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They swear they haven’t peeked at the closely guarded secret and that they’ll keep the cryptographic competition going.

Previous landmark scientific discoveries like the Higgs boson provide a better template for what it will take to confirm whether aliens have made contact with Earth.

Even in blue states, nonreligious tech entrepreneurs and CEOs are increasingly asking for “traditional” and “conservative” women, matchmakers tell WIRED.

FIFA announced agreements with platforms such as TikTok and YouTube that include the participation of dozens of international influencers to generate content in the three host countries.

There we were, a regular murderers’ row of librarians. Little Jo. Eustace. And me. Turning around in the nave of our library to greet the sound of footsteps, pistols leveled in case whoever was coming in didn’t respect sanctuary. Little Jo had a stack of books under one arm. Eustace was holding the screwdriver she’d…

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Craig McLuckie, co-creator of Kubernetes and CEO of Stacklok, about the impact of AI coding tools on open source communities and engineering teams, designing deliberate organisational culture, and navigating evolving career paths for engineers in the age of AI. By Craig McLuckie

Imagine tuning in to the opening kickoff of a World Cup match and seeing a player intentionally send the ball all the way down the pitch and right out of bounds on the opponent’s end. Casual fans might scratch their heads. Where’s the logic in surrendering possession seconds into a game? If you were Jesse…

New college graduates around the country have been booing and heckling commencement speakers who hype up AI. Microsoft would like everyone to talk it out. In a blog post running more than 3,100 words, Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith addressed the recent spate of viral clips from graduation ceremonies, like former Google CEO […]

The 48-team World Cup is not the only historic soccer event this year. Four titans are vying for control of video game soccer in the fiercest battle the industry has ever seen.

Moms are outsourcing tedious household tasks to ChatGPT and selling courses teaching others to do the same. Where are all the dads?

Earlier this year, the “Because I Got High” rapper went viral for winning a case against the cops. Now he’s crypto’s free-speech hero, even though he isn’t quite sure how the digital currency works.

Three years ago we had our first real outage. Six hours of downtime. Thousands of angry users. Multiple executives on the call. Here's what we did right, what we did wrong, and what we'd do differently. What we did right 1. Communicated immediately. The moment we knew we had a problem, we updated the status page and emailed our biggest customers personally. Not when we had answers. When we had a question. 2. Had a single incident commander. One person making calls. Not a committee. When the CEO tried to direct technical work, the IC politely rerouted and told her where her help was actually needed (talking to customers). 3. Took care of our people. During hour 4, I ordered food. During hour 5, I forced the primary engineer off the call for 20 minutes to walk outside. Long incidents destroy people. You have to feed them and force them to rest. 4. Wrote it down as we went. We had a shared doc with a live timeline. When the post-mortem came, we had every decision captured. What we did wrong 1. Tried to fix the root cause during the incident. For the first 2 hours, we were digging into why the database was struggling. We should have been mitigating (rolling back) first. 2. Let too many people 'help.' By hour 3, we had 12 engineers in the call. Half of them were useless. The IC should have kicked people out sooner. 3. Gave optimistic estimates. 'We'll be back in 30 minutes.' We were not back in 30 minutes. That miscommunication was worse than saying 'unknown.' 4. Didn't prepare the executive communication. The CEO had to answer customer questions in real time with no script. We should have drafted talking points for her after hour 1. What we'd do differently Mitigate first, investigate second. Always. Cap the number of active engineers at 4 during an incident. Others go on standby. Default to 'unknown' for estimates. Only give a number when we're sure. Assign someone explicitly to 'executive liaison.' Their job is to keep the C-suite informed without interrupting the tec

Head's true genius—and that of his character, Giles—lay in quietly filling in the gaps in every scene

Constantly being plugged into the news grind is mentally exhausting. Sometimes we just need to take a break, unwind, and do something fun. That’s why we’ve built up a collection of distracting time-wasters for when we need a break from being obsessively online. We figured you might enjoy these harmless rabbit holes, mildly addictive browser […]

Benn Jordan may have initially gained notoriety for his music as Flashbulb and later, reviewing synths and effects pedals on YouTube under Benn and Gear. But about five years ago, Benn decided to take his YouTube channel in a different direction. He didn't stop covering music gear overnight, but as time progressed, his channel became […]

Unjected and PureBlood.Dating are hosting in-person meetups—and have transformed the dating landscape into a political battleground over bodily autonomy.

At a small kickoff event in Los Angeles, Dan Greaney explained why he could no longer stand by and watch the demolition of American democracy.

Nicolas Cage was born to play 1930s PI Ben Reilly/The Spider: part Bogart, part Bugs Bunny, 100% Cage-y.

Microsoft’s AI products aren’t selling and Github’s been plagued with troubles. WIRED spoke with VP Scott Hanselman about whether the company is in catch-up mode.

From talking about sex with JFK Jr. to a surprise show in Times Square, the queen of pop is leveraging Grindr’s “gayborhood” to sell her new album.