The alien civilization Kardashev scale has one fundamental flaw
The scale was designed as a way to categorize civilizations in the universe based on how much energy they harness. Developed by Russian astrophysicist… ⌘ Read more

The mystery seeds phenomenon is back: this time in Delaware
Residents have been asked to be on the lookout for mysterious packets of seeds being sent to them through the mail. A few years ago, we reported on th… ⌘ Read more

Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos
Plus: Spy firms tap into a global telecom weakness to track targets, 500,000 UK health records go up for sale on Alibaba, Apple patches a revealing notification bug, and more. ⌘ Read more

The Online Civil War About ‘Michael’ Is a Battle Over Truth
Fans want to reclaim the music and myth of Michael Jackson in the new biopic while critics call for accountability. Who’s right? ⌘ Read more

Ace the Ping-Pong Robot Can Whup Your Ass
Ace can read the trajectory of a ball, adjust the racket angle, and respond with strokes that keep the exchange alive with real players. ⌘ Read more

Altra Promo Codes: Get 20% Off Plus Free Shipping
Score big savings on Altra Running shoes with up to 50% off sale styles, 20% off select models, 10% off your first order when you sign up, plus free standard delivery on every purchase. ⌘ Read more

The real-life Kraken: whale-sized giant octopuses actually existed
Millions of years ago, enormous octopuses up to 62ft in length roamed the Earth’s prehistoric oceans. Huge multi-tentacled horrors lurking in the dept… ⌘ Read more

AI-Designed Drugs by a DeepMind Spinoff Are Headed to Human Trials
Isomorphic Labs president Max Jaderberg said at WIRED Health in London that the startup has built a “broad and exciting pipeline of new medicines.” ⌘ Read more

Designer Baby Companies Are in Turmoil
Bootstrap Bio and Manhattan Genomics, which were pursuing human embryo editing to prevent serious disease, have shut down. ⌘ Read more

The Latest Push to Extend Key US Spy Powers Is Still a Mess
A US surveillance program that lets the FBI view Americans’ communications without a warrant is up for renewal. A new bill aims to address mounting lawmaker concerns—with smoke and mirrors. ⌘ Read more

Apple’s Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product
Tim Cook was a great CEO, but he didn’t crack AI.  It’s job number 1 for John Ternus. ⌘ Read more

When I have to log my time and look for a project line that still has available days ⌘ Read more

When my pair keeps smearing their fingers all over my screen to explain something ⌘ Read more

They Wanted to Join Raya. They’ve Been on the Waiting List for Years
Getting into Raya, the exclusive members-only dating app, has become nearly impossible for some. We met people who have waited as long as two, five, and even seven years to join. ⌘ Read more

The Federal Agency Coming for Gender-Affirming Care
A series of new hires and investigations at the FTC appear to focus on penalizing gender-affirming care for minors—and those who speak in favor of it. ⌘ Read more

The Men Behind Your Favorite AI Gay Thirst Traps
A viral red carpet moment shone light on a group of hunky Instagram influencers—and the followers who are too horny to care that they’re not real. ⌘ Read more

Airfare Keeps Going Up. Here Are Some Tricks to Finding Cheap(er) Tickets
It’s an expensive time to fly. These tips can help lighten the load on your wallet. ⌘ Read more

5 Reasons to Think Twice Before Using ChatGPT—or Any Chatbot—for Financial Advice
As people increasingly rely on AI chatbots for guidance, even on financial matters, a healthy dose of skepticism is critical. ⌘ Read more

The WIRED Gear Team’s Tips on Ways to Save Money
We pooled advice from our team—and a few financial experts—so you can worry less and save more in these turbulent times. ⌘ Read more

Design Within Reach Promo Codes: 30% Off | April 2026
Get 30% off, 20% off, and free shipping with our Design Within Reach coupon codes, plus up to 50% off furniture with these special discounts. ⌘ Read more

KitchenAid Promo Codes: Save Up to 20%
Save on every purchase with top KitchenAid coupons from WIRED, including up to 20% off countertop appliances. ⌘ Read more

Target Promo Code: $50 Off | April 2026
Get $50 off your next order or up to 50% off site wide with Target coupon codes and Circle deals. ⌘ Read more

