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A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
Mark Moran, an underdog Senate candidate from Virginia, claims he wanted to get caught violating the prediction market platform’s rules.
Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.
Budget Meal Kit Dinnerly Has Gone International—It’s a Good Thing
Framework Has a Better, More Take-Apartable Laptop
There’s a lot of love all over the world for GrapheneOS, the gold standard of mobile security. There’s very little love between the two guys at the center of its history.
AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body
The Online Fiction Boom Reimagining China’s History
Musk v. Altman Is a Battle for OpenAI’s Soul
In July 1993, a disguised player entered the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia using the name of a mathematician who died in 1957. His real identity remained unknown—until now.
Marine insurers and oil traders want to know what’s going on in one of the world’s most critical waterways. As the volume of disappearing ships in the area increases, analysts are getting creative.
Your Push Notifications Aren’t Safe From the FBI
Things Fall Apart
23 Ways You’re Already Living in the Chinese Century
The Greatest Successes and Worst Flameouts of 2025
How Citizen Surveillance Ate San Francisco
Originally published November 2023: When a homeless man attacked a former city official, footage of the onslaught became a rallying cry. Then came another video, and another—and the story turned inside out.
