday.
Boutayna Chokrane

Uncanny Valley
How a Contractor’s Claude Agent Got Into the Pentagon
This week on Uncanny Valley, we also discuss Anthropic’s IPO filing and the volunteers gearing up to counter ICE at the midterms.
Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger

Near Misses
A Supply Chain Attack Put Malicious Anthropic Claude Extensions on Thousands of Devices
Lily Hay Newman