The EU Wants Big Tech to Scan Your Private Chats for Child Abuse
Europe’s proposed child protection laws could undermine end-to-end encryption for billions of people.
An Elusive Gravity Signal Could Mean Faster Earthquake Warnings
Tiny wobbles in Earth’s gravitational field could help detect big tremors faster, but they’re hard to tease out from the planet’s seismic noise.
How to Spot If Your Food Is Coming From a Ghost Kitchen
It’s never been easier to scroll through third-party delivery apps like Uber Eats and order takeout from a wide range of offerings in your...
Can Social Media Be Redeemed?
WIRED’s spiritual advice columnist on Jack Dorsey’s remorse for his role in creating a centralized internet and what it signals for the rest of...
How Starlink Scrambled to Keep Ukraine Online
Elon Musk’s intervention demonstrates how satellite internet could route around war or censorship far beyond Ukraine.
Thousands of Top Websites See What You Type—Before You Hit Submit
A surprising number of the top 100,000 websites effectively include keyloggers that covertly snag everything you type into a form.
How to ‘No-Clip’ Reality and Arrive in the Backrooms
Video game culture meets creepypasta posts and leaves you trapped within a liminal hellscape.
Wanda Maximoff Deserves Better From the MCU
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness erased the Scarlet Witch's growth in *WandaVision—*and retread a lot of the comic books' missteps.
Ford’s F-150 Lightning Is a Refined Beast
Prodigious power combined with child’s-play controls make this truck the ultimate do-anything EV.
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