Other Good International Phones These phones are worth considering if you have yet to see something you like. Photograph: Simon Hill Oppo Find N5 for £1,106: It’s a real shame that the Find N5 won’t even land in the UK or Europe, because the world’s slimmest book-style foldable (3.6 millimeters open) is a lovely phone.… Continue reading 5 Best Phones You Can’t Buy in the US (2025), Tested and Reviewed
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Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public
A Venmo account under the name “Michael Waltz,” carrying a profile photo of the national security adviser and connected to accounts bearing the names of people closely associated with him, was left open to the public until Wednesday afternoon. A WIRED analysis shows that the account revealed the names of hundreds of Waltz’s personal and… Continue reading Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public
SignalGate Isn’t About Signal
The eye-popping scandal surrounding the Trump cabinet’s accidental invitation to The Atlantic’s editor in chief to join a text-message group secretly planning a bombing in Yemen has rolled into its third day, and that controversy now has a name: SignalGate, a reference to the fact that the conversation took place on the end-to-end encrypted free… Continue reading SignalGate Isn’t About Signal
How Extropic Plans to Unseat Nvidia
Extropic is not a normal startup. But then, these are hardly normal times. The company is developing a radical new kind of computer chip that harnesses the thermodynamic fluctuations that naturally occur within electronic circuits—and which are normally a headache for engineers—using them to perform highly efficient calculations with probabilities. This chip might well find… Continue reading How Extropic Plans to Unseat Nvidia
Avocado Mattress Review: A Comfortable, Eco-Friendly, Organic Mattress
The Avocado Green Mattress was my introduction to organic mattresses, and after testing nearly a dozen others, it’s still my personal favorite. Avocado’s organic, nontoxic mattresses are made in the USA from GOLS-certified organic latex, GOTS-certified organic wool, and GOTS-certified organic cotton. While the sustainable, organic materials and eco-friendly construction were definitely part of the… Continue reading Avocado Mattress Review: A Comfortable, Eco-Friendly, Organic Mattress
It’s Looking More Likely NASA Will Fly the Artemis II Mission
Late Saturday night, technicians at Kennedy Space Center in Florida moved the core stage for NASA’s second Space Launch System rocket into position between the vehicle’s two solid-fueled boosters. Working inside the iconic 52-story-tall Vehicle Assembly Building, ground teams used heavy-duty cranes to first lift the butterscotch-orange core stage from its cradle in the VAB’s… Continue reading It’s Looking More Likely NASA Will Fly the Artemis II Mission
Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves
Databricks, a company that helps big businesses build custom artificial intelligence models, has developed a machine-learning trick that can boost the performance of an AI model without the need for clean labeled data. Jonathan Frankle, chief AI scientist at Databricks, spent the past year talking to customers about the key challenges they face in getting… Continue reading Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves
Trump Admin Plans to Cut Team Responsible for Critical Atomic Measurement Data
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is discussing plans to eliminate an entire team responsible for publishing and maintaining critical atomic measurement data in the coming weeks, as the Trump administration continues its efforts to reduce the US federal workforce, according to a March 18 email sent to dozens of outside scientists.… Continue reading Trump Admin Plans to Cut Team Responsible for Critical Atomic Measurement Data
Inside Silicon Valley’s Invite-Only IRL Dating Scene
“Greetings, Lovers, Legends, and Gods of Desire!” read the Partiful invite for the pre-Valentine’s Day gathering. “Eros, the god of love, drives us all with his mischievous arrows. On this night, we will surrender to his playful whims.” Then, sternly and in all caps: “YOU MUST BE PRE-APPROVED TO GET IN.” A couple of days… Continue reading Inside Silicon Valley’s Invite-Only IRL Dating Scene
Using Starlink Wi-Fi in the White House Is a Slippery Slope for US Federal IT
As the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues to rampage through the United States federal government, essentially guided by Elon Musk, the group has also been upending traditional IT boundaries—evaluating digital systems and allegedly accessing personally identifiable information as well as data that has typically been off-limits to those without specific training. Last… Continue reading Using Starlink Wi-Fi in the White House Is a Slippery Slope for US Federal IT