Your argument is valid but uninteresting, hence my downvote. You should mail WIRED for such corrections instead of posting comments to HN. WIRED won't read your HN comments.
I would argue it isn’t even valid. Words have meaning in context, not isolation. There were lots of examples of words misused from their most exact dictionary definition given in this thread, which I’ll leave as an exercise to scroll up if you want to read. This was instead a pointless pedantic rant by a few folks.