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+ Arc Technica Science: Scientists sequence a woolly rhino genome from a 14,400-year-old wolf’s stomach—Fortunately for paleogeneticists, wolf puppies don't chew their food thoroughly. [Category: Science, Megafauna, megafaunal extinction, paleoecology, p...
+ Arc Technica Science: EPA makes it harder for states, tribes to block pipelines—A new rule aims to speed up and streamline the permitting process. [Category: Policy, Science, clean water act, EPA, section 401, syndication]
+ Arc Technica Science: EPA moves to stop considering economic benefits of cleaner air—New language criticizes “uncertainties” in longstanding EPA practice. [Category: Science, air pollution, Environmental Protection Agency]
+ Arc Technica Science: Switching water sources improved hygiene of Pompeii’s public baths—Scientists analyzed carbonate deposits from baths, aqueduct to learn more about city's changing water supply. [Category: Science, Archaeology, hydraul...
+ Arc Technica Science: NASA launches new mission to get the most out of the James Webb Space Telescope—"It was not recognized how serious a problem that is until... about 2017 or 2018." [Category: Science, Space, astrophysics, exoplanets, goddard space ...
+ Arc Technica Science: That time Will Smith helped discover new species of anaconda—Footage of the 2024 discovery appears in NatGeo's new documentary series Pole to Pole with Will Smith [Category: Culture, Science, anacondas, Biology,...
+ Arc Technica Science: The oceans just keep getting hotter—For the eighth year in a row, the world’s oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat in 2025. [Category: Science, global warming, ocean ecology,...
+ Arc Technica Science: These 60,000-year-old poison arrows are oldest yet found—Hunter-gatherers probably derived the poison from the milky bulb extract of a Boophone disticha plant. [Category: Science, anthropology, Archeology, p...
+ Arc Technica Science: NASA orders “controlled medical evacuation” from the International Space Station—"The crew is highly trained, and they came to the aid of their colleague right away." [Category: Science, Space, commercial crew, crew dragon, crew-11...
+ Arc Technica Science: These dogs eavesdrop on their owners to learn new words—“Under the right conditions, some dogs present behaviors strikingly similar to those of young children.” [Category: Science, animal behavior, animal c...
+ Arc Technica Science: Trump withdraws US from world’s most important climate treaty—US also pulling out of pacts promoting development, democracy, and human rights. [Category: Science, climate change, IPCC, Trump, UN Framework Convent...
+ Arc Technica Science: NASA considers evacuating ailing crew member from International Space Station—"The matter involved a single crew member who is stable," NASA said in a statement. [Category: Science, Space, expedition 74, human spaceflight, inter...
+ Arc Technica Science: A crew member’s “medical concern” foils a planned spacewalk outside the ISS—"The situation is stable," NASA said in a statement Wednesday. [Category: Science, Space, expedition 74, human spaceflight, international space statio...
+ Arc Technica Science: Japanese nuclear plant operator fabricated seismic risk data—Company staff were very selective about how they modeled earthquake dangers. [Category: Science, earthquakes, falsification, fraud, Fukushima, Japan, ...
+ Arc Technica Science: New battery idea gets lots of power out of unusual sulfur chemistry—Rather than being used as a storage material, the sulfur gives up electrons. [Category: Science, anode, batteries, cathode, chemistry, materials scien...
+ Arc Technica Science: We have a fossil closer to our split with Neanderthals and Denisovans—A recent study suggests that North Africa may be a key place to look. [Category: Science, anthropology, Archaeology, Denisovans, hominins, homo erectu...
+ Arc Technica Science: Here are the launches and landings we’re most excited about in 2026—A lot could happen in space next year, but let's get real about what actually will. [Category: Features, Science, Space, artemis, artemis II, china, l...
+ Arc Technica Science: Appeals court agrees that Congress blocked cuts to research costs—The Trump admin can't arbitrarily set university reimbursements to a low flat rate. [Category: Policy, Science, Appeals court, Grant funding, indirect...
