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"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”

So ... what's your In the Weights score?

Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.

Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.

While it's not flashy like Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence upgrades, there are still a number of additions to iOS 27 worth looking at.

French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control remote devices in real time.

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.

Go's IPO — Japan's biggest so far this year — has done more than provide a much-needed boost to the country's languishing listing season. It has also supplied the taxi-hailing app with the capital required to address an existential issue: Japan's shortage of drivers.

All of Aura's frames connect to the Aura app, which is where you can upload photos from your phone, web, email, iCloud, or Google Photos.

Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.

Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails. Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter calling the move dangerous, and Anthropic itself noted the same jailbreaks exist in other models. So is […]

Reliance is weaving AI into telecom services used by more than 500 million people.

Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.

There's a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm a Chinese customer.

Telegram argues India should block specific content, not an entire platform used by millions.

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Once you remove lockscreen ads and toggle on book covers, here's what else you can do to customize your Kindle's screensaver.

Car buyers love Android Auto. Automakers? Not so much.

CMF by Nothing won't be able to release a follow-up to the Phone Pro 2 this year.

Steam Next Fest demos, a Virtual Boy-inspired shooter and other new indie games worth checking out.

The short answer is: sometimes, but it's complicated.

Norway will reportedly ban young kids from using AI in schools.

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom and other classic shooters, has died.

Not everyone wants a screen on their wrist.

Toy Story 5 introduces a tablet as a villain, but it's also smart enough to realize tech isn't always bad. Parents just need to step up.

Luca Guadagnino's Sam Altman biopic has to find a new studio after Amazon dropped it.

The engineers who spoke negatively about AI data centers at Seattle city hearings accuse Amazon of threatening their jobs over their testimonies.

UK attorney general Richard Hermer told his staff his office was quitting X, according to The Guardian and The Observer.

In an update, Valve says it may not ship some Steam Controller orders until next year.

With 416 horsepower, a 31-inch 8K screen and Dolby Atmos, Benz's electric "Grand Limousine" might just make minivans cool.

On to the next one.

Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount of training data at over 100,000 songs each. According to Reisner, the sets have been downloaded thousands of times and, while it's impossible to know exactly who has used them, Google and Stability have both confirmed they have in research papers. Some of the sources, like the Free Music Archive

Indulging in the “Dark Souls of synthesis.” | Image: Aleksander Stojanov / Hainbach Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments. He describes it as being like the " Dark Souls of synthesis ." Despite using "hard mode" production techniques that often rely on telephone line testing equipment and gear salvaged from nuclear testing facilities, Hainbach is also incredibly prolific , releasing six albums in 2025 alone, along with a handful of singles and EPs. His latest, Gentle Hum

From its opening minutes, Moves of the Diamond Hand is upfront about what it offers: You're going to have a lot of strange conversations, and you're going to roll a lot of dice. Get on board with this proposition, and the reward is one of the most creative roleplaying games I've seen in years, even if its many mysteries won't be resolved until 2027. Moves of the Diamond Hand is an Early Access videogame available on PC, macOS, and steamOS (including the Steam Deck, where I played it) from musician and game designer Cosmo D. The game looks and feels

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 133, your guide to the best and Verge -iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy belated Juneteenth, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage .) This week, I've been reading about Sam Bankman-Fried and PE Guy and admin nights (which we should totally all do together one of these days), listening to Paul McCartney on Song Exploder , trudging through the bugs of the iOS 27 beta in order to use the good new Siri, once again trying and failing to switch to YouTube

I’m a fan. I can't remember the last time I got excited about a fan. Normally, I just buy whatever Vornado or Dreo model fits my budget, but that was before I started testing the battery-powered Standing Circulator Fan from SwitchBot . As the name indicates, the SwitchBot fan is a 3D circulator - a fancy way of saying that it can tilt up, down, left, and right to push a decent amount air around a room. It looks okay, despite all the plastic, is relatively quiet, runs for hours on battery, has an integrated nightlight, transforms from a desktop

The cryptographic keys that secure your computer's boot sequence will start to expire on June 24. Here's what that means for you.

After adding one to my home, here's why you might want a home battery, how they work, and what to look for, plus some installation tips.

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I did the research and taste-testing to find the best greens powders worth your money. Bloom Nutrition’s Superfood Greens Powder is my tried-and-true pick.

The new Siri AI is conversational, omnipresent, and actually helpful.

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Researchers have demonstrated they can make coffee comparable to conventional espresso using ultrasonic waves. Because the process doesn’t need hot water, it consumes 75 percent less energy.

Years after initial tests, researchers are now racing to see if a vaccine developed in 2011 can help fight the current Bundibugyo outbreak in Congo.

We break down the current iPad lineup to help you figure out which of Apple’s tablets is best for you.

Forget about patchy internet connections and dead spots in the house. These WIRED-tested multiroom mesh systems will get you online in no time.

Even after your movies end, these art televisions look stunning on any wall.

For young people, the trend removes the stigma of being unmarried and alone, and recasts it as something to aim for, not avoid.

Apple’s fall macOS release will let you build Shortcuts by typing what you want to happen. But Claude Code and Codex users don’t have to wait.

The crypto platform claims you can “pay anyone to do anything,” from quitting a job on camera to getting a memecoin-themed tattoo. But it mostly seems like people trying to scam each other.

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The biggest World Cup ever is pushing fans, players, and host cities to their limits—and experts say this is only the beginning.

Even if peace holds up between the US and Iran, oil prices aren’t going back down to where they were any time soon.

Getting the future right is now big business. But at a festival in Berkeley, forecasters worry that sports markets could take the whole industry down.

A new report shows that government agencies failed to communicate and includes recommendations for stronger oversight in a bid to avert future disasters.

A London clinic owner has claimed he is treating people with stage 4 cancer by sealing them into a plastic bag while they're naked from the waist down and gassing them with chlorine dioxide.

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Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays.

Anthropic still can’t distribute Claude Mythos or Fable 5 after running afoul of the Trump administration. But no one can say exactly what the company did wrong.

Dads are traditionally tough to shop for—let me help with these handpicked gift ideas for fathers with great taste.

On today’s Uncanny Valley, we dive into the dysfunction in Meta’s newly formed AI unit and why it’s been driving already-low employee morale even further into the ground.

“You would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys,” NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan quote Donald Trump as telling associates in an upcoming book.

The software engineers filed a complaint with Seattle’s civil rights office accusing Amazon of illegally retaliating against them for expressing their personal political beliefs.

The rich are getting richer. Here’s what wealth advisers are telling their tech clients right now.

The company's latest recall of 3,871 vehicles follows incidents of its autonomous cars prioritizing other hazards or failing to recognize closed construction zones altogether.

The Frame Pro 2026 benefits from meaningful tweaks. AI audio and picture tuning work in tandem with a new anti-glare coating to deliver impressive benefits.

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I tested over a dozen top home diffusers for scent strength, longevity, special features, and more. The Urpower Aroma is my favorite option for most people.

Artist Morry Kolman will be livestreaming feeds of the NBA champions’ ticker-tape parade from NYC’s traffic cameras—and this time, the city’s Department of Transportation isn’t demanding he stop.