23 Oct ‘Absolution’ Excerpt: Read the Beginning of Jeff VanderMeer’s Newest Southern Reach Book Absolution, the latest book in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series, begins with a mysterious alligator experiment that seems to have gone wrong. Read the first two chapters here.
23 Oct Exposed United Nations Database Left Sensitive Information Accessible Online The 115,000-plus files related to UN Women included detailed financial disclosures from organizations around the world—and personal details and testimonials from vulnerable individuals.
23 Oct The 50 Best Shows on Disney+ Right Now (October 2024) Agatha All Along, The Simpsons, and Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Disney+ this month.
22 Oct A Lawsuit Against Perplexity Calls Out Fake News Hallucinations In a new copyright lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity, Dow Jones and the New York Post argue that hallucinating fake news and attributing it to real papers is illegal.
22 Oct ICE’s $2 Million Contract With a Spyware Vendor Is Under White House Review Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s contract with Paragon Solutions faces scrutiny over whether it complies with the Biden administration’s executive order on spyware, WIRED has learned.
22 Oct Elon Musk’s PAC Is Buying Ads for Donald Trump on Elon Musk’s X America PAC purchased ads yielding tens of millions of impressions on X between July 8 and October 1, according to the platform’s ad disclosure data.
21 Oct Everything You Can Do From Google Chrome’s Address Bar (Besides Run Searches) Chrome’s omnibox is not just for typing out URLs or searching Google. Use it to take notes, write emails, and chat with Gemini.
21 Oct 12 Best Bookshelf Speakers (2024): Active, Passive, and Hi-Fi Soup up your sound with these active and passive speakers. We have picks for every budget.
21 Oct GoPro Hero 13 Black Review: Interchangeable Lenses and Magnetic Mounting The company’s latest action camera finally adds magnetic mounting and interchangeable lenses, but the processor and sensor haven’t changed in years.
20 Oct Analogue3D’s Retro Console Proves the N64 Controller Was the Worst Ever Some things are better left in the past.
