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Fire Breaks Out at a Data Center Leased by Elon Musk’s X

A fire broke out Thursday morning at a data center in Hillsboro, Oregon, leased by...
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Feds Charge 16 Russians Allegedly Tied to Botnets Used in Ransomware, Cyberattacks, and Spying

The hacker ecosystem in Russia, more than perhaps anywhere else in the world, has long...
why-3d-printing-an-untraceable-ghost-gun-is-easier-than-ever

Why 3D-Printing an Untraceable Ghost Gun Is Easier Than Ever

WIRED senior writer Andy Greenberg has been reporting on ghost guns for more than a...
ai-is-eating-data-center-power-demand—and-it’s-only-getting-worse

AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse

AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand,...
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A United Arab Emirates Lab Announces Frontier AI Projects—and a New Outpost in Silicon Valley

An academic lab in the United Arab Emirates today launched an artificial intelligence world model...
doge-used-a-meta-ai-model-to-review-emails-from-federal-workers

DOGE Used a Meta AI Model to Review Emails From Federal Workers

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) used artificial intelligence from Meta’s Llama model...
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Anthropic’s New Model Excels at Reasoning and Planning—and Has the Pokémon Skills to Prove It

Anthropic announced two new models, Claude 4 Opus and Claude Sonnet 4, during its first...
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Kesha Wants to ‘Smash’ the Music Industry With a New LinkedIn-Style App

Kesha is so in right now in a way she has never been before. The...
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The Best Sleeping Pads For Campgrounds—Our Comfiest Picks

Honorable Mentions The following sleeping pads didn’t impress us as much as the ones above,...
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The Best Dyson Vacuums You Can Buy

What About the PencilVac? The new Dyson PencilVac promises to be Dyson’s slimmest vacuum yet,...
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Politico’s Newsroom Is Starting a Legal Battle With Management Over AI

Politico became one of the first newsrooms last year to win a union contract that...
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Who’s to Blame When AI Agents Screw Up?

Over the past year, veteran software engineer Jay Prakash Thakur has spent his nights and...
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The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin

For two days, Akasha Song had been riding in the passenger seat of a dusty...
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Esoteric Programming Languages Are Fun—Until They Kill the Joke

Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia...
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Mysterious Database of 184 Million Records Exposes Vast Array of Login Credentials

The possibility that data could be inadvertently exposed in a misconfigured or otherwise unsecured database...
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I Tried Out Dyson’s New PencilVac. Here’s What You Need to Know

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13 Best Memorial Day Sales

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After trying 50 bed-in-a-box mattresses, I recommend these 8 for side sleepers

All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive...
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The Enhanced Games Has a Date, a Host City, and a Drug-Fueled World Record

The Enhanced Games—a kind of Olympics for athletes who are doping—today announced the date and...
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FEMA Has Canceled Its 4-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season

Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal...