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This little Oxo Rapid Brewer achieves the impossible: fast, delicious cold brew. But hot coffee offers mixed results.

Poorly maintained sewers can have disastrous consequences, but regular inspections can be time-consuming, expensive, and dangerous. The solution: subterranean dung drones.

Records reviewed by WIRED show law enforcement agencies are eager to take advantage of the data trails generated by a flood of new internet-connected vehicle features.

SemiAnalysis: A look at Microsoft freezing ~1.5GW of data centers set for 2025 and 2026; Microsoft has walked away from significantly more than 2GW of non-binding contracts  —  OpenAI Shift, Oracle & Stargate Acceleration, Hyperscale Capex Implications, Vertiv’s Impact Misunderstood, Copilot Weak Adoption

Jessica Testa / New York Times: Spotify says it has paid $100M+ to podcast publishers and creators since January 2025 via a new creator program based on Premium subscriber video engagement  —  The audio platform has branched out to video and has paid more than $100 million to podcast publishers this year as the war […]

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: German defense startup ARX Robotics, which makes self-driving, modular battlefield robots, raised €31M led by HV Capital and plans to build a plant in England  —  ARX Robotics, a German defense startup backed by NATO’s technology fund, has raised venture capital funding for the second …

Forget about patchy internet connections and dead spots in the house. These WIRED-tested multiroom mesh systems will get you online in no time.

Designer Annie Fan went through 60 prototypes to get the Traveller to where it is today, and it shows.

The Supersonic r is Dyson on Ozempic—minus the side effects.

CBS Mornings on YouTube: Geoffrey Hinton fears AI companies are under-investing in safety research, embracing military usage, and sharing model weights while pushing for less regulation  —  Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, often called a “godfather of artificial intelligence,” spoke with Brook Silva-Braga …

Anjli Raval / Financial Times: A profile of Darktrace CEO Jill Popelka, who joined the British cyber security firm in Jan. 2024 and was at the helm when it was bought by Thoma Bravo for £4.3B  —  Jill Popelka has tried to strengthen the cyber company’s operations and cast off the shadow of early backer […]

Manish Singh / India Dispatch: Analysis: Meesho accounts for about 37% of India’s e-commerce orders, but only 8%-9% of the sector’s total value due to the small average transaction size  —  A $4.5 sari reveals the ruthless arithmetic behind Meesho’s assault on India’s e-commerce hierarchy

We made lots of coffee and tea to test these electric kettles—and boiled it down to these top picks.

It’s been difficult to find important questions that quantum computers can answer faster than classical machines, but a new algorithm appears to do so for some critical optimization tasks.

Looking for the CliffsNotes of a lengthy YouTube video? This Gemini feature could be worth a try.

Furquan Ameen / Rest of World: Experts say that India lags behind China in deep tech innovation due to its historical focus on services, lower R&D investment, and a brain drain of AI talent  —  India’s government urges the private sector to take the lead in tech innovation, while industry experts say it’s complicated.

Financial Times: Trump’s tariffs could slow robot adoption in the US, as buyer demand weakens and supplies of key components like magnets and actuators are disrupted  —  Depressed buyers and global supply chains could delay the adoption of futuristic technology  —  Elon Musk, facing disarray in his corporate …

Ryan Naraine / SecurityWeek: Tel Aviv-based Sentra, whose cloud data security software now includes controls aimed at keeping AI prompts free from restricted data, raised a $50M Series B  —  Sentra has now raised north of $100 million for controls technology to keep sensitive data out of misconfigured AI workflows.

These convenient and slim magnetic wallets stick to the back of your smartphone.

Set the right mood with these tried-and-tested candles.

From photo books and iPads to board games and bike bags, we have a pick for every type of mom and mom figure.

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: Prompt engineering roles, one of the buzziest jobs in 2023, become obsolete as AI models better intuit user intent and companies train staff in writing prompts  —  Prompt engineering, a role aimed at crafting the perfect input to send to a large language model, was poised to become one […]

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: At a major Hong Kong electronics exhibition, some Chinese companies say they are exploring ways to lower or skirt tariffs while others plan to wait them out  —  Tech Across the Globe … Tan is cutting jobs, reducing management layers and trying to energize the once-mighty company’s culture.

Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: Stripe plans to test a stablecoin payments product aimed at companies outside the US, the UK, and the EU, using tech from Bridge, which Stripe acquired recently  —  Stripe CEO Patrick Collison said a stablecoin tool for companies outside US, UK and EU is ready for testing.  —  What to know:

This makeup printer custom shade-matches you—and creates your foundation on demand.

