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A small conservative legal group used direct access to the Federal Communications Commission chairman’s office last September to accelerate a complaint targeting Jimmy Kimmel and his employer, ABC, according to internal emails obtained by WIRED.WIRED has made this article free for all to read because it is primarily based on reporting from Freedom of Information

As ceasefire announcements between the US and Iran—and separately between Israel and Lebanon—dominated headlines over the past two weeks, they also prompted a look back at how war spread online: through memes.There were jokes about conscription. Captions about getting drafted, but at least with a Bluetooth device. The song “Bazooka” went viral, with users lip-syncing

Incels—men who identify as involuntarily celibate—have long dominated conversations about loneliness and sex, both within the manosphere and on the broader internet.But the data shows that young women, too, are having less sex. According to the National Survey of Family Growth, sexlessness among young adult women between the ages of 22 and 34 rose by

Justin Diego doesn’t typically avoid the spotlight.He’s a celebrity news influencer with 617,000 combined followers across YouTube and Instagram. So when he created a secret account on X in 2024 to keep track of his favorite OnlyFans creators, he appreciated the anonymity it provided him outside of his main accounts.Diego primarily used the burner account

Morgan Dreiss, a copy editor in Orlando, has severe ADHD that they say requires them to always be “doing at least three things at once.” The result? A daily average screen time of 18 hours and 55 minutes.“I'm reading a book or playing a game pretty much from waking to sleeping,” Dreiss tells WIRED. What

Devin Stone never intended to become one of the internet’s most recognizable legal analysts. Instead, he was supposed to follow a predictable path: graduate, grind it out in Big Law, make partner, and spend the next several decades enjoying a conventionally successful career as a lawyer.But a bout of burnout early in Stone’s career led

“The fastest way to lose a good man is not cheating,” begins podcaster Sylvia Brown, “it’s becoming his biggest source of stress.”Since creating an Instagram account in January, she’s gained 110,000 followers as a virtuoso on matters of sex, self-worth, and dating. Filmed inside a pristinely lit studio, Brown enthusiastically shares platitude after platitude into

The first thing Chris Gifford thought as he felt a fang sink into his skin was: I’m going to die. The second: I need to start a timer immediately.That day in 2021, Gifford was cleaning the enclosures of the several dozen snakes he kept at his parents’ home in Raleigh, North Carolina. Nearly every snake

Silicon Valley moguls have lately complained that too many people are too negative about artificial intelligence. They’re likewise frustrated by stalled AI adoption among major corporations that aren’t seeing the lucrative efficiencies promised by Big Tech.But if consumers and corporations are proving resistant to AI’s acceleration, it hasn’t stopped billionaire CEOs from charging ahead with

“If you're going to bring Faces of Death into the modern era,” says director Daniel Goldhaber, “on some level, you have to contend with the fact that Faces of Death is everywhere.”In 1978, John Alan Schwartz’s low-budget, exploitation horror movie Faces of Death was unleashed upon the world. Less a movie than a feature-length clip

This story mentions slurs used against South Asians.Vivek Ramaswamy was almost done taking questions.Speaking to students at Montana State University on October 7, at an event for the right-wing youth organization Turning Point USA, the former Republican presidential candidate and Ohio gubernatorial hopeful reiterated his conservative bonafides. The visit should have been a layup for

“Cheaters never lose, and losers never cheat.”This is the demented advice that mega-rich tech CEO Duncan Park (Billy Magnussen) gives his teenage daughter at the end of the second episode of The Audacity, the lacerating new AMC series about the psychopaths of Silicon Valley, premiering April 12. It’s awful parenting, naturally, but the lesson also