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 Pangram Labs’ updated Chrome extension puts warning labels on AI slop as you scroll your social feeds. ​Read More  Culture Latest ​Culture, Culture / Digital Culture, robots.txt 

 A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone. ​Read More  Culture Latest ​Culture, Culture / Digital Culture, Bot or Not 

 Devin Stone turned punchy legal explainers into a YouTube empire. Now he’s warning that the sheer volume of Trump administration scandals is distorting reality itself. ​Read More  Culture Latest ​The Big Story, Culture, Politics, The Big Interview 

 The actor-director discussed his least favorite currency and read a series of mean tweets—about us!—at our inaugural WIRED@Night event. ​Read More  Culture Latest ​Culture, Business, WIRED@Night 

 The jokes were funny. The systems behind them—and the reasons we keep passing around war memes as entertainment—are more serious. ​Read More  Culture Latest ​Culture, Culture / Digital Culture, IRL 

 Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey have different visions for how to use AI for management purposes, but both imagine a system of heightened control. ​Read More  Culture Latest ​Culture, Culture / Culture News, be seeing you 

 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Crime 101, and Deathstalker are among the films deserving of your eyeballs this month ​Read More  Culture Latest ​Culture, Culture / Movies, Streaming Guides 

 From a celibate porn star to an asexual ex-Mormon, the internet is full of people who are abstaining from sex—and it’s not just incels. ​Read More  Culture Latest ​Culture, Culture / Digital Culture, Holding Out 

 South Asians are a powerful, visible minority in the Trump administration. They’re also facing a racist backlash, fueled in part by the white nationalist Groyper movement. ​Read More  Culture Latest ​Culture, Culture / Culture News, Culture