Want a Better PC? Try Building Your Own

PLUS: The best stories from WIRED this week. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 01.07.21   DO IT YOURSELF Want a Better PC? Try Building Your Own BY JESS GREY AND BRENDAN NYSTEDT Assembling a computer yourself is a good way to learn about how it works. It's also a lost art—one due for a revival.   BACKCHANNEL A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society? BY STEVEN LEVY In 1995, a WIRED cofounder challenged a Luddite-loving doomsayer to a prescient wager on tech and civilization's fate. Now their judge weighs in.   RUH ROH Watch a Robot Dog Learn How to Deftly Fend Off a Human BY MATT SIMON Kick over this robot and it'll quickly right itself—not because someone told it how, but because it taught itself to overcome the embarrassment.   DDOSECRETS Activists Publish a Vast Trove of Ransomware Victims' Data BY ANDY GREENBERG WikiLeaks successor DDoSecrets has amassed a controversial new collection of corporate secrets and is sharing them in the name of transparency. GET WIRED Get one year of WIRED access for less than $1 per month. Tech news and analysis you won't find anywhere else. Subscribe now.   STREAM ON These Are the 17 Must-Watch TV Shows of 2021 BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER From Marvel hopefuls to mind-bending dramas, here are all the series you'll need to keep an eye on this year.   MOVIES 26 Movies We Want to See in 2021—One Way or Another BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER From 'Dune' to 'Black Widow,' a ton of films got delayed due to Covid-19. Here are the ones WIRED is hoping to see, whether at home or (finally) in a theater.   PUMP IT UP How to Find the Perfect Music and Podcasts, Faster BY TYLER HAYES Choosing just the right thing to listen is tricky. Here's how to navigate your options and set the mood.   IN LOVING MEMORY A Farewell to Adobe Flash—and the Messy, Glorious Web BY WILL BEDINGFIELD, WIRED UK The software helped create an amateur internet. It's a far cry from the glossy, corporate one we know now.   NATIONAL AFFAIRS Even Mark Zuckerberg Has Had Enough of Trump BY GILAD EDELMAN By freezing the president's accounts, social media platforms finally drew a line. It only took a violent insurrection in the Capitol to get them there.     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