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Your iPhone Gets Stolen. Then the Hacking Begins: A bustling underground ecosystem is providing criminals with the tools to unlock iPhones—and wage phishing ...
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WIRED 1h
Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale: Next week, Meta is cutting about 10 percent of its staff. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen current ...
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WIRED 19h
Trump's Inner Circle Is Already Scrambling Over the 2028 Presidential Ticket: Republicans still have the midterms to get through, but administration officials ...
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WIRED 16h
Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find: In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective ...
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WIRED 23h
OnlyFans’ First-Gen Creators Are Retiring—and Some Are Begging You to Forget They Exist
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WIRED 20h
WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private: The company says its new Incognito Chat allows you to use its AI chatbot without anyone ...
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WIRED May 13
Elon Musk Had ‘Hair-Raising’ Idea of Passing OpenAI Onto His Kids, Sam Altman Says
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Key FactsMusk Seeks $150B Over OpenAI Control Dispute
1 days ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: reuters.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: reuters.com
- Sam Altman denied Elon Musk’s claim that OpenAI abandoned its founding mission, asserting Musk sought control and profit from the company.
- Musk filed a lawsuit seeking $150 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft related to its shift to a for-profit entity.
- Altman revealed Musk once demanded a 90% stake and consistently pursued majority ownership, which raised concerns internally.
- The trial, ongoing in Oakland, may conclude by May 18 and will influence OpenAI’s leadership and potential IPO.
If you have someone who is not trustworthy in charge of AI, I think that’s a very big danger for the whole world.— Musk said this during his testimony in the Oakland federal court trial over OpenAI’s for-profit conversion.
WIRED 22h
Inside the Race to Develop a Test for the Rare Andes Hantavirus: A University of Nebraska lab has developed a test that can detect the virus before symptoms ...
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WIRED May 13
Meet the Sad Wives of AI: Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry.
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WIRED 23h
A Conspiracy Theory About QR Codes Has Led to Chaos Ahead of Georgia’s Midterms: The state of Georgia banned the use of QR codes for elections ...
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WIRED 17h
OpenAI Brings Its Ass to Court: In Musk v. Altman, the company sought to show the jury a remarkable trophy as physical proof of Elon Musk’s concerning behavior.
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WIRED May 12
Foxconn Ransomware Attack Shows Nothing Is Safe Forever: Famous for helping build Apple’s iPhones, Foxconn just suffered another cyberattack ...
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WIRED 12h
Everyone at the Musk v. Altman Trial Is Using Fancy Butt Cushions: The plaintiffs and defense have rested their cases, as well as their rear ends.
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WIRED May 12
Iran Is Using Tiny ‘Mosquito’ Boats to Shut Down the Strait of Hormuz: Iran’s traditional naval fleet has been almost completely destroyed by US-Israeli raids ...
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WIRED 16h
Sony’s Latest Soundbar Cheaps Out on Features but Wins Big on Sound: The latest Bravia Theater soundbar strips away the nice-to-have extras ...
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WIRED May 12
The Unitree GD01 Is a Giant Mecha Robot You Can Actually Buy: China’s Unitree, famous for making low-cost dancing robots, will now sell you a giant ...
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WIRED May 12
Googlebook Is Google’s New AI-Powered Laptop Platform Built on Android: They won’t replace Chromebooks, but Googlebooks have an Android-centered operating system ...
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WIRED 17h
On Running’s Goofiest Shoes May Be Its Greatest: The Swiss shoemaker’s LightSpray Cloudmonster 3 Hyper is a laceless, lightweight, super shoe.
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WIRED May 12
The Creators of ‘Hacks’ Really, Really, Really Hate AI: Ahead of the hit show’s finale, cocreators Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello talk about media consolidation ...
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WIRED May 12
Trump Media Scales Back Plans for Its Own Prediction Market: Truth Predict was supposed to be the Trump family’s biggest leap yet into prediction markets ...
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WIRED 14h
Best Air Purifiers (2026): Coway, AirDoctor, IQAir, and More: Protect your home against dust, pets, allergies, and more with the best air purifiers ...
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WIRED May 13
Ikea’s New Designer Collection Is Home-Office Heaven: From a twisty lamp to a bendy clock, the Swedish company’s full 2026 PS Collection has dropped ...
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WIRED 23h
Submit Your Questions: AI Is Changing Your Job—Now What?: Pose your questions ahead of our May 27 livestream AMA, where a panel of WIRED experts will discuss how ...
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WIRED May 12
The Top New Features in Google’s Android 17—and Gemini Intelligence—Coming This Summer
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WIRED May 12
All Your Hantavirus Questions, Answered by an Infectious Disease Expert: Here’s what you need to know, from why the cruise ship outbreak won’t spark the next ...
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WIRED May 12
Some Women Are Obsessively Testing Their Vaginas to Optimize Them: Biohacker Bryan Johnson recently bragged about his girlfriend's “top 1%” vagina as the at-home ...
