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Best Wireless Headphones (2025): Tested Over Many Hours

Whether you need workout earbuds or gaming over-ears, these WIRED-tested picks sound like a million bucks.

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How Does an Electric Bicycle Work? (2025)

Short answer: There’s a drivetrain on it! We go over the battery, sensors, and other components that make your electric bicycle go.

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WIRED Tested Dozens of Blenders. These Are Our 9 Favorites (2025)

The perfect kitchen companions, these versatile blenders can whip up breakfasts, dips, milkshakes, cocktails, and everything in between.

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P&B: Alexandra

This is the 102nd edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Alexandra and her blog, xandra.cc To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox every...

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The Song of the Summer Is Dead

In an age of wavering consensus and widening divisions, music reflects the times more than ever. One factor missing from the discussion of this year’s song of the summer? The Donald Trump of it all.

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The Realist

Soviet dissidents have long admired the United States and its Founding Fathers for their attachment to a moral core, the basis for individual human liberty. So what happens when American power is used not for moral interests but for solely pragmatic ones?  Host Garry K...

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Every Eight Minutes: Uber’s Alarming Sexual Violence Problem

For years, Uber has said it is one of the safest ways to travel. But a New York Times investigation found that the company has been contending with a major problem: Hundreds of thousands of people reported that they were sexually assaulted or harassed during Uber rides. Emil...

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Best of the Daily Blast: Paul Krugman Brutally Wrecks Trump’s Europe Deal: “Scam on His Voters”

Original air date: July 30, 2025 You’ve probably heard that President Trump and the European Union have reached a big trade deal. This is being widely portrayed as a “win” for Trump and a big humiliation for the EU. But it’s not at all clear what we gain as a...

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"This is a battle MAGA cannot win"

Why Joe thinks the American people are really starting to turn on Trump. Yes, enough of them to make a difference. No, we can't let up. Will Democrats fighting back in NY/CA move the needle? Joe thinks so - and we need more of it! What numbers are Alex looking at showing all this is even worse for Trump than people realize? Joe has NEVER seen one number this low. What's the latest in Ukraine - and where does Joe see this all going? Read Mike Nellis's latest post about Texas, Trump, and where it's all going here: https://endlessurgency.com/p/you-cant-gaslight-the-american-people
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Donald Trump Orders Crackdown on Politically-Motivated ‘Debanking’

In a new executive order, the US president has called on federal regulators to investigate and punish banks for alleged discrimination against conservatives and certain types of business.

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GPT-5 is alive

GPT-5 is alive

It's big news for free users of ChatGPT, but AGI remains elusive. PLUS: one AI safety idea other labs should borrow

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“All I Want for My Birthday Is to Fuck Another Mayfly,” by a Mayfly

I’m going to keep this brief. Tomorrow I will shed my nymphal skin and exoskeleton and burst forth in all of my winged adult mayfly glory. I’ll have a tiny, vulnerable body and no functioning mouth parts, so if a fish doesn’t eat me within a few minutes, I’ll starve to death...

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Introduction to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Continuous integration is the process of merging code (updates or existing features) with an existing codebase (software tool or product,

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Email signatures and the power of defaults

Usenet set the signature rules. Then Hotmail broke them.

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Leak Reveals the Workaday Lives of North Korean IT Scammers

Spreadsheets, Slack messages, and files linked to an alleged group of North Korean IT workers expose their meticulous job-planning and targeting—and the constant surveillance they're under.

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Sticking with it via Manu Moreale

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Contrary to what many people seem to be doing, especially in the digital world, I don’t often change the tools and services I use. When I find something that works, I’m happy to stick around for the long run. Well, at least unless something major happens that forces me to reconsider my choices.

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The Best Colored Noise for Sleep (2025)

You may be familiar with white noise, but what about pink noise, or brown noise? WIRED’s sleep expert walks you through the rainbow of benefits for bedtime.

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A Very Fine Cheerwine, With Emma Baccellieri

A Very Fine Cheerwine, With Emma Baccellieri

There are only so many ways to describe a podcast, as regular readers of these little blogs already know. Because they are cut in two by our ad break, it is easy enough to mentally divide them; because they all begin with Drew's signature skronking vocal overture, they all have a shape. But what does it mean, really, to say that something like half of a podcast is given over to soda-related discourse, and that the other component parts are about going to a Marlins game, the demi-crisis in WNBA officiating, and also a frank discussion about the frustration of duffing the preparation of a familiar recipe. You can put all that together and reach 100 percent of a podcast and 63 minutes, but also those things do not, on their face, fit together at all. I realize that. And yet:

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Prometheus and OpenTelemetry Just Couldn’t Get Along

Prometheus was long the de facto standard for metrics in observability. Then came VictoriaMetrics, originally a fork of Prometheus, and

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Sticking with it

Contrary to what many people seem to be doing, especially in the digital world, I don’t often change the tools and services I use. When I find something that works, I’m happy to stick around for the long run. Well, at least unless something major happens that forces me to re...