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Choke Points

Experience What It’s Like to Travel in the Occupied West Bank

Traverse barriers and checkpoints in the occupied West Bank—your choices reflect the reality of nearly 3.5 million Palestinians who live there.

Eyes Wide Shut

The Secrets of a US Spyware King

In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Paragon Solutions CEO Andrew Boyd reveals the limits of the company’s promise to keep bad actors from abusing its powerful espionage tool.

By Kim Zetter

Model Behavior

Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This

Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.

By Brian Barrett

Bro Talk

Tim Heidecker Is Bringing His Joe Rogan Parody Show to The Onion

By Miles Klee

Shock Value

Casio’s Crystal G-Shock Is the Most Expensive Ever Made

By Jeremy White

Full Metal Jacket

Amazon’s New Kindle Lineup Is Lighter, Thinner, and More Metal

By Julian Chokkattu

Buying Guide

The Best Wi-Fi Routers to Reach Every Corner of Your Home

By Simon Hill

Uncanny Valley

Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ AI ‘Accord,’ the Rise of AI Agents, and Extremists on the Ballot

By Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger

Reviews

Amazon Prime Day

I’ve Been Hunting Deals for 13 Years. These Early Prime Day Discounts Are Actually Worth It

Book Smart

I Tried the Best Kindles to Take Your Library Anywhere

Gift Guide

Smarter Gift Ideas for the New Parents in Your Life

Product Review

The Tractive Cat 6 Mini Is a Fitbit for Your Cat

Subscriber Exclusives

Inner Loop

The White House Is Starting to Panic Over the Midterms

President Donald Trump still thinks Republicans have a shot. His aides are less convinced.

By Hugo Lowell

AI Lab

The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here

Kernel Panic

Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead

Backchannel

War Bros Didn’t Always Rule Silicon Valley

Model Behavior

I Think I Found an AI Agent Worth the Risk

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The Real Threat to the Midterms Is Regular Americans Thinking Violence Is the Answer

Madison Square Garden’s James Dolan Is Spending Big on New York’s Governor Race

A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization

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OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack

OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government

An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later

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Measles Is Forcing Hospitals to Adapt to a New Normal

There Are Plenty of Reasons to Be Concerned About Bioweapons Development—Even Without AI

A Biotech Founder Makes the Moral Case for Gene-Editing Human Embryos

Two robot hands caught up in a web.

Trump’s AI Safety ‘Accord’ Is a Fancy Pinky-Swear

OpenAI Delays Release of Latest Model Over Safety Concerns

Meta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group Faces Mass Resignation of Expert Advisers

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2 Driverless Cars Crashed Going 155 mph. That Could Be a Good Thing

Neurable’s First Brain-Scanning Headphones Want to Fine-Tune Your Focus

The Range Rover Sport Electric Arrives With More for Less

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Are Any of the Amazon Alexa Deals Good This Prime Day?

What’s in the Guts of Apple’s Most Powerful Computer Ever?

Gifts for Book Lovers I’d Be Thrilled to Get Myself

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Furry Airline Pilots Are Just Minding Their Own Business

Black Twitter Is Thriving—on Threads

Party Invite Phishing Scams Are the New Missed Connections

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The 8 Best Movies to Stream This Month

The 9 Best TV Shows to Stream This Month

Marvel Has Assigned 42 Hours of Homework Before Avengers: Doomsday

Podcast: Uncanny Valley

Timnit Gebru at the Featured Session Reclaiming Our Humanity in the Age of AI during the SXSW Conference Festivals held...

Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI

Anonymous Men Have Turned Cyberharassment Into a Group Sport—Here’s One Woman’s Side of the Story

Here’s What the AI Apocalypse Could Look Like

The Big Story

Choke Points

How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank

Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.

By Lama Rabah, Sabrina Slipchenko, Charles Boutaud, Firas Taweel, and Elena DeBre

Gone Girl

Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?

The Ick Factor

Why No One Wants to Date Tech Bros

Baby Steps

She’s 28, Loves God and Her Family, and Might Be the Reason You Can’t Have Kids

The Big Interview

Patti Harrison Had Dreams of a Tech Utopia. Silicon Valley Smashed Them

Special Editions

Special Edition

Welcome to the WIRED Women Issue

Special Edition

Inside WIRED’s Brain Week

Special Edition

The Truth About Kids These Days

Special Edition

The Future of Home

WIRED Classics

Space Oddity

Sayaka Murata Inhabits a Planet of Her Own

Originally published August 2022: The novelist makes the Earthly rituals of sex, marriage, childbirth—and all of human life—appear delightfully outlandish.

By Thu-Huong Ha

Daily Hustle

Deliver Us, Lord, From the Startup Life

Crossing the Line

A Genetic Curse, a Scared Mom, and the Quest to ‘Fix’ Embryos

Of All Mankind

Two Nations, a Horrible Accident, and the Urgent Need to Understand the Laws of Space

The Last Cowboys

Life as a 21st-Century Trucker

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