Novel climate-financing deals are promising to shut off dirty energy plants in developing countries and retrain their staff to work in the green economy.

Going on vacation and leaving your feline familiars at home? Keep them entertained for hours with these cat-tested videos of squirrels, birds, and more.

The social media giant filed a lawsuit against a nonprofit that researches hate speech online. It's the latest effort to cut off the data needed to expose online platforms' failings.

When Alex Woolner asked ChatGPT to generate some crochet patterns for cute animals, she wasn't expecting the results to be quite so ... off.

Controlled exposure to misinformation can help protect people from falling for it in the future, according to new research.

The impulse to save everything no longer makes sense. It's time to leave the city as a monument to the dangers of global warming-and rethink our relationship to heritage.

Thousands of security experts, hackers, and college students competed to trick powerful text-generation systems into revealing their dark sides at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas.

The future might not come with flying cars, but it did bring cheap robots to clean your house.

TikTok is making its algorithm optional for users in the European Union. But more legal and design changes are necessary to protect people's right to "cognitive liberty."

Chronic drinking depletes the brain's dopamine levels. A single dose of a gene therapy reset them, and stopped the craving for alcohol.

The wide-ranging scams, often disguised as game promotions, can all be linked back to one network.

Voice actors with disabilities are only now getting a seat at the table in the gaming industry. But regressive policies on remote work and a desire for Hollywood names have put that all in danger.

San Francisco ride-hail drivers are about to share the roads with robot competitors. They say that the self-driving cabs need to work on their traffic skills-and watch out for bodily fluids.

Defense satellites used to be big, costly, and "juicy" targets for attack. Now the Pentagon is aiming for a more resilient network of nearly 1,000 mini orbiters.

A literary analytics project called Prosecraft has shuttered after backlash from the writing community. It's a harbinger of a bigger cultural tide shift.

How would scientists even recognize biological signs of life beyond Earth? Assembly theory proposes a way to identify molecules made by living systems-even those using unfamiliar chemistries.

This low-cost electric trike opens up the outdoors to more people, but three wheels have their own set of challenges.

Finding the perfect place to live in another state-or country-is challenging, but with a few tools and some smart communication, you can make it easier.

Windows comes with its own productivity-boosting tool-here's how it works.

The macOS Background Task Manager tool is supposed to spot potentially malicious software on your machine. But a researcher says it has troubling flaws.

A pair of major data breaches rock the UK, North Korea hacks a Russian missile maker, and Microsoft's Chinese Outlook breach sparks new problems.

Samsung's new smartwatch rightly brings back the rotating bezel, but that's about all that really stands out.

The fireflies of Moriyama City have long been prized (and hunted) for their yellow-green glow. To bring populations back up, amateur conservationists are hitting the books.

The decentralized Instagram alternative is a great option if you want to back up your feed, focus on photo-sharing, or cut loose from Meta's empire entirely. And making the leap is surprisingly easy.

To honor the genre's 50th anniversary, WIRED contributor C. Brandon Ogbunu and Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco paint two scenes of how the duality of AI will shape the art form in five decades.

GitHub has spent two years researching and slowly rolling out its multifactor authentication system. Soon it will be mandatory for all 100 million users-with no opt-out.

Geoffrey Hinton left Google so he could speak more freely about AI's dangers. He argues that building analog computers instead of digital ones might keep the technology more loyal.

Forty years later, the books are still influential. In Dice Men: The Origin Story of Games Workshop, Ian Livingstone talks about their success and about Games Workshop's other hit: Warhammer 40,000.

Artists in the visual effects industry have been talking about unionizing for more than a decade.

A wearable, portable breast pump with only three parts to clean? Sign me up.

The space agency lost touch with the beloved spacecraft following a faulty command signal. Here's how it happened-and how engineers worked to bring it back.

The Galaxy Tab S9 series includes the insanely massive 14.6-inch Tab S9 Ultra, but the prices of these slates are off-putting.

In simulated environments, smell is often the neglected sense. Scentient's wearable device aims to bring a whiff of authenticity to virtual reality.

Robotaxis can offer paid rides in San Francisco around the clock after Alphabet's Waymo and GM's Cruise got approval from the California Public Utilities Commission.

In 2008, Boston's transit authority sued to stop MIT hackers from presenting at the Defcon hacker conference on how to get free subway rides. Today, four teens picked up where they left off.

The outcry over Zoom's tweak to its data policy shows how the race to build more powerful AI models creates new pressure to source training data-including by juicing it from users.

Wildfires were once rare across the Aloha State. But drought, invasive species, and human development have pushed Hawaii into a fiery new age.

Zoom is populated by our faces, our voices, and more. If companies like it want to use customer data to train their AI-now or in the future-they need to let people choose if, and how much, to opt in.

If you don't mind the high-pitched whine of the motor, this reliable electric scooter satisfies with its power, torque, and range.

By measuring inflated helium nuclei, physicists have challenged our best understanding of the force that binds protons and neutrons.

This week, we talk about pending changes to how driverless taxis can operate on city streets, and how a loosening of the rules would impact road safety, rideshare drivers, and your commute.

Temperature is one of the hardest aspects of touch to re-create for prosthetic users. This tiny patch could help people with amputated limbs sense coldness.

Since taking over Twitter, Musk has made mistake after mistake. His latest decision proves that he has never understood the average Twitter user-or doesn't care to build a platform for them.

As the international tech giant moves toward Russian ownership, the leak raises concerns about the volume of data it has on its users.

The father of modern computing would have opened his arms to ChatGPT. You should too.

From vinyl to photos, blogs to music streams, chronicling 50 years of culture involves reckoning with what can and cannot be saved-and the tools that can do it.

The legacy electronics manufacturer is creating IoT honeypots with its products to catch real-world threats and patch vulnerabilities in-house.

Security researchers accessed an internal camera inside the Deckmate 2 shuffler to learn the exact deck order-and the hand of every player at a poker table.

Security researchers set up a remote machine and recorded every move cybercriminals made-including their login details.