SPoW 12_22_18

This week in WIRED Book Club, we recap the final chapters of The Yahoo Boys.

On today’s Uncanny Valley, we unpack OpenAI’s ongoing drama, both legal and reputational, and whether these developments could further hurt the company—particularly in its fight against Anthropic.

Private buyers are increasingly outbidding museums for fossils. That’s making it difficult—or even impossible—for researchers to improve our understanding of the past.

This week in WIRED Book Club, we cover chapters 7-9 of The Yahoo Boys.

Is PlayStation about to make the same mistake Microsoft made with Xbox One?

The Yahoo Boys author Carlos Barragán joined Kate Knibbs to answer your questions about Nigeria's romance scammers.

The incident could disrupt a key part of the defense company’s rocket motor business, which designs and tests prototype motors for military customers.

A study based on 47 million galaxies found that the cosmic web retains patterns on enormous scales, which could force a reevaluation of a pillar of cosmology.

See the documentary The Oldest Person in the World before it’s in theaters.

After Trump publicly backed pillow salesman turned election denier Mike Lindell for governor of Minnesota, the local GOP pushed back strongly.

An error with the cloud computing giant’s billing operation caused some customers’ monthly bills to rise from a few cents to billions of dollars.

The FCC authorized Reflect Orbital to launch the mirror satellite Eärendil-1. “For optical astronomy, this poses an existential threat,” the European Southern Observatory said.