Furry Airline Pilots Are Just Minding Their Own Business

“We’re furries at home, and we’re airline pilots at work, and these are two separate things,” says one member of the community in response to senator Tommy Tuberville’s recent rant.

Black Twitter Is Thriving—on Threads

From outrage over Nolan Wells’ death to analysis of HBO Max’s Lanterns, Threads has transformed into a vital artery of the Black social media ecosystem.

Party Invite Phishing Scams Are the New Missed Connections

Email scams that look like an Evite or Paperless Post invitation are meant to snatch your data. For some, they’ve become an excuse to reconnect with old friends or flames.

Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?

A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.

Anonymous Men Have Turned Cyberharassment Into a Group Sport—Here’s One Woman’s Side of the Story

This week on Uncanny Valley, we take you behind our feature on the women struggling after being targeted by the burnerverse.

SeaWorld Wants to Make You Horny

The Orlando theme park’s immersive Halloween experience now includes hot, brooding guys in an homage to romantasy antiheroes—and it’s leading to record-breaking ticket sales.

Kate Tolo Says Her Quest to Be ‘the Female Bryan Johnson’ Is ‘for Women’

Like her biohacking boyfriend, Tolo is undergoing a grueling regimen of tests—from tracking nighttime erections to subjecting herself to extreme heat on her period—in service of “half the population.”

Welcome to Dogs Anonymous, the Online Support Group for People With Difficult Dogs

“This is a place where you can come and say, I fucking hate my dog today,” a Dogs Anonymous cofounder tells WIRED. “And there are people who are going to be like, yeah, that was me last Tuesday.”

AI ‘Actor’ Tilly Norwood Told Me That ‘All Lives Matter’

The virtual character, which is promoting its upcoming movie Misaligned, tries to evade politics by repetitively commenting on the clothes you’re wearing.

‘I Felt Super Violated’: Men Wearing Meta Glasses on Dates Is an Instant Red Flag

As anxieties over surveillance tech grow, unsuspecting singles are sharing stories of being covertly filmed on dates by Meta smart glasses.