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1.

It's time to head back to RSS? (www.wired.com)

1501 points by kawera 2018-03-31 | 491 comments

2.

FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality (www.wired.com)

1275 points by Libertatea 2015-02-04 | 424 comments

3.

Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles (www.wired.com)

946 points by vesinisa 2015-01-21 | 372 comments

4.

A Government Error Just Revealed Snowden Was the Target in the Lavabit Case (www.wired.com)

795 points by runesoerensen 2016-03-17 | 164 comments

5.

Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complying with NSA's PRISM (www.wired.com)

784 points by suprgeek 2014-09-12 | 237 comments

6.

To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008) (www.wired.com)

740 points by colinprince 2018-08-07 | 208 comments

7.

Edward Snowden: The Untold Story (www.wired.com)

717 points by promocha 2014-08-13 | 223 comments

8.

Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway (www.wired.com)

691 points by SpaceInvader 2015-07-21 | 603 comments

9.

Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud (www.wired.com)

671 points by moviuro 2016-03-14 | 240 comments

10.

FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack (www.wired.com)

671 points by floodcow 2013-09-13 | 262 comments

11.

Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them (www.wired.com)

646 points by TDL 2013-03-15 | 172 comments

12.

Creator of xkcd Reveals Secret Backstory of His Epic 3,990-Panel Comic (www.wired.com)

634 points by ghosh 2013-08-02 | 92 comments

13.

Lavabit Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show (www.wired.com)

592 points by inglesp 2013-10-02 | 250 comments

14.

We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership (www.wired.com)

578 points by klunger 2015-04-21 | 394 comments

15.

We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality (www.wired.com)

554 points by joseflavio 2013-12-29 | 262 comments

16.

Teens Who Hacked Microsoft's Xbox Empire and Went Too Far (www.wired.com)

515 points by wolfgke 2018-06-23 | 173 comments

17.

How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love (www.wired.com)

506 points by daw___ 2014-01-22 | 183 comments

18.

Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack (www.wired.com)

498 points by butterfinger 2016-03-16 | 383 comments

19.

Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars (www.wired.com)

497 points by sravfeyn 2012-11-02 | 148 comments

20.

How a Google Headhunter’s E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole (www.wired.com)

477 points by trendspotter 2012-10-24 | 101 comments

21.

Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place (www.wired.com)

473 points by sk2code 2015-09-16 | 325 comments

22.

Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017 (www.wired.com)

454 points by bpierre 2017-11-25 | 328 comments

23.

Supreme Court rules antitrust lawsuit against Apple can proceed (www.wired.com)

448 points by CWSZ 2019-05-13 | 342 comments

24.

How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking (www.wired.com)

446 points by malachismith 2012-08-07 | 253 comments

25.

No Exit (www.wired.com)

445 points by rohin 2014-04-25 | 171 comments

26.

Hyperlapse, Instagram's new video stabilization app (www.wired.com)

438 points by bpierre 2014-08-26 | 149 comments

27.

MobileCoin: A New Cryptocurrency from Moxie Marlinspike (www.wired.com)

429 points by golangnews 2017-12-15 | 247 comments

28.

Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database with 340M Records (www.wired.com)

429 points by georgecmu 2018-06-28 | 294 comments

29.

The Emails Snowden Sent to First Introduce His NSA Leaks (www.wired.com)

427 points by secfirstmd 2014-10-13 | 108 comments

30.

Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File (www.wired.com)

427 points by HoochTHX 2013-07-08 | 47 comments

31.

They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, And Found a Secret Society Inside (www.wired.com)

427 points by pstadler 2012-11-17 | 36 comments

32.

MacOS Update Accidentally Undoes Apple's “root” Bug Patch (www.wired.com)

426 points by platinumrad 2017-12-01 | 162 comments

33.

Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation? (www.wired.com)

419 points by there 2011-10-28 | 119 comments

34.

LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug (www.wired.com)

417 points by mkrecny 2011-04-29 | 293 comments

35.

MIT Students Battle State's Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner's Source Code (www.wired.com)

416 points by msantos 2014-09-22 | 123 comments

36.

Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL (www.wired.com)

413 points by glassworm 2019-01-30 | 257 comments

37.

