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    Recent developments span artificial intelligence adoption across industries, concerns over data security and fraud, regulatory responses to new technologies, and hardware innovations designed to support emerging applications. These stories matter because they directly impact how businesses operate, how safe our digital lives remain, and what skills and support workers need as technology evolves. As artificial intelligence becomes more prevalent and cybercriminals grow more sophisticated, understanding these trends helps readers navigate an increasingly complex technological landscape.

    • Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn’t use their work 

      A second mathematician, Andreas Thom, has publicly accused OpenAI of dishonesty over the origins of the training data behind its recent mathematical breakthroughs, days after another researcher raised similar concerns. Thom questioned whether his own pre-announcement conversations with ChatGPT contributed to OpenAI’s solution involving “non-sofic groups”, an area of mathematics he specialises in, arguing that…

    • Best Bluetooth Speaker (2026): JBL, Sonos, Marshall, and More

      WIRED has published its updated (September 2026) guide to the best Bluetooth speakers, covering a range of budgets and use cases from beach days to home listening. The overall top pick remains the JBL Flip 7, praised for its compact size, durable IP68-rated build and strong sound quality at an affordable price, reflecting JBL’s continued…

    • ‘Killmonger Locs’ Are Everywhere in Video Games. This Artist Is Sick of It

      Ebonix (Nyjah Udogaranya), a technical artist who has spent over a decade creating custom hair content for life-simulation games such as The Sims, is speaking out about the video game industry’s continued failure to represent natural Black hairstyles. She says developers still default to stiff, uniform “Killmonger locs” — named after Michael B. Jordan’s Black…

    • AI uprising postponed after Copilot falls off the web

      Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot suffered a website outage overnight, with copilot.microsoft.com returning a Cloudflare Error 1016 message for an hour and 40 minutes, from 2225 UTC on 9 September to 0005 UTC on 10 September. Separately, a resilience test run by the Microsoft 365 Copilot team caused some users to lose access to Copilot Chat’s suggested…

    • Vari Electric Standing Desk Review (2026): Form and Value

      This is a WIRED review of the Vari Ergo electric standing desk, praising it as a well-built, easy-to-assemble option that the reviewer feels has been somewhat overlooked compared with its sibling model. The desk took just 10 minutes to set up and has performed well over several months of testing, offering sturdy, quiet height adjustment…

    • 5 of the Greatest Sci-Fi Space Opera Books of All Time, Ranked

      Collider has published a ranking of five of the greatest science-fiction space opera novels, a subgenre the outlet describes as blending large-scale conflict between empires and civilisations with strong character-driven storytelling. The list spans both “hard” and “soft” sci-fi, reflecting how the genre uses space settings to explore human fears, morality and the unknown, often…

    • Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online

      Clearview AI has been quietly developing and testing an experimental artificial intelligence tool called InquiryIQ, which is designed to automatically scour the internet for personal information once an investigator identifies a person of interest. WIRED discovered the tool through code embedded in Clearview’s login page, revealing that it can browse webpages, analyse images and compile…

    • The variable aperture isn’t the cool part of the iPhone 18 Pro’s camera

      Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max introduce a variable mechanical aperture in their main camera, alongside manual controls for shutter speed, white balance and focus that were previously only available through third-party apps such as Halide. However, this article argues the adjustable aperture is unlikely to be the standout feature, since smartphone sensors are…

    • AppleCare One now has a $50 tier per month for families

      Apple has launched a new $50-a-month tier of its AppleCare One insurance plan, called AppleCare One Family, unveiled at the same event where it introduced the iPhone Duo and iPhone 18. The plan covers eligible devices belonging to up to six family members under a single subscription, making it a significantly broader offering than Apple’s…

    • German optics giant ditches greenfield SAP migration

      Zeiss Group has abandoned its “greenfield” migration to SAP’s S/4HANA platform, opting instead for a “brownfield” approach that moves its existing R/3-based ERP landscape onto the new system rather than rebuilding processes from scratch. The industrial optics company, which posted revenue of around €11.9 billion, had pursued the more radical clean-core rebuild since around 2020…