US Special Forces Soldier Arrested for Polymarket Bets on Maduro Raid
The master sergeant allegedly used classified intel to profit on the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, marking the first US arrest for insider trading on a prediction market. ⌘ Read more

Rednote Draws a Line Between China and the World
As the platform expands abroad, it’s taking steps to separate Chinese users from the international audiences it once brought together. ⌘ Read more

At ‘AI Coachella,’ Stanford Students Line Up to Learn From Silicon Valley Royalty
CS 153 has gone viral on the Palo Alto campus—and on X. Not everyone is happy about it. ⌘ Read more

Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They’re the Bad Guys
Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a workforce in turmoil. ⌘ Read more

Best Fitbit Models for Beginners, Athletes, and Kids (2026)
The fitness trackers I’d recommend to beginners, athletes, and kids. ⌘ Read more

Best Robot Vacuum of 2026: Shark, Eufy
Tired of vacuuming? Hand the reins to a robot vacuum. ⌘ Read more

NASA shuts down Voyager 1 science instrument to conserve power
The most distant man-manned object in the universe is still going - but it needs a bit of help to stay functional. Launched in 1977, both Voyager 1 an… ⌘ Read more

When the lead dev personally goes to the client to fix a major bug ⌘ Read more

New underground scans could help to locate the Ark of the Covenant
The golden chest was thought to have been the container in which Moses placed the original ten commandments. One of the most sought-after and mystifyi… ⌘ Read more

When I write to the sales team to tell them the project will be late ⌘ Read more

Rediscovering the Handcart

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The human-powered handcart is the oldest of vehicles, and it will likely be the last one around in the future. Of all vehicles, it’s the cheapest and least complex to build and use. It offers a large advantage over carrying a loa … ⌘ Read more

NASA’s Curiosity rover discovers ancient ‘organic matter’ on Mars
The discovery points to the building blocks of life being preserved on the Red Planet for billions of years. Although we don’t hear about it as much t… ⌘ Read more

When we manage to deliver on time but literally at the last minute ⌘ Read more

When the AI I used to set up the project went too far and I start over from scratch ⌘ Read more

Large black puma-like cat spotted roaming the Scottish Highlands
Something large and exotic is thought to be prowling the wilds of Scotland’s Cairngorms National Park. The UK is certainly no stranger to stories of l… ⌘ Read more

When I’m about to start a big debugging session ⌘ Read more

‘Bear suit’ fraudsters sentenced to jail for elaborate insurance scam
The inventive crooks had been caught staging bear attacks on expensive cars by dressing up in a costume. Back in 2024, we reported on what must assure… ⌘ Read more

Wine grape grower bakes cupcakes to pay bills as fuel costs bite in ‘worst’ harvest
Farmers in the midst of harvest in South Australia are having to get creative to help make ends meet. ⌘ Read more

FBI is now officially investigating spate of mysterious disappearances
The White House seems to have taken note of calls to look into any potential links between the cases. In recent weeks we’ve reported on a spate of mys… ⌘ Read more

Man who froze to death in Siberia was ‘thawed out’ by doctors
A man who ended up clinically ‘dead’ after falling asleep in the freezing cold was revived several hours later. According to reports, the incident - w… ⌘ Read more

Trump: ‘very interesting’ UFO files will be released ‘very soon’
President Trump has reiterated his government’s commitment to releasing the country’s UFO files. Back in February, President Donald Trump made the une… ⌘ Read more

Asteroid Apophis set for ‘very rare’ close encounter with Earth in 2029
A large asteroid is set to make history when it passes within 20,000 miles of our planet before the decade is out. Named ominously after the Egyptian … ⌘ Read more

Scientists propose moving the city of Venice to stop it from flooding
With its foundations sinking and sea levels rising, the iconic ‘Floating City’ might ultimately find itself underwater. One of Europe’s most picturesq… ⌘ Read more

When it’s the sixth time ChatGPT fails to fix the same bug ⌘ Read more

Australian bush tea hits shelves in Asia
The product is being sent from a remote property in the Northern Territory all the way to Japan, Korea and China. ⌘ Read more

‘Voices’ told woman she had a brain tumor… and it turned out that she did
A very unusual medical mystery saw a woman find out about her condition from mysterious voices in her own head. According to reports, the 40-year-old … ⌘ Read more

