Reddit is offering its users a chance to buy a piece of the company before its impending debut on the stock market. They’re not all racing to sign up. In public Reddit forums, private chat rooms, and interviews with WIRED, several moderators and power users—who on Thursday learned they would …
Read More »There's No AI Without Nvidia. Meet the CEO Powering the Future
Talking to Jensen Huang should come with a warning label. The Nvidia CEO is so invested in where AI is headed that, after nearly 90 minutes of spirited conversation, I came away convinced the future will be a neural net nirvana. I could see it all: a robot renaissance, medical …
Read More »Google Tweaked Search to Comply With EU Rules. Yelp Says It Makes Results Even More Unfair
To comply with looming rules that ban tech giants from favoring their own services, Google has been testing new look search results for flights, trains, hotels, restaurants, and products in Europe. The EU’s Digital Markets Act is supposed to help smaller companies get more traffic from Google, but reviews service …
Read More »Bitcoin Royalty Descends on the Satoshi Nakamoto Trial
Bitcoin was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto, an enigmatic figure about whom almost nothing is known. Fifteen years ago, Satoshi brought the idea of an electronic cash system into being with the help of a small cast of oddballs. This week, some of those early collaborators—now crypto-celebrities in their own right—took …
Read More »My Quest to Fix a Crashing Roku App Provides a Warning About AI
I don’t think I’m alone when I confess that my streaming strategy is a mess. In fact, calling it a strategy is overly kind. I pay for a number of services, all of which cost more every year, and I still keep hearing of shows I want to see on …
Read More »Reddit’s IPO Filing Is Missing Something: Cofounder Alexis Ohanian
Reddit cofounders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian spent about eight straight years living together, initially as college roommates, playing World of Warcraft late into the night and later working together on the foundations of the discussion forums service now frequented by nearly 270 million people. But that history was missing …
Read More »An AT&T Outage Is Wreaking Havoc on US Cellular Networks
It started around 3:30 in the morning on the East Coast, reports flooding in about an AT&T service outage. Customers complained across Reddit and X and logged their issues on Downdetector, a site that, well, detects when services go down. The impact was widespread; AT&T users from New York to …
Read More »Intel’s CEO Says AI Is the Key to the Company’s Comeback
When veteran engineer and executive Pat Gelsinger returned to Intel as CEO in 2021, the once-great chipmaker was in a slump. After failing to adapt to the mobile era and then missing several steps in cutting-edge microprocessor manufacturing, it was now also falling behind in supplying chips to feed the …
Read More »Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control
In 2022, feeling burned out by the pandemic and a five-year sprint at a cloud storage company, Catherine decided it was time for a break. Catherine, who uses the pronouns they/them and asked that their full name be withheld due to the sensitive nature of job hunting, had adequate savings …
Read More »Forget Carbon Offsets. The Planet Needs Carbon Removal Credits
We can reverse climate change if we redefine what carbon neutral looks like, said Gabrielle Walker, cofounder of carbon removal startup CUR8, at WIRED Impact in London in November 2023. Scientists define net zero not just as the reduction of carbon emissions, but the removal of carbon from the atmosphere …
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