Best Sunrise Alarm Clock (2026): Hatch, Lumie
I’ve never been a morning person. This bedside gadget is the only thing that’s ever changed that.WIRED
The $6.3bn Binance hack explained — 5 things you need to know
It’s the largest cryptocurrency theft in history: hackers from North Korea allegedly swiped $6.36 billion in funds from Binance in the space of just 20 minutes, which has left customers reeling and the financial industry in shock. The heist raises all kinds of questions about how this was allowed to happen, what might happen next, […]
White Dwarfs Aren’t Just White. Scientists Discover Dying Stars Turning Pink and Green
Astronomers find that a white dwarf’s density and the kind of material it absorbed from its surroundings can produce a rainbow of shades in the star’s atmosphere.WIRED
AI vendors are relearning the oldest rule in the data business
Long before anyone trained a model on customer data, the marketing data business worked out the terms for pooling it. Catalog retailers in the 1990s joined data cooperatives that combined their transaction histories so each member could find new buyers, and the arrangements held together because the rules were blunt. A retailer contributed data to […]
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Watch Australia vs Cook Islands FREE on 7plus (AUS) Stream on Premier Sports (US/CAN/UK) Unlock your stream with NordVPN (save up to 75%) Kick-off: Sat, Oct 31, 5.05am ET / 9.05am GMT / 8.05pm AEDT Watch Australia vs Cook Islands as the hosts play their final Pool A fixture of Rugby League World Cup 2026 […]
Crypto giant Binance hit by $6.3bn hack suspected to be largest in history
Two analytics firms have attributed the incident to a North Korean hacking unit called TraderTraitor.BBC News
The Best Leaf Blower We’ve Tested Is Ready for Halloween
Our top Ego pick is discounted, and our resident leaf blower expert demonstrates how to make a TP cannon.WIRED
Wikipedia’s operator says a bad AI copyright ruling could threaten the open web
The Wikimedia Foundation is staking out a middle ground in a group of landmark AI copyright cases, pushing courts to legally protect large language models (LLMs) training on copyrighted work – but not chatbots regurgitating that work to users. An overly black-and-white ruling, it says, could either deprive Wikipedians of useful AI-based tools or endanger […]
The Iran War’s Impact on Oil Is Hitting Key Senate Races Hard
Democrats are using the high price of diesel, heating oil, and fertilizer to tie Republicans to President Donald Trump’s unpopular, costly war in Iran.WIRED
The AI data center race is now a race to power
The race for AI leadership has largely been framed as a contest for the best chips, models and talent up until now. But behind every algorithm, model, query, and breakthrough is the energy that powers it all. As AI moves from R&D into living rooms, workplaces, and factories, access to reliable electricity and the speed […]