Dream Chaser: could the reusable space plane’s dream be over?
A space plane once hoped to be a successor to NASA’s space shuttles may ultimately never make it to orbit. Work on Dream Chaser began back in 2004 and… ⌘ Read more

When I finally manage to fix a bug after pulling an all-nighter ⌘ Read more

When I run the first build and forgot to set the environment variables ⌘ Read more

When the PO strongly pushes me to handle a story that’s not part of the sprint ⌘ Read more

Kacey Musgraves films ‘crazy’ UFOs over Arkansas and Tennessee
The American singer-songwriter had a close encounter with something in the sky recently while flying to Nashville. Writing on social media about her e… ⌘ Read more

SpaceX and Blue Origin compete to be first to return humans to the Moon
SpaceX and Blue Origin are both building lunar landers for the Artemis program, but only one can get to the Moon first. Now that Artemis II has succes… ⌘ Read more

When the client wants the logo to be clickable “but especially without a link” ⌘ Read more

When I try to move forward on a feature with absolutely no clear guidance ⌘ Read more

When I have to maintain Perl code written in 2003 ⌘ Read more

Yet another prominent US official has disappeared without a trace
A contractor with ties to the manufacturing of America’s nuclear weapons went missing last year in Albuquerque. A couple of days ago we reported on a … ⌘ Read more

When my access to the production machine gets revoked ⌘ Read more

Mystery solved: 25 dead canines wash ashore in Washington State
A peculiar mystery made headlines in Skagit County recently, but now it seems that authorities have found the answer. According to reports, the strang… ⌘ Read more

Meet the teens learning maths, English and winemaking at school
These high school students in Cowra make up to 750 bottles of wine a year as part of their studies. ⌘ Read more

Prehistoric fossil discovery proves that early mammals laid eggs
The remarkable find shows that the distant ancestors of mammals laid eggs instead of giving birth to live young. 250 million years ago, just after one… ⌘ Read more

Live: Artemis II crew set to return home in tense and dramatic reentry
One of the most significant space missions in decades is about to end with the crew’s return to terra firma. It has been quite a ride over the last 9 … ⌘ Read more

When I go back to a project I worked on last month ⌘ Read more

Man pleads guilty to dealing with millions of dollars from illegal tobacco
Malek Alhmedai’s hire car had $4 million stashed inside, with the money linked to illegal tobacco sales. ⌘ Read more

Major fire destroys huge toilet paper supply warehouse in California
An unexpected disaster has managed to destroy a 1.2 million-square-foot toilet roll storage facility. Eyebrows were raised along the West Coast this w… ⌘ Read more

World’s earliest known octopus turns out to be something else entirely
A famous fossil of what was thought to be a prehistoric octopus has been found to be nothing of the sort. Originally discovered at Mazon Creek in Illi… ⌘ Read more

When I’m about to join a meeting with a client disputing a deliverable ⌘ Read more

When I come across code that uses Math.random() to generate unique IDs ⌘ Read more

Golden Dome: is Trump’s missile defense system even plausible?
The Pentagon has reportedly selected two contractors to begin working on the seemingly impossible defense project. Back in January of last year, newly… ⌘ Read more

When someone comes looking for me to fix a bug in production ⌘ Read more

When someone looks for me to do a code review ⌘ Read more

Matt Gaetz: whistleblower claimed US has an ‘alien breeding program’
Details of a secret US alien hybrid breeding program were reportedly once told to former Rep. Matt Gaetz. A peculiar story has been doing the rounds t… ⌘ Read more

Former MoD UFO investigator Nick Pope has died, aged 60
Often described as the UK’s answer to Fox Mulder, Pope had spent decades investigating the UFO phenomenon. Born in 1965, Nick Pope rose to prominence … ⌘ Read more

Nationals deputy leader says supermarkets should pay farmers more for produce
Farmers have urged Australia’s major supermarket chains to pay more for fresh produce, in response to increased fuel and freight costs.
GUEST: Darren Chester, Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
PRODUCER: Isadora Bogle ⌘ Read more

Live: Artemis II to break distance record as it flies past the Moon
The crew of Integrity are about to reach the furthest distance that any human has ever been from the Earth. Over the last few days, Reid Wiseman, Vict… ⌘ Read more

