Monitor A weekly column dedicated to everything that happens in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, from TV to Twitter. When you work in journalism, you get a lot of emails. For example, the total number of incoming messages “wish on your worst enemy.” (At the time of this writing, I have...

At the beginning of February first Google, then Microsoft announced a major overhaul of their search engines. Both tech giants have invested heavily in building or buying generative AI tools that use large language models to understand and answer complex questions. Now they are trying to integrate them into search, hoping that they will provide...

Series Netflix Mysticala collaboration between Riot Games and Studio Fortiche, is an animated show based on the popular computer game. League of Legends. Science fiction writer Zach Chapman I loved Mysticaldespite never playing League of Legends. “You don’t have to have any knowledge of the game,” Chapman says in episode 536. Geek’s Guide to the...

In cryptocurrency economy, there is often a fine line between financial privacy and money laundering. Now one bitcoin “mixer” service called Sinbad.io is walking that tightrope in full view: just a few months after launching on the open web, it appears to have already become the money laundering tool of choice for the most prolific...

Prominent political figures, including US Senators Ron Wyden and Rand Paul, advance bills in the past have sought to restrict the FBI’s access to unminimized Section 702 data. The bill, originally put forward by lawmakers in 2017, known as the U.S. Rights Act, sought to curb the FBI’s “broad powers”, which they say are “shrouded...

Some things difficult to deliver. Flowers are at the top of the list. They are beautiful but the industry has a bad side. Between the amount of water needed for flowers to grow, the dangers of pesticides, the possibility of unregulated and unfair working conditions, and the distance flowers travel. a lot can go wrong....

It’s easy to see the influences—Wednesday is equal parts Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Riverdale, and Smallville (no surprise, given it’s created by the latter’s Alfred Gough and Miles Millar)—but it’s all elevated by Jenna Ortega’s brilliantly macabre and deliciously deadpan performance as Wednesday herself, not to mention the visual sensibilities of director Tim Burton. With a phenomenal...

The OpenAI tool ChatGPT, released by the startup in November, is known to plagiarize or only slightly alter people’s writing. Some major US public school systems, including New York School, have banned the use of ChatGPT. Bing uses a Microsoft AI system called Prometheus, which the company says is based on OpenAI ChatGPT and fine-tuned...

Google, Amazon, Facebook, Salesforce, countless cryptocurrency startups, Microsoft: these are tech companies, big and small, that fire people in droves until 2023. And these are not only the roles of marketing and middle managers, but also the roles of analyst and engineer. No job is 100% safe, as many of us have learned from our...