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With the midterm elections just a few weeks away, the White House knows it has to go all in on Senate races—while virtually forfeiting the House.

As a recent government report on DOGE shows, even getting basic information out of the Trump administration will put a new Congress to the test.

Contracts tied to elections in Ethiopia and Romania saw massive trading volumes after the outcomes were decided. “It’s obviously some form of volume manipulation,” one expert says.

Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.

Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to the internet. WIRED goes inside the backroom shenanigans of ICANN, the organization at the helm.

Domain of One’s Own

Billions Registered

Originally published October 1994: Right now, there are no rules to keep you from owning a bitchin’ corporate name as your own internet address.