Trump held a big midterm convention on Wednesday, but many Republicans apparently had to miss out. In the Daily Show clip above Michael Kosta gleefully recaps the various excuses given, from Rep. Mike Flood saying his son has a high school football game (“Oh yeah, classic mid-week high school football game,” says Kosta, “That’s why…
An Australian teenage girl’s death, suspected to be preceded by consensual “choking” during sex, has renewed calls to ban showing the act in porn. This latest tragedy, reportedly believed to involve sexual strangulation, comes just months after the UK banned porn showing the practice. But despite all the noise, most people still aren’t aware of…
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on keeping AI systems aligned with human interests and under human control, is joining the OpenAI Foundation board, the frontier lab said Wednesday. “I now believe there is a meaningful risk that rapid acceleration in AI capabilities leads to catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very…
Apple has introduced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, betting that greater camera control, longer battery life and more on-device AI will persuade buyers to pay at least $1,199 for its latest premium phones. The models debuted Wednesday at Apple’s “Surprise and shine” event, the company’s first major hardware launch under newly…
TL;DR: Through Sept. 10, you can get a 100TB Internxt Cloud Storage Lifetime Subscription on sale for $974.97. $974.97 $9,900 Save $8,925.03 Most cloud storage works like a rental. You pay every month to keep your files online, and the price jumps each time you need more space. Stretch that across several years and…
Few things are as iconic to camping as the green Coleman stove. Every summer you’ll find them, along with Coleman lanterns and coolers, on picnic tables across America. At WIRED, we’re big fans of the Coleman Cascade stove, but all Coleman stoves are capable of cooking up delicious camp food. There is more to Coleman…
Matt Mullenweg, the founder and CEO of Automattic, best known as the parent company of WordPress.com, has been put on a leave of absence by his board against his will, according to a Slack message seen by TechCrunch. Earlier Wednesday, Mullenweg posted in a Slack channel visible to all employees that the company’s Chief Financial…
A 5,000mAh battery used to be a major selling point. In 2026, some phones are making that capacity look small. Battery-focused phones, particularly models from Chinese manufacturers, are pushing beyond that mark, with several now offering 7,000mAh or more and a small number approaching 10,000mAh. Silicon-carbon battery technology is helping manufacturers squeeze more capacity into…
Apple has raised the prices of its iPhone 16, 17, 17e, and Air, quietly making the changes to coincide with its announcement of the new iPhone 18 Pro, 18 Pro Max, and foldable Duo. Some of them are now even more expensive than they were at launch. SEE ALSO: iPhone 18 Pro price report: Apple…
San Francisco’s city attorney has hit Meta with a cease-and-desist letter telling the company to stop “allowing” paid advertisements that include AI-generated child sexual abuse content and asked it to explain how the ads repeatedly ran on its platforms. On Tuesday, WIRED reported that Meta has run more than 350 ads in recent months that…
