14 Aug RFK Jr. Is Supporting mRNA Research—Just Not for Vaccines HHS is slashing hundreds of millions in funding for mRNA vaccines and infectious disease treatments, but leaving the door open to mRNA therapies for cancer and genetic conditions.
14 Aug OpenAI Designed GPT-5 to Be Safer. It Still Outputs Gay Slurs The new version of ChatGPT explains why it won’t generate rule-breaking outputs. WIRED’s initial analysis found that some guardrails were easy to circumvent.
14 Aug Data Brokers Face New Pressure for Hiding Opt-Out Pages From Google After reporters found dozens of firms hiding privacy tools from search results, US senator Maggie Hassan insists the companies explain their practices—and pledge to improve access to privacy controls.
13 Aug The 55 Best Shows on Disney+ Right Now (August 2025) Eyes of Wakanda, Doctor Who, and Ironheart are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Disney+ this month.
13 Aug Best Side-Sleeper Mattress 2025: Picked by a Sleep Science Coach We’ve tested hundreds of the top hybrid, memory foam, and cooling mattresses to find the best combination of support and pressure relief.
13 Aug AOL Will Shut Down Dial-Up Internet Access in September The move will pinch users in rural or remote areas not yet served by broadband infrastructure or satellite internet. Around 175,000 households still use dial-up internet in the US.
12 Aug Ford’s Answer to China: A Completely New Way of Making Cars The American automaker is spending billions on a radical reinvention of EV manufacturing, aimed squarely at taking on Chinese competition and Tesla.
12 Aug WIRED Roundup: Unpacking OpenAI’s Government Partnership On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the week’s news, from bitcoin miners trying to beat Trump’s tariffs to OpenAI’s new deal with the US government.
12 Aug OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt GPT-5 was touted as a major upgrade to ChatGPT. Not all users think that’s the case, posting threads like “Kill 4o isn’t innovation, it’s erasure” on Reddit.
11 Aug Sena S1 Smart Cycling Helmet Review: Listen to Everything Sena’s S1 smart cycling helmet with a mesh intercom system kept me sane on the world’s most boring century ride.
