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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions  01.02.23 Thank you for subscribing to WIRED Longreads! Every Sunday we'll bring the future to you with deeply reported, beautifully designed stories and columns that capture the most important subjects of our time. From scientific pioneers to criminal masterminds, dystopian new technologies to the many ways we're breaking free, we'll give you stories that leave no details behind. Read on for some of our subscribers' favorite thought-provoking ideas and longreads. The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill BY MEGAN MOLTENI | 18-MINUTE READ All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences. The Pain Was Unbearable. So Why Did Doctors Turn Her Away? BY MAIA SZALAVITZ | 22-MINUTE READ A sweeping AI has become central to how the US handles the opioid crisis. It may only be making the crisis worse. The Cold War Over Hacking McDonald's Ice Cream Machines BY ANDY GREENBERG | 22-MINUTE READ Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald's notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out. One Woman's Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia BY NOAM COHEN | 14-MINUTE READ Ksenia Coffman's fellow editors have called her a vandal and a McCarthyist. She just wants them to stop glorifying fascists—and start citing better sources. Meet the Little-Known Genius Who Helped Make Pixar Possible BY STEVEN LEVY | 18-MINUTE READ Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs. Now he's got a vision for where the pixel will take us next. Artificial Intelligence and the 'Gods Behind the Masks' BY KAI-FU LEE AND CHEN QIUFAN | 20-MINUTE READ In an excerpt from AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future, Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan explore what happens when deepfakers attack the deepfakes. The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told BY ANDY GREENBERG | 17-MINUTE READ In 2011, Chinese spies stole the crown jewels of cybersecurity—stripping protections from firms and government agencies worldwide. Here's how it happened. The Best Kindles to Take Your Library Anywhere BY MEDEA GIORDANO AND GEAR TEAM | 4-MINUTE READ Amazon has four ebook readers. Here's how they stack up—and which one might be right for you. GET WIRED Get WIRED for just $29.99 $5. Includes the print edition plus editor in chief Gideon Lichfield's column, System Update. Subscribe now.       Have questions or comments? Reply to this email.   This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or manage your newsletter subscriptions   Copyright © Condé Nast 2023. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.