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An Open AI Backed Non-Profit Gave $1,000 a Month to Poor People. Here’s What They Did With It
OpenResearch released the first results of the most comprehensive study on giving unrestricted cash grants to impoverished Americans. Researchers say it will flame both sides of the debate over welfare. ⌘ Read more

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The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141 Billion on a Doomsday Machine
The DOD wants to refurbish ICBM silos that give it the ability to end civilization. But these missiles are useless as weapons, and their other main purpose—attracting an enemy’s nuclear strikes—serves no end. ⌘ Read more

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Dyson Has New Headphones That Don’t Cover Your Mouth This Time
Plus: Amazon made an ungodly amount of money on Prime Day, there are new Pixel phones (and a foldable) coming soon, and maybe that chatbot you’ve been talking to has been acting a little too human. ⌘ Read more

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All the Top New Features Coming to MacOS Sequoia
Apple has officially released the public beta for macOS 15 Sequoia. We break down how to install it, all the new features to look forward to, and tell you whether your current Mac will support the new operating system. ⌘ Read more

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Hospitals Around the World Are Struggling in the Aftermath of the Great IT Meltdown
Doctors find themselves without critical systems and diagnostic tools and faced with the daunting reality that a full recovery could take days after CrowdStrike’s botched deployment of a software update. ⌘ Read more

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Why the Global Crowdstrike Outage Hit Airports So Hard
The aviation industry is optimized within an inch of its life. A bad software update from cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike took down computers running Microsoft Windows—and a cascade of airports with it. ⌘ Read more

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A Chaotic History of Clickolding, the Year’s Most Disturbing Game
Strange Scaffold’s hit couldn’t have been made without a little help from their friends—and a late night joke that took on a life of its own. Here’s the oral history of the summer’s clickiest game. ⌘ Read more

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The Inevitability of Big Tech Backing Trump
Silicon Valley, fueled by greed and acting in its own calculated interest, seeks to influence the 2024 presidential election. Political scientist Jared Clemons is certain capitalism won’t save us. ⌘ Read more

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How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers
A defective CrowdStrike kernel driver sent computers around the globe into a reboot death spiral, taking down air travel, hospitals, banks, and more with it. Here’s how that’s possible. ⌘ Read more

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The Trump Shooting Fueled an Online Sticker Battle
After the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump last weekend, Sticker Mule sent messages to customers suggesting they back Trump and asking to “stop the hate.” That’s not what happened. ⌘ Read more

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J.D. Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows
The Republican VP nominee’s Venmo network reveals connections ranging from the architects of Project 2025 to enemies of Donald Trump—and the populist’s close ties to the very elites he rails against. ⌘ Read more

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Lab-Grown Diamonds Are Everywhere. This Company Thinks It Has the Secret to Make Them High-End
It’s possible to grow gems in the time it takes to watch a movie, and main-street jewelers are selling examples for hundreds of dollars, not thousands. The race is on to save the value of the most precious stone. ⌘ Read more

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Fortnite Has a Political Violence Problem
In a report shared exclusively with WIRED, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism says it found more than a dozen user-generated games on Fortnite that featured antisemitism and political violence. ⌘ Read more

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The Blurred Reality of AI’s ‘Human-Washing’
This week, we examine the trend among generative AI chatbots to flirt, stammer, and try to make us believe they’re human—a development that some researchers say crosses an ethical line. ⌘ Read more

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