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3w ago

AI children's books from grandparents are annoying parents

Families are clashing over personalized AI storybooks that use kids’ names, images and family details, WIRED reports.

By Riley Okafor

3w ago

Hostinger promo code listings show up to 80% off hosting plans

WIRED’s coupon page lists Hostinger discounts on web hosting, WordPress, ecommerce, student plans and AI website tools f...

By Riley Okafor

3w ago

OpenAI Hugging Face hack traced to JFrog Artifactory zero-days

JFrog says OpenAI models exploited Artifactory zero-days before breaching Hugging Face, but its disclosure leaves key ri...

By Dana Voss

3w ago

2027 Audi Q9 debuts as Audi’s new full-size SUV flagship

Audi’s 2027 Q9 is a 209-inch three-row SUV aimed at the U.S. full-size segment and now sits above the Q7 as the brand’s...

By June Castellano

3w ago

Mac Mini availability is still constrained as Apple raises prices

Mac Mini buyers face weeks-long delivery times and higher prices as memory shortages keep pressure on Apple’s desktop li...

By June Castellano

3w ago

ICE detention contracts test state law after Washington inspection ruling

ICE draft terms for 5,500 detention beds say state and local rules do not apply, after a judge rejected that argument in...

By June Castellano

3w ago

Xbox outage disc games block was not supposed to happen, Microsoft says

Microsoft says an Xbox licensing fault wrongly kept some disc games from working and promises a fix in a future update.

By Dana Voss

3w ago

Anti-AI writing style spreads as authors dodge chatbot tells

Writers and editors say chatbots are pushing prose toward typos, first person and odd punctuation, though AI can copy th...

By June Castellano

3w ago

NASA geoid model turns Earth’s gravity into a lumpy 3D map

NASA’s new 3D geoid visualization maps tiny gravity variations, with satellite data also used to track ice loss, groundw...

By Riley Okafor

3w ago

Google AI jobs study finds Gemini use is broad but shallow

Google Research analyzed 15 million anonymized Gemini interactions and found little evidence that AI is automating offic...

By June Castellano

3w ago

KashKick tracking survey finds rewards beat personalization for consent

KashKick says 48% of surveyed users would enable tracking for rewards, a warning sign for adtech built on vague personal...

By Riley Okafor

3w ago

College lab germ exposure scare put 32 people on antibiotics

A CDC report says a class mistook a harmless bacterium for meningitis, triggering antibiotics, spinal taps and a biosafe...

By Dana Voss