Keep in mind that Wired writes only slightly above normal tech journalist standards, which is to say, not very high. Combine a journalist who either has never been exposed to the halting problem or only vaguely remembers it from an algorithms course ten years ago, with an audience that, in general, hates and fears math but thinks gadgets like computers are magical and gee-whiz cool, and you get explanations like this. That is, not a map to reality.