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Saturday August 16, 2025. 12:02 PM
This WIRED-approved gear is on sale for the new school year. Save on tablets, headphones, desk chairs, and more.
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Take note of the name: ReHMGB1. A new study pinpoints this protein as being able to spread the wear and tear that comes with time as it quietly travels through the bloodstream. This adds significantly to our understanding of...
Right now is a great time to get a used plug-in hybrid car. Here’s what to know about PHEVs before plonking down that cash.
A decade-long effort to boost one man's reputation was undone in a matter of weeks.
Precogs replaced by profiling and postcode data... and 'AI'. What could wrong? Lots, say privacy campaigners The UK government has unveiled a scheme to use AI to 'help police catch criminals before they strike.'…
Scientists in Svalbard warn Arctic glaciers are in 'terminal' decline, with microbe-driven biological darkening accelerating ice melt and potentially triggering major climate feedback loops. The Guardian reports: Recent research implicates snow and ice-dwelling microbes in...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ScientificAmerican: After a brain stem stroke left him almost entirely paralyzed in the 1990s, French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby wrote a book about his experiences -- letter by letter, blinking his left eye in response to a...
Sam Altman's brain-chip venture is exploring the idea of genetically altering brain cells to make better implants. 'The company, which has been referred to as Merge Labs, is looking at an approach involving gene therapy that would modify brain cells,' reports Bloomberg. 'In...
South Korean authorities have arrested the operator of Yubin Archive, a Telegram-based 'pirate library' that grew to over 330,000 members by sharing textbooks, workbooks, lectures, and exam prep materials under the banner of 'eliminating educational inequality.' TorrentFreak ...
Wine 10.13 has been released after a one-month break, introducing a Windows Gaming Input configuration tab for the Joystick Control Panel, new ECDSA_P521 and ECDH_P521 cryptographic algorithms, OpenGL WoW64 thunk generation, and expanded Windows Runtime metadata support. The ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The United States' practice of installing location trackers in chip shipments at risk of diversion to China reflects the 'instincts of a surveillance empire,' China's state-run media outlet Xinhua said in a commentary...
Nowhere to hide Codeberg, a Berlin-based code hosting community, is struggling to cope with a deluge of AI bots that can now bypass previously effective defenses.…
Croatia has extended its digital nomad visa from one year to up to three years, allowing non-EU residents and their close family members to live and work remotely in the country. CNBC reports: A digital nomad visa is a short-term permit that allows individuals to stay in a...
New data from Digital Content Next shows Google's AI Overviews are linked to notable drops in publisher referral traffic, with surveyed sites seeing year-over-year declines between 1% and 25%. From a report: Digital Content Next (DCN), which counts the New York Times, Conde...
We’ve spent over a year testing the best pillows to support your noggin, whether you snooze on your side, back, or in a tangle of blankets.
AI will take your salary in capex before it can take your job Oracle issued layoff notices for more than 300 people in Washington State and California this week, according to state Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filings in those states.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CleanTechnica: In a sharp rebuke to the anti-electrification agenda in the US, global EV sales are up 27% over last year, with some legacy automakers -- but not all -- indicating the potential for a successful transition to electric...
Friday August 15, 2025. 11:47 PM
Is that a JuicyPotato on your network? A suspected Chinese-government-backed cyber crew recently broke into a Taiwanese web hosting provider to steal credentials and plant backdoors for long-term access, using a mix of open-source and custom software tools, Cisco Talos...
WIRED identified 120 YouTube channels creating AI-generated celebrity confrontation/rage-baiting videos using still images and artificial voiceovers (rather than deepfake technology). One channel, Talk Show Gold, accumulated 88,000 subscribers with a fake Mark Wahlberg and...
New Zealand citizens leaving the country have hit the highest levels in 13 years, with more than a third of those emigrating aged under 30 years as unemployment rises and economic growth remains soft. From a report: Data released by Statistics New Zealand on Friday showed...
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