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WIRED May 11
Ilya Sutskever Stands by His Role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI Ouster: ‘I Didn’t Want It to Be Destroyed’
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WIRED 19h
Conservatively, that means hundreds of thousands of spouses, partners, and girlfriends, holding down the fort while someone mansplains the singularity to them.
WIRED May 11
I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI: For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting ...
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WIRED May 12
Why Soccer Still Defies Statistical Analysis: Sarah Rudd, who once ran analytics for Arsenal, made her name applying the tenets of probability theory to ...
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WIRED May 11
A New Hantavirus Vaccine Is in the Works: Since 2023, Moderna and Korea University have been developing a new mRNA vaccine for hantavirus ...
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WIRED May 12
What Happens When You Try to Treat OCD With Psilocybin: Colloquially, OCD is known as the doubting disorder. In his new book “How to Not Know ...
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WIRED May 11
Update Your iPhone Now for Better Encrypted Messaging With Android: As part of the iOS 26.5 update, Apple’s Messages app can now encrypt texts between some ...
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WIRED May 12
Epson Bakes Google Gemini Into Its Latest Projector and It’s Actually Useful: A capable ultrashort-throw home cinema projector that delivers rich picture quality ...
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WIRED May 11
Keyboard Shortcuts I Learned From My Cat: Every time my cat Mira walks across a keyboard, I learn a few new Mac and PC keyboard shortcuts I never knew about.
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WIRED May 11
Papa Johns Is Getting Into Drone Delivery—but Not for Pizza: A new collaboration with Alphabet’s Wing will only deliver sandwiches. It demonstrates the tricky ...
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WIRED May 11
CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company: There’s a deep, forbidding moat that surrounds Nvidia—and it has nothing to do with hardware.
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WIRED May 10
Do City Delivery Drones Make Sense? No One Knows, but They're Flying Over NYC: One of the country’s busiest airspaces has a new kind of flying machine—maybe ...
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WIRED May 08
There’s a Long-Shot Proposal to Protect California Workers From AI: California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer is proposing a new jobs guarantee for workers ...
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WIRED May 09
The 19 Most Exciting Cars at the Beijing Auto Show 2026: The cars that debuted at the Beijing Auto Show demonstrate that the Chinese market is now at the ...
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WIRED May 08
The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle: Thousands of schools around the US were paralyzed on Thursday after education tech firm Instructure shut ...
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Key FactsWidespread Cyberattack Disrupts US Educational Network
6 days ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: cnn.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: cnn.com
- A cyberattack targeted Canvas, a digital classroom platform with more than 30 million users, disrupting access during a critical exam period.
- The hacking group Shiny Hunters demanded ransom and claimed to have breached sensitive information from students, faculty, and staff.
- Canvas' parent company, Instructure, temporarily suspended free teacher accounts and placed the platform in maintenance mode to address the breach.
- The FBI urged caution against scammers exploiting the incident and advised not to respond to ransom demands or unsolicited contacts.
Instead of contacting us to resolve it they ignored us and did some ‘security patches.’— From a ransom note published by the hacking group ShinyHunters, criticizing Instructure's response and threatening data leaks.
WIRED May 08
Billie Eilish Doesn't Know if There Will Ever Be Another Billie Eilish: In an interview with WIRED ahead of her new concert film “Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour ...
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WIRED May 08
The new Wild West of AI kids’ toys: These connected companions could disrupt everything from make-believe to bedtime stories. No wonder some lawmakers want them ...
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WIRED May 08
Tesla’s Latest Recall? Wheels May Fall Off Cybertrucks: In what is the 11th Cybertruck recall, certain models of Elon Musk’s embattled pickup could experience a ...
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Key FactsTesla Cybertruck Faces Wheel Defects and Sales Drop
5 days ago · Reading time: ~30 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: mashable.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: mashable.com
- Tesla is recalling all Cybertrucks equipped with 18-inch steel wheels due to potential cracks in wheel rotors.
- These cracks risk wheels detaching when driving over rough terrain, although no accidents have been reported.
- Sales of this model remain low, with just 173 units sold during the recall period, highlighting market struggles.
- The Cybertruck’s sales decline continues despite internal transfers and controversies surrounding Elon Musk’s politics.
WIRED May 08
Musk v. Altman Evidence Shows What Microsoft Executives Thought of OpenAI: Leaders at the tech giant were skeptical of OpenAI—but wary of pushing it into the ...
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WIRED May 07
There Is No Evidence the Trump Assassination Attempts Were Staged. People Still Believe They Were
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WIRED May 08
Nick Bostrom Has a Plan for Humanity’s ‘Big Retirement’: The philosopher thinks humans should pursue advanced AI and the promise of a “solved world.”
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WIRED May 08
Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria: Researchers have developed three new antibiotics from scorpion venom and habanero peppers to ...
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WIRED May 08
Top Megelin Deals for Laser and LED Therapy Devices (2026): Shopping for red-light therapy for hair growth, skin care, or wellness? These are the best Megelin ...
