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I Made Terrible Games With Google’s AI Playground - WIRED

The game had several small issues at first. I countered them and added features a little bit at a time. I dictated systems for level scaling, boss generation, and better enemy variety. I flagged mobi…

Humans Watched This Supernova Explode Nearly a Millennium Ago. Now You Can See It in High Definition - WIRED

Astronomers have obtained the most detailed image to date of the Pa 30 nebula, the remnants of a supernova famous for having likely been observed and documented from Earth during the Middle Ages. Now…

Meta’s Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me - WIRED

I do see this as a continued trajectory of their main business model of controlling what people see, putting ads in front of them, and collecting more data, Mir says. Its definitely rational to be a…

Why AI Isn’t Likely to Wipe Out Humanity With Bioweapons - WIRED

It is impossible for AI to access a fully autonomous lab and autonomously build a virus today because fully autonomous labs do not exist yet, says Olivia Scharfman, a biotechnology fellow at the tech…

‘Smart’ Nanoparticles Deliver mRNA Directly to Tumors in New Cancer Therapy - WIRED

Our immune systems dont just fight bacteria and viruses invading the body. They are responsible for keeping our own tissues in check, taking out cancerous cells before they have a chance to grow. Onc…

‘I’m Really Terrified’: A Mathematician Grapples With AI’s Recent Breakthroughs - WIRED

Mathematician and author Steven Strogatz starts to cry when he talks about the artificial-intelligence-driven breakthroughs in his field over the past week. The science is thrilling, the Cornell Uni…

The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’ - WIRED

Read our conversation with Coxon, which has been lightly edited for clarity and brevity, below. WIRED: Youre not the first person to raise concerns that AI models could lead to an extinction event. …

The Apple Watch Gets Its Siri AI Upgrade - WIRED

Apple has unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 today during its September hardware event. The new models retain the signature designs of their predecessors but add a faster S11 chip, new h…

A Stealth Startup Thinks It Just Hacked the Memory Shortage - WIRED

Kepler also says it has improved the density of SRAM using ferroelectrics, which can read and write data at lower voltages than the mechanisms typically used to process and store data in semiconducto…

Here’s Samsung’s Advice for Apple and Its Upcoming Folding iPhone - WIRED

On the eve of Apples highly anticipated folding iPhone, Samsung isnt feeling threatened. Instead, the folding smartphone pioneer says the competition is absolutely welcome. Thats according to Hee-Ch…

Two of the Universe's Great Mysteries May Have Their Own Dimension - WIRED

According to the standard model of cosmology, that expansion rate should be the same no matter how you measure it. But in recent years, scientists have found that the expansion rate of the early univ…

Astronomers Have Completed the Largest Map of Space. Yes, You Can Play With It. - WIRED

The driving force behind our universes accelerated expansion remains one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy. While this force, which scientists refer to as dark energy, pervades our universe, we …

Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation - Ars Technica

The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab meets vehicle safety standards.

There May Not Be an iPhone 18 This Year - WIRED

Every year around this time, Apple announces new iPhones. The products go on sale soon after, usually ranging from a base model to more premium and more expensive Pro models. But this year will likel…

Some of the Best Labor Day Deals of 2026 Are on Amazon - WIRED

Amazon doesn't advertise its Labor Day sale as heavily as Prime Day and Black Friday, but the Amazon 2026 Labor Day Sale still offers some of the best deals of the year on an assortment of tech and h…

Is It Safe to Eat Lettuce Yet? - WIRED

For a while it seemed like the diarrhea-inducing parasite cyclospora was everywhere. Confirmed and suspected cases number more than 22,000 across 15 states, with 517 people requiring hospitalization.…

OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face - WIRED

OpenAI said Tuesday that the rogue AI agent that breached Hugging Faces platform also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack. It's now clear that the unprecedented se…