McSweeney’s
• Emily Greenberg and Cliff Mayotte
WIRED
• Boutayna Chokrane
DEXA Scan Deep Dive, With Insights From the Experts (2025)
DEXA scans measure your bone density, lean muscle, and adipose visceral tissue. But unless you’re an athlete or approaching menopause, you probably don’t need a detailed full-body scan.
WIRED
• Rob Reddick
Whole-Genome Sequencing Will Change Pregnancy
At WIRED Health 2025, Orchid CEO Noor Siddiqui and the genomics pioneer George Church laid out their view of the future of genetic screening.
WIRED
• Will Knight
OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI
The company behind ChatGPT is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears to be hiring roboticists who work specifically on humanoids.
WIRED
• Craig Grannell
Liquid Glass Could Be One of Apple's Most Divisive System Designs Yet
As Apple’s radical redesign rolls out across all of its platforms today, designers and app creators are still unconvinced it delivers the “greater focus” it promises.
WIRED
• Emily Mullin
The Next Era of Gene Editing Will Be Disease Agnostic
At the WIRED Health summit, pioneer David Liu said his lab is on the verge of revealing a new gene-editing technique that could target multiple unrelated diseases.
The Daily
• The New York Times
The Rise of the Supreme Court’s So-Called Shadow Docket
WIRED
• WIRED Staff
WIRED Health Recap: Cancer Vaccines, CRISPR Breakthroughs, and More
This year’s WIRED Health summit in Boston featured Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, and a day’s worth of insights and provocative conversations.
WIRED
• Molly Taft
MAHA Wants Action on Pesticides. It’s Not Going to Get It From Trump’s Corporate-Friendly EPA
The White House’s new Make America Healthy Again strategy makes some asks of the EPA—but critics say the agency is too industry-friendly to make a difference.
Trump’s Threats Darken on Fox News as MAGA Rage over Kirk Boils Over
KILMEADE: KILL THE HOMELESS. AND THE WORST ATTACKS ON KIRK? BY FUENTES AND LOOMER - 9.15.25
A very smart application of AI. Google could add it to the debugger. When my program crashes deep in jQuery code, with no stack crawl, it could suggest what the problem might be without me have to try to describe it for ChatGPT. The Google AI debugger would be able to look everywhere any anywhere in the virtual machine. Much faster than I can. As a programmer I hope they're working on this. Or maybe it's already out in testing form?
The Bloggers of Mastodon.
Watching the Emmys. 📺
“…and laugh out loud comedies like The Bear.” 🤣
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Weekend YouTubes
One of my favorite YouTubers is Charles Cornell (WordPress-powered!), who creates great videos that break down the music theory of various things you’ve heard, such as this adorable one featuring SNES soundtracks or The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. I first came across him reacting to Jacob Collier in 2020. Once I got super-into … Continue reading Weekend YouTubes →
Teleportation
Luke and Jonathan are back for Season 10 of Crossword. They open with a recap of WordCamp US and Matt’s “State of the Word” address. They discuss their approach to guests for the upcoming season, introduce this season’s sponsors, and look ahead to the upcoming WordPress 6.9 release.
Defector
• Brandy Jensen
Not Every Documentary About A Crime Needs To Be A True Crime Documentary
Terry Gross On 50 Years Of Fresh Air (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso)
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
Podcast: AI Slop Is Drowning Out Human YouTubers
How Trump's tariffs are impacting all sorts of hobbies; how OnlyFans piracy is ruining the internet for everyone; and ChatGPT's reckoning.
Defector
• Israel Daramola
Sports Should Not Start At 1 A.M. Eastern