A flesh-eating parasitic fly that poses a major threat to livestock has returned to the United States after 60 years. This week, the US Department of Agriculture confirmed the presence of New World screwworm in a calf in southern Texas. Eliminated in the US in 1966 and as far south as Panama by 2006, its…
Asking venture capitalists for investment is a rite of passage for tech founders. This has led to another universal experience: the VC pitching horror story. A massive conversation sharing such stories has taken place all week on X, with the comments both funny and infuriating. We read through them all to find the most interesting…
DentaQuest handles dental benefits for millions of people. Now, data tied to 2.6 million accounts has surfaced in a public breach listing. DentaQuest confirmed a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to a limited portion of its network, though its investigation is still ongoing. Have I Been Pwned said the leaked dataset included email addresses, names,…
Today’s Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you’re constantly changing. If you just want to be told today’s word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today’s Wordle solution revealed. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. SEE ALSO:…
Honorable Mentions Photograph: G Stockstudio/Getty Images As we said, WIRED runners pound hundreds of miles every year. Here are a few of the other shoes we’ve tested that you might want to consider if the above do not work for your foot. If you’re not familiar with a brand, we recommend going to a local…
After a very profitable decade on Microsoft’s board, Reid Hoffman is stepping down, the company announced Thursday. Hoffman joined the board after Microsoft bought his company LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in 2016. Hoffman was on Microsoft’s board when it invested its first $1 billion into OpenAI in 2019. Hoffman was one of OpenAI’s original investors…
Amazon’s warehouse robots are starting to sound less like machines waiting for commands and more like coworkers taking direction. At its Delivering the Future event in London, Amazon unveiled an upgraded version of Proteus that can interpret natural-language instructions and turn them into coordinated material-movement tasks. The update is part of a broader European robotics…
While everyone else was getting ready for the weekend, Bitcoin took a plunge. The popular cryptocurrency was trading below $60,000 for at least part of Friday. This marked the first time since Donald Trump’s reelection in late 2024 that Bitcoin had dropped below that line, per Bloomberg. It’s also more than half the value of…
There are dozens of LED hair-growth gadgets on the market, ranging from a $50 product on AliExpress that’s been shopped onto a model to comically bad effect to the $2,500 Capillus Spectrum, which boasts an aggressive array of laser diodes. Contrary to what I would have suspected, women are actually the current dominant consumer group…
A former IBM cybersecurity executive accused the company of getting hacked three times in the previous decade by foreign governments and then covering up the breaches. In a lawsuit unsealed this week but filed in 2020, William Barlow, who was IBM’s vice president of threat intelligence until August 2019, said IBM concluded Chinese hackers breached…
