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This year’s World Cup has faced sweltering heat and humidity. Now it may need to deal with wildfire smoke.

Plus: Russian cyberspies turn to infrastructure hacking, DHS repeatedly fails to realize it’d been hacked, a breach exposes an AI music generator’s scraping ways, and more.

If you prefer not to have cameras in and around your home, try one of these more private, WIRED-tested security devices.

Our remote team clocked serious hours walking, working, and sometimes jogging to find the best under-desk treadmills for home offices and small spaces.

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Cheater, I'd grumble between huffs as yet another e-bike rider casually skittered past me on a steep ascent. It's this purist attitude that, for years, has left me blind to one simple fact: electric mountain bikes are fun! My attitude adjustment came a few weeks ago, the very first time I rode an Amflow PX […]

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Meet Bayan Flow, GAG Token, and Shugert, three projects solving problems in data visualization, consumer research, and ecommerce.

Facebook Marketplace is evolving beyond local classifieds into a growing sales channel for US dropshippers seeking alternatives to Amazon's stricter ecosystem.

Fax APIs help healthcare and finance teams automate secure document exchange, replace legacy fax servers, & meet compliance requirements without manual workflow

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Learn why profitable backtests fail in live trading and how realistic slippage and fee modeling can reveal whether your trading strategy truly has an edge.

AI recommendations mean little if the system never learns what users actually did. Here's why override tracking and calibration are essential for trustworthy AI

Learn why exposing every MCP tool to an AI agent hurts reliability, and how tool abstraction layers improve orchestration, reasoning, and performance.

Are ranking factors enough to explain Google Local Services Ads anymore?

Portable fans are one of the easiest ways to stay cool during the summer, and you don’t have to spend much to find a decent one. If you’re looking for something more versatile, though, Shark’s ChillPill Personal Fan and Cooling System combines a rechargeable fan with a dry-touch evaporative mister in a design that can […]

Food producer Taylor Farms released a statement on the Cyclospora outbreak Friday, confirming that it's "voluntarily removing all iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico from the US market." Reuters reports that, according to a source, Taylor Farms told customers like Yum Brands owner Taco Bell and the food distributor Sysco on Thursday to pull shredded […]

As tokenized real-world assets cross $31B, most run on general-purpose chains. Casper is betting compliance-first Layer 1 infrastructure is what the next phase.

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Wiring AI agents as direct synchronous calls rebuilds the distributed monolith. Put an event log between them and buy durability, replay, and audit for free.

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For all the hysteria over “woke” casting and ahistorical choices, Christopher Nolan’s epic is on track to make $200 million globally during its opening weekend.

A newly renewed, $25 million-per-year contract with a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters further expands the power of ICE under the Trump administration.

The prediction market’s Panamanian operation seems odd, even for a company whose CEO had his apartment raided by FBI agents.

The US is home to some of the most polluted air on the planet as smoke from 120 out-of-control Canadian wildfires drifts across the border.

An error with the cloud computing giant’s billing operation caused some customers’ monthly bills to rise from a few cents to billions of dollars.

The Asus ROG Swift 32-inch 4K QD-OLED gaming monitor has almost everything I want in a high-end gaming monitor, most notably a QD-OLED panel for inky black levels and vivid colors that go beyond what’s possible on an LCD screen. Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H Photo have this model on sale for $899.99 (usually $1,299.99). […]

Apple is suing OpenAI. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations are just the ways things are done. So what does Apple really want here, and why is it picking such a public fight with OpenAI? On this episode of The […]

Apple Music is more expensive now. In the US, an individual plan now costs $11.99 per month, a $1 bump up from the previous $10.99 price. A family plan now costs $19.99 per month, up from $16.99, and a student plan costs $6.99 per month, up from $5.99. Apple, in a statement to Music Business […]