+ Arc Technica Science: Ørsted seeks injunction against US government over project freeze—Trump administration had suspended Danish group’s work on major wind farm off coast of Rhode Island. [Category: Policy, Science, orsted, syndication, ...
+ Arc Technica Science: Under anti-vaccine RFK Jr., CDC slashes childhood vaccine schedule—The changes are modeled after a small country with universal health care. [Category: Health, Science, anti-vaccine, robert f kennedy jr, vaccine]
+ Ars Technica Software: Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform—Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans. [Category: AI, Biz & IT, AI music, AI policy, audio synt...
+ Ars Technica Software: The RAM shortage’s silver lining: Less talk about “AI PCs”—“General interest in AI PCs has been wavering for a while ..." [Category: AI, Biz & IT, Tech, apple, dell, Desktops, generative ai, IDC, laptops]
+ Ars Technica Software: Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical”—VoidLink includes an unusually broad and advanced array of capabilities. [Category: Biz & IT, Security, cloud, Linux, malware]
+ Ars Technica Software: Hegseth wants to integrate Musk’s Grok AI into military networks this month—US defense secretary announces plans for integration despite recent controversies. [Category: AI, Biz & IT, Policy, agentic AI, AI image generator...
+ Ars Technica Software: Microsoft vows to cover full power costs for energy-hungry AI data centers—Company responds to community concerns over electricity bills and water use. [Category: AI, Biz & IT, AI infrastructure, AI training, Amazon, brad...
+ Ars Technica Software: Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws—AI Overviews provided false liver test information experts called alarming. [Category: AI, Biz & IT, Google, AI hallucination, ai overviews, gener...
+ Ars Technica Software: ChatGPT Health lets you connect medical records to an AI that makes things up—New feature will allow users to link medical and wellness records to AI chatbot. [Category: AI, Biz & IT, AI assistants, AI confabulation, AI hall...
+ Ars Technica Software: ChatGPT falls to new data-pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in AI continues—Will LLMs ever be able to stamp out the root cause of these attacks? Possibly not. [Category: AI, Biz & IT, Security, chatbots, data exfiltration,...
+ Ars Technica Software: The nation’s strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrin—Californians can now submit demands requiring 500 brokers to delete their data. [Category: Biz & IT, Policy, Security, California, data brokers, p...
+ Ars Technica Software: Supply chains, AI, and the cloud: The biggest failures (and one success) of 2025—The past year has seen plenty of hacks and outages. Here are the ones topping the list. [Category: AI, Apple, Biz & IT, Security, 2025 year end, c...
+ Ars Technica Software: From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025—In a year where lofty promises collided with inconvenient research, would-be oracles became software tools. [Category: AI, Biz & IT, Features, 202...
+ Ars Technica Software: Condé Nast user database reportedly breached, Ars unaffected—A serious data breach has occurred, but Ars users have nothing to worry about. [Category: Biz & IT, Conde Nast, hacking, user accounts, user priva...
+ Ars Technica Software: GPS is vulnerable to jamming—here’s how we might fix it—GPS jamming has gotten cheap and easy, but there are potential solutions. [Category: Biz & IT, GPS, interference, jamming, satellites]
+ Ars Technica Software: How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them—From compression tricks to multi-agent teamwork, here's what makes them tick. [Category: AI, Biz & IT, agentic AI, AI agents, AI coding, AI work, ...
+ Ars Technica Software: OpenAI’s new ChatGPT image generator makes faking photos easy—New GPT Image 1.5 allows more detailed conversational image editing, for better or worse. [Category: AI, Biz & IT, AI image generator, AI image ge...
+ Ars Technica Software: Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations—The extensions, available for Chromium browsers, harvest full AI conversations over months. [Category: AI, Biz & IT, Security, ai bot, browser ext...
