28 Feb Behind DOGE’s Many Conflicts of Interest and Elon Musk’s Weekend Email Chaos On this special episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into the many DOGE staffers keeping two jobs at once, plus what happened when US federal workers received an email from Elon Musk over the weekend.
28 Feb Framework’s Laptop 12 Could Inject New Life Into Budget Portable PCs Budget Windows laptops still suck. Framework’s upcoming repairable and upgradeable machine could change the game.
27 Feb DOGE Staffers at HUD Are From an AI Real Estate Firm and a Mobile Home Operator Elon Musk’s men at HUD come from the real estate sector. They have access to vast stores of personal and financial data—and control over who can access which HUD systems.
27 Feb A Deadly Unidentified Disease Has Emerged in the DRC More than 50 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. Initial analysis suggests neither Ebola nor Marburg is the cause.
27 Feb Apple iPhone 16e Review: Questionable Value Apple’s latest $599 iPhone isn’t the best bang for your buck.
26 Feb Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud—something that has never been detected in a smaller galaxy.
26 Feb A Team of Female Founders Is Launching Cloud Security Tech That Could Overhaul AI Protection Cloud “container” defenses have inconsistencies that can give attackers too much access. A new company, Edera, is taking on that challenge and the problem of the male-dominated startup world.
26 Feb The 53 Best Shows on Disney+ Right Now (March 2025) Win or Lose, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Disney+ this month.
25 Feb DOGE Is Inside the National Institutes of Health’s Finance System At least three people linked to Elon Musk’s DOGE task force have access to NIH systems that control budgets, procurement, and more, according to records and internal documents viewed by WIRED.
25 Feb Anthropic Launches the World’s First ‘Hybrid Reasoning’ AI Model Claude 3.7, the latest model from Anthropic, can be instructed to engage in a specific amount of reasoning to solve hard problems.
