Ridge Wallet Review: A Beacon for the Overencumbered
…The Ridge wallet is two pieces of metal sandwiched together with an elastic band and screws. There are additional accessories (more on those in a second), but the overall premise is a…
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Two Literal Crypto Bros Built a Real Estate Empire. Then the Homes Started to Fall Apart
…Detroit, known for its cheap housing stock and ambitions of urban renewal, was an obvious place to look. “Detroit was a city that had just come back from bankruptcy. It was already…
Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own
…masks, to ensure that they’re showing identification, to ensure they're banned from sensitive locations, to hold them accountable for any of the misdeeds that we’ve seen, and to ensure…
The New Wild West of AI Kids’ Toys
…Meta has carried over its ages 13-plus policy from its social media platforms to its chatbot, and Anthropic currently bans users under 18. So, what about 5-year-olds? In March…
$3 Starz Is the Best Streaming Deal of the Moment
…Note it's technically possible to get a stand-alone Hulu account, but it costs only a buck less than the regular price of getting Hulu with Disney. In any case, I…
How Hunter Biden Won the Internet
…Or if you’re one of the nearly 50,000 followers of a new “hunter bidens is hot” [sic] stan account, which recently resurfaced this piece of lore from court documents—not…
Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women
…The company has consistently said child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is banned on its platform. Neither xAI nor X immediately responded to WIRED’s request for comment on the raft of sexualized…
Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal
…All told, the automotive, beauty, home management, hardware, and tools categories account for over half of Instant Checkout orders. In the new experience, Walmart users log into Sparky the first time they…
The AI IPO Race Heats Up, DOGE Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk, and Instagram Gets Hacked
…This past weekend, several users on social media claimed that their Instagram accounts had been compromised. Some of these accounts were pretty high-profile, including a verified account used by President Obama…
Norse Atlantic Airways Offers Dirt-Cheap Tickets. There’s a Catch
…It landed in my bank account two days later.