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They Searched Through Hundreds of Bands to Solve an Online Mystery
The first advancement in years came in May, when a user on the buzzing Reddit community r/TheMysteriousSong found…
November 6, 2024
JD Vance’s Senate Office Fires Key Adviser Who Posted About Drug Use on Reddit
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance’s office has fired key financial policy adviser Aaron Kofsky. A recent WIRED…
November 4, 2024
Reddit’s ‘Celebrity Number Six’ Win Was Almost a Catastrophe—Thanks to AI
Take, for example, the other recently solved internet mystery: The source of the song that became known as…
September 13, 2024
A Subreddit for Dumbphones Is the Smartest Place Online
Dumbphone life, as r/Dumbphones moderator Jose Briones told me, is about “recovering your time and attention for the…
May 6, 2024
Reddit Stock Surges on Its First Day of Trading
A big concern ahead of the public listing was that Reddit, the platform that gave birth to the…
March 21, 2024
Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears
The amount of time Reddit reports that users spend with its service hasn’t significantly budged either. In September…
March 18, 2024
Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation
Reddit said ahead of its IPO next week that licensing user posts to Google and others for AI…
March 15, 2024
Can Reddit—the Internet’s Greatest Authenticity Machine—Survive Its Own IPO?
Alyssa Videlock was 11 years old when she started searching for people like her on the internet. What…
March 14, 2024
Rad Power Bikes Has 4 New Models—and Safer Batteries
The Seattle ebike company Rad Power Bikes has announced four new ebike models, all of which have the…
March 9, 2024
No, ‘Leave the World Behind’ and ‘Civil War’ Aren’t Happening Before Your Eyes
Several people are typing, and they’re all saying Netflix’s Leave the World Behind is wildly prescient. The movie,…
March 8, 2024