Supreme Court rules 9-0 that warrant absolutely needed for police GPS tracking (www.wired.com)

410 points by ck2 2012-01-23 | 115 comments

38.

Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face' (www.wired.com)

402 points by artsandsci 2017-11-29 | 395 comments

39.

Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless (www.wired.com)

397 points by taylorwc 2015-02-20 | 214 comments

40.

Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius? (www.wired.com)

395 points by mkuhn 2015-12-08 | 151 comments

41.

Bill Gates: My Plan to Improve Our World, and How You Can Help (www.wired.com)

392 points by digital55 2013-11-12 | 358 comments

42.

Russians Engineer a Slot Machine Cheat that Casinos Can't Fix (www.wired.com)

391 points by arielm 2017-02-06 | 302 comments

43.

Why Do Some People Learn Faster? (www.wired.com)

390 points by mikeleeorg 2012-02-23 | 84 comments

44.

Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before (www.wired.com)

383 points by hexis 2013-09-28 | 275 comments

45.

Now That It’s in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality (www.wired.com)

366 points by hvs 2013-07-30 | 204 comments

46.

WhatsApp Encryption Security Flaws Could Allow Snoops to Slide into Group Chats (www.wired.com)

362 points by uptown 2018-01-10 | 166 comments

47.

Soldier in Wikileaks video of 2007 Apache attack reveals what happened that day (www.wired.com)

361 points by mawhidby 2010-04-20 | 106 comments

48.

'Demonically Clever' Backdoor Hides Inside Computer Chip (www.wired.com)

360 points by Digit-Al 2018-04-29 | 114 comments

49.

Man Supposedly Flies With Custom-Built Bird Wings (www.wired.com)

360 points by dym 2012-03-21 | 154 comments

50.

A 'Blockchain Bandit' Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions (www.wired.com)

356 points by qzrt 2019-04-23 | 177 comments

51.

Richard Stallman: Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents (www.wired.com)

355 points by mtgx 2012-11-01 | 98 comments

52.

Hacker Claims Feds Hit Him with 44 Felonies When He Refused to Be an FBI Spy (www.wired.com)

351 points by ghosh 2015-02-19 | 108 comments

53.

The Water-Repelling Surface That Lives Outside My Window (www.wired.com)

350 points by aatish 2014-06-20 | 62 comments

54.

Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning against municipal broadband (www.wired.com)

346 points by xbmcuser 2017-12-18 | 206 comments

55.

U.S. Marshals Seize Cops’ Spying Records to Keep Them From the ACLU (www.wired.com)

346 points by pavel_lishin 2014-06-04 | 102 comments

56.

WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI (www.wired.com)

344 points by Libertatea 2013-06-27 | 74 comments

57.

9-Year-Old Who Changed School Lunches Silenced By Politicians (www.wired.com)

341 points by bcl 2012-06-15 | 115 comments

58.

The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google Maps (www.wired.com)

340 points by dreamweapon 2014-12-08 | 187 comments

59.

Overstock.com Is Now Accepting Bitcoins (www.wired.com)

339 points by ironchief 2014-01-09 | 265 comments

60.

Secret Code Found in Juniper's Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors (www.wired.com)

338 points by r721 2015-12-19 | 117 comments

61.

Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users (www.wired.com)

337 points by ghosh 2015-09-16 | 248 comments

62.

Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code (www.wired.com)

334 points by karzeem 2011-02-01 | 100 comments

63.

Why 'Her' will dominate UI design even more than 'Minority Report' (www.wired.com)

334 points by anigbrowl 2014-01-14 | 212 comments

64.

DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard in San Francisco) (www.wired.com)

334 points by woodrow 2011-01-20 | 213 comments

65.

Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation (www.wired.com)

333 points by longdefeat 2019-04-22 | 245 comments

66.

What happens when you talk about salaries at Google (www.wired.com)

330 points by awjr 2015-07-21 | 368 comments

67.

Contiki: The Little-Known Open Source OS That Rules the Internet of Things (www.wired.com)

328 points by maaarghk 2014-06-04 | 79 comments

68.

Laura Poitras Reveals Her Own Life Under Surveillance (www.wired.com)

325 points by eplanit 2016-02-05 | 82 comments

69.

