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  1. Wired

    Oil Spills Wreak Havoc on the Bottom of the Ocean, Even a Decade Later

    While oil is known to float, new research finds that over time it can permeate even extremely deep marine habitats, with animal populations declining by as much as 80 percent.

  2. Wired

    Apple CarPlay and Android Auto Make Your Phone Hot. Here’s How to Keep It Cool

    Powering a car dashboard is more demanding on your handset than you might think. These tips will save battery life and help your phone chill out.

  3. Wired

    Hyve Smart Package Locker Review: Protecting Your Holiday Deliveries

    Hyve’s smart porch lockbox can secure incoming gifts—if your delivery driver uses it and there’s still room inside.

  4. Wired

    What the US Movement Against Data Centers Can Learn From Abroad

    Paris Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand.

  5. NY Times

    Elon Musk Says Ukraine Violated Starlink’s Rules

    The comments came after the disruption in the country’s satellite service. Earlier, Ukraine said drones using Starshield, the Pentagon-funded service, were back to normal speeds.

  6. NY Times

    Put Your A.I. Agents to Work with These 4 Killer Tasks

    When you start using Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s dots for these tasks — like applying for jobs and booking hard-to-get restaurant tables — you may never go back.

  7. NY Times

    Put Your A.I. Agents to Work with These 5 Killer Tasks

    When you start using Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s dots for these tasks — like applying for jobs and booking hard-to-get restaurant tables — you may never go back.

  8. Help Net Security

    Week in review: PHP vulnerabilities patched, exploited Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN flaw

    Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: A critical PHP security release is coming today, so get ready to update! The PHP security team has announced an urgent security release for Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 14:00 UTC. The release fixes...

  9. Wired

    We Linked 150 of Ikea’s $10 Speakers to Make a Wall of Sound

    WIRED attempts what even the Swedish brand hasn’t: making a sonic monolith using scores of the cheapest Bluetooth speakers on the market. Can you have too much of a small thing?

  10. The Hacker News

    OpenAI AI Agents Demonstrate VM Escapes and Secret Cross-Sandbox Communication

    OpenAI has announced plans to conduct frontier model training with no live internet access, as it resumes reinforcement learning (RL) training and internal inference of its most advanced AI models. "Based on the current state of alignment research, monitoring systems, and the security of internet...

  11. Wired

    The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable

    Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.

  12. Wired

    New mRNA Vaccine Reduces Risk of Melanoma Recurrence by Over 40 Percent

    The vaccine is personalized to a patient’s tumor, and results from the Phase 3 trial are yet another example of the promise of mRNA vaccines in treating cancer.

  13. The Hacker News

    Brotli Decoder Flaw Behind Node.js RCE Also Affects Bun, Python and Other Widely Used Software

    A memory-corruption flaw in Google's Brotli decoder sits in many programs that unpack Brotli-compressed data, among them Bun, the Python Brotli and brotlicffi packages, and Envoy proxies set up to decompress Brotli. Tracked as CVE-2026-111497, the flaw allows crafted compressed data to overwrite...

  14. The Hacker News

    Leaked LiteLLM Master Key Let Attackers Steal GitHub Tokens and Hijack Release Pipeline

    LiteLLM on Friday revealed that an Agent Platform master key accidentally published to a public GitHub repository in late May 2026 ultimately allowed the threat actor to push a malicious version of the popular Python package. "On May 27, 2026, a configuration file was committed to the public...

  15. Wired

    Best Pet Camera of 2026: Furbo, Petcube, and Enabot

    Whether you’re near or far, keep an eye on your fur baby with our favorite pet cameras.

  16. Wired

    9 Unique Apps to Try on the iPhone Duo

    Apple’s first folding phone is inspiring indie developers to create fun, quirky apps that take advantage of the screen and the hinge. Here are a few to try as you explore the Duo.

  17. The Hacker News

    Google Says Gmail and Photos Data Shared With AI Search Could Be Used for Targeted Ads

    Google has updated its privacy policy to spell out that using personalized artificial intelligence (AI) features in Search or Gemini could allow the company to serve targeted ads to users based on their activity on other connected Google services. "You may choose to allow certain Google services...

  18. Wired

    My Favorite Sofa Is Discounted for Joybird’s Semiannual Sale

    The Joybird Eliot Sleeper, plus hundreds of other options, are up to 40 percent off during the brand’s Semiannual sale.

  19. Wired

    12 Absolutely Banging Proper Watches Under $400

    WIRED and its panel of watch experts hunted for real mechanical timepieces at rock-bottom prices and found a wealth of options. Here are our favorites.

  20. Wired

    Best Laptops (2026): My Top Recommendations After Testing Hundreds

    I’ve tested laptops for more than a decade, and here’s my advice for finding the right laptop for you.