+ Ars Technica Software: Merriam-Webster’s word of the year delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI content—Dictionary codifies the term that took hold in 2024 for low-quality AI-generated content. [Category: AI, Biz & IT, AI criticism, ai slop, dictiona...
+ Ars Technica Software: Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc—The weak RC4 for administrative authentication has been a hacker holy grail for decades. [Category: Biz & IT, Security, encryption, rc4, Windows S...
+ Ars Technica Software: Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy—Shenzhen-based Picea Robotics, its lender and primary supplier, will acquire all of iRobot’s shares. [Category: Biz & IT, bankrupt, iRobot, picea,...
+ Ars Technica Software: OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself—"The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex," OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent writing code. [Category: AI, Biz & IT, agentic AI, AI...
+ Computer Weekly: Microsoft DCU uses UK courts to hunt down cyber criminals—Microsoft has taken down the RedDVS cyber crime-as-a-service network after obtaining a UK court order, marking its first civil legal action outside of...
+ Computer Weekly: UK government backtracks on plans for mandatory digital ID—The proposed national digital identity app will no longer be compulsory for conducting right-to-work checks, removing the most contentious and widely ...
+ Computer Weekly: Microsoft patches 112 CVEs on first Patch Tuesday of 2026—January brings a larger-than-of-late Patch Tuesday update out of Redmond, but an uptick in disclosures is often expected at this time of year.
+ Computer Weekly: ‘Dual-channel’ attacks are the new face of BEC in 2026—Business email compromise remains a significant threat as cyber fraudsters deploy a more diverse range of tactics against their potential victims, acc...
+ Computer Weekly: Cutting through the noise: SaaS accelerators vs. enterprise AI—The Security Think Tank considers what CISOs and buyers need to know to cut through the noise around AI and figure out which AI cyber use cases are wo...
+ Computer Weekly: How one IT chief shifted the needle on a reactive IT strategy—In spite of headlines that suggest every business should be ploughing vast sums of money into tech innovation, the reality remains that IT plays a sup...
+ Computer Weekly: Business leaders see AI risks and fraud outpacing ransomware, says WEF—C-suite executives are more concerned with risks arising from AI vulnerabilities and cyber fraud than ransomware, according to the World Economic Foru...
+ Computer Weekly: Ofcom begins investigation of explicit image generation on Grok—Elon Musk’s Grok image generator, from parent company X, is being investigated by the UK regulator under the Online Safety Act
+ Computer Weekly: Intersec Dubai highlights why AI has become critical in the race against cyber attackers—Cigna Healthcare’s Jean Wiles warns that healthcare security teams must act faster without sacrificing accuracy or compliance as threats driven by art...
+ Computer Weekly: Auditing, classifying and building a data sovereignty strategy—We look at data sovereignty – what it is and how to build a data sovereignty strategy around data auditing
+ Computer Weekly: From promise to proof: making AI security adoption tangible—The Security Think Tank considers what CISOs and buyers need to know to cut through the noise around AI and figure out which AI cyber use cases are wo...
+ Computer Weekly: Computer Misuse Act reform is overdue - not all anniversaries should be celebrated—Let's not have any further anniversaries for the UK's outdated cyber security laws - the government has dragged its heels for too long and reform is u...
+ Hack a Day: ESP32-P4 Powers Retro Handheld after a Transplant—The ESP32-P4 is the new hotness on the microcontroller market. With RISC-V architecture and two cores running 400 MHz, to ears of a certain vintage it...
+ Hack a Day: Clone Wars: IBM Edition—If you search the Internet for Clone Wars, youll get a lot of Star Wars-related pages. But the original Clone Wars took place a long time ago in a gal...
+ Hack a Day: Pushing China’s EAST Tokamak Past the Greenwald Density Limit—Getting a significant energy return from tokamak-based nuclear fusion reactors depends for a large part on plasma density, but increasing said density...
