A surprisingly common password, an NSA spy program winds down, and more security news this week.

Plus: Merging galaxies, a stymied InSight, and hydrated minerals.

Bestselling author David Baldacci's latest is about a town that builds a barrier to exclude "Outliers."

*Truth in a Post Truth World* takes a closer look at a team of remarkably resourceful investigative journalists.

No matter what's happening on Game of Thrones, summer will be here soon. We have the deals to prove it.

Elizabeth Warren is coming for tech companies. And that means more time and money spent fighting regulation instead of funding innovation.

Meltdowns like the Chrome zero day bug show why enabling auto-updates can be the wisest choice for many consumers.

Warren detailed a plan to break up companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook on Friday. It’s the clearest sign yet that Big Tech is in big trouble heading into 2020.

From code breakers and proto-programmers to molecular biologists and AI leaders, their work has broken barriers and set the stage for the future.

The once-hyped social media company, known for gamifying mobile check-ins, is still alive and well as an incomprehensibly vast data empire.

Quantum computers could help explain some of the most fundamental mysteries in the universe and upend everything from finance to encryption—if only someone could get them to work.

Also, the 'Fortnite' and 'Apex Legends' battle royale rages on and Steam made a questionable statement.

Jibo is a robot, but that doesn't make his digital dementia any less painful.

A fifth of the fish sold at restaurants and markets is mislabeled, according to a report that documents the extent of seafood fraud.

For a little-celebrated holiday, we sure got lots of emails from publicists about it. Here’s what they think you should be reading about today.

In recognition of International Women's Day, here are some of the best women behind the camera.

Lindsey Ellis is an idiosyncratic film critic who has fun with everything from the cinematography of Cocteau to the semiotics of the Transformer franchise.

The lawsuit by Huawei faces long odds but could force the US to show any evidence around backdoors and spying.

A exposed database belonging to Verifications.io contained both personal and business information, including 763 million unique email addresses.

The company announced Thursday that it will combat the spread of vaccine misinformation on Facebook and Instagram, but not take posts down entirely.

A recent study finds that both new moms and new dads leave science, technology, engineering, and medicine at higher rates than their childless peers—and some never return.

It’s not about keeping you safe from Facebook’s data-hoovering efforts. It’s about competing with other messaging platforms.

Welcome to the Squad, Stringer Bell.

On Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg laid out a vision for a very different Facebook—with a lot of unknowns about how to get there.

Netflix's 'Dating Around' is a step in the right direction—but the genre has a long way to go.

Carol Danvers has a long history.

Researchers built an AI engine that uses tweets to predict the severity of software vulnerabilities with 86 percent accuracy.

In Los Angeles, Spin is experimenting with a move away from gig workers in favor of proper employees, with health insurance and everything.

More frequent and severe ocean heat waves are behaving like wildfires, wiping out sea life across large areas.

It has a problem with stairs, but this budget robot vacuum and mop offers a lot of bang for your buck.

If the Facebook CEO's reflection tour has revealed anything it is that even as he wrestles with the harms the platform has wrought, he is busy dreaming up new ones.

Our writer tests six alternative input methods for users who find it difficult to type on a keyboard.

The Facebook CEO chatted with WIRED's editor in chief about building out a "privacy-focused" social network and the trade-offs he’ll need to make.

House Democrats introduced a bill to restore Obama-era regulations, but it'll have a hard time finding bipartisan support.

The game feels like a relic, the way a band trying to sound like hair metal in 2019 might sound like a relic. But it still rocks.

Mark Zuckerberg is laying out a vision of Facebook’s privacy-focused future. But what about its business model?

The shift to sell its technology to robotics and security companies is an indication that Waymo isn’t placing all its bets on self-driving cars.

New research from Google and OpenAI offers insight into how neural networks "learn" to identify images.

Valentyn Odnvoium's series _Surveillance_ creates beauty out of something very grim.

Instead of competing with Cupertino on features, Fitbit competes on price with a new $160 smartwatch and several new wearable trackers under $100.

Ultimately you get a differential equation that you can solve with a bit of code I wrote for you.

A US government agency tests the accuracy of facial recognition programs. The top spots are routinely filled by Chinese and Russian companies.

Step one: turn up the volume on your phone.

Criminologists thought it was impossible to get DNA off of shell casings, but a technique pioneered in The Netherlands is having notable results.

No one's better at hacking than the NSA. And now one if its powerful tools is available to everyone for free.

The same genetic defect used to cure two men of HIV was the target of unethical edits made by He Jiankui to produce the Crispr babies. New research on CCR5 suggests eliminating it in adults could be part of an ethical, practical cure.

A new Mac security service called GamePlan uses a system's own indicators, and some videogame magic, to keep a lookout.

Big tech and big content have more in common than the copyright battles suggest—and that’s a problem for artists.

The Lesbians Who Tech summit creates community for folks who can feel marginalized in Silicon Valley.