Actor and director Ben McKenzie, a vocal crypto critic, spoke at Wired's inaugural WIRED@Night event, claiming that male loneliness is a key psychological driver behind cryptocurrency adoption. McKenzie also read aloud c...
Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down and will be succeeded by John Ternus, currently Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, effective September 1, 2026. Cook will transition to the role of executive chairman of Ap...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta released evidence alleging that Amazon engaged in price-fixing practices that drove up prices across the broader retail market. The state had filed a request to the Supreme Court in ...
Apple has announced that Tim Cook will transition from CEO to Executive Chairman, with hardware engineering chief John Ternus stepping up to become the company's new Chief Executive Officer. The leadership change marks a...
A commentary piece in The Verge argues that Silicon Valley technologists have become disconnected from the needs and desires of everyday people, citing the tech community's tendency to treat narrow insider discoveries as...
Google has added a suite of subtle touch-up tools to Google Photos' image editor, allowing users to enhance faces in photos. The Verge describes the tools as designed for 'subtle enhancements, refinements, or fixes,' whi...
A blog post gaining traction on Hacker News argues that organized and grassroots resistance to artificial intelligence is expanding across multiple sectors and communities. The piece contends that pushback against AI too...
WhatsApp is testing a paid subscription tier, tentatively called 'WhatsApp Plus,' that offers premium features for a few dollars a month. The Verge highlights exclusive sticker packs as a key perk, while TechCrunch chara...
A War on the Rocks essay circulating widely argues that the F-35 fighter jet, despite being a remarkable engineering achievement, was built to fight a type of war that is no longer the most likely scenario facing US and ...
A Japanese court sentenced a man to prison for posting spoilers, ruling that revealing narrative elements of films can constitute copyright infringement. The case highlights an unusually strict legal interpretation of ho...
A developer has implemented a real transformer neural network model on a Commodore 64 running at just 1 MHz, published as an open-source project called Soul Player C64. The project demonstrates the extreme lower bounds o...
A historical piece resurfacing on Hacker News details how NASA officials coached Apollo 11 astronauts to refrain from using profanity during missions, concerned about the effect on public perception and broadcast standar...
TechCrunch highlights that the sentence construction 'It's not just X — it's Y' has become so prevalent in AI-generated writing that its presence is now considered nearly a definitive indicator of synthetic text rather...
Insta360 has announced the Mic Pro, a new wireless microphone kit featuring E Ink color screens on the transmitters that allow users to display logos or custom images. It is the company's follow-up to its first wireless ...
A hot-air balloon from Magical Adventures Balloon Rides made an unplanned landing in a California residential backyard after becoming stranded over a neighborhood. The company's CEO told Wired the pilot executed a safe t...
The US government has launched an online portal allowing importers and customs brokers to submit refund requests for tariffs deemed illegal by the Supreme Court two months ago. The Court had ruled that President Trump's ...
A team published results showing they ran the Qwen3.5-27B large language model at 207 tokens per second on a single consumer-grade RTX 3090 GPU using their LuceBox Hub framework. The benchmark is notable for demonstratin...
A Wired analysis examines how war memes are transforming real-world conflict into shareable entertainment. The piece argues that while the jokes may seem humorous, the underlying systems driving their spread carry more s...
AI company Kimi has released a new tool called Kimi Vendor Verifier, designed to let users verify whether third-party inference providers are accurately running the models they claim to offer. The tool addresses growing ...
Mercedes-Benz has unveiled the C 400 4MATIC, its first all-electric version of the C-Class compact sedan. Built on an 800-volt architecture, the car has an estimated range of up to 762 kilometers (473 miles) and is descr...