+ Hack a Day: An Open Source Electromagnetic Resonance Tablet—Drawing tablets have been a favorite computer peripheral of artists since its inception in the 1980s. If you have ever used a drawing tablet of this n...
+ Hack a Day: Atari Brings the Computer Age Home—[The 8-Bit Guy] tells us how 8-bit Atari computers work. The first Atari came out in 1977, it was originally called the Atari Video Computer System. I...
+ Hack a Day: When Electricity Doesn’t Take the Shortest Path—Everyone knows that the path of least resistance is the path that will always be taken, be it by water, electricity or the feet of humans. This is whe...
+ Hack a Day: Old Windsurfers Become New Electric Surfboards—Windsurfing has experienced a major decline in popularity in the last few decades as the sports culture failed to cater to beginners at the same time ...
+ Hack a Day: Hacking the Krups Cook4Me Smart Cooking Pot for Doom—With more and more kitchen utilities gaining touch screens and capable microcontrollers itd be inconceivable that they do not get put to other uses as...
+ Hack a Day: Playing Factorio on a Floppy Disk Cluster—While a revolutionary storage system for their time, floppy disks are not terribly useful these days. Though high failure rates and slow speeds are an...
+ Hack a Day: Finding A Way To Produce Powerful Motors Without Rare Earths—The electric vehicle revolution has created market forces to drive all sorts of innovations. Battery technology has progressed at a rapid pace, and en...
+ Hack a Day: Great Trains, Not So Great AI Chatbot Security—A joy of covering the world of the European hackerspace community is that it offers the chance for train travel across the continent using the ever-go...
+ Hack a Day: Ask Hackaday: Do You Curb Shop Components?—Im not proud. When many of us were kids, we were unabashedly excited when trash day came around because sometimes youd find an old radio or jackpot ...
+ Hack a Day: An SD Card of Your Own For Microcontroller Projects—If youve wiring up a microcontroller and need some kind of storage, its likely youll reach for an SD card. Compared to other ways of holding data on y...
+ Hack a Day: Fixing a KS Jive DAB Radio with a Dash of Fake ICs—The exciting part about repairing consumer electronics is that you are never quite sure what you are going to find. In a recent video by [Mick] of Buy...
+ Hack a Day: The ARCTURUS Computer Developed at Sydney University in the 1960s—[State of Electronics] have released their latest video about ARCTURUS, the 14th video in their series The Computer History of Australia. ARCTURUS was...
+ Hack a Day: Electronic Nose Sniffs out Mold—It turns out, that mold is everywhere. The problem is when it becomes too much, as mold infestations can have serious health effects on both humans an...
+ Hack a Day: Optimizing a Desktop, 3D Printed Wind Tunnel—Youve heard of wind tunnels get some airflow going over a thingy, put some some smoke on, and voila! Flow visualization. How hard could it be? Well, a...
+ Hack a Day: The Distroless Linux Future May Be Coming—Over the decades the number of Linux distributions has effectively exploded, from a handful in the late 90s to quite literally hundreds today, not cou...
+ Hack a Day: Michelson Interferometer Comes Home Cheap—We suspect there are three kinds of people in the world. People who have access to a Michelson Interferometer and are glad, those who dont have one an...
+ Hack a Day: Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Cheap-O Keyboard—All right, Ill cut to the chase: Cheap03xD is mainly so cheap because the PCB falls within a 10 x 10 cm footprint. The point was to make a very read m...
+ Tech Dirt: Prosecutors Flee DOJ After Being Told To Investigate The Murdered Woman, Not The Murderer—Last week, we wrote about how ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old poet and mother, on a Minneapolis street in broad dayl...
+ Tech Dirt: DHS Wants To Harvest Biometric Data From Anyone Helping A Foreigner Stay In This Country Legally—Weve always known the ultimate goal was to subject everyone to biometric collections, whether its at border crossings or international airports. At so...
