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“I deleted it as a test and it came immediately back,” says one government employee.

Summer is for relaxing, not cleaning. Upgrade your backyard setup with a robot that cleans your pool for you.

These camera-equipped feeders will introduce you to birds you never knew were visiting, and many WIRED favorites are on sale for Prime Day.

Coherence Neuro has started testing a brain-computer interface that could one day use electrical stimulation to prevent tumors from growing.

Not all mushroom coffees taste like dirt. These are the on-sale blends WIRED tried and actually recommends.

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

OpenAI is using AI to help the open source community better protect itself.

Whether the Autopilot system was truly active, overridden, or malfunctioning likely won't be resolved until investigators finish combing through the vehicle's data logs.

The lawsuit, led by a Detroit pension fund, alleges Uber's board and management has cut too many compliance corners, resulting in thousands of lawsuits.

Researchers say the discovery could be a “Rosetta stone” for cosmic signals.

Electronic Arts (EA) is allegedly initiating another round of cuts, primarily impacting recruitment, customer support, trust and safety, and IT teams.

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The move comes after the company left potentially sensitive data from the initiative exposed internally.

Beyond All Reason (BAR), the volunteer-led "epic scale RTS" game, has signed a publishing deal with Hooded Horse.

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The loop takes agentic AI a step further by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.

Microsoft inked a 20-year power purchase agreement with Chevron, locking in decades of carbon emissions from a new natural gas power plant.

Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers’ keystroke data to train AI models.

Fallout: New Vegas and The Outer Worlds developer Obsidian Entertainment is being sued in a class action lawsuit that accuses the studio of "a systematic pattern of wage and hour violations under the California Labor Code and Industrial Welfare Commission ('IWC') Wage Orders."

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What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and is hiring new execs.

Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI's biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.

The incident comes as Tata Electronics expands its role in global technology supply chains.