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- My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them | WIRED
I unintentionally read most or all of this. Kind of wild stuff.
- Formula 1 Drivers Just Hit the Track in These Full-Size Lego Cars | WIRED
Brilliant marketing from LEGO. I'd love to drive one of these.
- Hacking Spree Hits UK Retail Giants | WIRED
Security threats abound.
- The Real Winners of the Trump Memecoin Feeding Frenzy | WIRED
Memecoins have valid use cases but buying access to government officials should not be one of them. And many memecoins, including this one, generate revenue off of transactions.
- DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants | WIRED
Nothing about the data being collected here would be limited to immigrants. Connecting the varied data sets together across organizations like this is in many cases illegal, but…
- What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X | WIRED
I’m positive X is attacked every day. independent security researcher Kevin Beaumont and other analysts see evidence that some X origin servers, which respond to web requests,…
- Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online | WIRED
Reminder: Musk was able to direct Starlink to not work for Ukraine if they were using it too close to Russian territory. They have incredibly granular capability to control what…
- Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong | WIRED
Interview is more about Whittaker than Signal, but I appreciated reading it as she has been outspoken about Signal and I've generally liked the direction she is taking the…
- The Benefits of Ozempic Are Multiplying | WIRED
- Let Slip the Robot Dogs of War | WIRED
- The Reddit Blackout Is Breaking Reddit | WIRED
It is absolutely wild what is happening at Reddit.
- My Father’s Death in 7 Gigabytes | WIRED
The authors Dad, Frank, requested his archive of writing be uploaded to the Internet Archive. I’m a big fan of the Internet Archive. My father’s last decade was one of relentless…
- They Plugged GPT-4 Into Minecraft—and Unearthed New Potential for AI | WIRED
How GPT-4 plays Minecraft is interesting, and I wonder if this is one of the few examples where GPT-4 itself is coding the solution and making it better. The most novel part of…
- Tony Fadell Is Trying to Build the iPod of Crypto | WIRED
Bringing experienced designers who have built mass-market solutions, people exactly like Tony Fadell who designed the original iPod, is exactly what crypto needs. Fadell met with…
- The High Cost of Living Your Life Online | WIRED
I've been a blogger for over 20 years, so my experience of being online goes back a long way. I can relate to having times where I feel a need to disconnect and make sure I ground…
- Palmer Luckey Says Working With Weapons Isn't as Fun as VR | WIRED
Interesting brief interview with the founder of Oculus who is now working on military technology. I've wondering how they make these complex weapons easy enough for people to use…
- The 3 Best RSS Feeders (2021): Feedly, Inoreader, and Tips | WIRED
Oh it warms my heart so to see a big mainstream publication like WIRED talking about RSS Feed Readers. It wasn't that long ago any RSS article in WIRED would have been the classic…
- GPT-3 Can Write Disinformation Now—and Dupe Human Readers | WIRED
We are going to have to get even better and understanding who or what created the things we read online.
- What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?
This is a very approachable overview of the Signal protocol. I wasn't aware of how often it rotated keys. The Signal protocol, however, uses a so-called "ratchet" system that…
- We Need to Talk About Talking About QAnon | WIRED
Article talking about engaging with people that agree with the QAnon conspiracy theory. Beliefs in QAnon and the deep state are unified by one basic factor: their reliance on deep…
- The Ring Always Home Cam Flies Around Inside Your House | WIRED
I shared what I believe is the core of Ring's marketing strategy . This product for commercial use makes sense. Having drones surveil commercial real estate at night makes a lot…
- YouTube’s Plot to Silence Conspiracy Theories | WIRED
YouTube doesn't get enough focus for the role that it plays spreading disinformation. I think this is in part because YouTube doesn't feel like a social network. It has different…
- ‘Real’ Programming Is an Elitist Myth | WIRED
- Mark Zuckerberg Believes Only in Mark Zuckerberg | WIRED
Why does Zuckerberg make the decisions he's making? Like the notorious architect Philip Johnson, Mark Zuckerberg is a social engineer. He knows what’s best for us. And he believes…
- Who Would Have Thought an iPad Cursor Could Be So Much Fun? | WIRED
I love that Apple used the introduction of cursor support in iPadOS to not just add a cursor, but to rethink what a cursor should behave like in a touch-based system.
- The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming | WIRED
Thorough article by someone that knows the world of THE PANDEMIC well. Interviewed by Steven Levy , who I’m a big fan of.
- Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet | WIRED
A good overview, history, and introduction to Wikipedia. Also a bit of a love letter to Wikipedia, but one that I feel is justified. In my opinion Wikipedia is one of the most…
- Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses | WIRED
This article got me to reinstall Signal on my iPhone and follow along as they advance the capabilities. I don't see Signal as displacing iMessage anytime, but having a secure…
- What's Blockchain Actually Good for, Anyway? For Now, Not Much | WIRED
I've been a bear on blockchain for a while. I do believe that the technology solves a problem. It is a solution for trust in systems that need to provide that. However, outside of…
- Scientists Now Know How Sleep Cleans Toxins From the Brain | WIRED
When I read Why We Sleep it introduced me to the different types of non-REM sleep. This new research shows a bit more about what those other four stages of sleep do. What she…
- An Exclusive Look Inside Apple's A13 Bionic Chip | WIRED
I love to see Om Malik guest writing in Wired on the new A13 chip. Just read this real slow for a moment. By the time Santhanam was done talking, all I could think of were the…
- Richard Stallman and the Fall of the Clueless Nerd | WIRED
I ran across this article to Remove Richard Stallman over last weekend. Stallman's statements in this email are reprehensible. Four days later an Appendix A was added to it. That…
- For Young Female Coders, Internship Interviews Can Be Toxic | WIRED
Men working in the technology industry, especially those in leadership roles, need to read articles like this that share the experience that women in technology have. This article…
- Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry | WIRED
I enjoyed reading this article from Paul Ford reflecting on the "magic" that we sometimes forget, and occasionally misuse, in the technology industry. And of course I rarely get…
- Nike's Self-Lacing Adapt BB Basketball Shoe Is Actually Smart | WIRED
Okay, so I started reading this with the thought of "Really, who needs Smart Shoes?" Then, as I read about the technologies it started to make sense to me for a lot of…
- I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming | WIRED
This whole article is concerning. It shouldn't be this easy to get these devices and dissect them for flaws. If getting voting machines delivered to my door was shockingly easy,…
- WWDC 2018: Apple Just Made Safari the Good Privacy Browser | WIRED
I 💙 Safari, and the privacy focus of Safari is a big part of it. That wasn't always the case, but over the last few years Apple has started to lead and even use this as a leading…
- Where the Yanny and Laurel Meme Comes From | WIRED
Following the path of this story, my daughter has found this fascinating. 👂
- RSS Readers Are Due for a Comeback: Feedly, The Old Reader, Inoreader | WIRED
I’ve never left the feed reader world and am a very happy user of Feedbin. This article is a good overview of the RSS ecosystem and various services. Feed discovery is still the…
- Why Are There Few Women in Tech? Watch a Recruiting Session | WIRED
I'd like to go back and read the original paper Puncturing the pipeline: Do technology companies alienate women in recruiting sessions? but had to due with this Wired writeup for…
- A 1.3Tbs DDoS Hit GitHub, the Largest Yet Recorded | WIRED
I’m continuously surprised why GitHub is so frequently the target of DDoS attacks, but this is an amazing timeline: GitHub briefly struggled with intermittent outages as a digital…
- Snowden-Backed App 'Haven' Turns Your Phone Into a Home Security System | WIRED
This article got me thinking about other ways that your phone could be used to help your personal security. This use case is interesting and for people that have to work in random…
- You Give Up a Lot of Privacy Just Opening Emails. Here's How to Stop It | WIRED
This article is worth a read to realize how much tracking can and often does occur in your email client. I think a lot about tracking in the browser but this is a very difficult…
- Al Franken Just Gave the Speech Big Tech Has Been Dreading
It makes me very proud that our MN State Senator Al Franken has a passion for digital issues . He's been vocal about Net Neutrality for many years.
- Apple's iPhone X: The First Field Report | WIRED
Levy's review of the iPhone X affirms my decision to pause. The number one thing I’m skeptical about is the overall speed and performance of FaceID. I love how quick and nearly…
- Our Minds Have Been Hijacked by Our Phones. Tristan Harris Wants to Rescue Them | WIRED
Interesting read on the impact to people of the massive technology platform that we spend so much time in today.
- Russia's Cyberwar on Ukraine Is a Blueprint For What's to Come | WIRED
Another article on the vast breadth of cyberattacks in Ukraine.
- Crash Override Malware Took Down Ukraine's Power Grid Last December | WIRED
The real world potential of cyberattacks continue to grow. Tech is doing a lot here, but is it enough.
- Diversity in Open Source Is Even Worse Than in Tech Overall | WIRED
This isn't at all surprising but falls in the category of 'when you thought it couldn't get any worse, then this.' Remember when you read that diversity in tech is a culture…
- Book Excerpt: 'Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D' | WIRED
- The Internet Finally Belongs to Everyone | WIRED
On Saturday, the US government handed the last vestiges of control to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, an independent organization whose members…
- Inside Google’s Internet Justice League and Its AI-Powered War on Trolls
Around midnight one Saturday in January, Sarah Jeong was on her couch, browsing Twitter, when she spontane
- The Epic Story of Dropbox’s Exodus From the Amazon Cloud Empire | WIRED
Dropbox built its own vast computer network and shifted its service onto a new breed of machines designed by its own engineers, all orchestrated by a software system built by its…
- Go Grandmaster Lee Sedol Grabs Consolation Win Against Google’s AI
The moment AlphaGo resigned, an enormous cheer rose from the Korean commentary room and its throng of Korean reporters and photographers. And then came the applause in the English…
- Google’s AI Takes Historic Match Against Go Champ With Third Straight Win | WIRED
Google’s artificially intelligent Go-playing computer system has claimed victory in its historic match with Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol after winning a third straight game in…
- The Sadness and Beauty of Watching Google’s AI Play Go | WIRED
“It’s not a human move. I’ve never seen a human play this move,” he says. “So beautiful.” It’s a word he keeps repeating. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful.
- Google’s AI Wins Pivotal Second Game In Match With Go Grandmaster
After more than four hours of tight play and a rapid-fire endgame, Google’s artificially intelligent Go-playing computer system has won a second contest against grandmaster Lee…
- The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can’t Win
No machine has ever beaten a top human Go player — at least not without a huge head-start. Even if it does advance to the man-machine match, Crazy Stone has no chance of changing…
- Tech and Banking Giants Ditch Bitcoin for Their Own Blockchain - WIRED
Dubbed the Open Ledger Project, this effort is a re-imagining of several big ideas. The blockchain is essentially a database that runs across a worldwide network of independent…
- How to Baffle Web Trackers by Obfuscating Your Movements Online | WIRED
Online ad networks and search engines love it when you surf around. Everything you do—every page you load, every query you type—helps them build a profile of you, the better to…
- Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—And It's All in One Place | WIRED
How big is Google? We can answer that question in terms of revenue or stock price or customers or, well, metaphysical influence. But that’s not all. Google is, among other things,…
- $14,000 Machine Brews Coffee Using Algorithms | WIRED
Lou and Dean Vastardis, two brothers from Philly, launched BKON last year. They speak of their invention—and their mission to “innovate and transform the made-to-order beverage…
- Here's Google's Secret to Hiring the Best People | WIRED
- iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch | WIRED
- Disney's $1 Billion Bet on a Magical Wristband | WIRED
- The Model D Is Tesla's Most Powerful Car Ever, Plus Autopilot | WIRED
“This car is nuts. It’s like taking off from a carrier deck. It’s just bananas,” said CEO Elon Musk. Tesla’s next car, the P85D, will have two motors and all-wheel drive. It will…
- I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Heres What It Did to Me
I like everything. Or at least I did, for 48 hours. Literally everything Facebook sent my way, I likedeven if I hated it. I decided to embark on a campaign of conscious liking, to…
- Text of SXSW2013 closing remarks by Bruce Sterling
- Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook Home, Money, and the Future of Communication
As caretaker of a service with a billion users, Mark Zuckerberg is used to sparking protest. Any time his company releases a new product, adjusts a privacy setting, or even tweaks…
- GitHub Says 'No Thanks' to Bots Even if They're Nice
This seems like a very poor decision on Github's part. Flickr is well known for how useful bots are in adding metadata to photos. Less well known is how critical bots are to the…
- The 10 Best Features in Windows 8
With the exciting new era for Microsoft comes a huge list of changes to Windows. Not only is the interface totally different, there are several new features and capabilities. Here…
- Turing Centenary Speech (New Aesthetic)
- How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down
Whats harder to comprehendbut just as important, if you want to grasp the future of Anonymous after the arrestsis the radical political consciousness that seized this innumerable…
- Wiki Inventor Sticks a Fork in His Baby
The federated wiki is an attempt to solve these problems. As a starting point, he has built a new piece of software dubbed The Smallest Federated Wiki to demonstrate the concept.…
- Man Builds Twitter Bot That Humans Actually Like
@Trackgirl was set up to infiltrate a group of runners. She would scour Twitter for messages with running-themed keywords and post them as if they were her own. Three times a day,…
- Netflix to Open Source Army of Cloud Monkeys
Over the next few months Netflix will release the source code for these programs and more, giving cloud developers a look at how it runs its services on Amazons cloud. The plan is…
- Linus Torvalds: The King of Geeks (And Dad of 3)
- Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works
Congress may take books, musical compositions and other works out of the public domain, where they can be freely used and adapted, and grant them copyright status again, the…
- Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything | Threat Level | Wired.com
- Brave New Thermostat: How the iPods Creator Is Making Home Heating
- The Eternal Value of Privacy
- Researchers Expose Cunning Online Tracking Service That Cant Be Dodged
Researchers at U.C. Berkeley have discovered that some of the nets most popular sites are using a tracking service that cant be evaded even when users block cookies, turn off…
- Theres a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says
- Dropbox Lied to Users About Data Security, Complaint to FTC Alleges
- Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots Magazine
- Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency
- Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency
- Ryan Singel: ‘Twitter’s Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be the Industry Standard’
Ryan Singel: Twitter introduced a new feature last month without telling anyone about it, and the rest of the tech world should take note and come up with its own version of it.…
- Algorithms Take Control of Wall Street