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News Image Powerful Spyware Exploits Enable a New String of ‘Watering Hole’ Attacks

Suspected Russian hackers have compromised a series of websites to utilize sophisticated spyware exploits that are eerily similar to those created by NSO Group and Intellexa.

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News Image Razer BlackShark V2 Pro Review: 70-Hour Battery and ’90s-Era Nostalgia

With 70 hours of battery life and a striking design, Razer’s wireless headset is a solid choice.

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News Image Best Wireless Headphones (2024): Tested Over Many Hours

Whether you need workout earbuds or gaming over-ears, these WIRED-tested picks sound like a million bucks.

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News Image SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is grounded after fiery landing failure

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has grounded SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket following a failed landing attempt during a recent Starlink mission. After successfully carrying the satellites into orbit on Wednesday, the first-stage booster returned to Earth and toppled into the Atlantic Ocean in a fireball shortly after touchdown, ending a streak of 267 successful landings. The FAA has ordered an investigation into the failed touchdown. “The incident involved the failure of the Falcon 9 booster rocket while landing on a droneship at sea. No public injuries or public property damage have been reported,” an FAA spokesperson said in a statement to Reuters. “A return to flight of the Falcon 9 booster rocket is based on the FAA...

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News Image Telegram Faces a Reckoning in Europe. Other Founders Should Beware

Politicians have long complained of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s attitude. What’s changed is their response.

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News Image Major Sites Are Saying No to Apple’s AI Scraping

This summer, Apple gave websites more control over whether the company could train its AI models on their data. Major publishers and platforms like The New York Times and Facebook have already opted out.

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News Image The Best Yoga Mats (2024): Tested and Reviewed

Searching for the best yoga mat to help deepen your flow, master tree pose, and discover the meaning of life? For two of the three, we’ve got you covered.

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News Image On the Bus With the RFK Jr. Bros

As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was preparing to endorse Donald Trump, two of his strongest soldiers were blaring AI-generated music while rolling a bus through Chicago. “We maintain," one said, “the good vibes.”

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News Image Harmful 'Nudify' Websites Used Google, Apple, and Discord Sign-On Systems

Single sign-on systems from several Big Tech companies are being incorporated into deepfake generators, WIRED found. Discord and Apple have started to terminate some developers’ accounts.

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News Image Are Meta’s carbon emissions shrinking? Depends on how you look at it

Untangling companies’ environmental claims these days can be a head-spinning endeavor, and reading Meta’s latest sustainability report is no exception. Depending on how you look at it, the company’s greenhouse gas emissions either grew or fell last year. Confused? The discrepancy has to do with whether you’re assessing total or net emissions and, crucially, whether you’re considering the local impact Meta has in places where it operates. It helps to take a look at the graph below from the sustainability report. The light gray bars show Meta’s total “location-based” greenhouse gas emissions. Those bars have risen steadily since 2019,...

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News Image Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Charged Over Alleged Criminal Activity on the App

After four days in the custody of French police, Telegram’s CEO has been charged with complicity in spreading sexual images of children and other alleged crimes.

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News Image Waymo Is Picking Up at the Airport. That’s a Big Deal

Self-driving cars have started all-day pickups and drop-offs in Phoenix, Arizona. It’s great news for Alphabet’s bottom line, and a step forward for robotaxis.

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News Image The rise and fall of OpenSea

The rise and fall of NFTs made and unmade OpenSea — the largest marketplace for the crypto asset. But insider accounts of the company reveal a chaotic work environment, ever-shifting priorities, and troubles with the SEC.

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News Image 16 Best Mattresses You Can Buy Online (2024) | Tested and Reviewed

We’ve spent years testing dozens of bed-in-a-box hybrid, foam, innerspring, and certified organic mattresses.

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News Image 7 Things to Know About the 2024 Paris Paralympics

From the sports to the mascots and venues, here's everything you need to know about the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games.

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News Image The Trump Campaign’s Rhetoric About Women Sounds a Lot Like Andrew Tate’s

As the Trump campaign overtly appeals to the manosphere, a WIRED investigation shows that the view of women espoused by alleged rapist and trafficker Andrew Tate matches perfectly with that of Trump and his allies.

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News Image Generative AI Transformed English Homework. Math Is Next

ByteDance’s Gauth app scans math homework and provides thorough, often correct, answers using AI. Millions have already downloaded it for free.

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News Image Notorious Iranian Hackers Have Been Targeting the Space Industry With a New Backdoor

In addition to its long-standing password spraying attacks, Microsoft says Iran-backed hacker group Peach Sandstorm—or APT 33—has developed custom malware dubbed “Tickler.”

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News Image The Best All-in-One Computers, Tested and Reviewed (2024)

If you need a PC but don't want to ponder over all the specs and peripherals, get one of these all-in-one computers.

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News Image SpaceX Falcon 9 booster ‘tipped over’ into the ocean during landing

The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket crashed during an attempted landing on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean last night. The booster had nearly completed its touchdown when it tipped over, dropping into the sea. It was the first time the company has failed to recover one of the reusable boosters since February 2021, ending a streak of 267 successful landings for the reusable boosters, according to CBS News. SpaceX posted about the failed mission at 4:04AM ET, writing that the booster “tipped over following touchdown” on what was its 23rd launch. The second stage succeeded in putting a batch of 21 Starlink satellites in orbit, however, 13 of which carry the company’s cellular transmission capability. After a successful ascent,...

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News Image The Plaud NotePin Is an AI Notetaker That Will Transcribe Your Meetings—and Your Entire Life

Plaud’s AI-powered NotePin records and transcribes all the conversations around you. The company envisions using that data in the future to construct your digital twin.

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News Image Shokz’s new bone conduction headphones have a clever solution for bass

The OpenRun Pro 2 add USB-C charging, a dedicated speaker for bass, reduced vibration, and AI noise cancellation.

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News Image The Paris Olympics Promised Flying Taxis—Here’s Why They Failed to Launch

Futuristic plans for tourists to fly over Paris stalled as critics derided flying taxis as an “absurd” invention that will “only benefit a few ultrarich people.”

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