02 May What Caused the European Power Outage? There’s still no official explanation for the blackout in Spain, Portugal, and parts of southern France—but experts point to the makeup of the Iberian peninsula’s power grid.
02 May A Judge Says Meta’s AI Copyright Case Is About ‘the Next Taylor Swift’ Meta’s contentious AI copyright battle is heating up—and the court may be close to a ruling.
02 May Temu Blocks US Shoppers From Seeing Products Shipped From China The American version of Temu abruptly began to show only “local” products days before the Trump administration was set to end a tariff loophole for small packages from China.
01 May RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department.
01 May Apple May Face Criminal Charges for Allegedly Lying to a Federal Judge A US judge says Apple deliberately chose not to comply with an order requiring it to loosen App Store rules—then tried to cover up its disobedience.
01 May Sam Altman’s Eye-Scanning Orb Is Now Coming to the US At a high-profile event in San Francisco, World announced it is launching a series of Apple-like stores, as well as a partnership with dating giant Match Group.
30 Apr 12 Best Delivery Chocolate Boxes to Send and Receive (2025) We tasted dozens of chocolate boxes to find the best, from pure chocolate ecstasy to bundles of fun.
30 Apr WhatsApp Is Walking a Tightrope Between AI Features and Privacy WhatsApp’s AI tools will use a new “Private Processing” system designed to allow cloud access without letting Meta or anyone else see end-to-end encrypted chats. But experts still see risks.
30 Apr The 45 Best Shows on Hulu Right Now (May 2025) Dying for Sex, The Handmaid’s Tale, and A Thousand Blows are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month.
29 Apr A Philosopher Released an Acclaimed Book About Digital Manipulation. The Author Ended Up Being AI Italian essayist Andrea Colamedici tells WIRED Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality was a “philosophical experiment and a performance.” The book’s Chinese author does not exist.