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Search ArticlesTry These 3 iOS 27 Safari Settings to Get More Out of Apple’s Browser
At Apple’s recent hardware event, the software powering its foldable iPhone Duo stood out, with translucent Liquid Glass effects and vertically stacked icons. But you don’t need to snatch a folding smartphone to reap the benefits of Apple’s iOS 27 updates. When iOS 27 leaves beta on Monday, Siri AI’s standalone app and smartphone search integration will likely be the most immediately obvious change for many iPhone users.
AI Agents Are Thirsty for Power
Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue: data centers. If you’ve got a question or thought for the column, feel free to shoot Molly an email at [email protected] or reach them securely on Signal at mollytaft.76. “What on earth are they building all of these data centers for?” an exasperated friend asked me recently.
How Scientists Could One Day Predict Volcanic Eruptions Like the Weather
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the summer of 1991, Pinatubo, a volcano in the Philippines, self-destructed. The eruption started on June 12, and three days later it culminated in a tremendous explosion. By the time pyroclastic flows—incandescent avalanches of molten rock and gas—tumbled down its sterilized slopes, Pinatubo’s peak had been obliterated and replaced by a 2.5-kilometer-wide chasm.
The Anti-Woke Right Can’t Figure Out How to Stop Grand Theft Auto VI
Rockstar Games’ best-selling Grand Theft Auto series wasn’t often accused of political sensitivity during its legendary run from the late 1990s through the early 2010s. In fact, parents and activists denounced the franchise for exposing children to a seedy world of sex, violence, crude humor, and wanton crime. Elon Musk even claimed that he couldn’t get into the last installment, GTA V, because he was mortified to play as a character who shoots police officers. But times (and moral panics) change.
Security News This Week: From Hacks to Bioweapons, Claude Misuse Is Now Everywhere
Editor’s note: After more than a decade, this is the last WIRED Security News This Week. “The roundup,” as we call it internally, started as a way to ensure that our readers knew about the latest key cybersecurity and privacy news even if we didn’t write about it ourselves. It was a simple way to highlight our own work and the wealth of other great journalism and research published in this realm every week.
‘I’m Really Terrified’: A Mathematician Grapples With AI’s Recent Breakthroughs
Mathematician and author Steven Strogatz starts to cry when he talks about the artificial-intelligence-driven breakthroughs in his field over the past week. “The science is thrilling,” the Cornell University professor says, “but there's a lot of human unpleasantness going with it.” On Tuesday, OpenAI said it had used tens of thousands of agents to solve a 90-year-old math problem, which had a $1 million prize attached.
Review: Branch Ergonomic Chair Pro (Sega Edition)
Rating: 8/10 WIRED Comfortable. Ventilated. Supremely adjustable. Painless (mostly) assembly. TIRED Hard to dial in the right position at first. Subpar headrest if you're short. A little scared to get Hot Cheetos dust on white leather. There aren’t many differences between what you’d need for a good office chair versus a good gaming chair, but for some reason, they’re often marketed differently. And that’s usually what separates them: marketing.
You Don’t Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, Trump-Appointed Judge Rules
This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Friday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit against the city of Jackson, Mississippi, which alleged the city knowingly let residents drink lead-contaminated water. The lawsuit, first filed in 2022, says the contamination violated Jacksonians’ constitutional right to bodily integrity. Donald Trump–appointed judge Kurt Engelhardt disagreed.
The 9 Best TV Shows to Stream This Month
September is typically the time when television gets serious again. The summer’s biggest TV shows have aired their finales, the fall schedule is kicking into high gear, and streamers are rolling out everything from high-concept sci-fi to prestige dramas. There’s plenty of familiar IP in the mix, but also some genuinely original shows worth putting on your “to watch” list. While plenty of outlets will tell you what everyone is watching (see: Reacher), that’s not our goal.
The US Government Launched 3 Previously Unreported Investigations of Polymarket Trades
The US government launched at least three previously unreported investigations into trading on the prediction market Polymarket, according to documents obtained by WIRED through a Freedom of Information Act request. Voting records from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency that regulates prediction markets, shed new light on how the government approaches these investigations.