TL;DR: Sign up for a 7-day free trial of Apple TV+ through Prime Video Channels to watch select F1 races for free. Watch the Dutch GP for free with the Prime Video app. Watch the Dutch GP for free with a 7-day trial How have you coped during F1’s 2026 summer break? Have you retreated…
Comparing Our Favorite Kindles What About the New Kindle Scribes? Amazon Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, Kindle Scribe (3rd Gen), and Kindle Scribe Without Front Light Kindle has three new Kindle Scribes that launched between late 2025 and June 2026. There’s now the Kindle Scribe ($500), Kindle Scribe Colorsoft ($630), and the Kindle Scribe Without Front Light…
OpenAI is calling for California to add more safeguards to a landmark AI safety bill that was passed last year. In a LinkedIn post from the company’s global affairs team, OpenAI said California’s SB 53 “should be amended to expand safeguards,” for example by “requiring monitoring of frontier models under training or evaluation for potential…
Installing unvetted apps on Android will soon require a deliberate exercise in patience. Google has started rolling out its “advanced flow,” a new verification process that introduces an intentional 24-hour waiting period for users attempting to sideload software from unverified developers. The feature acts as a bridge ahead of Google’s broader enforcement of mandatory developer…
Here’s a not-so-novel theory of cultural development that you should be aware of, especially if you’re an older person wondering about the behaviors of younger people: When TV and the internet first emerged on the cultural scene, they had a unifying effect on people. After all, there were only a handful of television channels you…
The Swift space observatory has been in operation since 2004. It specializes in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most energetic electromagnetic explosions known in the universe. Its original mission was supposed to last just two years. More than two decades later, it continues to explore some of the most violent phenomena in the cosmos. Now it…
Following a Bloomberg report that the Department of Justice is investigating venture firm Andreessen Horowitz for holding board seats with rival AI companies, VCs told TechCrunch that they were baffled. On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I were similarly puzzled by the news. Yes, VC conflicts-of-interest are worth…
AI coding agents can write software surprisingly quickly. Keeping track of what they are doing is becoming the harder part. Slack has launched Slack Code, a new feature that gives AI coding agents dedicated project channels where developers and other team members can watch, guide, and review their work. The Salesforce-owned platform is effectively trying…
Looking for spoiler-free NYT Connections hints or just wondering why Connections is trending today? We’ve got what you need to understand the clues for today’s puzzle without spoiling any of the answers. Of course, Mashable has also provided daily hints and answers for Connections, Wordle, and Strands for years, so we can help you if…
As the controversial vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety continues to expand, WIRED got the code for the company’s new AI policing tool and reconstructed the software to show that its capabilities go far beyond reading license plates and tracking vehicles. We also published the story this week of a Rhode Island police officer who was…
