6+ hour, 41+ min ago  (633+ words) There are gifts for men. And then there are manly men gifts. Countless gift guides for the men in your life offer up the same neckties and tool sets and tasteful leather belts. And don't get us wrong: We're classy…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (605+ words) It's an impressive online presence, and Jae's fans eat it up: his comments are filled with fire and heart-eye emoji and people praising his music. It's not until you go back to his profile and look at his bio, which…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1908+ words) Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales has been called the last decent tech baron. It's sounds like a flattering label, although one I usually associate more with yacht-dwelling meatheads who feed their herds of cattle homegrown macadamia nuts; the kind of person who…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (668+ words) In 2025, people who built their careers by being some form of Very Online are now some of the most powerful people in the world. Beyond members of the Trump administration (fair warning, there are quite a few on this year's…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (328+ words) In the days following the shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, there's been a scramble to understand the politics of the situation. "In the 2010s, radicalization was about being the underdog, using grievance culture to shift narratives," says Jamie Cohen, professor…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago  (330+ words) We are still in ongoing discussions with payment processors and will be reintroducing paid content slowly to ensure we can confidently support the widest range of creators in the long term," Itch founder Leaf Corcoran wrote in a post on…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago  (164+ words) From JD Vance's dinnertime Bieber to Sam Altman's Shazaming of incredibly popular hit songs, a website claiming to have published the Spotify listening habits of members of the Trump administration, tech leaders, and journalists is making the rounds. "We've been…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago  (457+ words) On platforms like Bluesky, users are compiling lists of "censored artists" with NSFW pieces and unsearchable Itch pages, whether it's games or comics, many of whom identify their work as LGBTQ+ or kink friendly. WIRED was able to find several…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago  (505+ words) Late in the evening on July 23, developers with games tagged as NSFW on itch. io, a digital marketplace, began to notice something strange. Their work'whether it was a game about navigating disordered eating as a teenager, or about dick pics'no…...