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WIRED Book Club hosts a livestream with author Carlos Barragán and senior writer Kate Knibbs to discuss romance scams in Nigeria, based on Barragán's book 'The Yahoo Boys'.
The Vergecast episode explores how social media feeds are dominated by clipped content and algorithmic brute force, and also reviews the new Fitbit Air fitness tracker and discusses smart glasses as a product category.
Jason Koebler explores the mental toll of navigating an internet saturated with AI-generated content, coining the term 'Zombie Internet' to describe the complex, exhausting mix of humans, bots, and AI agents interacting online.
AOL shuts down its innovative Nullsoft division in 2004, marking the end of an era for founder Justin Frankel and tools like Winamp and Gnutella.