The Best Photos of the Big August Solar Eclipse
It’s been a century since the Iberian peninsula has been in the full shadow of the moon. Here’s what it looked like in the path of totality.
Toddler's tragic death from brain-destroying amoeba offers lessons for doctors
Boy's unusual symptoms could help identify the next case sooner.
Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them cheating at their jobs, classes
Is Anthropic's new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to complain that it is.
AI nuclear power firm Fermi finally has a new CEO
Lee McIntire, an independent member of Fermi's board, has been hired as CEO, more than three months since the company fired co-founder Toby Neugebauer from the top post.
The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
Made by Google 2026 live blog: Let’s watch Trevor Noah talk about the Pixel 11
It's almost time for the Made by Google keynote, where the company will show off the brand-new Pixel hardware it announced today. Like last year, it'll be a celebrity-packed live show, though Trevor Noah is hosting instead of Jimmy Fallon. If the 2025 show was any indication, today's broadcast might be something of a cringefest. If you've been following tech news this morning, you already know a lot about the new Pixels. Press and creators were able to publish extensive hands-on impressions of t
This 8BitDo mechanical keyboard has an extra keypad and is 30 percent off
The 8BitDo mechanical keyboard and dual super buttons. | Image: The Verge If you’re looking for a mechanical keyboard that can give your desk a touch of retro flair, Amazon has 8BitDo’s Retro Mechanical Keyboard with Dual Super Buttons on sale for $69.99, one of the lowest prices we’ve seen for the bundle. The styling on this keyboard is thorough, with blocky retro legends on the rounded keycaps, and supplementary buttons and detailing to help match the theme. 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard
Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.
“It’s the strongest evidence yet that particles dominated by a glueball component can exist in nature.”
Cats and dogs are missing meals after a popular smart feeder went down
Petlibro’s Granary 2 feeder. | Image: Petlibro A Petlibro outage is preventing its smart pet feeders and other devices from performing scheduled tasks, like dispensing food. The outage began on Tuesday, with users across Reddit reporting that their smart feeders, litter boxes, and water fountains have gone offline. Though Petlibro maintains that "existing settings and schedules stored locally on your device will continue to operate as programmed," many users say that's not the case. Instead, s
Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements."
The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy
Open models may soon be added to an updated AI framework, sources tell WIRED, as the White House continues to grapple with how to regulate a technology it has tried not to regulate.
Northrop’s robot space mechanic is a new way to keep satellites at work longer
The Mission Robotic Vehicle is making the first attempt to attach a new thruster to an aging satellite.
Trump sued over "brazen" scheme to sell Truth Social API access for $100K a month
With Truth API, Trump is "selling priority access to news he himself generates."
The Best Way to Avoid Diarrhea Lettuce? This Indoor Garden
Lettuce Grow, one of my favorite indoor gardens, lets you cultivate your own salad greens safely, right in your living room. And it’s 20 percent off right now.
Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt out
"If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. "That's honestly the answer."
US boosts drone surveillance as flesh-eating screwworms spread in Texas
Hundreds of Homeland Security drones retasked to survey wildlife and livestock.