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Scientists Discover Rogue Star-Eating Black Hole Far From Home

Scientists Discover Rogue Star-Eating Black Hole Far From Home

A massive black hole feasting on a star outside of a galactic nucleus was observed in bright radio waves for the first time.

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My Glamorous Life: Bots, Books, and Betrayal

My father was an engineer who designed robots. When I first learned what he did, I imagined the Robot from “Lost in Space,” and asked him to make me one. When I turned 13, I realized that the pick-and-place robots he designed replaced assembly-line workers, and asked how he, who’d been a socialist in his impoverished […]

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NVIDIA’s AI Factories and Agentic Software Development

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I normally look at large language model (LLM) software tools that I can test immediately, but this post started because

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Audien Hearing Atom X Hearing Aids Review: High-Tech Case

A surprisingly high-tech case makes these low-budget hearing aids almost worth considering.

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Text • Jill Duffy

Swedish Death Cleaning, but for Your Digital Life

The art of ordering and culling your possessions before you die should extend to your documents, photos, and digital accounts.

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Hackers Dox ICE, DHS, DOJ, and FBI Officials

Plus: A secret FBI anti-ransomware task force gets exposed, the mystery of the CIA’s Kryptos sculpture is finally solved, North Koreans busted hiding malware in the Ethereum blockchain, and more.

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Gear News of the Week: Honor Teases a Bizarre Robot Phone, and Kohler Debuts a Toilet Sensor

Plus: Coros has a new mountain watch, July unveils a trackable suitcase, Fujifilm has a new Instax, GrapheneOS will work on non-Pixel phones soon, and Roku leans into AI.

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'The Interview': The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.

Attacks on the site are piling up. Its co-founder says trust the process.

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Need Something Repaired? Now There’s an App for That

The Repair App is a new platform that connects trusted repair service providers with people who need their stuff fixed. It couldn’t come at a better time for economically strapped consumers.

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Lovense Lush Mini Review: A Dual-Stimulation Vibrator

This dual-stimulating vibrator is a nice entry for beginners, but you may want to opt for the standard Lush 4.

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Top TurboTax Discount Codes & Coupons October 2025

Tax season doesn’t have to be stressful. Save $20 off Live Assisted, 10% off Full Service, and more with exclusive TurboTax coupons right here on WIRED.

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Best Of: Julian Brave NoiseCat / Laufey

Julian Brave NoiseCat's Oscar-nominated documentary Sugarcane is about the mostly Catholic missionary boarding schools which Indigenous children, including older members of his family, were required to go to get "assimilated." Many were physically and sexually abused. While making the film and writing his new memoir, NoiseCat learned why minutes after his father was born, he was abandoned in a boarding school trash incinerator room. His memoir is We Survived the Night.

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Shohei Ohtani Plays The Greatest Baseball Game Of All Time

Shohei Ohtani Plays The Greatest Baseball Game Of All Time
Shohei Ohtani creates a world in which there are no stupid questions. Could there ever be a two-way player in the majors? Could he become an elite power hitter and a frontline starter? Could he recover from two Tommy John surgeries? Could he close out the NLCS with a six-inn...

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Long day. This was breakfast, feels like forever ago. Funny book at Phoebe’s Diner. 🥞

A book titled Dad Jokes: 202 Hilarious Dad Jokes sits on a table next to a plate with partially eaten pancakes.

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The Biggest Fall Deals at Home Depot (2025)

This fall, The Home Depot cut prices on bedding, cutlery, rugs, and Milwaukee power tools. Here’s where to find the biggest deals.

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Anatomy of a crypto meltdown

Anatomy of a crypto meltdown

October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward.

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The Base M5 MacBook Pro vs. the M4 MacBook Air

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A few readers took exception to this bit from my post Wednesday regarding the new M5 MacBook Pro: The base 14-inch model, with the no-adjective M-series chip, is for people who probably would be better served with a MacBook Air but who wrongly believe they “need” a lapto...

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Some of Our Favorite Noise-Canceling Headphones Are $100 Off if You Act Fast

The Bose QuietComfort Ultra get a rare discount until the end of the day.

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United States Mint to Release Commemorative $1 Steve Jobs Coin

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I’m not really into commemorative coins, and I have to say I suspect Steve Jobs wasn’t either, but it’s a nice little recognition. No mention of it from the Mint, but the $1 value of the coin is the same as the salary Jobs drew from Apple.

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Learning Is More Than Just Collecting Facts

Learning Is More Than Just Collecting Facts
Earlier this week, I read Horace Walpole’s Castle Of Otronto for the first time. Published in 1764, it’s widely considered the first gothic novel, the cornerstone of a genre that would include future works like those of the Brontë sisters, Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, and ev...