+ Tech Dirt: Trump Tries To Disappear Impeachment References At Smithsonian—Donald Trump is the only president in American history to have been impeached twice. That is a simple fact of history. I can imagine its a fact that ...
+ Tech Dirt: Online Gaming’s Final Boss: The Copyright Bully—Since earliest days of computer games, people have tinkered with the software to customize their own experiences or share their vision with others. Fr...
+ Tech Dirt: Elon Musk Plays Disinfo Telephone: How Oregon’s Mundane Voter Roll Cleanup Is Turned Into False Claim Of ‘Fake Voters’—I made the mistake of opening up X yesterday to look something up, and the very first post that appeared in my feed was a perfect, almost pedagogical ...
+ Tech Dirt: Trump’s Loyalist Prosecutors Continue To Get Kicked Off Cases Because They’re Not Legally Appointed—Trumps binge-and-purge approach to handling the DOJ definitely isnt working out for him. The administration has been steadily pushing prosecutors out ...
+ Tech Dirt: Daily Deal: Headway Premium—Unlock a world of knowledge with a Headway Premium subscription. This exclusive deal gives you unlimited access to Headways massive library of 1500+ b...
+ Tech Dirt: The EU Fired Their Censor. Ours Kept His Job—The Trump administration has spent months shrieking about EU censorship while actively censoring people themselves. While Ive long been a critic of pa...
+ Tech Dirt: DHS Tells Reporter That Filming ICE Officers ‘Sounds Like Obstruction Of Justice’—ICE activity has increased exponentially since Trumps return to office, bringing with it an exponential increase in rights violations committed by fed...
+ Tech Dirt: A Non-Existent ‘Stranger Things’ Secret Episode Briefly Broke Netflix—The story of Netflix these past several years has been a fairly consistent one, told primarily across a few main pillars. The company has begun hittin...
+ Tech Dirt: Kristi Noem: ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Says ICE Can Legally Thwart Congressional Oversight—Whatever the stated reasons for doing this, we all know what this really is: another effort from the Trump regime to put as much distance between it a...
+ Tech Dirt: I Support The Protests—I support the protests. I want to say this out loud. I support them. If you support the protests, you should tell everyone you know that you...
+ Tech Dirt: Following Murder Of Renee Good By ICE Officers, ICE Blocks Congressional Reps From Its Detention Facility—ICE killed a US citizen in broad daylight for the apparent crime of not being sufficiently intimidated when surrounded by ICE officers. Renee Good was...
+ Tech Dirt: Daily Deal: The 2026 Canva Bundle—The 2026 Canva Bundle has six courses to help you learn about graphic design. From logo design to business cards to branding to bulk content creation,...
+ Tech Dirt: Tom Homan: If Democrats Don’t Stop Calling Us Murderers, We’re Just Going To Be Forced To Keep Murdering You—The murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE officer Jonathan Ross has certainly created quite the divide between the reality-based majority of the populati...
+ Tech Dirt: Microsoft CEO Laments Criticism Of “AI Slop,” Causing The Whole Internet To Double Down On Criticism Of “Microslop”—Weve noted more than a few times how Microsofts use of AI in journalism has been an embarrassing mess. Microsofts steadily deteriorating MSN websites ...
+ Tech Dirt: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt—This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is David with a comment about the murder of Renee Good by ICE: Kristi Noem is right about on...
+ UPI Science: Netflix may switch to a cash offer for Warner Bros.—Netflix is considering raising its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery to a cash offer, making the vote to accept it come months earlier, reports said.
+ UPI Science: EU-Mercosur trade deal to be signed in Paraguay—Paraguay will host signing of a free trade agreement between the European Union and the Southern Common Market, known by Spanish acronym Mercosur,
+ UPI Science: FBI Washington Post raids home of reporter Hannah Natanson—Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's home was raided by the FBI on Wednesday morning as part of an investigation into a government contractor.