60 years on: Australia’s Westall UFO incident continues to intrigue
It has now been six decades since what is perhaps Australia’s most notable mass UFO sighting. The strangeness began on April 6th, 1966 when multiple p… ⌘ Read more

Odds of alien life are ‘pretty high’ says NASA’s administrator
Jared Isaacman maintains that the possibility of extraterrestrial life ‘goes to the heart’ of what the space agency does. With four astronauts current… ⌘ Read more

Neanderthal lineage discovery might help explain why they went extinct
Around 65,000 years ago, something happened that might have ultimately doomed the Neanderthals to extinction. One of the closest relatives of modern h… ⌘ Read more

New Turin Shroud study raises more questions than answers
Renewed efforts to understand more about the origins of the famous relic have done little to solve its mysteries. Believed by many to be the actual bu… ⌘ Read more

High-ranking FEMA official claims he was once ‘teleported 50 miles’
Gregg Phillips bizarrely claims that he had been with his sons when they were all teleported to a Waffle House. Phillips - a conspiracy theorist who c… ⌘ Read more

Sick of not knowing if your avocado is ripe or bruised? This scanner could change that
An Australian-first avocado “ripeness scanner” is being trialled, with the aim of telling customers exactly when their avocados will be ready to eat. ⌘ Read more

911 call reveals new clues in hunt for missing US Air Force general
Efforts are still underway to figure out what happened to William Neil McCasland who vanished last month. The strangeness began on February 27th when … ⌘ Read more

Artemis II passes ‘point of no return’ on its journey to the Moon
The four astronauts are now well on their way to making history as the spacecraft continues on its mission. The eyes of the world were on Cape Canaver… ⌘ Read more

What would happen to us if the Sun suddenly disappeared?
This unfathomable scenario would be, as you might expect, absolutely devastating for all life on our planet. Of course, the Sun isn’t going to just su… ⌘ Read more

Congress sets new deadline for release of 46 secretive UFO videos
Federal agency bosses have been handed a notice to release the videos within the next two weeks. According to reports, lawmakers in the US are pushing… ⌘ Read more

Brain dead woman ‘jolted’ back to consciousness by large pothole
A woman who was thought to have had no chance of recovery was seemingly cured by a strong jolt on the road. According to reports, the 50-year-old - wh… ⌘ Read more

When I discover there’s a 5000ms setTimeout “just to be safe” ⌘ Read more

PEP 829: Structured Startup Configuration via .site.toml Files
This PEP proposes a TOML-based configuration file format to replace the .pth file mechanism used by site.py during interpreter startup. The new format, using files named .site.toml, provides structured configuration for extending sys.path and executing package initialization code, replacing the current ad-hoc .pth format that conflates path configuration with arbitrary code execution. ⌘ Read more

Mystery object seen over Mississippi turns out to be from Roswell
Aviation authorities have confirmed the identity of an object that was sighted high above the state last week. With all the talk of the US government … ⌘ Read more

NASA makes final preparations for April 1st manned Moon mission
It is looking extremely likely that we are about to witness the first manned Moon mission since 1972. As the enormous silhouette of NASA’s Space Launc… ⌘ Read more

When I discover someone uses a float to store monetary amounts ⌘ Read more

ISS mystery medical emergency left astronaut ‘unable to speak’
The first ever medical evacuation from the space station was reportedly prompted by a still-unexplained condition. Back in January, we reported on the… ⌘ Read more

Researchers allegedly find ‘second Sphinx’ beneath the Giza Plateau
Italian researchers claim to have discovered evidence of a second Sphinx and ‘megastructures’ beneath the ground. The remarkable claim comes courtesy … ⌘ Read more

When someone comes to talk to me about work during my lunch break ⌘ Read more

Pope meets with delegation of exorcists over acute rise in ‘occultism’
The attendees, who met the Pope at the Vatican, were from the International Association of Exorcists. Whether or not you happen to believe in the idea… ⌘ Read more

When the boss asks me to put on a good face with our worst client ⌘ Read more

When someone stands up in the open space to go get a coffee ⌘ Read more

Escaped capybara gives search teams the runaround in England
The evasive mammal managed to escape its handlers at Marwell Zoo last week and has been on the run ever since. An unexpected creature is currently on … ⌘ Read more

When I have to write “just in case” documentation for a project that will be abandoned in 2 months ⌘ Read more