Tag Archives: Wired

Slovakia’s Election Deepfakes Show AI Is a Danger to Democracy

Fact-checkers scrambled to deal with faked audio recordings released days before a tight election, in a warning for other countries with looming votes.

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This Website Exposes the Truth About Soaring Food Prices

A developer in Austria created a comparison website that helped open up the opaque world of food costs as regulators investigate the food industry.

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Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech

The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs.

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The 15-Minute City Conspiracy Theory Goes Mainstream

The fringe idea that cities built for biking and walking are part of a government plot has been picked up by … the UK government.

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This Exec Is Forcing Google Into Its First Trial Over Sexist Pay Discrimination

Google Cloud director Ulku Rowe says she was underpaid by hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s set to be the first case to reach trial since an employee revolt led Google to drop forced arbitration.

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Why Silicon Valley Falls for Frauds

FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried will stand trial on charges of overseeing fraud that sucked in high-profile investors and hundreds of thousands of clients. Why do smart people buy into bad companies?

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The Game Theory of the Auto Strikes

As the United Auto Workers strike against Detroit’s Big Three drags on, a classic behavioral theory provides a way to figure out how long they may continue.

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How to Use ChatGPT’s New Image Features

OpenAI’s new image analysis update for its chatbot is both impressive and frightening. Here’s how to use it, and some advice for your experiments.

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5 Ways to Work Remotely (and Effectively) for the Long Haul

Despite return-to-office mandates, workers have made it clear that remote work isn’t going anywhere. Here’s how to make the most of it while keeping your boss (and yourself) happy.

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Hey Zuck, Get Those Robots out of My Social Feed

By injecting chatbots into Meta’s social platforms, Mark Zuckerberg threatens to undermine his company’s original mission: to connect humans with other humans.

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