The Curling Controversy at the Winter Olympics Isn’t What You Think

After Swedish curler Oskar Eriksson accused Canadian vice-skip Marc Kennedy of cheating last week, everyone has become an expert in curling rules. They’re missing the point. [...]

How Curling Became the Winter Olympics’ Favorite Fixation

If throwing stones and sweeping ice seem strange to you, the centuries-old history of the sport explains why it became so beloved. [...]

How Tini Younger perfected her viral mac n cheese and found a culinary career

TikTok chef Tini Younger went viral with her mac 'n cheese, landed on Gordon Ramsay’s Next Level Chef, and built a career cooking for millions online. [...]

The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trump’s Media Critics

Internal emails obtained by WIRED reveal how a conservative legal group with a direct line into FCC chairman Brendan Carr’s office built the case against Jimmy Kimmel and his employees. [...]

Inside the Contentious World of Luigi Mangione Supporters

As Luigi Mangione is being tried legally and in the court of public opinion, tensions are growing between his supporters pushing health care reform and those who believe he is innocent. [...]

‘Love Is Blind’ Embraces the Manosphere

A show that started as an earnest if messy quest for love is now simply a mirror to the hell of modern dating. [...]

Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it's giving away the weights for free

The enterprise voice AI market is in the middle of a land grab. ElevenLabs and IBM announced a collaboration just this week to bring premium voice capabilities into IBM's watsonx Orchestrate plat [...]

Trump Wants to Erase Black History. These Digital Archivists Are Racing to Save It

Donald Trump’s executive orders are attacking everything from the Smithsonian to Black sports history, but grassroots organizers are launching a resistance. [...]

‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Is Already Causing Online Gaming Stores to Crash

After years of waiting for the sequel, a lot of fans trying to buy the game are getting error messages—and they’re not happy about it. [...]