+ UPI Science: Uganda imposes Internet blackout ahead of elections—Communications authorities have blocked Internet service throughout the country ahead of its elections to prevent "weaponization of the Internet."
+ UPI Science: Lindsey Halligan defends use of U.S. attorney title in court filing—Lindsey Halligan, former attorney for President Donald Trump, is defending her use of the title of U.S. attorney, responding to a court order.
+ UPI Science: November producer prices up less than expected but up 3% for the year—The producer price index rose by 0.2% in November, slightly less than was projected by Dow Jones, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports Wednesday.
+ UPI Science: Smithsonian sends cache of files to the White House—The Smithsonian Institute director told staff members via email Tuesday that he had submitted documents and materials to the White House.
+ UPI Science: Kyiv targeted for third time in a week, 6,000 buildings with no power—Mutliple blasts were heard in central Kyiv as Moscow intensified a bid to inflict major damage to the city's power supply amid sub-zero temperatures.
+ UPI Science: U.S. shrinking funding to U.N. leaves gaps for humanitarian aid—The United States is cutting its contribution to the U.N. to about $2 billion for humanitarian aid in 2026, leaving a gap unlikely to be filled.
+ UPI Science: JD Vance to hold talks with Danish, Greenland foreign ministers—The future of Greenland was due to be discussed at a high level meeting of diplomats at the White House, hosted by U.S. Vice President JD Vance.
+ UPI Science: Trump says he is freezing federal funds to sanctuary jurisdictions—President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he plans to freeze federal funds to so-called sanctuary cities amid his administration's intensifying immigrati...
+ UPI Science: Luxury retail conglomerate Saks Global files for bankruptcy protection—Saks Global, the luxury retail parent company of Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue, announced late Tuesday that it has filed for b...
+ UPI Science: Businessmen with investments in N. Korea urge gov't to lift sanctions on inter-Korean projects—Businesspeople with investments in now-suspended inter-Korean projects on Wednesday called on the government to lift its unilateral sanctions imposed ...
+ UPI Science: Lee's Japan visit raises prospects for closer economic cooperation, efforts to test remains of Korean forced laborers—President Lee Jae Myung on Wednesday wrapped up his two-day visit to Japan that raised prospects for closer economic cooperation with Tokyo as well as...
+ UPI Science: Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her bus seat to a White woman, dies—Claudette Colvin, a civil rights activist who was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a White woman in segregated Alabama, has di...
+ UPI Science: On This Day, Jan. 14: Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio marry—On Jan. 14, 1954, Marilyn Monroe married baseball star Joe DiMaggio. The two would divorce less than a year later.
+ UPI Science: Reports: Venezuela frees several jailed Americans—Venezuela's interim government has freed several jailed Americans, according to reports, the first known release of American detainees since the Unite...
+ UPI Science: China’s homeless population seen surging, driven by youth job crisis—Analysts suggest China's homeless may have surged more than fivefold since 2020, with younger people accounting for a striking share of the increase.
+ UPI Science: S. Korean won weakens past 1,470 per dollar despite softer greenback—The South Korean won fell back into the 1,470-per-dollar range on Tuesday despite broad dollar weakness, raising questions about government's efforts
+ UPI Science: S. Korea reaffirms bid to join trans-Pacific trade pact at Lee-Takaichi summit—South Korea has reaffirmed its bid to join the trans-Pacific trade pact during the summit talks between President Lee Jae Myung and Japanese Prime Min...
+ Wired: Trump Doesn’t Need the Proud Boys Anymore—In a world where ICE agents are shooting US citizens on the street, the need for militias and extremist groups like the Proud Boys to support far-righ...
+ Wired: Trump Warned of a Tren de Aragua ‘Invasion.’ US Intel Told a Different Story—Hundreds of records obtained by WIRED show thin intelligence on the Venezuelan gang in the United States, describing fragmented, low-level crime rathe...
