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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions  04.28.21   DARK WEB | 4-MINUTE READ Feds Arrest an Alleged $336M Bitcoin-Laundering Kingpin BY ANDY GREENBERG The alleged administrator of Bitcoin Fog kept the dark web service running for 10 years before the IRS caught up with him.   KAYFABE | 4-MINUTE READ He's a WWE Star and a Vtuber. Those Worlds Aren't So Different BY CECILIA D'ANASTASIO Brennan Williams wrestles as Mace but streams as an animated character named Jibo. It's all kayfabe, and a little bit not.   NOTHING MATTERS | 4-MINUTE READ The GPU Shortage Deepened My Existential Dread BY JENNIFER BERNEY When my teenager couldn't find a video card, he declared that everything was meaningless. Turns out, in the lonely months of quarantine, he was right.   MORE TORQUE | 3-MINUTE READ Ford's Ever-Smarter Robots Are Speeding Up the Assembly Line BY WILL KNIGHT A transmission factory shows how artificial intelligence may creep into industrial processes in gradual and often imperceptible ways.   SPONSORED CONTENT The Future of Mental Health Care Is Here In his new book, clinical psychiatrist Daniel Barron explores how data-driven psychiatry can revolutionize how we evaluate, diagnose and treat mental illness. GET WIRED Spring Sale: The Sequel! Ending Soon: Get WIRED for $10 $5. You can't see into the future, but you can subscribe to WIRED. Subscribe now.   IDEAS | 6-MINUTE READ How Porn's Racist Metadata Hurts Adult Performers of Color BY NOELLE PERDUE Despite the massive innovations tech has brought to the industry, nonwhite creators remain confined to a rigid, outdated classification system.   SAY WHAT? | 5-MINUTE READ Google Fixes Two Annoying Quirks in Its Voice Assistant BY JULIAN CHOKKATTU The AI just got a useful boost in understanding natural human speech.   OOO | 4-MINUTE READ Help! Should I Be More Ambitious? BY MEGAN GREENWELL What does it mean if you don't want to climb the ladder? Megan weighs in.   CLIMATE CHANGE | 4-MINUTE READ Melting Mountain Glaciers May Not Survive the Century BY ERIC NIILER Scientists crunched 20 years' worth of satellite data to estimate the melt rate across the planet, and the news isn't good.     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 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.