Dead Media Beat: modern fossils

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.

The new image isn’t just stunning—it may also provide clues about how this star survived its own explosion.

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

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

The Webb telescope sees tiny red dots everywhere. Astronomers can’t agree on what they are, but some believe they may be enormous stars with black holes inside.

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.

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.

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

These elusive and reactive particles have been challenging to hold on to and even more challenging to study, but a new method paves the way for tests on the differences between matter and antimatter.

European countries are leading the way harvesting heat that would otherwise be wasted as green death practices become more common.

Musk, we find your lack of security disturbing.