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Ballot Bots

Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded With Millions of Deepfakes. Political Candidates Approve

India’s elections are a glimpse of the AI-driven future of democracy. Politicians are using audio and video deepfakes of themselves to reach voters—who may have no idea they’ve been talking to a clone.

Nilesh Christopher and Varsha Bansal

Breaking News

Craig Wright Lied About Creating Bitcoin And Faked Evidence, Judge Rules

Joel Khalili

TikTok Shop

The Race to Buy TikTok Is On—but There Might Not Be a Winner

Louise Matsakis

How to Remove Your Personal Info From Google’s Search Results

Reece Rogers

The 18 Best PlayStation Plus Games

Reece Rogers

The Best Sunglasses for Everyday, Outdoor Adventures, and More

Jaina Grey, Medea Giordano, and Louryn Strampe

Valoi’s Film-Scanning Kit Lets You Digitize Your 35-mm Film the Easy Way

Scott Gilbertson

Give Your Back a Break With Our Favorite Office Chairs

Julian Chokkattu

Longreads

Parasocial Studies

I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty

Brendan I. Koerner

Your online influencer girlfriend is actually a rotating cast of low-wage workers. I became one of them.

The Big Interview

Meet the Woman Who Showed President Biden ChatGPT—and Helped Set the Course for AI

Flux Capacitor

The Showdown Over Who Gets to Build the Next DeLorean

Book Excerpt

They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a War

Tip of the Iceberg

These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged

Business

OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded

Twitter Is Finally Dead

It’s Time to Believe the AI Hype

Culture

Six-Word Sci-Fi: Stories Written by You

The 43 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now

The 46 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now

Gear

How to Remove Annoying News Widgets From Windows 11

Apple Makes It Easier to Stare at Your Phone in the Car

How to Use ‘Circle to Search’ on an Android Phone

Politics

How Twitch Streamers Could Shape the 2024 Elections

Russian Disinfo Campaign Blames Ukraine for Shooting of Slovakia’s Prime Minister

RFK Jr. Is Priming His Audience for Election Denialism

Science

The Complex Social Lives of Viruses

How Big Dairy Took Over Your TikTok Feed—With Help From Uncle Sam

There’s New Hope for an HIV Vaccine

Security

Security News This Week: US Official Warns a Cell Network Flaw Is Being Exploited for Spying

Android Theft Detection Lock Knows When Your Phone Is Stolen

Secrecy Concerns Mount Over Spy Powers Targeting US Data Centers

Reviews and Buying Guides

Write Move

The Freewrite Alpha Promises Typing Nirvana. It Delivers

Max Freeman-Mills

We mischievously asked our reviewer to use nothing but this distraction-free keyboard computer with virtually no display for a whole week. Annoyingly, he loved it.

product review

Razer’s High-End Gaming Chair Might Just Save My Back

Buying Guide

The Best Gaming Headsets for Every System

Office Space

Logitech’s Casa Pop-Up Desk Is a Hybrid Worker’s Dream

Buying Guide

Which Google Pixel Phone Should You Buy?

WIRED Classics

Going Viral

TikTok and the Evolution of Digital Blackface

Jason Parham

Originally published August 2020: On the app, users drape themselves in the trappings of Black culture—and steal the viral spotlight. It’s exploitation at its most refined and disturbing.

Pew! Pew!