A hacker collective pulled down a Flock camera and dumped its data. The files included thousands of videos and logs showing that the device captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days.

Meta is in court again over child safety, and this time it’s a landmark case that could force significant changes to core features of Facebook and Instagram.

People with schizophrenia face a perfect storm of dangers on a hotter planet.

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...

In 2027 and 2028, there will be two spectacular, long-duration solar eclipses. Here’s what you need to know about them.

An object observed by the James Webb Space Telescope lends credence to a strange explanation for the mysterious red spots in the early universe.

People with schizophrenia face a perfect storm of dangers on a hotter planet.

Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks.

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.

Google and Meta quickly reversed two easily abused AI features. But undoing a launch does not undo the damage it leaves behind.

An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.

Elon Musk and the online right convinced themselves that Christopher Nolan’s “woke” epic would go down in flames. Now they’re crashing out.

As extreme heat becomes the norm on the continent, the AC culture wars may be solved by advances in environmentally friendly technology.

New satellite imagery reveals how much terrain has shifted in the wake of the twin quakes.

Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids—and then prompted rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to discuss high-risk subjects.

Trump has remade the nation’s capitol in his own image. Ahead of the Fourth of July, WIRED guides you through the dizzying effects of DC’s makeover.

For decades, Bernie Sanders has argued that concentrated wealth threatened American democracy. Now he’s betting that frustration with Big Tech, billionaires, and unchecked AI is reaching a tipping poi...

At high-stakes meetings with the White House, Anthropic's cofounder—a "weirdo," per one official—has been replaced by cofounder Tom Brown.

At high-stakes meetings with the White House, Anthropic's CEO—a "weirdo," per one official—has been replaced by cofounder Tom Brown.

As record-breaking heat crushes Europe, organizers are moving events online to avoid exposing people to dangerously high temperatures.

Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays.

Years after initial tests, researchers are now racing to see if a vaccine developed in 2011 can help fight the current Bundibugyo outbreak in Congo.

The software engineers filed a complaint with Seattle’s civil rights office accusing Amazon of illegally retaliating against them for expressing their personal

The rich are getting richer. Here’s what wealth advisers are telling their tech clients right now.

A Monster Energy–sponsored MMA show on the White House’s South Lawn was never going to be the height of dignity. But UFC Freedom 250 is failing to clear even the lowest bar.

GOP lawmakers, tech investors, and even OpenAI have tied the anti-data-center movement in the US to Chinese interference. Experts say it’s much more complicated than that.

SpaceX’s stock market debut has thrust the richest man in the universe into an unexplored frontier of wealth.

SpaceX’s stock market debut has thrust the richest man in the universe into an unexplored frontier of wealth.

After Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson stoked anger over a horrific knife attack in Belfast, a youth group linked to a global neo-Nazi movement quietly orchestrated anti-immigrant riots.

New research suggests that dozens of monetized YouTube channels are run by people and organizations that the US government has sanctioned for their ties to Tehran.

Elon Musk is set to make hundreds of billions even as communities in Mississippi and Tennessee are fighting to stop the gas turbines powering xAI's supercomputers.

The organization claims that the FIFA tournament could have impacts on the rights of local people and visiting soccer fans in all three host countries.

Colleagues discussed the incident on internal message boards, according to documents seen by WIRED.

The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying officers treated a flawed face recognition match as a near-certain ID.