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The UK Is Planning a Social Media Curfew for 16- and 17-Year-Olds
The restrictions, which can be turned off, will include a crackdown on “addictive” app features and will be in addition to a total ban on children under 16 accessing platforms like TikTok and YouTube.
科技前沿
YouTube and X Have Become ‘Gateways’ to Nudify Apps
A new study found that social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image.
科技前沿
This German Man Is on a Quest to Cut the Perfect Slice of Bread
Armed with high-end knives and digital calipers, Germanbreadcutter has entranced thousands of fans, one loaf at a time.
开发者
This Luddite Puppet Hopes You’re Not Reading This on Your Smartphone
On this week’s episode of The Big Interview podcast, WIRED’s senior culture editor Manisha Krishnan talks to Gowanus about eschewing Big Tech, going outside, and rejection in the age of dating apps.
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The Best Movies to Stream This Month (July 2026)
Project Hail Mary, They Will Kill You, and The Long Walk are among the films deserving of your eyeballs this month.
科技前沿
Sam Neill Inspired a Generation of Scientists
The actor, who died at age 78 on Monday, embodied a passionate approach to research and positive masculinity in his role as paleontologist Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park.
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Tom Cruise is utterly transformed in Digger trailer
"If we can't control the force of nature, at least we can control the narrative."
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Culture Debt Kills Faster Than Tech Debt
Someone would ask a question in a public Slack channel. Every so often a couple of people would start to answer. Then the manager would step in, say what was going to happen, and the thread would go quiet. On its own, it looks like nothing. A decisive manager keeping things moving. But it was a team going quietly into debt, and the dead Slack thread was one of the interest payments. You already know tech debt. You cut a corner in the code to ship faster, and you pay interest on it later in bugs, slow changes, and the one file nobody wants to touch. Culture debt works the same way, except the corners you cut aren't in the code. They're in the norms, the expectations, and the relationships that decide how people actually work together. But tech debt is visible. You can see it, point at the file, write a ticket, argue about whether it's worth paying down. Culture debt is more dangerous because it gives you none of that. You don't watch it accruing. You see the symptoms, and by the time they show up, the debt has already compounded. Let me tell you how a team I joined got there. The reward was volume. The only thing that reliably got praised was pushing a lot of code. The manager was open about it...their whole framing of the job was being able to out ship anyone on the team. Everyone else stayed quiet. Nobody ever stood up and argued against quality. If you'd asked, the manager would have agreed that testing mattered and that quality mattered. Those things just never got prioritized. So over and over, what actually got rewarded (volume) quietly beat what everyone said they wanted. This didn't happen out loud. The reward silently won every time. You can guess what that bought. Planning went first, so features shipped in half finished states and got abandoned there. Testing basically didn't exist. We had a QA person, but things slipped through constantly. Bugs were everywhere. Plenty of features barely worked, and some just didn't. The human side hollowed out at the same
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Presentation: Road to Compliance: Will Your Internal Users Hate Your Platform Team?
Davide de Paolis discusses the realities of rolling out cloud infrastructure compliance without fracturing developer relations. Drawing from a real-world platform team reboot at Sevdesk, he explains how to implement "minimum viable governance" on AWS, utilize event-driven Slack alerting to automate policy feedback, and shift from rigid enforcement to high-empathy, data-driven collaboration. By Davide de Paolis
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The real mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?
New climate evidence adds context to these long voyages.
科技前沿
Exclusive: How Jay-Z Pulled Off a Surprise-Filled Show During New York’s Wildest Summer
Summer 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of Jay-Z’s debut Reasonable Doubt. To honor it, he put on a massive concert at Yankee Stadium—complete with performances from Beyoncé, Nas, and Alicia Keys.
产品设计
Meta’s Pursuit of the 'Careless People' Author Is Relentless and Self-Defeating
Yes, Sarah Wynn-Williams violated her deal to stay silent. But the power disparity bolsters the view that Meta is a heartless bully.
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A New Experiential Gallery Just Might Change Your Mind About AI Art
Billed as the “world’s first museum of AI arts,” Dataland uses wearables and troves of material from the Amazon to merge nature, biometrics, and art.
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Podcast: Formal Methods for Every Engineer in an AI-Powered Future
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Gabriela Moreira about making formal methods accessible through the Quint specification language, how AI is dramatically lowering the barrier to entry for formal specification and model-based testing, and why defining correct system behaviour remains essential human work in an AI-driven world. By Gabriela Moreira
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Thousands of ‘Pokémon Go’ Players Descend on Times Square to Defeat Mewtwo
A surprise 10th-anniversary event saw Niantic fulfilling a promise teased in the original 2016 launch trailer for its popular mobile game.
科技前沿
Come to WIRED@NIGHT02 Film Screening!
See the documentary ‘The Oldest Person in the World’ before it's in theaters.
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Conspiracies and regrets abound in Dune: Part Three trailer
"You promised me that you would never take power in your name."
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Influencers Are Promoting $50 Straws They Claim Will Protect Against Electromagnetic Radiation
“EMF straws” and similar products are being sold as a way to block electromagnetic frequencies that come from common electronic devices, even without scientific evidence that they work.
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"We cannot choose to become idiots": The AI cheating scandal roiling Brown University
AI cheating leads to "a failed society," professor says.
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The FTC Settlement With John Deere Is a Huge Win for the Right-to-Repair Movement
After more than a decade of pushback, farmers and repair advocates have won access to equipment and services John Deere had long kept under its control.