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Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry. wired.com/story/chatbots-are…
Chatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences

Chatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences

Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry.

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A dying star 1,600 light-years from Earth is surrounded by two rings of gas and dust that astronomers believe are the remnants of the planetary bodies it once hosted. wired.com/story/a-newly-disc…
A Newly Discovered Trail of Cosmic Debris Illustrates How the End of the Solar System Could Look

A Newly Discovered Trail of Cosmic Debris Illustrates How the End of the Solar System Could Look

A dying star 1,600 light-years from Earth is surrounded by two rings of gas and dust that astronomers believe are the remnants of the planetary bodies it once hosted.

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Named “Volta-Autodoxer,” the recently uncovered malware uses AI tools to collect troves of data about victims, from login credentials and credit card numbers to Discord sessions and UberEats receipts. wired.com/story/kernel-panic…
Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims

Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims

Named “Volta-Autodoxer,” the recently uncovered malware uses AI tools to collect troves of data about victims, from login credentials and credit card numbers to Discord sessions and UberEats receipts.

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Companies have spent the past several weeks trying to reassure investors that Muse and other AI agents pose more of an opportunity than a threat. wired.com/story/metas-muse-c…
Meta’s Muse Could Upend All Kinds of Businesses. It Hasn’t Yet

Meta’s Muse Could Upend All Kinds of Businesses. It Hasn’t Yet

Companies have spent the past several weeks trying to reassure investors that Muse and other AI agents pose more of an opportunity than a threat.

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A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs. wired.com/story/an-ai-agent-…
An AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain

An AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain

A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs.

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In the 1960’s, an odd experiment showed planarian worms could transfer memories by consuming each other. It was a sensational finding—that is until the worms stopped learning. wired.com/story/are-memories…
Are Memories Transferable? Meet the Scientists Replicating an Infamous Study to Find Out

Are Memories Transferable? Meet the Scientists Replicating an Infamous Study to Find Out

In the 1960’s, an odd experiment showed planarian worms could transfer memories by consuming each other. It was a sensational finding—that is until the worms stopped learning.

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Astronomers find that a white dwarf’s density and the kind of material it absorbed from its surroundings can produce a rainbow of shades in the star’s atmosphere. wired.com/story/white-dwarfs…
White Dwarfs Aren’t Just White. Scientists Discover Dying Stars Turning Pink and Green

White Dwarfs Aren’t Just White. Scientists Discover Dying Stars Turning Pink and Green

Astronomers find that a white dwarf’s density and the kind of material it absorbed from its surroundings can produce a rainbow of shades in the star’s atmosphere.

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This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the contractor who plugged their AI agent into a Pentagon system, Anthropic’s IPO filing, and the volunteers gearing up to counter ICE at the midterms. wired.com/story/uncanny-vall…
How a Contractor’s Claude Agent Got Into the Pentagon

How a Contractor’s Claude Agent Got Into the Pentagon

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the contractor who plugged their AI agent into a Pentagon system, Anthropic’s IPO filing, and the volunteers gearing up to counter ICE at the midterms.

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Thanks to a lucky break, flawed code in a tainted Claude extension prevented the attacker from fully worming their way into some 5,000 developer machines. wired.com/story/trojan-malwa…
A Supply Chain Attack Put Malicious Anthropic Claude Extensions on Thousands of Devices

A Supply Chain Attack Put Malicious Anthropic Claude Extensions on Thousands of Devices

Thanks to a lucky break, flawed code in a tainted Claude extension prevented the attacker from fully worming their way into some 5,000 developer machines.

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Multiple crypto-tracing firms say notorious North Korean hackers TraderTraitor may be behind the largest digital heist in history—with billions of crypto likely gone for good. wired.com/story/the-dollar63…
The $6.3 Billion Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes

The $6.3 Billion Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes

Multiple crypto-tracing firms say notorious North Korean hackers TraderTraitor may be behind the largest digital heist in history—with billions of crypto likely gone for good.

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European countries are leading the way harvesting heat that would otherwise be wasted as green death practices become more common. wired.com/story/crematoria-h…
Heat From Cremations Is Being Used to Warm Homes and Swimming Pools

Heat From Cremations Is Being Used to Warm Homes and Swimming Pools

European countries are leading the way harvesting heat that would otherwise be wasted as green death practices become more common.

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Democrats are using the high price of diesel, heating oil, and fertilizer to tie Republicans to President Donald Trump’s unpopular, costly war in Iran. wired.com/story/iran-war-imp…
The Iran War’s Impact on Oil Is Hitting Key Senate Races Hard

The Iran War’s Impact on Oil Is Hitting Key Senate Races Hard

Democrats are using the high price of diesel, heating oil, and fertilizer to tie Republicans to President Donald Trump’s unpopular, costly war in Iran.

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This week, the Pentagon released a full-resolution image of the vehicle, the capabilities of which remain rather mysterious. wired.com/story/what-to-know…
What to Know About China’s Top-Secret Spaceplane

What to Know About China’s Top-Secret Spaceplane

This week, the Pentagon released a full-resolution image of the vehicle, the capabilities of which remain rather mysterious.

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A new startup called &Truth is joining the race to automate formal verification, a painstaking process that uses math to prove software works as intended. wired.com/story/software-ver…
The ‘Pain in the Ass’ Math That Could Save Vibe Coding From Itself

The ‘Pain in the Ass’ Math That Could Save Vibe Coding From Itself

A new startup called &Truth is joining the race to automate formal verification, a painstaking process that uses math to prove software works as intended.

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The French AI lab claims its latest release matches or outperforms even the best models from DeepSeek and Z.ai in coding and cybersecurity. wired.com/story/mistral-says…
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Anthropic and OpenAI say they’ve disproved a key tenet of computer science. Researchers are struggling with the fall but also feel like “overexcited bunnies” as they look at new questions to explore. wired.com/story/ai-made-deca…
An AI Breakthrough Has Made Decades of Computer Science Research ‘Irrelevant’

An AI Breakthrough Has Made Decades of Computer Science Research ‘Irrelevant’

Anthropic and OpenAI say they’ve disproved a key tenet of computer science. Researchers are struggling with the fall but also feel like “overexcited bunnies” as they look at new questions to explore.

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Illicit software on the computers of some of the world’s best online poker players allowed the accused cheater to see what cards were in the victims’ hands—and trounce them at the tables. wired.com/story/a-hacker-tar…
A Hacker Targeted High-Stakes Poker Players With Malware That Exposed Their Cards

A Hacker Targeted High-Stakes Poker Players With Malware That Exposed Their Cards

Illicit software on the computers of some of the world’s best online poker players allowed the accused cheater to see what cards were in the victims’ hands—and trounce them at the tables.

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Death Clock promises to predict when you’re going to die and help you extend your time on Earth. After a month, I felt like it was sucking the life out of me. wired.com/story/i-gave-an-ai…
I Gave My Blood to the AI Death Clock

I Gave My Blood to the AI Death Clock

Death Clock promises to predict when you’re going to die and help you extend your time on Earth. After a month, I felt like it was sucking the life out of me.

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Lying beyond Pluto, 2026 ED138 could be as large as 1,500 kilometers in diameter. Astronomers are still working to confirm whether it meets the criteria for a dwarf planet. wired.com/story/astronomers-…
Astronomers Discover a Possible New Dwarf Planet in Our Solar System

Astronomers Discover a Possible New Dwarf Planet in Our Solar System

Lying beyond Pluto, 2026 ED138 could be as large as 1,500 kilometers in diameter. Astronomers are still working to confirm whether it meets the criteria for a dwarf planet.

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Bluesky tells WIRED it blocked links to a leaked archive of information on 41,000 ICE, CBP, and other DHS workers because it contains people’s contact information, shared without their authorization. wired.com/story/bluesky-bloc…
Bluesky Is Blocking Links to a Major Leak of DHS Employee Records

Bluesky Is Blocking Links to a Major Leak of DHS Employee Records

Bluesky tells WIRED it blocked links to a leaked archive of information on 41,000 ICE, CBP, and other DHS workers because it contains people’s contact information, shared without their authorization.

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