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Five hauntings from the other side of technology.

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

Paris Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand.

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

This week on Uncanny Valley, we go behind the scenes of our Nathan Fielder cover story, unpack tech billionaires’ generous promises, and discuss the suspicious letters sent to US election offices.

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

As agents go mainstream, some publishers are hoping that people will pay for content tailor-made for AI—not humans.

Missed our latest WIRED@Night event? Enjoy an evening of podcasting in San Francisco right here.

Don’t buy a loved one something you wouldn’t want for yourself. These are the must-haves that tech enthusiasts have on their wish lists this year.

The author of The AGI Chronicles says his book “was written by a very tired, overworked, under-slept human being.”

From the Senate to governors’ mansions, candidates are trying to outcompete each other to be the most anti–data center in races across the US.