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Iran’s internet shutdown has reduced connectivity by 99 percent, with air strikes likely causing additional outages, and few workarounds remaining.
As missiles and drones cross the region’s skies, the Gulf’s layered air-defense networks—from THAAD to Patriot batteries—are being tested in real time.
We were promised AI regulation and a race to the top. Now, we’re arguing about killer robots.

New research shows hundreds of attempts by apparent Iranian state hackers to hijack consumer-grade cameras, timed to missile and drone strikes. Israel, Russia, and Ukraine have also adopted this trick.

How Is Kalshi Not Gambling?
On Kalshi, people have placed bets on everything from football games to foreign affairs. The prediction market’s CEO, Tarek Mansour, says this doesn’t count as gambling—and is actually good for society.

Why Sierra the Supercomputer Had to Die
All the Ways Big Tech Fuels ICE and CBP
A WIRED analysis shows that ICE and CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palantir in the last few years alone.

While companies like Anthropic debate limits on military uses of AI, Smack Technologies is training models to plan battlefield operations.

Wall Street Has AI Psychosis

How Chinese AI Chatbots Censor Themselves

Are You ‘Agentic’ Enough for the AI Era?

THINGS FALL APART
It's not enough to build things. You also have to tear them down. WIRED commissioned five stories about decommissioning, from EVs and internet cables to supercomputers and space stations.

23 Ways You’re Already Living in the Chinese Century

The Greatest Successes and Worst Flameouts of 2025

AI of a Thousand Faces

Move Over, San Andreas: There’s an Ominous New Fault in Town
Originally published April 2019: An emerging fault system along the Nevada border is shaking up the tech industry’s latest frontier—and only a small group of scientists is paying attention.

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Framed for Murder by His Own DNA







