M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger (www.wired.com)

324 points by jasonlbaptiste 2015-08-26 | 169 comments

70.

The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can’t Win (www.wired.com)

322 points by relampago 2014-05-12 | 180 comments

71.

Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras (www.wired.com)

320 points by SonicSoul 2016-12-14 | 207 comments

72.

Node.js, a popular tool for building modern internet services, has split in two (www.wired.com)

320 points by DieBuche 2014-12-05 | 152 comments

73.

How the NSA’s Firmware Hacking Works and Why It’s So Unsettling (www.wired.com)

318 points by rl3 2015-02-23 | 122 comments

74.

Barack Obama on A.I., Autonomous Cars, and the Future of Humanity (www.wired.com)

317 points by gflandre 2016-10-12 | 229 comments

75.

How To Strip DRM from Kindle E-Books and Others (www.wired.com)

317 points by DanielRibeiro 2012-10-23 | 103 comments

76.

Staples Announces In-Store 3D Printing Service (www.wired.com)

315 points by swohns 2012-11-29 | 78 comments

77.

Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning (www.wired.com)

312 points by monsieurpng 2018-02-09 | 149 comments

78.

Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a School-Issued RFID Tracker (www.wired.com)

311 points by iProject 2012-11-22 | 231 comments

79.

Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement (www.wired.com)

309 points by chaostheory 2012-05-04 | 120 comments

80.

Disney's $1B Bet on a Magical Wristband (www.wired.com)

307 points by ghosh 2015-03-10 | 118 comments

81.

Why a Grape Turns into a Fireball in the Microwave (www.wired.com)

307 points by ChuckMcM 2019-02-19 | 85 comments

82.

Why 3 MIT Grads Want to Send You an Empty Box (www.wired.com)

306 points by joallard 2013-05-31 | 91 comments

83.

I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days (www.wired.com)

304 points by sethbannon 2014-08-11 | 115 comments

84.

Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA (www.wired.com)

303 points by Osiris 2014-04-15 | 81 comments

85.

Would-Be Suicide Bomber Killed by Unexpected SMS From Mobile Carrier (www.wired.com)

302 points by shashashasha 2011-01-28 | 89 comments

86.

“This story is being previewed exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday” (www.wired.com)

302 points by esolyt 2015-09-21 | 234 comments

87.

A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus (www.wired.com)

301 points by rbanffy 2017-05-16 | 429 comments

88.

Map of America's Racial Segregation (www.wired.com)

299 points by Aqua_Geek 2013-08-26 | 182 comments

89.

The Notre Dame fire and the future of history (www.wired.com)

299 points by pricklyPaper 2019-04-16 | 325 comments

90.

MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File (www.wired.com)

297 points by hermanywong 2013-07-18 | 67 comments

91.

How Google Hires (www.wired.com)

296 points by Libertatea 2015-04-07 | 271 comments

92.

MIT Wristband Could Make Air Conditioning Obsolete (www.wired.com)

295 points by petercooper 2013-10-31 | 132 comments

93.

Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Court Battle (www.wired.com)

293 points by bcl 2013-08-08 | 88 comments

94.

It Takes Just $1k to Track Someone's Location with Mobile Ads (www.wired.com)

292 points by AndrewDucker 2017-10-18 | 102 comments

95.

Fresh Horrors from Equifax CEO Richard Smith's Congressional Hearing (www.wired.com)

290 points by wglb 2017-10-03 | 148 comments

96.

DragonBox: Algebra beats Angry birds (www.wired.com)

289 points by aymeric 2012-06-13 | 63 comments

97.

Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC (www.wired.com)

289 points by espeed 2016-12-16 | 204 comments

98.

The AI Threat Isn’t Skynet – It’s the End of the Middle Class (www.wired.com)

286 points by peter123 2017-02-10 | 254 comments

99.

Formula 1′s Leading Team Has a Big Secret (www.wired.com)

282 points by GFuller 2013-10-11 | 247 comments

100.

Mysterious US Helicopter Used in Bin Laden Raid (www.wired.com)

282 points by Element_ 2011-05-05 | 128 comments

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