Microsoft makes Copilot harder to miss in Classic Outlook
New button beside the ribbon promises consistency – and more questions for admins
Why you need a macro pad, even if you have a mouse with 19 buttons — from $10 mechanical numpads to multi-screen window management
You don't need to be a streamer or do tons of data entry to make use of a standalone macro pad. Here are your options and why you should use them.
The Download: tricking LLMs, and reviving geothermal plants
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamen...
DJI Osmo Pocket 4P review: The best gimbal camera money can't buy
The OG gimbal camera goes "pro" with two lenses, class-leading dynamic range and optical zoom.
AI chatbots are now better than humans at romance scams – and that’s scary
Romance scams are one of the oldest cons in the online world, but they continue to pull in new victims all of the time. Joint research by four universities suggests that AI chatbots are now even better at carrying out these scams than humans, and that’s a pretty scary prospect …
A Mac Mini server is running headless in my closet — it manages my photo library and handles my backups
When I wanted to get more serious about backing up my family's data, I bought a refurbished Mac Mini and set it running headless in my closet. It's right for me.
Hims & Hers accused of sharing health secrets and hiding the cancel button
FTC says Meta and Snap received sensitive patient information while customers faced unexpected prescription charges
Shipping container-launched cargo rocket promises 550-pound deliveries 750 km away in 15 minutes — $1.25M Air Force contract backs 'Rook' cargo rocket that flies into space to speed deliveries
A minimum-energy ballistic arc covering 750 km needs roughly 2.64 km/s at burnout and peaks near 181 km.
$21 Nintendo Wii U upgrade lets you add TBs of storage to your console with an M.2 or SATA SSD — upgrade makes console slightly faster, but requires Homebrew and custom firmware
You can now upgrade your Wii U from an 8GB or 32GB internal storage to more than a TB with this SSD kit. You'll have to install the Aroma custom firmware on your console to use it, though.
7 Best Shower Filters of 2026 Are WIRED-Tested and -Approved
I tested leading filtered showerheads to see how well they remove total chlorine from your water.
The spacecraft NASA sent to rescue the falling Swift observatory is in trouble
NASA sent a spacecraft called LINK to rescue a falling telescope, but it's now unclear if it can accomplish its mission.
Are your motherboard's M.2 heatsinks making good contact with your SSD? We tested 20 modern Intel and AMD motherboards to verify
We tested 20 motherboards for proper M.2 contact and were surprised at the results – not all make good contact.
30 Georgia homes are being acquired via sale or eminent domain to expand power grid — one affected family member says it’s ‘for the data centers’
Georgia's largest power supply company is reclaiming 30 homes that lay in the path of its power line expansion project through sale or eminent domain. The company says the project is not for a data center, but the substation the line is connecting to sits less than five miles from a massive data ...
32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5 is $369 in this Woot sale — the lowest standalone RAM price right now, thanks to a $132 discount
Get Corsair Vengeance DDR5 for just $369 at Woot.
Jony Ive’s first OpenAI hardware device sounds rather like … a HomePad
Jony Ive and Sam Altman have been teasing an AI hardware device for a long time now, and it’s increasingly looking like that tease was premature. We’re still not expecting to see a launch until some point next year. OpenAI continues to be exceedingly vague about what form its first hardware devic...
MariaDB again faces questions over Galera's open source future
Support for the MySQL build ends in September as the company develops separate premium replication technology
4 Best Budget Smartwatch Models for Less Than $250 (2026)
From fitness tracking to notifications, the best budget smartwatch can do a lot without costing a fortune.
‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Is a Superhero Movie for Yearners
Peter Parker’s isolation lands especially hard in the age of AI, a loneliness crisis, and endless scrolling.
Grab a great-value gaming laptop with a generous amount of memory for only $1,199 — save $100 on Gigabyte's Aero X16 gaming laptop with 32GB of DDR5 and RTX 5060 graphics
Save $100 on a Gigabyte Aero 16X gaming laptop with a Ryzen AI 7 350 CPU, 32GB of RAM, and an RTX 5060 GPU in today's limited-time sale
Legendary Windows developer codes Task Manager for the Mac, says Apple’s ‘Activity Monitor blows’ — Microsoft gave original Windows Task Manager dev permission to reference Windows XP source code
Legendary Windows developer Dave W. Plummer has shared details and screenshots of a version of Task Manager for Apple Mac computers.