The Dumbest Hack of the Year Exposed a Very Real Problem
Last April, a hacker hijacked crosswalk announcements to mimic Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Records obtained by WIRED ...
AI Agents Are Coming for Your Dating Life
The developers of Pixel Societies are using AI agents to simulate social interactions. It's an attempt optimize the proc...
The largest orbital compute cluster is open for business
Kepler Communications is flying 40 GPUs in Earth orbit. And its latest customer is Sophia Space....
Trump officials may be encouraging banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos model
The report is particularly surprising since the Department of Defense recently declared Anthropic a supply-chain risk....
Apple reportedly testing four designs for upcoming smart glasses
These glasses are a step back from an ambitious plan that once called for Apple to launch a variety of mixed and augment...
Five signs data drift is already undermining your security models
Data drift happens when the statistical properties of a machine learning (ML) model's input data change over time, ...
X says it’s reducing payments to clickbait accounts
X is cutting back on payments to accounts that are “flooding the timeline” with clickbait and rapid-fire news aggregatio...
TechCrunch Mobility: Who is poaching all the self-driving vehicle talent?
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playin...
Your developers are already running AI locally: Why on-device inference is the CISO’s new blind spot
For the last 18 months, the CISO playbook for generative AI has been relatively simple: Control the browser.Security tea...
From LLMs to hallucinations, here’s a simple guide to common AI terms
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most ...
At the HumanX conference, everyone was talking about Claude
Anthropic was the star of the show at San Francisco's AI-centric conference....
Slate Auto: Everything you need to know about the Bezos-backed EV startup
Slate auto burst onto the scene in April 2025. Here is a timeline that covers its origins, backers, product, and other n...
‘The Audacity’ Is the Broligarchy Takedown You Were Waiting For
AMC’s new black comedy about a manchild tech titan spinning out of control is a skewering Silicon Valley’s billionaire c...
Why Is It So Hard to Fix an Electric Bike? (2026)
Bike shop mechanics have lost fingers and their shirts while repairing ebikes of dubious origins. Make sure yours is rep...
Best 2-in-1 Laptops (2026): Microsoft, Lenovo, and the iPad
Whether you want a detachable tablet or a laptop screen that spins, these 2-in-1 devices manage to balance being both a ...
There’s a Secret Ingredient to Making Luxury Ice at Home
Nice ice is big business, but you can get perfectly clear cubes at home without freezing your assets....
The Screen Time Maximalists Who Spend an Ungodly Amount of Time on Their Phones
As debates over social media addiction rage, people with extreme screen times tell WIRED they have no plans to cut back....
Mammotion Spino E1 Review: A Budget Pool Bot That Comes Up Short
This compact pool robot keeps its price down, but its performance doesn’t match that of more capable cleaners....
The 3 Best Mug Warmers of 2026: Better Than the Ember Mug?
The first rule of coffee is that it must stay hot. After weeks or even years of testing, these are the three coffee warm...
Walmart-owned Flipkart, Amazon are squeezing India’s quick commerce startups
Flipkart's ongoing expansion beyond major cities and heavy discounting is raising risks for India's quick commerce start...
Kalshi wins temporary pause in Arizona criminal case
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced Friday that it has won a temporary restraining order preventing Arizo...
AMC will stream ‘The Audacity’ premiere in 21 parts on TikTok
Is this a smart way to build buzz, or just an odd attempt to recreate Quibi?...
Sam Altman responds to ‘incendiary’ New Yorker article after attack on his home
The OpenAI CEO's new blog post responds to both an apparent attack on his home and an in-depth New Yorker profile raisin...
Nvidia-backed SiFive hits $3.65 billion valuation for open AI chips
The deal is interesting for a number of reasons, including that SiFive's chip designs are based on RISC-V, not x86 or AR...