+ Wired: In Photos: One Week Since the Shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis—Protests across Minnesota—and around the country—are ongoing, as residents demonstrate against their federal government. [Category: Politics, Politics...
+ Wired: 15 Best Office Chairs of 2026— I’ve Tested 65 to Pick Them—Sitting at a desk for hours? Upgrade your WFH setup and work in style with these comfy WIRED-tested seats. [Category: Gear, Gear / Buying Guides, Gear...
+ Wired: 15 Best Office Chairs of 2026— I’ve Tested Nearly 65 to Pick Them—Sitting at a desk for hours? Upgrade your WFH setup and work in style with these comfy WIRED-tested seats. [Category: Gear, Gear / Buying Guides, Gear...
+ Wired: WIRED Tested Dozens of Blenders. These Are Our 8 Favorites (2026)—The perfect kitchen companions, these versatile blenders can whip up breakfasts, dips, milkshakes, cocktails, and everything in between. [Category: Ge...
+ Wired: The Merach Vibration Plate Is the Funniest Workout I've Ever Done—It turns out that this TikTok-viral vibration plate may have some surprising health benefits. [Category: Gear, Gear / Products, Gear / Reviews, Gear /...
+ Wired: How AI Companies Got Caught Up in US Military Efforts—Two years ago, companies like Meta and OpenAI were united against military use of their tools. Now all of that has changed. [Category: The Big Story]
+ Wired: HHKB Professional Classic Type-S Review: A Brilliant but Niche Keyboard—The keyboard for someone who wishes they could buy a ’97 Tacoma off the lot today. [Category: Gear, Gear / Products / Home Office]
+ Wired: TikTok Shop Showed Me Search Suggestions for Products With Nazi Symbolism—Even after TikTok removed swastika jewelry from its online shop, I was algorithmically nudged toward a web of Nazi-related products during searches, l...
+ Wired: Best Bone Conduction Headphones (2026): Shokz, Suunto, Mojawa—Everyone needs a safe way to listen to music on outdoor runs. We’ve found the bone conduction headphones to grab on your way out the door. [Category: ...
+ Wired: 7 Best Phones You Can’t Buy in the US (2026), Tested and Reviewed—Wondering what you’re missing out on? Here are our favorite smartphones that aren’t officially sold stateside but are available in markets like the UK...
+ Wired: $50 Target Promo Code & Coupons | January 2026—Get $50 off your next order or up to 50% off sitewide with Target coupon codes and Circle deals. [Category: Gear]
+ Wired: Lenovo Coupon Codes and Deals: $5,000+ Off—Whether you’re shopping for a ThinkPad, Yoga laptop, or Legion gaming PC, these Lenovo discount codes and promotions can help you save big on your nex...
+ Wired: Google Workspace Promo Code: Up to 14% Off in 2026—Boost your productivity and save with exclusive Google Workspace coupons from WIRED. Get up to 14% off plans for three months, including Starter, Stan...
+ Wired: The Fight on Capitol Hill to Make It Easier to Fix Your Car—As vehicles grow more software-dependent, repairing them has become harder than ever. A bill in the US House called the Repair Act would ease those re...
+ Wired: The 51 Best Shows on Hulu, WIRED’s Picks (January 2026)—A Thousand Blows, Tell Me Lies, and Paradise are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month. [Category: Culture, Culture / TV]
+ Wired: Everything Is Content for the ‘Clicktatorship’—In the second Trump administration, online conspiracy theories are shaping real-world policies like never before. [Category: Politics]
+ Wired: Roblox’s AI-Powered Age Verification Is a Complete Mess—Kids are being identified as adults—and vice versa—on Roblox, while age-verified accounts are already being sold online. [Category: Culture, Culture /...
+ Wired: Shortcut Your System With a Discounted Elgato Stream Deck +—Elgato’s Stream Deck + adds knobs and an LCD for even more info at a glance. [Category: Gear, Gear / Deals, Gear / Products, Gear / Products / Gaming]