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One hot key can pin a Kafka partition at 100% CPU and starve every other consumer. Here's the failure mechanism and a working Go fix using adaptive salting.

Banks are racing to launch tokenized deposits by 2027 to fight stablecoin deposit flight. Here's why neither wins outright — they're splitting the market.

Your AI character's face stays locked across shots but the object in their hand keeps changing. Here's the reference-sheet fix that stops it.

Lessons from a RAG-based Text-to-SQL pilot: schema retrieval, few-shot examples, failed joins, and the limits of single-pass SQL generation.

A disclosed Claude-versus-Pangram experiment explores what an AI detection result can establish and what it cannot explain about authorship.

Urban heat islands are a solvable data problem: this piece shows how to combine free satellite imagery, standard remote-sensing indices,and a gradient boosting

A proposal for extending agent skills with execution graphs, dependency declarations, tests, and shared troubleshooting records.

What was a procurement argument about email and storage is now a national-strategy argument about intelligence itself.

Behind a few crypto addresses lie hacks, hidden messages, burned coins, and historic moments. Discover the stories forever written on the ledger.

Agentic AI is changing how systems communicate. Explore why the OSI model may need Layer 8 and Layer 9 for identity, cognition, semantics, and meaning.

Creative agencies risk leaking client work through AI apps. Learn how decentralized AI can help protect design briefs and confidential data.

New macOS stealer Sonoma hides in fake StreamYard, Zoom, Slack, and DocSend installers, then steals passwords, browser data, and crypto wallets.

GPT-6 Astra can automate Blender and build interactive 3D scenes, but creators are turning to Meshy when character geometry needs to hold up.

Hammed Afenifere explains why AI compliance and credit systems need local context to accurately assess African businesses and financial activity.

Follow the Hill combines congressional stock disclosures with systematic stock selection, position sizing, exits, & automated trades in investors' own accounts.

Can Claude AI predict crypto and stock prices? Explore its strengths, forecasting limits, and how to use AI for market analysis.

AI can make decisions, but turning them into reliable real-world outcomes is the real challenge. Here’s how production AI systems are engineered.

Following a difficult journey, the probe will soon begin unravelling the mysteries of Mercury’s magnetic field and internal structure.

Factor home-delivery meals have mastered the art of a juicy, medium-rare steak. But inconsistency is still an issue.

Executives happily automating their days with AI. New hires confronting bro culture. Women in tech have a lot to say—and they told it all to WIRED.

WIRED dedicating an entire issue to women in 2026 might seem regressive, or obvious, or even unnecessary. We disagree.

In defense of the girliest programming language.

Women hold some of the most consequential jobs in tech, but they’re still not cult figures. WIRED investigates why.

The Bambu Lab P2S Combo makes useful, polished objects without requiring advanced technical skills.

Officials discussed setting up a mechanism for the two countries to notify each other of AI incidents which could threaten national security.

Meta's Muse AI agent has been blocked from shopping Amazon on behalf of its users, GeekWire reports. A popup message started appearing on Sunday for Muse users saying that "continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use, to which our customers have agreed." According to GeekWire, Meta didn't notify Amazon that […]

Governments need to rein in increasingly capable AI agents before their risks are fully understood, a United Nations scientific panel warned in the global organization's first major assessment of OpenAI's hack of Hugging Face earlier this year. The report cements AI's place on the global diplomatic agenda this week as leaders gather in New York […]

iFixit's latest device teardown shows us the inner workings of the new variable aperture lens inside Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, alongside some repair concerns to be mindful of. The adjustable mechanical iris opens and closes magnetically, controlling how much light should pass through to the sensor, featuring six leaf-like overlapping blades […]