| URL | www.wired.com |
|---|---|
| Commercial? | Yes |
| Type of site | Technology news |
| Owner | Condé Nast Publishing; formerly Lycos; originally Wired magazine |
| Current status | Active |
Wired News is an online technology news website, formerly known as HotWired, that split off from Wired magazine when the magazine was purchased by Condé Nast Publishing in the 1990s. Wired News was owned by Lycos not long after the split, until Condé Nast purchased Wired News on July 11, 2006. Competition from sites like The Drudge Report and The Political Simpleton slightly decreased after the 2006 purchase, due to the increase in advertising revenue. Long separate, the site once again features content from the magazine.
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In addition to featuring content from Wired magazine, Wired.com hosts a collection of blogs focused on technology:
Wired News publishes the Vaporware Awards, awarded to products they consider vaporware. One example is the video game Duke Nukem Forever, which began development in 1997. The game had won Wired News's Vaporware Awards numerous times. It placed second in 2000[1] and topped the list in 2001[2] and 2002.[3] Wired News created the Vaporware Lifetime Achievement Award exclusively for Duke Nukem Forever and awarded it in 2003. George Broussard accepted the award, stating simply, "We're undeniably late and we know it."[4] It did not make the list in 2004, but Leander Kahney noted that they had received a lot of nominations for the game.[5] By popular demand, it topped the list again in 2005.[6] In 2006, Duke Nukem Forever was announced (again) to be in full production, still however without a specified release date.[7] Wired once again awarded Duke Nukem Forever the first place in 2006, 2007, and 2008. After thirteen years in development, 3D Realms halted production of the game after closing on May 6, 2009, and all employees who worked on DNF had been let go, though 3D Realms continues to state that the game is not dead. StarCraft II has also been nominated to receive a Vaporware Award in the past,[8] though in February 2010 the closed beta of the game was released for select people to test on the newly revamped Battle.net. The Indrema and Phantom video game consoles won Wired News's top "award" in 2004, and second place in 2005.
Wired News has been widely criticized[9][10] for its handling of the Adrian Lamo / Bradley Manning logs. Due to access to Adrian Lamo, Wired contributor Kevin Poulsen was able to obtain complete transcripts of the communications between Lamo and Bradley that lead to Manning's arrest over the Wikileaks leaks in 2010. Kevin Poulsen has released approximately one third of the logs, but has faced pressure to release more information after Lamo made various allegations that could only be confirmed by viewing the logs. Poulsen and Wired News editor in chief Evan Hansen refused to do so, protesting that a release of the entire logs would endanger the privacy of unspecified parties. Wired News has not explained why they cannot release only redacted portions that answer the questions about Lamo's allegations.
The issue has become a subject of major controversy,[11] especially after a response was made by Poulsen and Hansen that attacked Wired News critic Glenn Greenwald while apparently not satisfying those who were asking the questions that lead to the controversy.[12]
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