Tune out (or rock out) with our favorite over-ears and earbuds.

This energy storage technology is harnessing the potential of solar and wind power—and its deployment is growing exponentially.

Gregory Barber / MIT Technology Review: A look at efforts by Apple and others to become carbon neutral by investing in eucalyptus farms in Brazil’s Cerrado region, amid skepticism from some ecologists  —  We were losing the light, and still about 20 kilometers from the main road, when the car shuddered and died at the […]

Wall Street Journal: Docs and sources detail the opaque market for shares of Elon Musk’s private companies; Valor recently offered investors $1B worth of shares in SpaceX and xAI  —  Lucrative stock deals have allowed SpaceX to avoid public scrutiny even as it has grown into one of the largest companies in the U.S.

Devon Pendleton / Bloomberg: A profile of Saudi billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed, who, along with his investment firm Kingdom Holding, is the second-biggest shareholder in XAI Holdings  —  The flamboyant Saudi billionaire investor is back in the spotlight, emboldened by Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

FRDM+ provides access to an impressive library of automotive videos for $20 a month.

A rock containing many smaller round stones could indicate that there was once a large amount of liquid water on the Red Planet.

Upgrading your wine glass game is a window into the finer things in life. These are our WIRED-tested favorites.

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Reducto, which helps companies convert complex documents into inputs for LLMs, raised a $24.5M Series A led by Benchmark, following a $8.4M seed in October 2024  —  Reducto cofounders Adit Abraham and Raunak Chowdhuri.  —  Reducto  —  I’ve long been fond of Arthur C. Clarke’s famous third law …

Chris Welch / The Verge: Google says it will end support for 1st- and 2nd-gen Nest thermostats on October 25, and won’t launch new models in Europe due to its “unique” heating systems  —  The company is also pulling Nest thermostats out of Europe entirely, citing “unique” heating challenges.

Gabe Kaminsky / The Free Press: Leaked letter: interim DC attorney Ed Martin accused Wikipedia of allowing foreign manipulation and propaganda, threatening its tax-exempt status  —  In a letter obtained by The Free Press, Trump appointee Ed Martin accuses the Wikimedia Foundation of violating the law.  Critics say his tactics are ‘grandstanding.’

The US National Science Foundation cancelled funding for research on misinformation, disinformation and AI-generated deepfakes, even as misleading information runs rampant on social media

Text-generating AIs such as ChatGPT can be used to hide encrypted messages inside fake conversations, which could help people living under oppressive regimes communicate secretly

Hackers may be able to garble the output of programs running on quantum computers, leaving other people with unknowingly incorrect results – but thankfully, there is a fix

Researchers from the Critical Analytics for Manufacturing Personalized-Medicine (CAMP) interdisciplinary research group of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, in collaboration with MIT, A*STAR Skin Research Labs, and the National University of Singapore, have developed a novel method that can quickly and automatically detect and monitor microbial contamination in […]

Senior Madison Wang, a double major in creative writing and chemistry, developed her passion for writing in middle school. Her interest in chemistry fit nicely alongside her commitment to producing engaging narratives.  Wang believes that world-building in stories supported by science and research can make for a more immersive reader experience. “In science and in writing, you […]

Every day, hundreds of chat messages flow between pilots, crew, and controllers of the Air Mobility Command’s 618th Air Operations Center (AOC). These controllers direct a thousand-wide fleet of aircraft, juggling variables to determine which routes to fly, how much time fueling or loading supplies will take, or who can fly those missions. Their mission […]

A study found that the timing and emotional tenor of a leader’s communication can significantly affect their team members’ performance.

These wireless earbuds with an “open” design let you zone out to your music while also keeping you aware of your surroundings.

Social Security workers are being asked to use an AI chatbot. An animated video on how to do so failed to mention that the chatbot can’t be trusted with personally identifiable information.

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Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Baidu CEO Robin Li says demand for text-based models like DeepSeek’s is “shrinking” and claims its model had a higher propensity for “hallucinations”  —  Search group’s chief makes rare criticism of China’s generative artificial intelligence darling

Michael Peel / Financial Times: Toshiba Europe researchers say they used quantum key distribution cryptography to send messages over a 250km German commercial telecommunications network  —  Researchers harness quantum mechanics to create communications system that can avoid being hacked  —  Scientists have sent messages …