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May 14, 2026 2:59 PM The Best Early Memorial Day Deals on Our Favorite Tech Lots of our most-recommended headphones, power banks, and other gadgets are on sale for Memorial Day. Courtesy of Amazon All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive
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In January, Colorado lawmakers introduced a proposal to make operating systems collect users’ ages and pass them to app developers. The bill, SB26-051, had clearly been designed for commercial platforms like iOS and Android — one of numerous plans to age-gate the internet through users’ devices. It was intended to provide
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Microsoft first started opening up access to Claude Code in December, inviting thousands of its own developers to use Anthropic’s AI coding tool daily. It was part of an effort to get project managers, designers, and other employees to experiment with coding for the first time, and sources tell
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Just as fellow Yellowstone spinoff Dutton Ranch gets off the ground this week, we're entering the final leg of Marshals: A Yellowstone Story. Last time, we watched as Kayce (Luke Grimes) and Cal (Logan Marshall-Green) tried to survive a night on the side of a freezing cold mountain,
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Short-form video is a format that’s built for mobile — these vertically oriented videos are designed to fit the shape of a smartphone. But according to YouTube, this kind of content has become quite popular on the big screen. It seems counterintuitive, but the data is hard to argue against:
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Nightmare-Eclipse, a cybersecurity researcher previously known for a controversial reveal of three Windows Defender zero-day exploits seemingly rejected by Microsoft for petty reasons, has followed up with information regarding a BitLocker bypass vulnerability dubbed "YellowKey." Nightmare-Eclipse describes the vulnerability as one of the most insane discoveries ever, even
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At IBM Think last week, organizations showcased deploying and scaling innovations such as AI (artificial intelligence) and quantum at speed and scale quickly. This message was front and center that resonated throughout the many stories shared while I was in Boston for the event. I had the pleasure to meet
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Eric Park tells us he doesn't plan to wear his modified cap to commencement, but his code's available for anyone with no such qualms and an upcoming ceremony College graduation season has begun in the United States, and one soon-to-graduate computer science student has decided to
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The Lowe's 2026 Memorial Day has begun. While Memorial Day proper is still over a week away (Monday, May 25), the home improvement store has kicked off its sale event with up to 45% off sitewide. • Shop Lowe's full Memorial Day sale. The Lowe's
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Photos of an unreleased Microsoft Xbox Cloud Gaming controller have leaked online, thanks to a Brazilian website called Tecnoblog. The diminutive controllers look like something 8BitDo would release, though the D-Pad and home button feature the familiar Xbox aesthetic. This is actually being manufactured by Microsoft, according to a report
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A code migration agent finishes its run, and the pipeline looks green. But several pieces were never compiled — and it took days to catch. That's not a model failure; that's an agent deciding it was done before it actually was. Many enterprises are now seeing that
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TL;DR Boston Consulting Group is training an AI sales agent called Jamie on both its best and worst sellers’ behaviours, using call transcripts and engagement patterns to build a system that coaches human salespeople and improves over time. Vercel has already taken the same approach further, cutting its 10-person
