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It's time to wrap up the month with a challenging themeless. Keep an eye out for tricky clues and fun wordplay. This week's puzzle was constructed by Amie Walker and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Amie is an Arizona-based crossword constructor and editor living with her three daughters. These days, her drives to school feature a lot of HUNTR/X and Saja Boys. She's excited to be making her Defector debut.

Defector crosswords, launched in partnership with our friends at AVCX, run every Monday. If you’re interested in submitting a puzzle to us, you can read our guidelines HERE.

New York State Senator Jabari Brisport (D, WF, 25th Senate District), chair of Committee on Children And Families, and New York State Assemblymember Alec Brook-Krasny (R, C, Coney Island, Bay Ridge), talk about Zohran Mamdani's proposal to tax corporations and the 1% in New York State to pay for programs to support working class New Yorkers and the feasibility of passing tax reforms in Albany. 

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Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”

The New Yorker has a long profile of Tim Berners-Lee:

Somehow, the man responsible for all of this is a mild-mannered British Unitarian who loves model trains and folk music, and recently celebrated his seventieth birthday with a picnic on a Welsh mountain.

Wait, how did I not know that he loves model trains? 🚂 Looking forward to his memoir: This Is For Everyone. 📚

Whatever else we might have learned from Sunday night's Packers-Cowboys game—and trust us, given that it's only Week 4 it isn't as much as you might think—we can say with some confidence which side is having the best season.

That's NBC. And it's not remotely close.

USB-C was supposed to make everything simple. Instead, it’s more complicated than ever. So let's clear up the confusion.

You can camp in the backcountry with under 10 pounds of gear and be warm, comfortable, and fed. Here's WIRED's guide to shedding weight.

A 2025 Atlassian report found that 50% of developers surveyed lose more than 10 hours a week to overhead work

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What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.

The New York Mets—slowly and surely, improbably and inexorably—crashed out of the playoff race, and now there are no more games left to get back in it. This in itself is not unique. Many teams miss the playoffs. Some miss the playoffs every year! Likewise, there have been pr...

We ran some early benchmarks on reference units to see how Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 Elite chip stacks up to the competition.

For most software teams, integrating AI tools like code assistants is as simple as signing up for a service and

The post Deploying AI in Air-Gapped Environments: What It Really Takes appeared first on The New Stack.

Welcome to your new high-end Italian espresso machine. Or should we say, bonjourno? Yes, we should. Your espresso machine only speaks Italian. To get the most out of the machine, you must learn the language. We will wait. Fourteen Months Later. Remove the machine from the bo...

Your logins will live on after you pass on. Make sure they end up in the right hands.

National Coffee Day is September 29. See how to get half off WIRED's favorite 3 coffee subscriptions.

After seven rocky years, the company’s assets will be sold to Dazzle, a new AI firm that Mayer founded.

Freezing coffee beans not only helps preserve coffee flavor longer, it might even help some beans taste better.

OpenAI’s review process for teenage ChatGPT users who are flagged for suicidal ideation includes human moderators. Parents can expect an alert about alarming prompts within hours.

For the past decade, a simple message has been delivered to a generation of American students: If you learn to code and complete a computer science degree, you’ll get a job with a six-figure salary. Now, thousands of students who followed the advice are discovering that the ...

A team of researchers found that, by not encrypting the data broadcast by Tile tags, users could be vulnerable to having their location information exposed to malicious actors.