You may have noticed that Flock Safety’s automatic license plate reader cameras—and the cops who misuse them—are getting a lot of coverage lately. This week, WIRED found a particularly wild case: A cop in Alpharetta, Georgia, was accused of searching for the license plate of a coworker dozens of times after an affair between the…

Hollywood’s finest — the people accustomed to massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets — are now betting on something much smaller: microdramas. Microdramas are short, scripted series designed to be watched on phones. Episodes typically run just a few minutes, and often feature soap opera-style plots, dramatic twists, and cliffhangers designed to keep viewers…

Claude’s memory no longer stops at the chat window. Anthropic on Aug. 25 extended the same memory used in Claude Chat to Cowork, allowing information learned in one experience to carry into the other. Users can pause or erase Claude’s memory, edit individual memories and keep sensitive topics excluded. They cannot, however, keep memory active…

TL;DR: Watch Borussia Dortmund vs. Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga for free on CazéTV. Access this free livestream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN. The 2026/27 Bundesliga season is now underway, with a full day of German soccer fixtures lined up. On the schedule today is Borussia Dortmund vs. Hamburger SV. Expect Dortmund to…

Noise canceling is also top-tier. The buds have the standard noise cancellation, transparency, adaptive, and off modes, and you can fine-tune ANC strength (from one to five) using the case or Soundcore app. The only earbuds that noticeably canceled more noise were the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd Gen) and Sony WF-1000XM6. Video: Harry Rabinowitz…

Chrome alternative Brave just added a good reason to make the switch to its browser: email aliases. The feature, announced this week, allows Brave’s users to sign up for websites and other online services without having to share their personal email addresses. To use the feature, you first need to create an account with Brave,…

A cyberattack on three of the U.K.’s busiest airports has exposed personal information belonging to about 8.7 million customers, turning routine airport Wi-Fi and booking records into a security concern. Manchester Airport, London Stansted and East Midlands Airport were targeted in an attack on Manchester Airports Group (MAG), which operates all three facilities. The compromised…

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Under the influence of psychedelics, the usual organization of the human brain loosens. That’s what scientists have generally thought, with several studies showing that when we take these substances, the signals pinging between our neurons become more diverse and unpredictable. This increased entropy in our gray matter may underlie the strange, random, and often memorable…

Lambda, an AI cloud company that buys computing chips and rents them out to businesses, has raised $1 billion in private, short-dated debt to buy Nvidia’s AI chips that it will lease to Microsoft, Bloomberg reports.  The terms of the deal, which Bloomberg says was arranged by JP Morgan Chase, signal that Lambda is betting…