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DNA Drives Help Identify Missing People. It’s a Privacy Nightmare

Genetic Genealogy

DNA Drives Help Identify Missing People. It’s a Privacy Nightmare

Emily Mullin

Extremely Online Republicans Are Provoking a US Government Shutdown

Filter Bubble

Extremely Online Republicans Are Provoking a US Government Shutdown

Matt Laslo

The Dumb Alien Mummy Story Takes an Entirely Predictable Turn

Llama Skeletons

The Dumb Alien Mummy Story Takes an Entirely Predictable Turn

Anna Lagos

The UK Is Burning Climate Pledges to Fuel a Culture War

Net Zero

The UK Is Burning Climate Pledges to Fuel a Culture War

Matt Reynolds

The Kids Don’t Want to Go to College Anymore, and Why Would They?

WIRED Podcasts

The Kids Don’t Want to Go to College Anymore, and Why Would They?

Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode

Inside the Senate’s Private AI Meeting With Tech’s Billionaire Elites

Closed Doors

Inside the Senate’s Private AI Meeting With Tech’s Billionaire Elites

Matt Laslo and Khari Johnson

No, This Is Not an Alien. Here’s Why

Phone Home

No, This Is Not an Alien. Here’s Why

Anna Lagos

A Concrete Crisis Has the UK Literally Crumbling

CRAACS

A Concrete Crisis Has the UK Literally Crumbling

Sabrina Weiss

The US Congress Has Trust Issues. Generative AI Is Making It Worse

Self Reflection

The US Congress Has Trust Issues. Generative AI Is Making It Worse

Matt Laslo

The UK Is Poised to Force a Bad Law on the Internet

Error Code

The UK Is Poised to Force a Bad Law on the Internet

Peter Guest

It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine

Faking It

It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine

Will Knight

In a World of Fakes, Trump’s Real Mug Shot Matters

Making History

In a World of Fakes, Trump’s Real Mug Shot Matters

Amanda Hoover

Trump’s Prosecution Is America’s Last Hope

The Buck Stops Here

Trump’s Prosecution Is America’s Last Hope

Dell Cameron and Andrew Couts

The Twisted Pageantry of American Politics in One Photo

Depth of Field

The Twisted Pageantry of American Politics in One Photo

Jason Parham

Grimes Wants to Be Less Famous (and Replaced by AI)

WIRED Podcasts

Grimes Wants to Be Less Famous (and Replaced by AI)

Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode

The All-American Myth of the TikTok Spy

Ideas

The All-American Myth of the TikTok Spy

Yangyang Cheng

The Ghost of Privacy Past Haunts the Senate’s AI Future

Who You Gonna Call?

The Ghost of Privacy Past Haunts the Senate’s AI Future

Matt Laslo

What Meta’s New Studies Do—and Don’t—Reveal About Social Media and Polarization

Ideas

What Meta’s New Studies Do—and Don’t—Reveal About Social Media and Polarization

Jonathan Stray

Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds

Time Suck

Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds

Paresh Dave

How Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism and Pragmatism

Ideas

How Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism and Pragmatism

Kai Ye