Researchers at Cisco Talos detail a new piece of disruptive, highly infectious malware with a clear target: the Pyeongchang Olympics IT infrastructure.
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Google Autocomplete Suggestions Are Still Racist, Sexist, and Science-Denying
The feature suggests that “Islamists are evil” and “Hitler is my hero,” among other offensive prompts.
Real Scientists Admit When They’re Wrong
Right now society has an epidemic of the opposite: too many people with a bulldog unwillingness to admit when they’re factually wrong.
Star Wars News: ‘Solo’ Had Two Han Solos Behind the Scenes
The new guy got a little help from the man who made Han Solo famous.
How Ice Skaters Turn Physics Into Astonishing Spins
Conservation of angular momentum is the name of the game.
How New Emoji Get Added to Your Phone
Every year, the governing body Unicode adds new emoji to the nearly 3,000 already in existence. Here’s how it picks the additions.
‘Black Panther’: Behind the Scenes of the Marvel Movie’s Afrofuturism
The film’s challenge was to imagine what Africans would have done given reign over their own culture. The answer is a future that Tony Stark never could have dreamed of.
Inside Facebook’s Hellish Two Years—and Mark Zuckerberg’s Struggle to Fix it All
For two years, Facebook has been hijacked, vilified, and besieged. Here’s the inside story of the struggle.
Snapchat’s Snap Map Will Now Be Available On the Web
By bringing the Snap Map out of the app and onto the web, Snap hopes to bring Snapchat to the masses like never before.
How WIRED’s March 2018 Cover With Mark Zuckerberg Was Created
That bruised Mark Zuckerberg on the March 2018 cover? Here’s how the photo-illustration was created to accompany “Facebook’s 2 Years of Hell.”
Is Now The Right Time to Try and End Measles?
WIRED columnist Maryn McKenna on why public health officials can’t decide whether the time is right to wage war against measles.
What Microsoft’s Antitrust Case Teaches Us About Silicon Valley
Twenty years after the US tried to break up Microsoft, a new crop of giants rule technology in an uneasy balance. And the government seems unable to stop them.
Quincy Jones’ Latest Mind-Blowing Interview Tops This Week’s Internet News
In a new interview the legendary producer proved to be a font of untapped information.
Winter Olympics 2018: Why I Love Watching Curling
Silence your phone, flip it over, and enter the alternate Curliverse where you can gently slide your worries down the ice on a cushion of tranquility.
To Fund US Infrastructure, Charge by the Mile, Not the Gallon
The gas tax is bad, and there’s a better way forward.