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WIRED May 08
Meet Rassvet, Russia’s Answer to Starlink: With the launch of the first 16 satellites, Russia begins construction of a network for satellite internet that aims ...
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WIRED May 07
Google Is Rebranding the Fitbit App to ‘Google Health’: Google is sunsetting Google Fit by year’s end. While Fitbit remains very much alive ...
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WIRED May 06
A Library Dedicated Solely to the Epstein Files Is Opening in New York: The Institute for Primary Facts has compiled more than 3.5 million pages of the Epstein ...
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WIRED May 07
Google Ditches the Screen With the New Fitbit Air (2026): Fitbit Air enters the screenless wearables race with Google’s user-friendly software and Gemini-powered ...
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WIRED May 08
We Asked Coffee Pros to Blind Test Coffee Machines. The Results Were Surprising: For our latest WIRED Blind Test, we sat coffee industry professionals down to ...
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WIRED May 05
Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals: UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial ...
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WIRED May 07
Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web: Companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify use AI to let anyone build a ...
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WIRED May 07
Trump Pivots on AI Regulation, Worker Ousted by DOGE Runs for Office, and Hantavirus Explained
wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-trump-pivots-ai-regulation-worker-ousted-by-doge-runs-for-office-hantavirus-explained/
WIRED May 06
Hasan Piker, Self-Described ‘Ayatollah of Woke,’ Wants AI to Die: The far-left Twitch streamer says AI is rotting our brains. He’s also addicted to Twitter and ...
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WIRED May 07
DOGE’s Ethan Shaotran Is Now Running a Defense Tech Startup: In an email viewed by WIRED, Shaotran describes Blitz Industries as “a defense company backed by big ...
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WIRED May 06
Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla: Messages between Shivon Zilis and Tesla executives reveal plans in 2017 to start a ...
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WIRED May 07
This Reggae Band Is in a Nightmare Battle Against AI Slop Remixes: When Stick Figure’s seven-year-old song shot up the charts, the band was thrilled ...
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WIRED May 07
I’m a Firm-Mattress Evangelist, and Sleep Number's New Smart Bed Made Me Question My Stance
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WIRED May 06
Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird: In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources ...
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WIRED May 07
Bottom G Wants You to Know He’s More Than Just ‘Gay Andrew Tate’: Brian Michael Hinds found accidental internet fame through a resemblance to the controversial ...
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WIRED May 04
A Federal Worker Was Fired for Filming DOGE. Now She’s Running for Congress: Alexis Goldstein, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee ...
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WIRED May 06
A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool: To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools ...
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WIRED May 07
Meet ReMarkable’s Brand-New Digital Notebook: After six years, the ReMarkable 2 gets a replacement in the form of the ReMarkable Paper Pure.
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WIRED May 07
How I Fixed My Webcam Lighting for Zoom Calls (2026): I have a horrendous lighting setup in my home office, but as a mixed-use room, my options for fixing it ...
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WIRED May 05
‘I Actually Thought He Was Going to Hit Me,’ OpenAI’s Greg Brockman Says of Elon Musk
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Key FactsMusk Sought Control to Fund Mars Colony
May 6, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: reuters.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: reuters.com
- Elon Musk pushed to convert OpenAI into a for-profit entity to raise $80 billion for establishing a Mars city.
- He demanded a majority stake to lead the company, citing his business expertise as justification.
- OpenAI planned to invest $50 billion in computing resources in 2026 for advanced AI development.
- Musk is suing for $150 billion in damages and wants OpenAI’s top executives removed over alleged deception.
He said he needed $80 billion to create a city.— Elon Musk, as recounted by OpenAI president Greg Brockman during the Oakland trial, said he needed $80 billion to create a city.
WIRED May 06
Boycotts Hurt Tesla’s Sales. Now, Activists Are Taking On Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO: Activists, a leading labor union, and a big retirement fund are asking ...
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WIRED May 07
This Soundbar Is All You Need to Create a Cinema Experience at Home: This powerful soundbar can almost replace a multi-speaker surround-sound setup.
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WIRED May 06
I Am Begging AI Companies to Stop Naming Features After Human Processes: Anthropic announced “dreaming” for AI agents to sort through “memories” at its developer ...
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WIRED May 06
I Wanted to Love Smeg’s New Forte Stand Mixer: Smeg’s new retro-looking mixer packs a serious motor, but its performance isn’t as polished as its design.
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WIRED May 04
What the Spirit Airlines Implosion Means for Your Vacation: The news isn’t good.
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WIRED May 05
He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?: Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to ...
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WIRED May 05
The iPhone That Never Was: In 1990, three former Apple employees launched a company that epitomized the Silicon Valley dream. What they invented looked like an ...
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WIRED May 05
Neither MLB nor the Murena Volla Tablet Want Me to Livestream Baseball Games, Apparently
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WIRED May 05
Bose Brings Back Its ‘Lifestyle’ Branding With New Speakers for the Home: The new Lifestyle Ultra Speaker, Ultra Soundbar, and Ultra Subwoofer introduce a cozier ...
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